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If they wait too long into their budget year and no proposal feels worth funding, they may not be able to use the money. … My hunch is that they are prioritizing funding any proposal that scores high enough, not necessarily the best project within a given year (perhaps you should ask if "year" = calendar year or if they have …

So ACCESS already has NSF funding and flows it down to an institution to be used for the named graduate student, with a co-PI being someone at the institution who normally has PI rights. … This funding will have to be received by your institution, and they have the right to review this application before you submit. They should help you put it together. …

has worked in CS, Electrical Engineering, and Chemistry and submitted applications to more than 15 federal sponsors in the last eight years, I recommend all PIs do four things when unfamiliar with a funding … Make sure you limit by directorate if applicable, as they do not have the same funding policies. 3) Contact the program officer and ask what the expected funding levels are. …

There isn't really such a thing as an "independent researcher" unless you are working out of your house, in which case, your odds of getting funding drop precipitously. … If you are not in one of these appointments, you do not have the authority to seek funding. Universities typically have "exceptions", which involve filing paperwork. …

Funding is a relationships game. I know folks who are friendly with the Program Officer/Program Manager, and this is how they get their funding. … The funding road is hard for everyone; even the top PIs. They spend more time thinking about funding their lab than you can possibly imagine. You are never "set". …

In general, what you provide will be used to determine if you are making sufficient progress in order for them to provide you and your colleagues (if you have collaborators) with future funding. … It also records the outcomes of their funding which they may publish to the public. …

The most common layer relates to sponsored funding. E.g., you may not be able to have a flight on a foreign air carrier for US federal funding. …

Funding agencies definitely care about what effort amounts you indicate on those documents to determine if you are overcommitted or not. …

The PAPPG language is trying to say that NSF funding is not supposed to be a way of funding professors that should ordinarily be paid by their institutions--they don't want NSF funding to be the reason … In smaller institutions, you take a funding cut in salary to comply. …

I can tell you in the US that the funding is irrelevant--the institution's policies matter more than the sponsor's for these types of things. I have seen this sort of question more than once here. …

Then we give credit to topic B's funding source. … If there isn't another sponsor to consider, we fall back on university IP policy, but I still charge university funding for the effort that led to that discovery. …

Do you need to know acknowledgment text for publications based on where their funding is? … Always apply for funding 2 years before you run out of money. In order to avoid a funding cliff, you need to plan a year where you don't get any new awards. …

Payroll person here. I am going to give a US perspective, but in general the ideas can apply to other countries, and you should seek out how this works for your country. Stipend and salary/employment …

Your funding will most likely be classified as one or more of the following funding sources, subject to change at any time: Sponsored Federal Non-Federal (industry or foundation) Gift Non-sponsored … NIH funding tends to be awarded but cut in certain ways. E.g., NIH has stopped funding inflation since 2012. …

Can I phrase this another way? If your journal article could be listed on Bing for free, but Google for $1k, would you pay for Google? I think a lot of people would. In general, whether reputatio …