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Proposal Submittal Process

Proposal Development and Submission

Research & Sponsored Program Development is available to help get your proposal submitted so you can get funded and start work on your project.

Things to Consider when Submitting a Proposal

  • Funding organizations want to support research and scholarly activity
  • Proposal writing is persuasive writing
  • Think like a reviewer
  • Plan ahead
  • Prepare supporting documentation in advance when possible
  • Review the request for proposal carefully
  • Course buyout requests must be discussed with Department/College

Process

  • Follow the request for proposal and create the requested documents
  • Enter the proposal in UND's online Novelution proposal submission system to capture the appropriate University signatures. Novelution is a separate system from the sponsor proposal portal system.
  • Enter the components of the proposal in the appropriate online system
    • Online Proposal Portals:
      • Grants.gov is available for all federal agencies
      • ASSIST is also available for National Institutes of Health
      • Research.gov is also available for National Science Foundation
      • Various other sites are available for foundations and non-federal agencies
  • Research & Sponsored Program Development strongly recommends that Research.gov be used for all National Science Foundation (NSF) proposals. As the NSF managed system, Research.gov performs extensive error checking including formatting and missing documents before a proposal is able to be finalized and submitted. Grants.gov is a general system that handles proposal processing for many government agencies and error checking is minimal at the time of submission. Grants.gov accepts NSF proposals as-is and forwards them to Research.gov for error checking. This creates a delay between the time of submission and the acceptance of the proposal by NSF. Receiving a Grants.gov Tracking Number does not mean the proposal was successfully accepted by NSF. Error messages may be generated after the Grants.gov submission when the transfer to Research.gov is done by the system, and these errors need to be corrected and the application resubmitted before the published deadline in order to be accepted by NSF.

Proposal Preparation Contact

For questions regarding proposal preparation, contact Karen Katrinak at vpr.proposals@UND.edu or (701) 777-2505.

Research & Sponsored Program Development
 Tech Accelerator Room 2050
 4201 James Ray Dr Stop 8367
 Grand Forks, ND 58202-8367
UND.rspd@UND.edu

 

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