Saturday 18 October 2008

Internal deadline 8th October - call for CO-REACH Social Science Collaborative Research between Europe & China

Below is a link to the call for CO-REACH Social Science Collaborative Research between Europe & China. This is a two stage bidding process and the deadline for the first stage is the 28th October 2008. The REST team presently have a considerable number of bids to be submitted in October so we ask that you let us know, by emailing Arts-REST, by 8th October 2008, if you would like to submitted a bid to this programme.

http://www.britac.ac.uk/intl/co_reach_ssprogramme.cfm

Regards
The REST team

The RED Form process for internal approval

A new bid approval process started in the Arts faculty in August 2008 called the RED form. (RED = "Research and Enterprise Development"). This form replaces the blue and pink forms.

The new procedure has a semi-electronic approval process - emails confirming approval will be accepted rather than signatures, which means signatories do not have to be in the office to approve a bid.

If you are considering making an application to any funder you will need to send an email to the Arts-REST email box to obtain the electronic form, which will be sent to you with a unique reference number. It is advisable to let us know at least 20 working days before the deadline if you are thinking of making an application so that we can plan our workload. You need to aim to have completed your application at least 2 weeks before the deadline to allow time for the internal approval process.

Faculty of Arts, Research and Enterprise Support Team (REST)
See: http://intranet.open.ac.uk/arts/p5_3.shtml for more information about the work of the team.