When you need an information system that
tracks your faculty members' applications and awards, including associated
agreements and ethics approvals, our Sponsorships: an Information
System can give you the head-start you need in a complete system
solution. Developed, tested and enhanced in the university setting, this
system offers sophisticated features to assist your managing in the
following areas:
Reports include
Details, Summaries and Statistics (all
generated using easy-to-use
wizards) to help you in
your day-to-day operations and to provide a
meaningful overview to
stakeholders and participants.
What appears on the data entry form for a
research project depends to some degree on the type of project it is, that
is, Sponsorships can be
configured to collect certain types of data for certain types of
funding, making it easier to learn and use than if all fields were present
at all times, leaving it up to the operator to know what to complete and
what to skip. Sample screen shots (click on the links in the following
paragraphs) show just one type of funding.
Sponsorships treats a
research project the same way the
researchers do: as a unitary whole, even when funding comes from more than
a single source. So we can expect there to be a formal project title and
one or more researchers (the order of whose names must be in a proper
sequence or feathers will be ruffled--Sponsorships makes it
easy to re-arrange names if necessary). Research projects are now
subject to certification of many kinds, including Ethics and Biohazard
considerations and often more than one, all of which need to be tracked.
If you are going to use Sponsorships for
more than simply tracking funding success, then having a place to enter
the project's abstract can be very
useful.
Funding comes from one or more agencies, operating (in
many instances) through a recognized funding program. Sponsorships
allows capturing all the details
of the request, award and reporting requirements for every sponsorship
supporting this project.
Post-award
information varies institution-by-institution, depending on established
procedures for distributing funds. Sponsorships can be
easily and quickly modified to fit in with your current practices.
Even before any money is applied for,
researchers can enter into binding
agreements--creating a liability the university must be aware of and
would do well to track. With Sponsorships you can easily
track any kind of agreement you wish to define (the list of choices
appears at the top of the form) between any number of participants on both
sides; remember significant dates and connect the whole thing to a
research project when negotiations are successful.
More than simply tracking whether or not a
particular project has received required approvals, Sponsorships
assists in managing the approval process
itself, with the ability to record significant stages, including to whom
the proposal was sent for
review and what each reviewer's response was.
Sponsorships
makes it easy for you to keep a complete and up-to-date list of the
funding sources most useful to the researchers in your institution, with
enough data to determine
availability and
eligibility, facilitate applications, manage your
contact lists and provide
for automatic award and post-award
processing. Now you,
too, can determine quickly and easily just where your research dollars are
coming from, so that you can more easily target applications to high
success sources or encourage
more applications to under-used ones.
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Sponsorships
is complete, configurable and Canadian. Contact
us to discuss how Sponsorships can meet your particular
needs and to arrange a demonstration.
