Previous Releases

A number of data changes to the Je-S System will be implemented either as part of the Je-S System release of 18/19 November (version 6.7). The following are the main changes:

We reported in the August Release note that attachments on documents in Je-S account for ⅔ of the Je-S database so, to reduce costs and improve efficiency, functionality to archive attachments was planned.

The first part of the change made in August was to enable Je-S to work with an additional database and since then work has been ongoing on implementing an archiving process.

The next stage involves the transfer of documents, which are more than two years old, to the Archive. As there is a very large amount of historic data to be transferred the Je-S System has to be taken down from 4.30 pm on Friday 17^th until 8.00am on Monday 20^th November to enable the transfer to take place.

Where an attachment has been archived, the attachments page in Je-S will display a ‘view’ link in place of an ‘edit’ link. JeS Users will still be able to view archived attachments but these cannot be edited or submitted.

Correcting a spelling error in the Je-S Pre Award Tracker under the Document Status

A number of data changes to the Je-S System will be implemented either as part of the Je-S System release of 19 August (version 6.6.1) or between the August and November 2017 releases. The following are the main changes:

Changes to the ORCID Application Programming Interface (API) have required the integration between Je-S and ORCID to be upgraded to be able to use the new version of the ORCID API

On the ORCID website, the permissions requested by Je-S have changed to request permission to update all research activities instead of just updating funding information, as ORCID have withdrawn the latter permission.

Je-S archiving - to be delivered incrementally following the August release.

The Je-S database is now over 800MB and growing at a rate of 100MB every year. Attachments account for ⅔ of the database size so to reduce costs and improve efficiency, functionality to archive attachments will be implemented.

• Implementing an archiving process that will move data from the main Je-S database to an archive database.

Where an attachment has been archived, the attachments page in Je-S will display a ‘view’ link in place of an ‘edit’ link.

Where a ‘delete’ link was previously displayed for an attachment, for archived attachments it will only remove the link to the attachment: the attachment itself will remain, hidden, within the Je-S system. (If there is currently no ‘delete’ link, e.g. for submitted documents, there will continue to be no ‘delete’ link.) Explanatory text will be added to the attachments page in Je-S: “Attachments added more than one year ago are archived and cannot be changed. If the document has been submitted, attachments can also not be deleted.”

Please review access in the RO Master Id account to ensure that Studentship Administrators have been given access to add/maintain student details against these Schemes.

The UK SBS Grants Service Delivery Team has moved and is now under the governance of the RCUK Executive Directorate.

You will notice that a number of documents have been rebranded to replace “UK SBS” branding with “RCUK Grants” branding. The changes include

The RCUK Grants Team contact details can be found on the RCUK website at http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/contacts/ and personal emails have changed to “name.surname @rcuk.ac.uk” but the Team will still receive any emails which are sent to the UK SBS email addresses.

Research Organisation (RO) Master Account - change to the Document Menu for Standard Proposals

The Standard Proposal link within the Document Menu of the RO Master Account accessed all the proposals created within the RO since September 2005. The number of documents has built over time and because of the large volume of documents some ROs were beginning to experience an error message when trying to access the list.

To manage the volumes, and make retrieving the documents faster, the Standard Proposal list has been split down into five year periods. Links will only be displayed if there are proposals within that time period eg documents created between 1 September 2005 - 31 August 2010.

There are also changes being made which will improve auditing and fraud detection within the System

For Data Protection Act compliance, Contacts (in the People and Organisation database used by the Je-S System) that have not been used by the Research Councils will be removed as will Contacts whose last use exceeds the RCs Data Retention Policy. Je-S Users may notice that searches in Je-S will be faster as a consequence.

The Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) provides a free registry to obtain a unique digital identifier for researchers and scholars and allows them to manage a record of their research activities.

For researchers, an ORCID identifier supports automated linkages between them and their professional activities to ensure their work is properly recognised. ORCID records hold information such as name, email, organisation and research activities. Individuals control how their data is shared through managing data privacy settings within their ORCID account.

The ORCID identifiers will now be collected in the Je-S System to allow the Research Councils to link and share information across systems more easily

Within the Je-S ‘Account Creation’ and ‘Personal Details’ screen, there will now be the option to allow Je-S users to add their ORCID identifier (and create an identifier if they do not already have one). This will re-direct the user to the ORCID website where they will be required to give consent for Je-S to access their ORCID identifier, before returning them back to Je-S.

Existing Je-S Users can add an ORCID identifier by updating their Personal Information;

UK SBS met with a number of Research Organisations in November to discuss their user experience in Je-S. Whilst major development on the existing Grants systems has now stopped, pending the upgrade of the electronic grants submission service in 2017, a number of simple improvements have been included in this release.

o The documents in the ‘Proposal Reviews’ section were only available for 30 days but will now remain for 24 months from the date they were first made available to the RO.

o This will apply to new reviews only, reviews already expired will not reappear, and those already visible before the release will expire in 30 days.

Customer Accounts can now be sorted in descending order by date, and will display the most recent entries first.

Research Councils may allow Scottish universities to fund students from 1st September on Training Grants which have a start date of 1st October, however validations in Je-S were preventing an earlier funding start date from being added into the Student Details,

For all organisations with postcodes in Scotland, the Je-S system will now allow an earlier funding start date between the 1^st – 30^th September to be added.

Please contact the Je-S Helpdesk if you require any further information about the System release or if you experience any issues with the Je-S System.

Research Organisations (ROs) can submit an RO Reference number either when submitting the Start Certificate or using the Grant Maintenance functionality to change the Reference number when the Grant is Active. However updates were not being fed into the RO Reference number field on the Customer Accounts which in most cases meant the field was either blank or showing “Not Known”. This has now been corrected.

ROs should note however that the Reference number changes will only be updated in the Finance system on a weekly basis. If an RO Reference number is changed in the period between an update being made to the Finance system, and the Pay Run data being generated (which can be 8-14 days before the Customer Account is issued), then the new RO Reference number may not be populated on the Customer Account record until the following Pay Run.

The Je-S Help text has advised for several months that this request Type should not be used because it had been discovered it did not function as expected. Given that the number of instances is very small it has been removed as an option. Requests for Grant Title changes can now only be made using a Grant Generic Change Type.

The ROs requested that the Reconciliation Statements remain available in Status Reporting for six months instead of the current seven days after all the grant actions have been completed (usually after the Pay Run). This change has been implemented.

Between 24 November and the March 2016 Release MRC grants were not being updated in Status Reporting. The above change will mean that the MRC Reconciliation Statements which were issued during this period will now be available to view in Status Reporting.

Note: the six months period will apply retrospectively to the date it was issued therefore an MRC grant which was reconciled in December 2015 will be removed from Status Reporting in June 2016.

i) Expenditure Statements when allocated from Pools – in a small number of instances the Principal Investigator’s name was displayed as Not Set or an unrelated name was inserted instead.

ii) Emails generated when applicants were sharing update emails during preparation of the proposal- in some cases the Principle Investigator’s name was not inserted in the text

When a Je-S user updated their address with a start date that was in the future, this was not being passed to the Grants System (Siebel). This has now been corrected and Je-S will update Siebel on the date of future-dated address changes.

There have been a number of changes to the list of Research Council Facilities available to applicants to add to a proposal submission:

- ‘JASMIN’ added for BBSRC and NERC schemes – technical assessment attachment will not be required.

- ‘850MHz Solid State NMR Facility at Warwick’ added for BBSRC, MRC and NERC schemes – technical assessment attachment will not be required.

- ‘National Service for Dark Fibre’ has been renamed ‘EPSRC National Dark Fibre Infrastructure Service’.

- ‘Ion Beams at Surrey University’ has been renamed ‘Ion Beam Centre at University of Surrey’.

The status of a number of Transferred Grants which had failed to close automatically following final payment have now been updated. In due course these will no longer appear within Status Reporting.

A new version of the Je-S System (6.0.6) will be released over the weekend of 22^nd / 23^rd August. The release will also include minor changes, fixes, system enhancements and scheme configuration. The following are the main changes:

The number of supporting documents which can be added as an Attachment Type to a Grant Maintenance request has been restricted to only one because of issues importing the documents into the Research Councils internal Grants System. Therefore, If there are several documents that need to be submitted then users should insert all the supporting documents into a single attachment. Please note that there is a 5MB limit for the attachment.

Issues raised by Research Organisations during last year’s survey have been addressed. In particular, PhD student records were excluded if they had been previously surveyed for Masters submission. This has been corrected for future Surveys.

Following the transfer of responsibilities for the peer review activities in April 2015, the email address references in the peer review emails issued by the Je-S System have been amended from ‘@ssc.rcuk.ac.uk’ to an RCUK email address. The telephone number that used to appear on the Decline to Review screen is no longer in use and the individual Research Council should be contacted instead.

A new version of the Je-S System (5.21.6) will be released over the weekend of 22 / 23^rd November. The release will include minor changes, fixes, system enhancements and scheme configuration. The following are the main changes:

Date of Birth GUI text

For new Je-S Users requesting a verified Je-S account (the account level required to be named as an investigator on a research grant), the Date of Birth details are requested for account validation purposes and also for equal opportunites monitoring.

An additional prompt will now be displayed making it clearer to verified level account holders that this data will also be used for equal opportunites monitoring.

For Users requesting a non verified account, there will be no change and the option to choose not to disclose the Date of Birth will still be available.

Ten-day turn around Pro-rata

In the cases where a Research Council (RC) wishes to offer a Grant to a Research organisation (RO) but will be funding the research staff FTE (Full Time Equivalent)at a different level from originally requested, UK SBS contacts the RO to request the Indirect, Estates costs and/or Infrastructure Technicians be recalculated.

