Pre-award services

• To represent the interests, priorities, values and policies of the UAB teaching and research community before the funding entities, mainly the EC.

• Identification of calls and complementary information on the European Commission's Framework Programme for Research and Innovation and the Erasmus+ Programme, as well as other international programmes, mainly within Europe.
• Dissemination of the calls detected in accordance with the different areas of knowledge and lines of research and work.
• Organisation of information sessions about the different programmes and news about them as it appears.
• Representation of UAB research groups at meetings of other international forums.

• Identification and assessment of the eligibility of candidatures.
• Assessment of the project idea in accordance with the call.
• Management of document signatures, where necessary.
• Provision of institutional documentation, where necessary.
• Support in the preparation of the application, including the budget.
• Internal review of the proposal.

In the case of staff applying for ERC calls, in addition:

• Possibility of external review of the proposal.
• Where there is progression to the second stage of assessment, organisation of a mock ad hoc interview.

• Management of the signing of documents and authorisations, where necessary. 
• Provision of institutional documentation, where necessary.
• Support in the preparation of the application, including the budget.

• Management of the signing of documents and authorisations, where necessary.
• Provision of administrative and institutional documentation, where necessary.
• Support in strategic aspects of the proposal (e.g. definition of key agents, search for partners).
• Establishment of a calendar for the process of preparing the proposal and assigning tasks.
• Support during the drafting of the proposal, especially in the non-scientific and transversal parts.
• Preparation of the budget in accordance with the call and regulations of the UAB, taking into account the indications of the principal investigator (PI).
• Support in the management of the administrative data of the members.
• Internal review of the proposal. 
• Possibility of an external review of the proposal. 
   

Support in the negotiation and signing phase of projects.

• Preparation of the Grant Agreement (GA) and other agreements with the funding bodies.
• Negotiation of agreements and contracts with partners: Consortium Agreement (CA), Partnership Agreement (PA), Secondment Agreement (SA), among others.
• Negotiation of the budget and distribution of funding among partners.
• When necessary, management of the modifications required by the funding body.
• Management of the signing of the contract.
• Maintenance of grants to EGRETA (the UAB research data management system).
   

• Organisation of the start-of-project project meeting and transfer of information to departments or institutes.