See the following sections for the common components of a joint proposal.
- BBSRC
- STFC
A joint proposal is one in which two or more organisations are cooperating in a project and are separately seeking funding from the Council. Joint proposals can only be submitted to BBSRC and STFC.
Multi organisation applications to ESRC and AHRC should be submitted on one application form.
Each organisation should submit separate proposal forms. Applicants should identify a lead organisation for the purposes of submitting the joint proposals.
The lead organisation:
Select Edit Joint Proposals.
Select yes to "is this a joint proposal" Select yes to "are you the lead RO" The Joint reference number is generated. The following information will appear under the heading of Joint documents:
Lead Document (detailing Principal Investigator, RO and Department).
Non Lead (same details as Lead document displayed at this stage) with the option to Assign Owner or Delete.
Select Assign Owner to add the details of the Principal Investigator to the Non-Lead. An email alert will be generated to the PI of the Non-Lead that the document is available in their Je-S account.
The non-lead proposal will not include all the sections which are available in the Lead e.g. Objectives, Summary, Beneficiaries etc. The non-lead part can view the Attachments on the Lead part.
- THE FOLLOWING IS COUNCIL SPECIFIC GUIDANCE -
BBSRC - Specific Requirements
For Joint Applications the following information should be included in each of the component applications (including the lead application):
Title of Research Project.
Resource requests relating to the organisations applying in that component.
Type of Proposal.
Justification of resources requested in that component.
Equipment Quotations, if applicable, for pieces of equipment requested in that component.
CV's relating to applicants and named staff in that component.
If the application is for continuation of a current project, an interim report on progress to date must be included with the new lead application.
The following should only be included in the lead application:
Objectives.
Technical Summary.
Impact Plan.
Academic Beneficiaries.
Nominated Reviewers.
Project Partners including a separate letter of support for each partner.
Case for Support.
Classifications.
BBSRC require up to two sides of A4 attachment to the proposal entitled “Justification of Resources”. This statement should be used to justify the resources required to undertake the research project and is a mandatory addition. Joint applications must include a separate document for each proforma justifying the resources requested on that proforma only, not for the project as a whole.
STFC - Specific Requirements
For Joint Applications the following information should be common to all of the component applications:
Title of Research Project.
Type of Proposal
Case for support
For the PPRP scheme the following sections will only be available for completion by the lead applicant:
Objectives
Summary
Beneficiaries
Reviewers
Space or Ground-Based
For all other STFC grant schemes all sections will be available for completion by both lead and non-lead applicants. Where Objectives, Summary and Beneficiaries are the same across all parts of the application then the same wording should be used on each proposal. However, it is recognised that these may on occasion vary and so the facility to complete these sections has been left on these schemes to capture where there are differences.
Where there are industrial applicants (i.e. using the Research in Industry scheme) applying as part of a joint proposal with an HEI (using the PPRP or standard schemes etc) the lead applicant should not choose to create new non-lead parts within the Joint Proposals section as this will create documents of the same scheme type. Instead, the lead applicant should note the joint reference generated and provide it to the non-lead applicants to input within the joint proposal section of their form, which they should create from scratch.