The internal Grants System functionality will remove this manual step and automatically update/pro rata the full time equivalent (FTE) on a proposal. This completely removes the ROs participation in the Ten day turn around process.

Note: ROs may have received requests for amendments prior to the Release and these should still be responded to within the permitted time period.

We reported in the May Release note that work had been carried out to make the Je-S System compatible with IE11. Although the number of issues being reported were reduced following the Release, we still continued to receive reports of incompatibility. Further work has therefore been undertaken and we are hopeful that we have now resolved most of the issues. However if you do experience problems with IE 11 then please let the Je-S Helpdesk know.

Whilst not part of this Release, we would like to give you some advance warning that work is currently being undertaken to carry out a number of upgrades to the underlying technologies within Je-S. These upgrades will be at server level only with no functional changes. When the changes take place there will be an impact on the availability of the System. This is going to be in a few months time and more information will be provided when the details are known

A new version of the Je-S System (5.20.9) will be released on the 26th August 2014. The release will include minor changes, fixes, system enhancements and scheme configuration. The following are the main changes:

Following feedback received from Research Organisations (ROs), the Pool Administration page currently used by the RO Master Account User to edit a single users access to Studentship Details, will have the ability to select / deselect categories by Council as well as individually. The list of Research Councils and Categories will display in alphabetical order.

The data entered prior to the Release will be carried forward to the new functionality.

There will be additional level 3 classifications and geographical area qualifiers (oceans) to select from when making an application within Je-S or when classifying studentship within the Student Data Portal.

Je-S System Release – May 2014

A new version of the Je-S System (5.19.9) will be released over the weekend of 24/25 May. The release will include minor changes, fixes, system enhancements and scheme configuration. The following are the main changes:

Changes to Pre Award Tracker

If a Grant is funded outside of the Grant System (Siebel) a new status of ‘Funded Off System’ will now be displayed within the Pre Award Tracker.

Reviewers Comments

Previously Reviews were available in some circumstances but now they will be shared with the applicant in all scenarios (eg if a proposal was rejected before the Panel meeting the System did not automatically feedback the Reviews). The Reviews may also be shared with the Research Organisation depending on how the scheme is set up by the Research Council.

Note: The reviews will only be available for a period of four weeks. Access for RO staff to view the reviews is set up via the Je-S RO Master Account.

Compliance with ASPA

Within some of the Research Council research proposal forms the following question has now become mandatory;

‘Would the project involve the use of vertebrate animals or other organisms covered by the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act’. System validations have been applied to ensure that the section is now completed.

Amendment to the list of Cross-Council Facilities

Amendments have been made to the Research Council Facilities list available to select within research proposals.

The facility HECToR has been removed and the following facilities have been added;

Some of these facilities may require a Technical Assessment to be uploaded as an attachment.

BBSRC Final Reports

BBSRC have now aligned with the other Research Councils and will no longer use the Final Report functionality within the Je-S System.

All reports that have not yet been issued to Je-S will be waived. If the report has been issued but not yet submitted then the RO will still need to submit it. Research Organisations may notice that a number of BBSRC Final Reports which are currently displaying in the Status Reporting will disappear after the next BBSRC grants Pay Run.

NERC Rebranding

We endeavour to support the Je-S System on the most commonly used browser and platform combinations used by the research communities. Following the Release the System will be compatible with IE 11. We will continually review the browser and platform combinations of users of the Je-S System and Research Council web sites to ensure that we are able to support the vast majority of the users.

A new version of the Je-S System (5.18.8) will be released over the weekend of 22/23 February. The release will include minor changes, fixes, system enhancements and scheme configuration. The following are the main changes:

In order to improve the quality of data we hold, on submission of a Studentship record should any of the below specified criteria match those of another Studentship held for that Research Organisation (RO), a warning message will be displayed advising of potential duplicates.

The warning will ask for confirmation to submit the document to the Submitter Pool. The Student Document ID, Name and Department will be displayed for both Studentships.

In the majority of cases, existing records should be updated rather than creating a new one. Selecting ‘No’ will allow the User to stop the submission process and investigate the possible duplicate(s).

Note: Access to the duplicate record may be restricted if the User has only been set up with Add/Edit or has restricted Approver/Submitter access in the Pool Administration/ Studentship Detail. Users with Batch Update access will only have access if the Studentship is associated with the grant held at the RO ( For example, some students could be funded on a grant held by one RO but are registered at another degree awarding RO).

The Ministry of Defence (MoD)/ Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) section will be removed from the proposal forms for all schemes. The MoD scheme ceased to operate several years ago.

This will apply to all live schemes but will not affect any data previously submitted.

The current list of Animal Species which applicants may select from within the Animal Section on the Je-S Proposal Form will now have the addition of “Other Animals”.

In addition to the Applicant, ROs will now receive an email notification informing them of the outcome following the assessment of an Outline Proposal. This may include any feedback provided by the Research Council where applicable. The wording of the emails sent to applicants for Outlines has been changed to make it more appropriate for these schemes.

A new version of the Je-S System (5.17.8) will be released over the weekend of 16/17 November. The release will include minor changes, fixes, system enhancements and scheme configuration. The following are the main changes:

1) RCUK has implemented changes to Studentship Details Je-S functionality that will only allow the Research Organisation (RO) to associate a Training Grant once to an individual Je-S student record.

In cases where a student has been funded from a Training Grant in years 1, 3 and 4, but funded from a different grant in year 2 of their PhD studies, the RO will need to enter the earliest start and latest end date that funding is required from each grant.

For example, Student ‘A’ is funded from. Training Grant MR/K000001/1 for the first year and years 3 and 4 but is funded for the second year from Training Grant MR/K000002/1. The start date and end date associated with TG MR/K000001/1 will have to include the earliest start date (i.e. year 1 start) and the latest end date (year 4 finish) of the funding.

Student Details which currently include funding from a grant over two non consecutive periods will now fail validation in Je-S if any details are updated and the RO will therefore have to amend the grant periods before resubmission. Additional information will be provided in the Je-S System helptext.

2) To manage their Student Details records ROs are able to delete the record if required. However this facility to delete will no longer be available once the Student record has reached a year beyond the Expected Submission Date.

Change to Peer Reviewer Protocols
The Peer Review Protocols outline the general requirements on confidentiality, research misconduct, etc., expected from Reviewers by the Councils. Reviewers must agree to abide by these protocols before being presented with any review material. Additional text has been added to the Confidentiality section to make it clear to the Reviewers that ROs may also be given access to the anonymised review to support transparency of decision making.

Peer Reviewers are presented with the Protocols the first time they access the Peer Review functionality and have to accept the Protocols before proceeding to the Review document. Reviewers that have previously accepted will be required to accept the new Protocols the next time they access the Peer Review functionality.

NC3Rs
The NC3Rs have changed the design and colour of their logo, the Je-S System now reflects this.

A new version of the Je-S System (5.16.9) will be released on the morning of Tuesday 27 August 2013. The release will also include minor changes, fixes, system enhancements and scheme configuration:

The Research Councils (RC) have reviewed and updated the list of Research Council Facilities which can be applied for and have also included an “Other” option for all RCs except NERC. Some of the Facility requests will require a Technical Assessment form to be attached (available from the Facility provider). Additional validations have been introduced to ensure that the information required by the RCs is provided. A list of the Facilities for which Technical Assessment forms are mandatory will be provided in the Helptext.

The new Facilities section will be introduced across most schemes for proposals created after the Release. However if an applicant has already begun work on a proposal before the Release then they will still be able to submit it for a period of time (this differs across schemes and RCs).

There has been new functionality introduced for Customer Accounts & Additional Funding Notifications.

Customer Account
The Customer Accounts, which have been generated as paper documents following the Research Council Payment runs, were then posted to the Research Organisation (RO). When the new functionality is introduced into the Je-S System the paper Customer Accounts will be withdrawn and instead will only be available to view in the Je-S System.

Research Organisations (RO) will have to set up access for the RO Users via the RO Master account. (Guidance note issued with the Release Note). The RO Users will receive an email alert when a Customer Account has been issued and will be able to view the document after logging into their Je-S account. The Customer Account will be presented as a PDF document and there will be no further action required in Je-S For the first Pay Run following the Release, paper copies will also be provided for information.

Additional Funding Notifications
Additional funds which have been added to an active grant are currently emailed to the RO administrator who made the original request or the RO general contact if the additional funding request originated from another source. The Additional Funding Notifications will now be available in Je-S following the release.

Access to these documents will also have to be set up via the RO Master account. Users will receive an email when a new Notification document is populated into Je-S. It will be presented in Je-S as a PDF document. Although there will be no further action required in Je-S, the RO is requested to circulate copies to the Grant Holders.

As part of the rebranding of SSC to UK SBS, some email templates and documents now reference UK SBS in the email block and email body where necessary. The Je-S front page will show the UK SBS logo.

The Je-S Helptext pages have also been updated and reference to SSC replaced where appropriate. This change is ongoing and further changes will be made in due course.

A new version of the Je-S System (5.15.8) will be released on the morning of Tuesday 21 May 2013. The release will also include minor changes, fixes, system enhancements and scheme configuration:

Classifications - Qualifiers

The ability to collect and report on Project Engagement by Sector data, on proposals submitted through JeS has now been added to specific schemes for AHRC, ESRC, MRC, NERC and STFC.

A News Item will be added to the Je-S Login page to alert applicants that if they started their proposal and completed the Qualifier section prior to the Release, then they may wish to revisit the section and update it prior to submission.

