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  • 1.  How does your institution handle international collaborations?

    Posted Mon September 14, 2015 15:50

    I am interested in benchmarking the way different institutions handle international collaborations.  Do you have a separate office to administer these (from proposal to contracts negotiations, compliance, to financial administration)? Designated personnel in multiple offices?  Other model? 

     

    Your input is appreciated greatly.

     

    If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact me.

     

    Thank you,

     

    Elena

     

    Elena Semyonova-Smith, CRA
    Grants Officer
    Post Award Services
    KU Office of Research
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    Lawrence, KS 66045
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  • 2.  RE: How does your institution handle international collaborations?

    Posted Tue September 15, 2015 14:04
    Hi Elena,

    At Brown, we have no special or separate office.  All international proposals are handled through our OSP office and this includes subsequent negotiations as well as cash management, financial reporting, etc.  I have, in the past, provided separate/additional services such as probing more deeply into the terms and conditions and the scope of work, paying particular attention to intellectual property and export control issues or other complex and unusual issues.

    A much more recent change, moves negotiations for (solely funded) industrial agreements to our tech transfer office and I assume this means solely funded international industrial agreements as well.  As I understand it, proposals and award administration will still be processed/done in OSP, but negotiations will be handled by the tech transfer office.  (I don't necessarily recommend this latter practice, however.)

    Compliance is handled through the many committees (IRB, conflict of interest, IACUC, IBC, Lab Safety, Radiation Safety, etc) with OSP continuing to have oversight to ensure that all compliance is maintained as required by the funding agreements.

    Happy to answer other questions, or speak further offline.

    All the best,
    Norm

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    Norman J. Hebert
    Director, International Research Administration
    Office of the Vice President for Research
    Brown University
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  • 3.  RE: How does your institution handle international collaborations?

    Posted Fri September 18, 2015 16:21

    Elena,

    Similar to Norm's description, at UMB all international proposals, except corporate-funded, are handled through our sponsored programs administration. (We have a separate team for corporate-funded agreements.)

    Department administrators, with their PIs, have developed expertise for proposals and awards with international collaborators.

    Janet
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    Janet Simons
    Director, Research Policy
    University of Maryland Baltimore
    Baltimore, MD
    410-706-5632
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