Grants Management for Investigators

Course Description

The Grants Management for Investigators (GMI) orientation and refresher provide an overview of the grants management process at the 乱伦社区, including processes, compliance requirements, and audit concerns at each stage of the research project lifecycle. The focus is on PI roles and responsibilities for administering sponsored agreements and on the role of central offices at the UW in supporting processes and compliance for those agreements.

Who is required to take this training?

All 乱伦社区 principal investigators (faculty and non-faculty) who apply for or receive externally funded grants or contracts are required to attend the 2 hour orientation initially with a 40 minute on-demand refresher every four years thereafter.聽 (More frequent attendance is encouraged to remain current with significant changes in sponsored program policy.) This opportunity is open to all eligible persons regardless of race, sex or other identity.

Summary of the requirement

The Office of the Provost requires GMI training of all UW faculty members and non-faculty principal investigators who receive externally funded grants or contracts to cover the management of research activities which occur under increasingly complex regulations by funding agencies, and federal and state governments.

Grants Management for Investigators Orientation (Initial Requirement) 2 hours

Audience: New principal investigators and non-PIs actively seeking funding, who have yet to attend a Grants Management for Investigators orientation.

  • Faculty and non-faculty who submit a proposal as UW Principal Investigator for the first time must attend a live or recorded orientation within twelve months of submitting the proposal via SAGE, if they have not attended one previously. First-time PIs are strongly encouraged to attend a orientation before submitting the proposal.
  • The live orientation is offered once per year via Zoom in the fall.
  • The fall orientation is recorded and made available in an on-demand format so that PIs can meet their attendance requirement throughout the year as needed.

Grants Management for Investigators Refresher (Renewal Requirement) 40 minutes

Audience: Principal investigators who have previously attended the Grants Management for Investigators orientation.

  • After the initial attendance at an in-person orientation, all principal investigators are required to renew their training every four years by completing the online refresher.
  • The on-demand refresher highlights compliance requirements, new federal and state regulations, and recent changes to research infrastructure and policy. The material is organized into required and optional modules; the entire course will take no more than forty-five minutes.

Receiving Course Credit

Completion records for the online options are downloaded from the learning management system monthly and manually loaded into MyResearch Training Transcript. It can take up to two weeks for your GMI completion record to show up in MRTT.