A new version of the Research Councils’ Je-S System (5.14.5) will be released on the morning of Tuesday 19 February 2013. The release will include (apart from minor changes, bug fixes, system enhancements and scheme configuration):

General

Je-S Personal Data

Date of Birth and Country of Nationality were not previously mandatory fields for Je-S Users setting up their accounts details. However RCUK requires this data to enable reporting on equality data and trends for Grant Applicants, Reviewers and Panel Members so these data items will now be collected for new and existing accounts.

Therefore in this release validation has been introduced to ensure that the Date of Birth and Country of Nationality fields are completed for all users creating a Je-S account. The validation will ensure either a data item or “not disclosed” option is selected- not only for these two items but all other data items that have not been completed.

For existing Je-S accounts, where no selection has been made or where data items have blank fields, account holders will have to select an option and validate their details when they next log in to their account.

Je-S Account Requirements

This requirement, which originated from the Research Organisations, was to have greater control over Je-S accounts .

ROs will now be able to ‘Opt In’ to use the functionality to verify accounts for their organisation. In addition they will be able to view all the people who hold verified level accounts associated with the RO and will be able to mark them as Gone Away or Deceased if necessary.

For any ROs that do not ‘Opt In’ the account requests will continue to be manually administered by the SSC.

For all non-verified account types the process has been automated, removing the need for up-front checking by SSC and ensuring the account acceptance is immediate.

A further requirement for the verified level account validation to be removed for Co- Investigators for Schemes/Calls for Research Councils that do not require organisations to satisfy RCUK eligibility requirements and for the Principal Investigator to be able to add co-applicants, without co-applicants setting up an account, will be delivered in a future release.

NC3Rs – Status reporting

NC3Rs information for Grants will now be visible to the RO in Status Reporting. This will allow the RO to be able to view Deliverables and Reconciliation letters through the Je-S System.

Owing to the scheduling of Status Reporting, this will only become available a week after the Release.

ROs may wish to consider whether changes will be required to allow additional Users access to the Status Reporting functionality. Please refer to the Helptext at https://jes.rcuk.ac.uk/Handbook/pages/InformationforROJeSAdministrat/StatusReporting/AllocatingAccess.htm if you require assistance with adding User access.

A new version of the Research Councils’ Je-S System (5.13.6) will be released on the morning of Tuesday 20 November 2012. The release will include (apart from minor changes, bug fixes, system enhancements and scheme configuration):

General

Changes to Terms & Conditions

The Je-S System Terms and Conditions include a new Privacy section (3.4) on the use of Cookies on the Je-S website. Users will be asked to confirm that they accept the updated Ts & Cs before they can continue using Je-S.

The change is to remove the requirement for some MRC reviewers to return a paper Confidentiality Disclosure Agreement prior to reviewing proposals. Instead the Peer Review Protocols have been amended and reviewers will be asked to agree to the revised protocols when they are next sent a peer review document.

For Councils other than BBSRC and ESRC, most grants with an end date on or after 1 January 2013 will no longer require a final report to be submitted. Although Final reports will not be required for submission through the Je-S System there will still be a requirement for grant holders to provide outputs and outcomes through the Research Councils outcomes Systems. Research Organisations will still be required to submit Final Expenditure Statements.

NERC -New Attachment type –Logistics Form. This attachment will be required for the Antarctic Funding Initiative scheme.

A new version of the Research Councils’ Je-S System (5.11.10) was released on the morning of Tuesday 19 June 2012. The release included (apart from minor changes, fixes, system enhancements and scheme configuration):

Feedback of Peer Review Comments to unsuccessful applicants – the Principal Investigator has the opportunity to comment on the peer reviewers comments prior to a meeting (PI Response) but if a Research Council rejected a proposal prior to this stage in the process then the peer review comments had not been available to view in the Je-S System. Following the release the comments will now be viewable in the PI Response section but the Principal Investigator will be unable to respond to the comments.

There have been some changes to improve the look of the document and to make the information clearer.

If a Proposal has been returned to the Research Organisation for amendment then an email reminder will be issued to whoever the document is allocated to at the time eg a person or if unallocated in a Pool, the Pool members, within 2 days of the due date.

Je-S System Release – March 2012

A new version of the Research Councils’ Je-S System (5.10.9) will be released on the morning of Tuesday 20 March 2012. The release will include (apart from minor changes, fixes, system enhancements and scheme configuration):

General

Changes to Grant Maintenance Requests

The Grant Maintenance Request functionality now includes an Attachment section for submitting supporting documentation. The Attachment Type is “Grant Maintenance Supporting Document”. Multiple documents may be attached to each request.

Expenditure Statements

The information field in returned Expenditure Statements is limited to only 50 characters so the return reason is currently emailed separately on request from the RO. There will be a Grants back office system release on 26 March which will correct this and the return reason will become available in the Je-S document (200 characters).

To date, Research Organisations have only been able to add details for Staff Types which had Authorised funds on the grants, from 26 March all Staff Types applicable to a Scheme will be available on Expenditure Statements.

Supplementary Expenditure statements will be issued through the Je-S System, from 26 March, which may include a back log held pending the release.

Non-FEC proposals in Je-S

A more consistent approach to non-FEC Fund Headings will be applied to all non-FEC schemes and will include the introduction of Wakeham changes for equipment funding. This change will be phased in, Calls in progress will not be changed.

Please contact the Je-S Helpdesk if you require any further information about the System release or if you experience any issues with the Je-S System.

Email: JeSHelp@rcuk.ac.uk

Phone: +44 (0) 1793 44 4164

Je-S System Release 65, 13 December 2011

A new version of the Research Councils’ Je-S System (5.09.4) was released on Tuesday 13 December. The release included (apart from minor changes, bug fixes, system enhancements and scheme configuration):

General

Changes to requests for Equipment

From 13 December 2011 the following system changes came into effect for Equipment costs. The changes were implemented for most schemes at this time and will be phased in for some others over a period of time (a copy of the spreadsheet with implementation dates which the Helpdesk has received from the Research Councils is attached for information). The changes that came into affect on 1 May 2011 were detailed in http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/documents/publications/Equipment_Guidance.pdf

1. The current threshold of £50K for equipment over which funding by the council is at 100% (80% below the threshold) has been removed. For all equipment items (with the exception on social surveys) the actual cost should be provided along with the amount being sought from the Council.

2. Quotations are now mandatory for equipment items above the OJEU threshold. Where the actual cost of the equipment items exceeds the OJEU thresholds three quotations must be provided. For items where the actual cost is between £25k and the OJEU threshold it is optional to prove up to three quotations.

3. Social Surveys costs are now entered as an individual cost element under the separate Social Survey section. This is available for ESRC proposals only. Only Subcontracted Surveys Costs should be entered under this heading and will be shown under the Exceptions Heading in the Resource summary and funded at the 100% rate (for the amount sought from the council). Surveys that are not subcontracted should be entered under the Other Directly Incurred Costs section of the proposal and will be funded at the 80% rate and shown under the Directly Incurred Heading in the Resource summary. The exception option should not be selected.

4. Instrument Development Costs. These should now be applied for in the same way as other equipment items with the actual costs and the amount requested from the Council being provided. It is also necessary to indicate against the equipment item that it is for instrument development.

Student Data Portal. Batch Update: The expected submission date is now available in the List option (column can be displayed after selecting from the Preferences)

EPSRC

Industrial CASE Accounts (Training Grants) will be issued to research organisations in December 2011. The facility to enter CASE student details against 2011 Voucher numbers will become available in early 2012. The deadline for entering 2011/12 CASE student details is 30 October 2012.

Je-S System Release 63, 21 June 2011

A new version of the Research Councils’ Je-S System (5.07.4) was released on Tuesday 21 June. The release included (apart from minor changes, bug fixes, system enhancements and scheme configuration):

General

Documents which have a due date now have the date displayed within the Unallocated Pool Documents page.

BBSRC

New Schemes

- Modular Training For Industry

- Follow on Fund

- Policy Placements

Details will be published on the BBSRC website

EPSRC

New Schemes

-IDEAS Factory Sandpits

- EPSRC Fellowship

Details will be published on the EPSRC website

Je-S System Release 62, 19 April 2011

A new version of the Research Councils’ Je-S System (5.06.6) was released on Tuesday 19 April. The release included (apart from minor changes, bug fixes, system enhancements and scheme configuration):

General

All Research Councils are now using the Je-S System for submission of proposals. All RCs, apart from MRC, will be able to use full Je-S functionality (however see comment below about status reporting).

Grant Maintenance: All requests for changes to current grants must be made through this functionality for all research councils (except for current MRC Grants until later in the summer when all MRC data will have been transferred) (The data in Status Reporting for AHRC and BBSRC is expected to be made available very shortly).

Student Data Portal- Final Expenditure Statements:

There is now the ability to sort the student names alphabetically.

Status Reporting:

Can now apply filters to enable searches.

AHRC

New Schemes- Knowledge Exchange Hubs for the Creative Economy:http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/About/Policy/Pages/KnowledgeTransferPolicy.aspx

Communities, Culture and Creative Economies:

ESRC

New attachment type: Data Management Plan - Further info available at http://www.esrc.ac.uk/about-esrc/information/data-policy.aspx

NC3Rs

Are introducing a new studentship scheme and will collect the data through the SDP- access to the scheme will have to be set up in the RO Master Pool Admin function.

Je-S System Release 62, 15 February 2011

A new version of the Research Councils’ Je-S System (5.05.5) was released on Tuesday 15 February. The release included (apart from minor changes, bug fixes, system enhancements and scheme configuration):

General

ESRC and STFC grant processing will move to the SSC on Monday 21 February. This will result in some changes within Je-S:

Pre Award Tracking: ESRC and STFC proposal information will be available week beginning 21 Feb. The Tracker will be available within the ROMasterID and the PIs accounts to track progress of applications from the point of submission.

