Topic 1: Administration of research grants
At your University
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The following units of the university will assist you in managing your grant.
The Research Grants Administration and Funding Office will assist you with:
1. Research funding tender or grant applications, research agreements, and sponsor requirements with non-commercial entities*; and
2. Research scholarship applications and scholarship agreements
*Non-commercial entities include all government departments, including the ARC, and not-for-profit organisations, other universities, charities, and public research funding bodies such as Research and Development Corporations (RDCs) and research foundations.
The Research Grants Administration and Funding Office website contains contact information with staff responsibilities: http://sydney.edu.au/research_support/funding/rgaf_contacts.shtml
Sydnovate will assist you with:
1. Research agreements with commercial entities**
2. Linkage industry partners agreements
3. Scholarship agreements which are linked to a research agreement with a commercial entity
4. Consultancy and testing agreements
5. Tenders for research and/or consultancy for commercial entities
6. Patent licences and other IP licences
7. Material transfer agreements
8. Outgoing confidentiality agreements protecting the university’s IP
9. Visitors agreements.
** Commercial entities include for-profit companies and partnerships.
Sydnovate contact details and staff responsibilities are available at: http://www.usyd.edu.au/sydnovate/sydnovate-people.html
University of Sydney – Standard Agreements
Sydnovate's Professional Services Unit has developed a series of standard agreements available at http://www.usyd.edu.au/sydnovate/staff-standard-agreements.html
These cover areas such as:
Contract and collaborative Research
Consultancies
Testing services
Material transfer
ARC Linkage partner agreements
Confidentiality
Student IP assignment
Visitors.
Human Resources
Corporate Finance, Research
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