1. Departmental contacts (Research Operation Managers)
Departments have a contact to advise and ensure that research funding applications are prepared in accordance with sponsors’ terms and conditions and with College and Departmental procedures and policies and also that once awarded grants are managed in the same way. Below are the contacts to the research operations managers from each department:
Centre for Environmental Policy
2. Worktribe
All proposals for external research funding are developed and internally approved on the Pre-Award Research Management System (PARMS) called
Worktribe. Worktribe is a modern, highly performant system, which increases the efficiency and transparency of internal pre-award processes, particularly for internal and external multi-disciplinary collaborations
Access to Worktribe is restricted to Imperial College staff and is not open to external co-applicants. Only authorised staff will be given access to the costing tool. Please see this
link from the Research Office for further information.
3. For EU funders you will need to have access to the European Commission's portal (SEDIA)
The European Commission’s main mechanism for funding research and innovation in Europe is through Horizon Europe which is the EU's research and innovation programme for 2021-2027 with a budget of €95.5 billion. It tackles climate change, helps to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and boosts the EU’s competitiveness and growth. Funding calls which are currently open to applications can be found on the Participant Portal.
4. For UKRI funders
The UKRI Funding Service (TFS) (before Je-S) is used by AHRC, BBSRC, EPSRC, ESRC, MRC, NERC and STFC to provide their communities with electronic grant services. Innovate UK has a separate operating system.
The Research Office has produced Internal User Guides for the most common online submission systems. See the section which includes general information and quick links to the online submission systems used by the main UK and non-UK funders.
5. Tips for costing (TRAC)
The estates, infrastructure technician and indirect cost rates that are used to develop the Full Economic Costs (FEC) of research are calculated on an annual basis using TRAC methodology. Further information can be found in the
Research Office and
College Finance websites.