Status Reporting: The information for ESRC and STFC has been frozen since the beginning of the month, updates for these councils will start from the 28th Feb.

Offer letters/Start Certificates: will be available through Je-S for ESRC and STFC (EPSRC and NERC currently available)

Grant Maintenance: All requests for changes to current grants must be made through this functionality for ESRC, STFC, EPSRC and NERC ( there may be a few days delay for ESRC and NERC as the Status Reporting data has to be available – by 28 Feb)

Expenditure Statements:

ESRC statements will now be handled through Je-S.

The document list now includes the Due Date information (on right hand side of the list).

Email alerts will now include the RO reference number and PI details.

Confirmation of Access to document emails: A comment is now mandatory (in response to users querying with Helpdesk why they are being given access to a document).

Proposal Classification section: New section will appear in the forms for ESRC and STFC (already in place for NERC, not used by EPSRC).

Accessibility: Further changes to the look of the System have been implemented, notably under the Pool Admin functionality.

AHRC

Project Student Stipend: Amended in Je-S in line with rates used by other councils: £13590 (London rate £15590)

Annual Cost Profile: The requirement to break down the costs for items for each year of the proposal has been removed.

Je-S System Release 61, 21 December 2010

A new version of the Research Councils’ Je-S System (5.04.6) was released on Tuesday 21 December 2010. The release included (apart from minor changes, bug fixes, system enhancements and scheme configuration):

General

Pre Award Tracking: This is being populated in a phased manner so not all information is currently being displayed. It will be available within the ROMasterID and the PIs accounts to track progress of applications from the point of submission until the outcome is known. Useful points to note:

updates are made overnight at the end of each day (i.e its not 'real time' display but has a one day delay)
there is no historic system transactional data in the tracker, the first system transactions it will display are those from 16 Dec
it won't show any pre-16 Dec system transaction/status information
the tracker only displays a proposal when it has had a system transaction (i.e. newly submitted proposals and migrated in-flight proposals will not display until they have had a system transaction).
when awards are active they will continue to be displayed in the pre-award tracker as 'Authorised' but they can then be viewed in Status Reporting. Authorised grants will not be removed/purged from the Pre-Award Tracker and will remain in the list.
if an award was already active before 16 Dec, it won't show on the tracker and will only be seen in Status Reporting.

Accessibility: High contrast version is now available for partially sighted users and large type options will become available in due course.

Studentship Data Portal (SDP)

An archive facility for completed student details is now available in the Batch Update functionality. You can select a student, or multiple students to archive, archiving documents will hide the document from the batch update results.

AHRC data will be populated in the portal from 22 December.

EPSRC Industrial CASE Vouchers issue now resolved.

EPSRC Academic Fellows and CASE for New Academics (CAN) are now temporarily available again in the portal to allow backdated details to be submitted.

STFC have set up a new studentship scheme - AURORA studentships and successful ROs will provide details of their students in the SRDP. BBSRC

A new "highlight area" is to be available for BBSRC’s responsive mode closing date in January 2011, the highlight area is called "Effects of environmental change on the soil-water interface: Implications for food production and water supply" and details can be found at:

NERC

Removal of an attachment for the Follow on Fund and Follow on Fund Pathfinder scheme: The Pathways to Impact attachment has been removed as it is not applicable for the requirements of this scheme.

Knowledge Exchange Scheme: Removal of Academic Beneficiaries section and addition of a new attachment for this scheme

New scheme for NERC Urgency grants based on existing Small Grants scheme: The scheme has a mandatory £65k maximum FEC validation for funds. The same conditions apply to this scheme as for the Small grants scheme. However, there is no closing date and proposals can be submitted at any time.

A new version of the Research Councils’ Je-S System (5.02.6) was released on Tuesday 19th October 2010. The release included (apart from minor changes, bug fixes, system enhancements and scheme configuration):

Not Disclosed Option for Country of Nationality – For all SDP schemes an option of ‘Not Disclosed’ has been introduced in Person Details.

Project Partner Details – Start and End Dates at Project Partner have been removed.

Researcher Training Dates – Details of the funding start date now must be entered here.

Overseas Travel Grants – Scheme changed to include ‘Other Directly Incurred Costs’

Scheme Business Placement Fellowships – Attachment type ‘Proposal Cover Letter’ added to scheme, this is an optional attachment.

Standard Scheme – Validation added in joint proposal section, number of joint components set to 4 (1 lead and 3 non leads).

New Investigator and Small Grant Schemes – Joint proposal section removed from these schemes.

All schemes CV’s Required – The inclusion of a CV to be uploaded as an attachment has now been set to mandatory for all NERC schemes when PI, Co-I and Named Researchers are added to proposals.

Project Details – Your reference in project details section has been changed to TSB Application Number.

Je-S System Release 59, 17 August 2010

A new version of the Research Councils’ Je-S System (5.02.5) was released on Tuesday 17 August 2010. The release included (apart from minor changes, bug fixes, system enhancements and scheme configuration):

Status Reporting: There is now the option within the ROMasterID account to give a person access to more than Department (available under the Advanced Options within Status Reporting).

Ordering of Documents in the Document lists: the initial view has been amended to present the most recent document at the top of the list (previously at the bottom). This change was made following feedback received from users

UK is now set as default field: for the country of nationality when adding a student’s details (added following feedback from a user that had to scroll to the bottom of a long list).

Validation added to SDP that if an Industrial CASE studentship form is selected that the project partner information is mandatory.

Ability to select the submitting RO: an indicator has now been added to determine which RO’s submission Pools a studentship document should be routed through (has recently been a problem where the RO is not the degree awarding RO).

Block Grant Partnerships: Capacity Building Route: new scheme added.

Je-S System Release 58, 15 June 2010

A new version of the Research Councils’ Je-S System (5.01.5) was released on Tuesday 20 April 2010. The release included (apart from minor changes, bug fixes, system enhancements and scheme configuration):

Create Account: - Changes to the Create Account functionality which will streamline the process and will reduce the number of incidences when a user whose details are currently held in the people/organisation database has to wait for the Helpdesk to send a credential or activation link.

Student Details in Batch Update: - ability to clear any student termination details entered in error.

Adding a new Document:- When setting up a new proposal document the applicant can select the Call detail at the same time as selecting the RC and scheme. This will reduce the number of instances of documents being created under the wrong scheme.

Locked Documents: - Padlock icon now displayed within the locked document header and footer (previously had to exit document and get details from the Document List), when the mouse is hovered over the icon then details of who locked by are displayed.

Eligible Organisations: - Being registered to use the Je-S System does not imply that an organisation is automatically eligible to apply to the RCs. Eligibility checks were performed once a proposal had been received by a RC but Schemes and Calls will now be set up within Je-S to only allow the organisations which are eligible to prepare and submit proposals.

Classifications: - a new cross council classification structure has been introduced to identify appropriate peer reviewers. The new classification information is now available to select through the Personal Details section of a Users account and will appear as part of the proposal forms in due course. Research Organisations will be informed when this will happen

CVs are now required for named Researcher Co Investigators, Researchers or visiting Researchers on Proposal forms.

Je-S System Release 57, 20 April 2010

Tuesday 20 April 2010. This release will have a significant positive impact on the external user community.

The user interface has been completely replaced so that the way users navigate through the system is significantly improved. The reason for this change was an accessibility review conducted in which a number of problems for users who for example, are unable to use a mouse or who need screen reading software were identified.

This is the biggest release of the Je-S System for 5 years- in excess of 250 web pages have been converted to the new style.

In addition to this the release included (apart from minor changes, bug fixes, system enhancements and scheme configuration):

The annual email to users to remind them to affirm their details has been withdrawn- there are sufficient other methods in place to remind users to update their details.

Impact Plans: - The impact Plan attachment is renamed 'Pathways to Impact' on all schemes.

PI contract eligibility change:- there is no longer a requirement, in the case of Research Grants, for a Principal Investigator to have a contract in place at time of application. There is, however a requirement for Research Councils to receive assurance that the individual will be issued with a contract should the proposal be successful, and that to ensure completion of the final report, that the contract would be extended beyond the end of the grant.

Project Student section proposal form: to start capturing costs for project students, harmonising with other RCs

Fellowship Outline Form- to include an attachment type of Host Organisation statement.

Exceptional Item Indicator: - to allow the inclusion of non-FEC other 'costs DI' (paid at 100%) costs as part of a grant proposal. This is to primarily allow the capture of overseas COI 'other' costs (salary not paid) which are eligible to be claimed against all grant schemes.

A new version of the Research Councils’ Je-S System (4.55.6) was released on Tuesday 18 August 2009.

This release included: minor changes, bug fixes, system enhancements and scheme configuration.

The System Help also contains navigation Guidance through the new functionality.

AHRC Student Nominations – additional question on Extended Doctoral Funding added to the form.

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Awards scheme – it is now mandatory to attach a project partner letter of support for each collaborating organisation on the proposal.

ESRC

ESRC New studentship proposal scheme - 'Postgraduate Training Framework' ESRC has recently announced a new framework for postgraduate training. This is a major change in postgraduate policy and is the outcome of several years of reviews and consultation.

A new version of the Research Councils’ Je-S System (4.54.2) was released on Tuesday 16 June 2009.

This release included: minor changes, bug fixes, system enhancements and scheme configuration.

e-mails on issue of FES Documents (Expenditure Statements) - in light of feedback received the emails are now issued to the pool, the notification goes to the pool members, or the pool e-mail depending on how the pool is configured (previously went to the email associated with the Grants Payments Office).

