About Workspace

Beginning 1/1/2018, Workspace will be the standard way to apply for grants in Grants.gov for both organizations and individuals (legacy PDF application packages in Grants.gov will no longer be available).  Via the online platform, Workspace will allow a grant team to simultaneously access and edit different forms within an application.

• The following agencies and grant proposal application platforms will still be available and are preferred:
• NASA proposal through NSPIRES
• NIH proposals through ASSIST
• NSF proposals through FastLane

Workspace Benefits to Applicants

1. Workspace streamlines collaboration – multiple forms can be completed at once by a team of applicants.
2. Workspace saves time – forms from old workspaces can be reused, reducing data-entry and saving time.
3. Workspace helps detect errors earlier – improved error-checking allows applicants to catch and correct errors earlier resulting in fewer rejected submissions.
4. Workspace simplifies applying – in a Grants.gov Workspace there are context-specific help articles that explain every link and button as well as many video tutorials that walk applicants through the Workspace submission process.

About Grants.gov Accounts and Profiles

You do NOT need to register for Grants.gov Workspace in order to be a University of Akron PI, Co-I, Senior Personnel, etc. However, Grants.gov Workspace registration IS required in order to start workspaces (i.e. proposals), to complete or upload documents, to view in-progress proposals yourself, and to track submitted proposals.  In other words, Workspace has similar accessibility and functionality to NSF’s FastLane.

If you wish to receive Grants.gov email subscriptions, such as news subscriptions or saved searches, you will need to be registered with Grants.gov.  If you wish to access, manage, and track Workspaces (i.e. proposals) you will need to be registered with Grants.gov AND have a profile that corresponds to the applicant organization (e.g. The University of Akron).

• An account in Grants.gov is defined by your unique email address, username and password. Within your single account, you may have multiple profiles.
• A profile corresponds to a single applicant organization the user represents (e.g. The University of Akron).
• Grants.gov registration directions can be found in the “Grants.gov Registration and Workspace Access” document.

Additional Information and Resources

Grants.gov Workspace Overview – https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/applicants/workspace-overview.html

Grants.gov Workspace User Guide – https://grants.gov/help/html/help/GetStarted/Get_Started.htm

Grants.gov YouTube Channel – https://www.youtube.com/user/GrantsGovUS

• Getting Started with Workspace: Become a Workspace Wizard – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXvoloYNkNQ
• Learning Workspace Video Series for Organizational Applicants – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNSNGxQE7NWlibdjPYGOsZaG-ol0pBsx3

FDP Grants.gov Workspace Overview: Becoming a Workspace Wizard (9/7/17) – http://sites.nationalacademies.org/cs/groups/pgasite/documents/webpage/pga_181375.pdf

For questions or additional information, please contact The University of Akron Office of Research Administration or the Sr. Grant Coordinator assigned to your college or department (look up ORA Staff assignments).

The Grant Training Center is sponsoring a Writing/Designing Winning NIH Proposals Workshop.

When: January 26, 2018, 8:30AM – 4:30PM                                                                    Where: Case Western Reserve University

This one-day comprehensive workshop is geared towards those who wish to submit winning proposals to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in time for the next NIH grant submission deadline.

Participants will learn how to:
* Find the appropriate program and grant mechanism for their idea(s)
* Read and interpret RFAs
* Identify and avoid common pitfalls of a grant
* Address the pieces of the application
* Package the proposal in the requested format
* Understand the scoring system and the review process
* Search for the appropriate study section for submissions
* Learn what actually happens in the study section
* Decipher pink sheets: The inevitable resubmission
* Build an airtight case for funding

Click here to register!                                                                                                     For questions, please contact (866) 704-7268

Registration requires a $395.00 workshop fee (includes a comprehensive directory, workbook, certificate of completion, and continental breakfast).

Since space is limited, and this class fills-up quickly, registration is on a first-come, first-serve.

If you cannot attend, click here to join via an online version of the workshop.

The Grant Training Center is also hosting a Professional Grant Development Workshop from January 29-30, 2018 at the Wright State Universitiy.

You may also be interested in The Grant Training Center’s NSF counterpart to this workshop, held on January 25, 2018. You can receive a discount of $50 by registering for both the NSF and NIH workshops.

The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation announces the February 8 deadline for the 2018 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program.

The program supports the research and teaching careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences in departments that grant a doctoral degree. Based on institutional nominations, the program provides discretionary funding to faculty at an early stage in their careers. Criteria for selection include an independent body of scholarship attained early in their independent careers, and a demonstrated commitment to education, signaling the promise of continuing outstanding contributions to both research and teaching.

Additional details are given at the Foundation website.

The Great Training Center is sponsoring a workshop for writing and designing NSF proposals.

When: January 25, 2018, 8:30AM – 4:30PM                                                                      Where: Case Western Reserve University

This one-day comprehensive workshop is geared towards those who wish to submit winning research proposals to the National Science Foundation (NSF), in time for the next NSF grant submission deadline. Participants will understand how to navigate the NSF website and FastLane, focus on the key sections of successful proposals and demonstrate that their projects merit the excellence and innovations that lead to the top of other submissions. Participants will also be engaged in interactive exercises, writing, lectures and discussions that will leave them with an understanding of how to research, write and develop a specific project.

Areas to be covered include the:

1. Overall strategic plan of grant writing
2. Types of awards and NSF funding, including what to look for in a grant application
3. Proposal preparation process and submission mechanisms
4. Characteristics, content and function of the various pieces of the proposal

Participants will learn how to:

1. Compose the pieces of an NSF research grant proposal
2. Understand the inner workings of NSF’s Merit Review and the rating scores
3. Develop and write the Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts sections
4. Package superior proposal submissions
5. Avoid the fatal flaws of a grant
6. Effectively write and approach resubmissions

Click here to register!                                                                                                     For questions, please contact (866) 704-7268

Registration requires a $395.00 workshop fee (includes a comprehensive directory, workbook, certificate of completion, and continental breakfast).

Since space is limited, and this class fills-up quickly, registration is on a first-come, first-serve.

If you cannot attend, click here to join via an online version of the workshop.

The Grant Training Center is also hosting a Professional Grant Development Workshop from January 29-30, 2018 at the Wright State Universitiy.

You may also be interested in The Grant Training Center’s NIH counterpart to this workshop, held on January 26, 2018. You can receive a discount of $50 by registering for both the NSF and NIH workshops.

Calling all researchers who would like to be involved in a ground floor research opportunity that could potentially produce revenue! This is a unique entrepreneurial opportunity to form a research team in its early stages.

We are looking for a research time with an interest in:

• addressing Presbycusis (age related hearing loss)
• identifying the height of technology in this vertical
• identifying innovation in the area of piezo electric materials and regenerative medicine

More information can be found in the Opportunity Profile document.

The goal of the effort is creating a model (in the form or a white paper) to look at non-traditional ways to address the problem. This model (white paper) will be used as fodder to generate funding for basic research. There is funding available from the opportunity sponsor for this research/team formation phase.

Please respond by COB Friday, December 15 via this response form if you are interested in this opportunity.