As of August 5th, new versions of the Biographical Sketch and CPS forms with a Research Security Training certification are now in effect. NASA now requires all  Senior/Key Personnel and Covered Individuals  to attest that they have completed the CU RST within 12 months prior to any proposal submission. This certification appears in the new forms, a...

Beginning August 5, CU Boulder will require all Senior/Key Personnel and Covered Individuals named on a federal proposal to complete the CU Boulder Research Security Training course within 12 months of and prior to proposal submission. All CU Boulder employees must take the CU Boulder Research Security Training course in SkillSoft/Percipio in order ...

Beginning August 5th , NASA will be joining NSF, USDA, DOE and NIH to require that all CU/CIRES Key Personnel submitting proposals must complete the required   CU Research Security Training prior to proposal submission. According to the NASA Grant Information Circular 26‑02 , entitled “Research Security Training Requirements”, all senior personnel n...

The CIRES Administration has implemented a procedure to address the administrative impact of projects that require lower or no indirect costs, and projects that have a higher than normal administrative impact. An algorithm has been established for determining how much effort, and when this effort should be added to project budgets. For projects that...

The FINESST proposals are due to NASA by July 14th instead of in February for this year. Join the pre-proposal webinar on May 28th at 1 pm or contact CIRES Proposals for more information. Join link: Pre-Proposal Webinar Webinar number: 2819 713 4768  Webinar password:  Q3Uu37wZr4j (73883799 when dialing from a phone or video system)  Join by phone :...

The specific solicitation will call for the template to be used, and all NASA Roses templates for Appendix A proposals can be found below. 1. Make sure to choose the correct template for your needs: Word, Excel, or PDF versions are given.  Instructions are available on PDF version. 2. Amend the template for the number of years of your proposal.  Thr...

Scientists planning a Task III CA proposal or a CA supplemental proposal this year should contact the CIRES proposal team ASAP. CIRES Proposals must be notified of such a project before April 15th. The Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) for these are not out yet, but we anticipate having a very short period to work on these, so we want to be p...

Given the May 18th submission deadline for the NOAA-OAR-CIAO-2026-32241 & NOAA-OAR-CIAO-2026-32242 CA proposals, and the high volume of proposals currently in development, CIRES Proposals strongly recommends planning to submit by the end of April, and no later than the first few days of May. Operational limitations may limit our ability to accom...

Proposers must use SciENcv to prepare their Current and Pending (Other) Support information for proposals to NSF. Please see Documents Required for Senior/Key Personnel at https://www.nsf.gov/funding/senior-personnel-documents   SciENcv will produce NSF-compliant PDF versions of the current and pending support format. Proposers must save this docume...

Proposal Services The CIRES Proposals Team facilitates proposal submission for externally funded research projects submitted by CIRES scientists through The University of Colorado. Notify the CIRES Proposal Team as soon as possible of intent to submit a proposal by logging into the Proposal Tool Application and adding a new proposal. Email CIRESProp...

All Senior/Key Personnel submitting proposals to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) must complete training on other support disclosure requirements prior to the Just in Time (JIT) and Research Performance Progress Report (RPPR) stages, pursuant to NIH Guide Notice NOT-OD-25-133 . This requirement is met through CU Boulder’s Research Security (R...

All PRAs, RAs, postdoctoral researchers, and other research personnel must have submitted their DEPAs by March 31. Visit the CU Boulder DEPA website for more details....