AHRC

AHRC scheme Fellowships in the Creative and Performing Arts - addition of DI costs: it has been decided that AHRC will allow Fellows to apply for project costs in addition to their salary costs.

AHRC Removal of Future Qualifications that have been entered in error: now possible to remove a future qualification entered in error.

AHRC New Scheme Science and Heritage Large Grants: aims to enable arts and humanities, and engineering and physical sciences researchers to pursue collaborative research projects that demand the resources of an interdisciplinary team of scholars in order to build capacity within the heritage science field, enabling intellectual development and exchange across and between disciplines, and with non-academic stakeholders. Interdisciplinary Research Grants (for up to £800,000 fEC) will support 5-8 collaborative projects (depending on value) with a duration of up to 3 years.

AHRC New Scheme Request - Research Fellowships: Early Career and Standard.

BBSRC

BBSRC New scheme - BBRF outlines

EPSRC First Grant Scheme to be closed- applicants will now only have the option of choosing First Grants.

ESRC

Studentship Proposals and Nominations - ESRC have removed the Final Qualification to be attained question from the Edit Project Details section.

NERC

NERC Project technology-led - Mandatory tick box, New section on form.

STFC

STFC new non-FEC Standard Proposal scheme Research in Industry

STFC

STFC , “letter of Support” to become a mandatory attachment on Post doc and Advanced fellowships. The attachment type will be available at the applicant stage but mandatory at the submitter stage.

System Release 50, 21 April 2009

A new version of the Research Councils’ Je-S System (4.53.0) was released on Tuesday 21 April 2009.

This release included: minor changes, bug fixes, system enhancements and scheme configuration.

Research and Fellowship Proposal Forms Attachment Types:

Impact Summary: As notified in the December release the Impact Summary is now required for EPSRC, NERC and STFC.

Following a review of the Attachment types in use in the Je-S System a number of redundant attachment types have been removed.

Doctoral Training Account records and Batch Update

A fees only tick box has been included for students only eligible for, and receiving, a fees only award.

A document type will not be displayed in the Assigned Document Summary unless there is an existing document of that type within a User’s account or, if a pool member, then a document with the Pool. (The only exception will be the Student/Researcher option because it is necessary to open this option to be able to create new student/researcher records).

The AHRC and EPSRC are taking forward a joint Science and Heritage Programme. These Post-doctoral Fellowships will enable outstanding new researchers to carry out research and so establish an independent research career in heritage science.

The AHRC/BT Research Networking funding call is intended to support interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers to explore the theme of digital heritage.

BBSRC currently operate Outline applications outside of Je-S but will start to invite them through Je-S beginning with the Outline scheme for Longer Larger (LoLa) Grant Applications.

Peer Review Forms

Some EPSRC Peer Review forms revised to take account of the Impact Summary changes. The rest of the PR forms will be made available through subsequent Je-S Releases.

Some ESRC Peer Review forms revised to take account of the Impact Summary changes. The rest of the PR forms will be made available through subsequent Je-S Releases.

Other

Proposal Project Student stipends and fees - updated for ESRC and STFC

NERC Facilities - the list of research council facilities available within the NERC proposals has been updated.

NERC Proposals now require funding that is going to the NERC Collaborative Centres to be identified.

STFC joint standard proposals may now include Project partner details in the non lead part (previously failed validation).

Release 49, 17 March 2009

This Release involved Changes to Validation: Project Partner and Equipment Quote Attachments

There were changes to the Attachment validations for many of the Standard Research Proposal and Fellowship forms.* The changes were originally made in October 2008 but were withdrawn to allow further testing. After extensive retesting we are now confident that the original problems have been resolved, the changes were therefore implemented with on Tuesday 17 March 2009. The validation changes mean that document editors and submitters now see council/scheme rules prior to submission to council, which reduces the number of applications subsequently returned to the research organisations for amendment.

For all items of equipment requested with a value of £100k, or greater, three equipment quotations must be uploaded. For items of equipment which cost between £25k and £100k there is an option to provide three quotations but they are not mandatory.

Equipment quotations are added within the equipment item screen, not within the attachments section (having added the details, pressing “Save” will provide a link to add the attachments).

This change in requirements will affect proposals which have been started prior to, but will be submitted after, 17 March. Attachments which have already been uploaded prior to 17 March will need to be removed and re-attached within the relevant section**.

For each project partner added to the proposal a Project Partner Letter of Support must be uploaded. The change here is that these should be added within the Project Partner details screen and not in the attachments section (having added the Project Partner details, pressing “Save” will provide a link to add the attachment). Attachments which have already been uploaded prior to 17 March will need to be removed and re-attached within the relevant section**.

If a document, submitted prior to 17 March, is returned by a Council then the validation rules which were in place at the point of submission will still apply when the document is resubmitted. It will not be necessary to remove and reattach the attachments.

* The rules will automatically be applied to Council scheme/calls so will be visible to relevant users.

** There are some Council scheme/calls exceptions in which case the rules will not be applied and it will not be necessary to remove and reattach attachments uploaded prior to 17 March. The exceptions are:

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This release included: minor changes, bug fixes, system enhancements and scheme configuration.

1. The following functionality related to the maintenance of a grant (standard research, fellowships, and training grants, but not individual studentships) went into the live release of Je-S on 17 February 2009. This new functionality will allow PI’s/Pool Administrators within a Research Organisation to create and submit these grant maintenance requests to council via the Je-S system.

2. To ensure that the RO is informed of the outcome of requests as well as ensuring the appropriate RO member of staff can be contacted when further information/clarification is required.

· The email address is the contact point for the RO and therefore is only required at submission of a Grant Maintenance Request or Grant Transfer Response to a RC and not before.

3. ROs will be able to filter the grants that are displayed in Grant Maintenance Request.

i) EPSRC will be the only Research Council that will use this functionality prior to the implementation of the NGBO. Therefore, the options (see table above) will only be available initially against relevant EPSRC grants. EPSRC will be accepting grant maintenance requests from 24^th February onwards.

The remaining maintenance functionality related to requests for change to Co-Investigators, Researcher Co-investigators, Supervisors, Summary, DSA, Fieldwork, studentship departmental changes & status changes will not be implemented until councils are operating one back-office system (NGBO).

Further information on this new functionality is available via the Je-S System Helptext.

The existing PhD Submission Survey (previously used by EPSRC), has been extended to allow for the capture of Masters Training Grant submission data, and to provide functionality for submitting survey data for BBSRC and NERC for both their PhD and Master students captured on the Student/Researcher Batch Update tool on the Je-S System.

The survey will open on Monday 23 February 2009, and will close on Friday 30 March 2009, and will survey students with an expected submission date that falls between 1 October 2006 and 31 October 2008. BBSRC, EPSRC and NERC will have contacted the relevant departments at Research Organisations, and Je-S administrators can therefore expect to be contacted to set up access to the functionality before this date.

A reminder that the Research Councils are phasing in changes to their application forms for research and fellowship proposals to include an Impact Summary which addresses the following questions:

The changes will be applied to the Je-S application forms using the following timetable for each Research Council:-

Changes to the Peer Review forms will be phased in by Councils in line with the above timetable.

We are planning to implement the following changes on 17 March. This change is subject to completion of UAT within the Research Councils, but we wish to inform ROs of the likely change in advance. A formal update will be issued w/b 9 March, to confirm that this change is going live.

Documents returned from RCs to ROs for amendment, after the 17 March, will retain the 'rules' that were applied at the point of original submission.

ESRC- Student Nominations (Masters): ^'Advanced Quantitative Training', within Edit Summary section. ESRC policy has been changed, stipend is not payable (and therefore not claimable) for masters only studentship awards.

New STFC Standard Proposal scheme : PATT Travel Grants. For PATT Travel Grants the amount funded by STFC will be at a rate of 100% FEC and this will be reflected in the resource summary.

Pool Admin: change to prevent rescind action being applied when there is no document owner

Create Document for Printing: now have the ability to print the form and all the attachments from within the Create Document for Printing function following submission to the RC (previously the attachments had to be printed individually from within the Attachments heading).

Return Reason: Removal of scrolling box for Return Reason in returned documents, to ensure that users see full reasons supplied by the Councils.

A new version of the Research Councils’ Je-S System (4.51.5) was released on Tuesday 16 December 2008.

This release included: minor changes, bug fixes, system enhancements and scheme configuration changes.

Joint Proposals has changed and the creation of the non-lead parts is now controlled by the Lead (For Standard Proposal forms for BBSRC, EPSRC, ETI, NERC, STFC and TSB).

1) After the Project Details section has been completed, applicants should have the option to create a joint proposal.

2) The lead document owner defines the number of documents that are required to make up the joint set. The lead document owner can add additional documents later if necessary.

3) The system sets up the number of non-lead documents requested, with the owner of the lead document as the owner of all the non-leads. Each document contains a read-only joint reference. The title of the lead is copied to the non-lead parts.

4) The owner of the lead document assigns ownership of the non-lead parts to the Je-S users who need to complete them. The system notifies the users by email that ownership of part of a joint proposal has been assigned to them.

5) The number/type of attachments which the non lead have to submit will be reduced as common components will be submitted by the lead only.

The excellent research funded by the UK Research Councils has a huge impact on the wellbeing and economy of the UK. Working together with our wider communities and other partners, we want to ensure that these impacts are effectively demonstrated and supported, throughout the research lifecycle, in order to add value, stimulate interest from wider stakeholders, including the general public, and, where needed, actively highlight the need for continued investment in the research base.

