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Type of Application: The default type for new proposals is “New”. Select either "Yes" or "No" to indicate if the award is being transferred from another institution.
*Short Title: Enter a descriptive name for the project (50-character maximum). You can use the sponsor's short title or any other name. (To avoid confusion, use unique titles.) The short title identifies the project throughout Grants, such as in project listings and workspaces. For example….Give an Example
*Long Title: Enter the full title of this project. If this will be an SF424 application, the long title will be mapped to the appropriate blanks in the SF424 forms. 255 character maximum length.
*Program director / Principal Investigator / Project lead / Fellow: Enter or search for the PI’s name.
*Select the Direct Sponsor: Enter the sponsor’s name. If you do not find the sponsor in this list, select TBD from the list and enter the name in the next line.
Instrument type: Select the appropriate instrument for the proposal (Grant, Contract, Cooperative Agreement or Subaward.
* Primary purpose of this project: Select the primary purpose of the project. If Research, fill in the type e.g. Basic, Clinical, Translational or Other.
* Expected start date: Provide details on WVU/agencies expectations
📘 Personnel
Program director / Principal investigator / Project lead / Fellow: This field contains the name chosen on the previous page. If needed, attach a Biosketch under Question 1b. Upload an Other Support documentation only if mandated by the funding opportunity.
*Responsible department / division / institute: Please specify the department or program responsible for handling the proposal or award. By default, it will be the department of the Principal Investigator (PI), but you might need to change it if necessary. The organization selected here gets mapped to the SF424.
Project personnel: Add other institutional key, non-key or other significant contributor personnel and add non-institutional key personnel who are considered Senior/Key Persons for the project.
Administrative Personnel: Enter the administrative contact in Question 4a. In 4b select team members that have edit rights. The persons selected can both view and edit the funding proposal. You may enter any additional contacts in 4b who can view the funding proposal but cannot edit it.
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*Application submission deadline: Enter the sponsor’s deadline date. If the sponsor does not have a formal deadline date, enter a target date. The internal submission deadline (which precedes the Sponsor’s deadline) appears on the Funding Proposal workspace. (Check if WVU has internal deadlines).
Date response expected from sponsor: This is not a required field, but you may enter the date you expect a response from the sponsor. Check with Rosemary
Date project starts: This date is automatically populated based on the information provided in the General Proposal Information form.
Date project ends: This field is populated automatically according to the number of budget periods specified in field 7. Add or remove budget periods and/or modify budget period durations to modify the end date.
Project length (years): This will depend on the number of budget periods used.
Effort metric: Months are the default value; however, percentage can be updated. This property establishes whether the salary details included in the Project Budget will be calculated based on Months or percentage.
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*Modular budget: Enter Yes or No (check with Rosemary if Modular Budget applies at WVU)
Budget periods: Add, remove, and update the budget period duration as needed. On this page, you can add, remove, and update budget periods. To define periods that include partial months, check Use Advanced Editing, and specify the end dates, as in the example below. In such cases, the system calculates a decimal value for period duration by dividing the number of days in the partial month by 30.
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