From 2009, applicants for research and fellowship grant proposals will be required to produce an Impact Summary which addresses the following questions:

What will be done to ensure they have the opportunity to benefit from this research?

Whether the plans to increase impact are appropriate and justified, given the nature of the proposed research

The Case for Support (and/or attached Impact Plan where required- the RC specific Helptext will provide details of the format the info should be provided in) should expand on the information contained in the Impact Summary and describe what will be done to increase the scale or likelihood of impact.

The changes will be applied to the Je-S forms using the following timetable for each Research Council:-

ESRC- New Schemes - Public Sector Placement Fellowships and Academic Placement Fellowships

AHRC -Change to earliest start date for Religion and Society and Small Grants- Reduced from 6 months to 5 months after the Call end date.

ESRC- Instruments removed from Facilities- Cost and numbers of units currently associated with instruments will in future be associated with the facility.

MRC Student/Researcher Details- the MRC research boards have changed so the classification details have been updated ro reflect the current position.

STFC Rolling Grants- Additional data collection for investigator costs to be split between years.

There have been some enhancements to the Email generated to the Reviewer to alert them to the PR request:

ESRC- Peer Review-Small Grants Scheme -the “self assessment “section has been removed in the light of user feedback.

1. Offer Acceptance Document to be issued via Je-S. This will include an Offer Document (often known as Offer Letter).

2. Grant Holders to receive an e-mail informing them when an Offer Acceptance Document has been issued.

3. Research Organisations to confirm/decline the offer via Je-S and to indicate an estimated start date. This date will have to fall within the permissible start date range. The Offer Acceptance document will need to be returned within 10 working days. Once this expiry date has been reached then it will only be possible to view the document.

4. Payment Data (currently issued in paper form in a Payment Schedule) to be included with the Offer Acceptance document. The ability to view and export the data into a spreadsheet.

5. Ability to view and export Payment Data into a spreadsheet for grants via Status Reporting. Where there is more than one funding stream for a grant then a “combined” funding stream will be shown as well as the individual funding streams.

6. A Start Confirmation document (currently known as Starting Certificate) to be returned by Research Organisations via Je-S. The Start Confirmation document will be issued by a Research Council once a grant has been accepted. Submission of the Start Confirmation will be required not more than 42 days after the start actual start date.

7. The fund headings for the scheme will be shown and at least 1 fund heading will need to be selected. If a fund heading requires staff details then details for at least one person must be added.

8. The Research Organisation will be able to provide a RO reference for the grant.

a. EPSRC will be the only Research Council that will use this functionality prior to the implementation of the cross-Council Next Generation Back Office system (NGBO).

b. Payment Data for EPSRC non-FEC grants are currently displaying the Indirect Costs fund heading even if there are no staff costs on the grant that attract Indirect Costs. The actual value of the grant is not affected as this fund heading is currently being populated with zero values.

There have been changes to the Attachment validations for many of the Standard Research Proposal and Fellowship forms.

Equipment quotations are added within the equipment item screen, not within the attachments section (having added the details, pressing “Save” will provide a link to add the attachments).

This change in requirements will affect proposals which have been started prior to, but will be submitted after, 21 October. Attachments which have already been uploaded prior to 21 October will need to be removed and re-attached within the relevant section.

For each project partner added to the proposal a Project Partner Letter of Support must be uploaded. The change here is that these should be added within the Project Partner details screen and not in the attachments section (having added the Project Partner details, pressing “Save” will provide a link to add the attachment). Attachments which have already been uploaded prior to 21 October will need to be removed and re-attached within the relevant section.

Document owner has to progress document
In line with the Je-S Framework (http://www.so.stfc.ac.uk/jes/Requirements.asp) , all documents must be “owned” by the applicant prior to submission to council (including Studentship documents).

Revised design to allow users, wishing to create Je-S accounts, to indicate what type of Je-S usage they require (and the resulting account is based on that information).

As a transition to fully configurable pools we are introducing some interim changes to the Pools for financial documents.

We would advise that at the current time you do not make any changes to any of the Finance Pools - except for adding or removing members. However if you do wish to take the opportunity to set up pools by document type then the Helpdesk would be happy to advise on how this could be done.

• It will be possible to have the same flexibility to determine by “finance” document type (eg Expenditure Statements) the approver and/or submitter pools that the documents would be routed through. There will be some exceptions to this eg documents that belong at the organisational rather than departmental level (Annual Statements).

• As functionality grows, new document types will be added to the system and will require pools being set up.

The timescale for implementing the further changes is likely to be late winter 2009/ spring 2010. (More detailed information was included in the advance notice circular sent on 10 October 2008).

To avoid problems with applicants inserting page numbers into the margins of their document, which then results in the pages being resized on submission, Je-S now stamps the page number onto attachments in the same way as it stamps the grant reference number onto attachments (within the footer).

BBSRC Committee structure changes 2008

BBSRC has changed its responsive mode committee structure, replacing the current seven committees with four new ones that will encompass the remits of the current ones. Further details can be found on the BBSRC web site.

Removal of Edit attachment section from ESRC Studentship schemes: CASE +3 and
CASE 1+3

This is a mandatory attachment for NERC Standard, Consortium and Partnership Research Grant schemes.

These will now be subsumed into STFC Doctoral Training Grants. The schemes removed are: CASE, IAC and GEMINI

Due to a terminology change for this area of STFC, the name of the scheme changed to reflect this.

Stipend non-London = £12,940
Stipend London weighting = £14,940
Fees (London and non-London) = £3,330
(applied to all proposal schemes which allow project student input).

A new version of the Research Councils’ Je-S System (4.0.42) was released on Tuesday 17 June 2008.

This release included: minor changes, bug fixes, system enhancements and scheme configuration changes

CreateAccount and MyDetails (account maintenance) design change - General redesign of ‘create account’ and account maintenance pages

Unavailability - new input screen in MyDetails (Account holders can now record unavailability data which will be transferred to the Councils’ back office systems)

Emails - update made to email generated when account details have been changed by the Research Councils

EPSRC Referee Expertise keywords - inclusion of ability to update keywords/expertise via the account maintenance screens

Redesign of 'Documents to Review' screen - breakdown of 'information' and 'inputting' sections

Tidy up of some printed output forms to provide clearer labels or clearer output of data

Revised input screens for RC facilities/equipment to provide breakdown of individual items

Joint proposals - sight of supporting attachments and information for non-lead ROs

Research Council form design or business changes - a large number of changes have been actioned as a result of Councils' business requirements for data collection changing, or to improve design or validation of input.

A new version of the Research Councils’ Je-S System (4.0.36) was released on Tuesday 15 April 2008.

This release includes: minor changes, bug fixes, system enhancements and scheme configuration changes

All councils/schemes
Edit Resources, Edit Facilities:
Have been renamed to:
Edit Resources, Edit Research Council Facilities

Staff Costing information sequence on screen, popup and printed output

Input (calculator) screens in same 'field' order as on Je-s Screen display, Resource Summary and Printed Output for costing data.

Character Counting

New ‘item’ of 'Infrastructure Technicians' applies to All councils/relevant document types/schemes

System restricts input to only one item, under the Other Directly Allocated resources entries (but allowing expanded 'entries' under Research Facilities/Existing Equipment)

Following the initial development of Phase 1 of the Pool Admin an issue with 10Day TurnaroundT docs was identified.

Any 10DT docs generated by Councils are going to the default pool, regardless of which pool they were submitted to council from. 10DT docs should be configurable to allow the most appropriate pool to administer them, in the same way as any other document

Following the initial development of Phase 1 of the Pool Admin changes, an issue with visibility of all RO staff members was identified.

RO Admin users should now be able to see full list of RO staff, whether by Pool membership, or a full list of staff.

i) Research Networks – Religion & Society;
ii) Research Workshops – Religion & Society.
AHRC have decided to allow co-investigators to these two schemes and have therefore added the relevant section to these two forms.

The wording on the “edit achievements”, “edit expenditure”, “edit Science in Society” and “edit other staff” screens for STFC standard and PIPSS FR schemes has been amended to provide clearer guidance

From 15 April 2008 STFC are removing the mandatory requirement for a narrative report (attachment) to be submitted with a Final Report.

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A new version of the Research Councils’ Je-S System (4.0.30) was released on Tuesday 19 February 2008.

The release included: minor changes, bug fixes, system enhancements and scheme configuration changes

Revision of Pool Admin functionality, including membership and document maintenance, and ability to structure pools by document type, plus ability to 'hide' documents. The Je-S Helpdesk are running a series of workshops to guide RO admin teams through these changes, please contact jeshelp@rcuk.ac.uk if you want further information.

Change to the wording on 'View proposal details' screen post decline. Changed to say:
You have already submitted a decline response to Council and therefore access to view this document has been removed.

PR - Self Assessment area of expertise wording Edit Reviewer Self Assessment Your area of expertise GUI text should start 'Please indicate your areas of expertise'; the current wording 'Please indicate the areas of expertise' is ambiguous.

PR - Decline functionality restriction for editors - other editors should not be able to Edit the Decline to Review function. This should be View Only even when the editor has edit privilege

Change to the e-mails issued when 10 Day Turnaround docs are issued by councils. Rather than the common one that currently goes to both the Pool and the PI these have been separated out, essentially to clarify what the PI gets

Call and Scheme information included in the 'progression' and 'submission' emails.

Re-position the ‘Edit Joint Proposal’ section of the form, to be the third ‘section’ (after ProjectDetails and PI/CO). To make the question more visible, and allow checking against 'validation' rules at an earlier stage.

Printed output and Resource Summary section amended to reflect input fields/structure.

Attachment changes - impact on submitted docs (to allow viewing of earlier attachments, regardless of configuration changes for attachment requirements)

(If the document is attached prior to the change being implemented, it needs to be ‘viewable’ but not editable (replaceable), but you should not be able to add a new document of that type. If the document was unsubmitted, the attachment would therefore show but shouldn’t be included in the submission document set. )

Student/Researcher Batch Update override validation changed and relabeling of some items

Student/Researcher Data Portal - Parts 1 and 3 Batch Update changes
To improve the usability we made the following changes:
1) On the validate page, add links to enable Users to correct errors that are identified. (Previously the only way was to select back to return to earlier screens.)
3) Remove the sign off (so the only requirements on ROs are to Update and Submit, rather than to Update, Submit and Sign off). To make it clearer which records need updating, included a column on the main page indicating when the student/researcher record was last submitted.

This year EPSRC will again be collecting PhD Submission data. When available, the PhD Submission Tool is now available and can be found at the bottom of the ‘Assigned Document Summary’ screen. The principle changes to the tool since last year are:

· It is now possible for Research Organisations to amend the ‘Intended Submission Date’ in the survey, when informing us that a student has postponed submission.

· An additional ‘Surname’ field has been added, to enable alphabetical ordering or sorting to be done.

· The ‘PhD Awarded Date’ has been defined in the Je-s Help Text as ‘the latest date on which the Examination Board recommends that a PhD be awarded’.

Expenditure Statement - Doc History re-ordered (to show newest history first, in line with history against other doc types)

Links to popups marked as such (throughout most parts of the system, although work will be ongoing)

GUI wording changed for Studentship Proposals/Nominations progression/submission (to reflect accurate document type)

To provide more information to external users, the Helptext has been expanded to include a new page in each section of system functionality, which will explain which councils currently use that functionality, and any differences in use. Any comments on how useful the external community find this information, or other areas that you would like to see covered, will be gratefully received – please let jesmanager@stfc.ac.uk know of any comments or suggestions.

For most research schemes the AHRC allow the PI to nominate one of the 3 peer reviewers for their proposal and the AHRC will select the other 2. After an extensive review of the proposal review process the AHRC has decided that from June 2008 they will no longer allow the PI to nominated a reviewer and will instead select all three.

AHRC BPG: Supervision section to be mandatory Studentship Proposals – BGP Forms. This section had two subsections, Supervision Details and Supervisor Training and Selection. Both are now mandatory.

AHRC proposals/fellowships - change to Edit Summary page to make it clear that information may be published to AHRC web site.

AHRC Final Reports - changes to wording from "Have you informed the Resource Discovery Network (RDN)?" to "Have you informed Intute?"

(which means that reviewers won’t be able to view the related proposals after this time has passed)

(system no longer allows entry of student/applicant details, you have to select from the returned list)

ESRC will start to use Doc Sync from February 2008, ESRC have published guidance on what ‘rules’ they will adopt, on their website. Any returned document should include a clear description of why the proposal has been returned, and will generally have a 3-day return duration (although this might be extended under specific circumstances).

Studentships: amendment to list of Govt targetted areas (for 2 collaborative schemes)

(which means that reviewers won’t be able to view the related proposals after this time has passed, from such point as NERC go live with PR - anticipated in March 2008)

Validation on Aurora fellowships changed so that one of the referees must be from the host organisation and the other from elsewhere.

STFC GUI wording change on FR/PR form (to remove 'Objectives' and 'National/International' from beginning of GUI sentence)

STFC Standard proposal - nominated reviewers missing from printed output - resolved

(system no longer allows entry of student/applicant details, you have to select from the returned list)

For STFC proposals: Amendments to the scientific area section to revise categories/descriptions

STFC Peer Review: Key element questions on Research Grant Peer Review
A new set of questions for Peer review was introduced to this scheme.

The Je-S team have been supporting UAT by six ROs following internal review of the revised Pool Admin and Document/Membership maintenance functionality. A number of workshops are arranged. Anyone who is interested should contact the Je-S Helpdesk as soon as possible. All ROs will be ‘switched’ to this new functionality from 11 March 2009.

1. Ability to set up Approver and Submitter pools by document type (ie Standard Proposal, Studentship Proposal) (we will need to co-ordinate UAT in this area to ensure that documents generated from the research councils are directed through the appropriate route)

2. List of pools displayed can be filtered on the type of pool – i.e. Submitter Pools, Approver Pools, DTA pools, Finance Pools.

3. Better summary information for pools available to user – including number of documents in the pool and number of members.

5. Departments and Persons in the pools can be managed more simply with sort-able lists broken down into pages.

7. Pool management page shows if a department or person currently has a document allocated to them.

8. Users can view all documents in the pool they are currently managing. They are also able to un-allocated a document from a user if required.

9. There is a much improved audit trail allowing the user to view when departments and people have been added or removed from the pool.

10. The management of departments being moved to other pools is more tightly controlled ensuring changes cannot be made if a document is already in a pool based on the current structure.

11. The user is able to view a complete list of pool members for all pools – they are able to search for a person and then view the pools and document related to that person. The user then has the facility to un-allocate any document allocated to that person. Very useful if the person is off-sick or gone away.

12. There is a new view of all documents in a pool by document type. The user is able to see the status of these documents and is able to un-allocate them if required.

13. To further aid the management of documents arriving into the pools there is a view on documents per department. Again the user is able to see the document status and un-allocate if required.

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A new version of the Research Councils’ Je-S System (4.0.24) was released on Tuesday 18 December 2007.

The release included: minor changes, bug fixes, system enhancements and scheme configuration changes

Peer Review – in response to comments and feedback on the initial design of the Research Councils’ Peer Review functionality, the following areas have been addressed:

Renaming of ‘Reviewer Information’ label (to ‘Instructions to reviewer’)

Consistency of naming convensions for attachments sent from the Research Councils to Peer Reviewers

Studentships– in response to comments and feedback on the initial design of the Research Councils’ Studentship functionality, the following areas have been addressed:

Redesign of Project Details section, to provide StartDate/Duration and calculation of project end dates

Other general changes – in response to issues identified by the Je-S Support Team, or requested by Je-S users, the following changes have been applied:

Granting access to other users – Je-S redeveloped to allow access to be granted after a document has been submitted, and to subsequently remove access permissions

Removal of ‘prompt/response’ challenge functionality in the Create Account area

Additional warning to show, if users change from Lead to Non-Lead Joint proposal (to alert users to loss of data in some sections, and loss of attachments)

The AHRC will be introducing the Block Grant Studentship form onto Je-S from 02 January 2008. Please see AHRC’s website for further information.

Removal of the Self-Assessment section from EPSRC Final Report forms (these are generated into Je-S and notified to relevant PIs)

Introduction of Call field within CASE and Collaborative Government Studentships Nomination forms

Increase on the number of Alternative Reviewers that can be input onto the ESRC Peer Review forms (from 1 to 5 alternative reviewers).

Validation added to prevent input of Project Partner or Reviewer from the same Hosting Organisation (for all ESRC standard proposals)

Validation change to prevent multiple Case for Support attachments being added to the proposal

Configuration of Joint Proposal changes (to prevent logging of duplicate information against non-lead proposals)

Revision of ‘Results, Exploitation and Knowledge Transfer’ section to revise data being collected, and guidance on data input

Revision of validation against non-lead Joint Proposals to allow input of Project Partner data

Removal of Nuclear Physics scheme from Je-S, and inclusion of additional Scientific Areas within all standard proposal forms

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The release included: minor changes, bug fixes, system enhancements and scheme configuration changes

Revision of ‘prompt/response’ functionality within Je-S, including removal within the Account Creation and Account Maintenance areas

Streamlining of Peer Review account activation (following external comments about system design)

Enhancement of validation for all Studentship Proposal forms (to prevent submission of invalid data)

AHRC enhancements to Peer Review functionality, to send ‘Additional Document’ to reviewers for some schemes

Modifications to EPSRC Discipline Hopping awards scheme (changes are available on EPSRC web site)

Changes to questions in STFC Final Reports in ‘Results, Exploitation and Knowledge Transfer’ section for Standard, Visiting Researcher and PIPSS schemes

STFC PPRP and Facility Development grants – changed validation for “Other DI costs” to make non-mandatory

STFC Facility Development Grants – reword of ‘CCLRC’ to ‘STFC’ in all sections

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28 June 2005 (Release 13)This major release fulfills the commitment made by the Research Councils to make available the research grant proposal forms based on full economic costing well ahead of the date (1 September 2005) from which these new forms can be submitted. Those applying on the current forms (which must be submitted through Je-S to the appropriate Council by 31 July 2005) should see little change. Those interested in the FEC proposal forms or new to the Je-S system will be able view the Councils’ data requirements and start preparing proposals for submission on or after 1 September 2005. Unless there are pressing reasons to prepare and complete a FEC proposal form within the next few weeks, applicants are advised to wait until the next Je-S release (scheduled for 12 July) before starting proposal forms intended for submission. This second release will include fixes to known errors (listed in "Known Errors" section).

15 February 2005 (Release 11) Reconciliation statements, EPSRC college nomination tool

7 December 2004 (Release 10): BBSRC, NERC and PPARC expenditure statements, attachment types, EPSRC DTA capture tool, reworking of EPSRC final reports

26 October 2004 (Release 9): interim changes to proposals for full economic costing.

31 August 2004 (Release 8): EPSRC expenditure statements. EPSRC Research chair fellowship forms. Changes to create account screen.

3 August 2004 (Release 7): EPSRC (Senior, Advanced, Senior Media), NERC (Advanced Senior, Post Doctoral) and PPARC (Advanced Senior, Post Doctoral) fellowship proposal forms available.

9 July 2004 (Release 6.2): new print queuing options and performance enhancements, minor changes to proposal forms including changes to other support section, updates to helptext to reflect recent changes in Council's guidance.

22 June 2004 (release 6.1): staff post calculator updated to JNCHES August 04 scales, updated EPSRC studentship fees and stipends

24 April 2004 (Release 5): Status reporting, user preferences, discussion forum, restyled EPSRC referees forms.

18 November 2003 (Release 4): creation of unregistered user accounts, introduction of PIDs, the generation of the Research Council grant reference number on submission, revised security procedures, acceptance of Microsoft Word attachments.

30 September 2003 (Release 3): BBSRC proposal form, NERC and EPSRC outline forms and EPSRC IGR Assessor forms now available.

12 May 2003 (Release 1): The initial release of the upgrade of eForms to the multi-Council Je-S. Changes to login procedures, personal data maintenance (My Details), password maintenance (Login Details) and the screen. Access to the new Grant Proposals area for users whose organisation has registered to use this service. The system help text expanded to cover the new functionality.

Council	Call	Deadline
ESRC	ESRC/FSA Exploring and Explaining UK Dietary Decisions	19/03/2009
ESRC	International Training and Networking Opportunities	24/03/2009
NERC	Technologies Proof of Concept 2009	24/03/2009
ESRC	Innovation Research Initiative - Distributed Projects	26/03/2009
BBSRC	Diet and Health Research Industry Club	31/03/2009
EPSRC	DSTL-EPSRC Signal Processing (Full Proposals)	31/03/2009
STFC	FRDP Grants March 2009	31/03/2009
NERC	Urban Atmospheric Science	07/04/2009
STFC	Astronomy Rolling Grants 2009	07/04/2009
STFC	Astronomy Standard Grants 2009	07/04/2009
STFC	Knowledge Exchange April 2009	07/04/2009
ESRC	First Grants Competition 2009 -Full (Invitation Only)	16/04 /2009
EPSRC	EPSRC-NPL Post-Doctoral Research Partnerships	06/05/2009
ESRC	First Call 09/10	28/05/2009

Je-S title	Notes
Grant generic change request	This can be used to capture a request not specifically specified below. Also to be used for more complex requests + "additional funding requests"
Grant title change request	Used by the RO to request a change to the grant title.
Grant exceptional slippage request	Used by the RO to request the slippage of the start date of a grant outside of the normal tolerance.
Grant extension request	Used by the RO to request the extension of the end date of a grant
Grant deliverable extension request	Used by the RO to request the extension of the due date of an outstanding deliverable such as a Final Report or a Final Expenditure Statement.
Grant deliverable waiver request	Used by the RO to request the waiver of an outstanding deliverable such as a Final Report or a Final Expenditure Statement
Grant holder change request	This request covers change of holder only - not a grant transfer
Grant suspension request	Used by the RO to request the suspension of a grant. The suspension can be for the grant (indicates the research stops) or suspension of payment (indicates research continues).
Grant resumption request	Used by the RO to request the resumption of a suspended grant
Grant termination request	Used by the RO to request the termination of a grant
Update organisation reference	Used by RO to update their own reference for the grant.
Grant Transfer request	Used by the RO to request a grant transfer to another RO. Includes the additional step to gain the receiving RO’s response to the relinquishing RO’s request.

Project deliverables (from the Je-S Programme)

Post award studentship project

The Student Researcher Data Portal functionality has been extended to allow the capture of Doctoral Training Grant student data for NERC and STFC, and data on Project-linked students for EPSRC, NERC, MRC and STFC. There have also been a few usability improvements to existing functionality, for example the split of "contribution to student/department" values in the Project Partners screen. SRDP usability changes applied in this release:- 1) The Personal Details screen - the gender, date of birth and country field have become mandatory and a "not disclosed" option has been added. 2) The title of the "Project Details" screen has been amended to "Project / Course Details" to allow for MTG course details to be added. 3) Project Details screen - "Abstract" title replace by "Summary" and the validation amended to allow the NERC MTG schemes to be left blank. 4) Project Partner screen - 4 new fields added to replace the existing 2 :“Total value (£) of contribution in cash:” and “Total value (£) of contribution in kind:”, replaced by.- “Total value (£) of contribution in cash to student:” “Total value (£) of contribution in kind to student:” “Total value (£) of contribution in cash to department:” “Total value (£) of contribution in kind to department" The remaining 2 fields remain as "Total" fields and EPSRC historic data is stored here as "read-only". If users need to amend the figures, enter the amended figures into one of the new fields. 5) Raised by Je-S DEV: Personal / Contact details screen, the information on the page are only editable through 'My Details' or the Je-S Admin tool (and possibly the People system as well). But it's not really clear to the user that this is the case. When there is no 'Save' button, a message was added under the 'Cancel' button - "Data not updatable - student/researcher is responsible for updating this data through 'My Details'". Here are the new Student/Researcher categories (the portal equivalent of schemes) added by the Post Award Studentship Project: MRC · Project Students NERC · Open CASE Studentship · Project Studentship · Research Studentship (Directed) · Research Studentship (Algorithm) STFC · Quota · CASE · CASE-Plus · Gemini · IAC · Project Students EPSRC · Project Students

Council or Support changes

General (applied across all council forms)

All Councils’ outline forms Form didn’t have validation against the Resource Summary entry. Costs should be input, and if you try to save an 'empty' Resource Summary screen the validation insists on input.

Configure all schemes - document owner has to progress document For some forms, it was possible for the document to be progressed to the (approver) submitter pool by the owner, regardless of whether they were the applicant. The document owner must now be the applicant at the point of progression. Therefore all RC schemes revised in line with this rule.

Allow users to remove their access to submitted documents. The ability for document owners to add/remove access post submission was delivered under issue 200585 (HA210289), however this change is to allow users to remove their own access if need be where they are not the owner of the document or one of the applicants. Typically it will be users who are submitters but were given specific access by applicants prior to submission and will be particularly useful where the original owner/applicant has left the organisation.

Repositioning of 'do not reply' in Peer Review email 1. Following some changes made earlier this year, this change requested that the line Please do not reply to this mail, as this is a system account. was moved to the top of the email content. 2. The email wording was reviewed Please do not reply to this email, as it has been generated from a system account
Revised GUI wording for RO and Dept search windows Je-S Organisation and Department search screens (all areas) (to provide clearer instructions)

Research Councils Facilities - updates for 2008 All names updated after checking from Council representatives – should now show correct and current Facilities for selection in forms.

Redesign of print options through-out all of Je-S. Helptext page 75 refers This change will be applicable to these document types: Annual Statement Fellowship Proposal Final / Interim Report Grant Maintenance Offer Acceptance Outline Proposal Peer Review PI Response Standard Proposal Start Confirmation Student Nomination Studentship Course Proposal Studentship Proposal Ten Day Turnaround ...but not these (only expenditure statements and DTA students are still in use): Assessor forms (EPSRC, issued before April 2007) College Nominations 2003 Doctoral Training Aw Engineering Doctorate Expenditure Statements FEC Expenditure Statements Final Report (EPSRC, issued before May 2006) Higher Education Funding Councils Individual Grant Review Forms Industrial Case Training Grant Industrial Case Training Grant Intent Acceptance Invitation for College Membership Old Expenditure Statements Old Referee Forms Pre September 2005 Fellowship Proposal Pre September 2005 Grant Proposal Pre September 2005 Outline Proposal Referee forms (EPSRC, issued before April 2007) Student / Researcher details Student DTG Forms

Peer Review Protocols 1. Linkage Previously when a user new to peer review selected Peer Review from the Assigned Document Summary they were first presented with the peer review protocols. But when they agreed to the protocols they were taken back to the Assigned Document Summary instead of to the screen they had originally selected, i.e. Current Documents –Peer Review. This was the correct action if they have declined the protocols but if they agreed to them it was better for the user to be taken to the screen they want. 2. Redesign of Protocol page - to have a scrolling window with the protocols available, and the options remaining at the bottom of the page

Document Synchronisation (document return for amendment) for Studentship/all document types The Research Councils will be starting to use the Document Return functionality for studentship forms (Proposals and Nominations, not Student/Researcher Data Portal) from August 2008. Research Councils aim to harmonise on their rules and reasons for returning documents of any type; a clear explanation of the reasons for return, together with a clear due date for resubmission to councils, are included in the returned information and generated email. Individual councils are working to their own timescales and should send publicity independently to their communities, as appropriate.

Council	Scheme	Council	Scheme
BBSRC	David Philips	NERC	Senior
	Professorial		Advanced
	Research Development		Postdoctoral
EPSRC	Senior Research	PPARC	Senior
	Advanced Research		Advanced
	Postdoctoral		Postdoctoral
	Research Chair
	Springboard
	Senior Media

Council	Scheme	Council	Scheme
AHRC	Research Grants -standard	ESRC	Research Grants
	Research Grants - speculative		Small Grants
	Resource Enhancement		Centres
	Small Grants		Programmes
	Research Leave
BBSRC	Standard		Nodes
	Standard-New Investigator		Groups
	Link		Networks
	Industrial Partnership Awards	NERC	Standard
	LINK-new investigator		Knowledge Transfer
	IPA-new investigator		Directed
EPSRC	Standard Research		New Investigators
	Network		Smalls Grants
	First Grant		AFI
	Mathematical Sciences Small Grants		Consortium
	Science and Innovation Awards	PPARC	Standard
	Faraday		Earmarked Faraday
	Platform		PIPSS
	OTG		PATT