Award Set Up

• Agricultural Field Trial (FLDTR): A set protocol that outlines the procedures to be followed during the trial and for which the University PI provides little to no intellectual input into the scope of work. The University researcher involvement is to provide the sponsor with data regarding the protocol results, most often a data set as opposed to conclusions or data analysis. A field trial may test the growth of a seed, the ability of a crop variety to perform under normal cultivation conditions, examine the need for higher crop yields, disease and pest resistance, and hardiness, or look at the effects of treatments (i.e. pesticide applications) on crop yields.

• Animal Clinical Trial (ANML): The use of non-human animals in drug trials with the explicit intention of determining the safety or efficacy for future treatments, therapies, or diagnostic tools (not for any use of animals in the basic discovery of new knowledge which should be research)

• Career Development (CAR): Programs to foster the development of independent scientists in their career. Often included protected research time early in a researcher’s career to develop a foundational research portfolio.
  • Examples: NIH K awards, NSF CAREER

• Clinical Trial (CT): A research study in which one or more human subjects are prospectively assigned to one or more interventions (which may include placebo or other control) to evaluate the effects of those interventions on health-related biomedical or behavioral outcomes.

• Clinical Trial Operating Account (CTOA): Operating project to cover incidentals and administrative labor to run the clinical trial program of a unit or individual Principal Investigator’s trial program. Set up in Fund 214.

• Conference/Workshop (CONF): Conferences or workshops

• Cost Share (CSTSH): Funds obligated from internal sources committed to cost sharing for a sponsored project that has been determined by UFR Leadership to require an extra level of accounting oversight.

• Curriculum Development (CUDEV): Development of coursework/curriculum.

• Doctoral Dissertation (DDIG): Support completion of doctoral dissertation – at the direction of the graduate student.

• Editorship (EDIT): Support for serving as the office of the editor or as the editor for a journal or other such publication.

• Equipment (EQUIP): Solely for purchase or fabrication of scientific equipment.
  • Examples: DoD DURIP, DoEnergy ERLE; NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant Program; NSF MRI

• Extension /Public Service (EXTPS): Delivering information and implementing services to the non-UF non-scientific community. If the project is research into public health methods/delivery techniques, then the appropriate research project type applies.
  • Examples: public health services delivery including state clinical services contracts; implementing education programs in K12 school districts; implementing IFAS extension programs.

• Fellowship – Other (FWSO): A fellowship not categorized as graduate or post-graduate. May be for a faculty pursuing other lines in their career.

• Fellowship –Graduate (FWSHG): Individualized mentored research training for a graduate student.

• Fellowship Post Graduate (FWSHP): Individualized mentored research training to enhance the potential research career of the candidate or gain new research skills as an independent investigator.

• Human Subjects Research (HSR): Research conducted with living individuals about whom the research team obtains data through interaction with the individuals, or about whom the research team obtains identifiable private information. Does not include in vitro studies that utilize human data and/or tissue that are anonymized and cannot be linked to a living individual (non-human studies) and clinical trials.

• IFAS Faculty Service Program (IFSP): Designed for faculty conducting routine services for multiple, external, non-Federal sponsors on a fixed price basis.

• Institutional Training Grant (ITG): Academic and/or research training programs providing for multiple fellowship appointments.
  • Examples: NIH T32, TL2, T34 and T35

• Instruction (INSTR): Instruction activities benefitting the students of the University of Florida.

• Inter-governmental Personnel Assignment (IPA): Temporary assignment of personnel between the University and the Federal Government

• Other Sponsored Activity (OTHSP): Should be used only with consultation of DSP staff.

• Participant Support (PTSUP): Direct costs for items such as stipends or subsistence allowances, travel allowances, and registration fees paid to or on behalf of participants or trainees (but not employees) in connection with conferences or training projects. Participant support costs are excluded from the MTDC base when calculating F&A costs.

• Patient Care (PXCAR): Clinical services that must be segregated for accounting purposes (MTDC and no rebudgeting).

• Pilot/Internal Project (PILOT): Reallocation to independent research projects of any UF dollars (Office of Research, College, or Center) or any externally sponsored dollars where the purpose of the funds as proposed is specifically to fund such programs.
  • Examples: Research Foundation Professorships, Research Opportunity Seed Fund Awards, Sea Grant, CTSI pilot programs, Dentistry Seed funds

• Renovations/Construction (RENO): Additions, improvements, modifications, replacements, rearrangements, reinstallations, renovations, or alterations to capital assets that materially increase their value or useful life (not ordinary repairs and maintenance).

• Research-Basic (RSHB): Undertaken primarily to acquire new knowledge without any particular application or use in mind.
  • Examples: Standard NSF, NIH, USDA grants.

• Research-Applied (RSHA): Conducted to gain the knowledge or understanding to meet a specific, recognized need.
  • Examples: Phase I & II SBIR/STTR awards; FHTCC awards

• Research-Developmental (RSHD): Systematic use of knowledge or understanding gained from research directed toward the production of useful materials, devices, systems, or methods.
  • Example: Design and development of prototypes and processes.

• Research Training (RSHT): Support for research training and career development for pre- and post-doctoral individuals, for support of theses or dissertation, or other undergraduate scholarly activities.

• Testing/Services (TEST): A project under which a PI has received a set testing/services protocol that outlines the procedures to be followed and for which the University PI provides little to no intellectual input into the scope of work. The University researcher involvement is to provide the sponsor with data regarding the testing/services protocol results, most often a data set as opposed to conclusions or data analysis.

• Travel (TRAV): Solely for the reimbursement of travel.

• Undergraduate Research Project (UGRSH): For an undergraduate student to perform scholarly or research activity.

Not available in UFIRST but remain available in myUFL

• 211 Overhead-Dept (OHDPT)
• 211 Overhead-Center (OHCTR)
• 211 Overhead-College (Dean) (OHDN)
• 211 Overhead-PI (OHPI)
• 212 Residual
• Center or Institute Support
• Clearing
• Contingency
• IFAS Royalties (FSEED)
• Infrastructure
• Matching Funds
• Operations
• Program Income
• Special Programs
• Startup/Retention

• EXTPS-Extension/Public Service: Delivering information and implementing services to the non-UF non-scientific community. If the project is research into public health methods/delivery techniques, then the appropriate research project type applies. Examples: public health services delivery including state clinical services contracts; implementing education programs in K12 school districts; implementing IFAS extension programs.

• INST-Instruction: Instruction activities benefitting the students of the University of Florida.
  • Program Code: 1100

• RSCHA-Applied Research: Applied research is a form of systematic inquiry involving the practical application of science. It accesses and uses some part of the research community’s accumulated theories, knowledge, methods, and techniques, for a specific, often state-, business-, or client-driven purpose.
  • Program Code: 2200

• RSCHB-Basic Research: Basic Research is performed without thought of practical ends. It results in general knowledge and understanding of nature and its laws.
  • Program Code: 2200

• RSCHD-Developmental Research: Developmental research is systematic application of knowledge or understanding, directed toward the production of useful materials, devices, and systems or methods, including design, development and improvement of prototypes and new processes to meet specific requirements.
  • Program Code: 2200

• RSTRN-Research Training: Support for research training for pre-, post- doc fellowships, thesis, dissertation, or undergraduate scholarly activities. Includes basic, applied and developmental research activity.
  • Program Code: 2200
  • Example: NIH NRSA Training Grants (T); NIH NRSA Fellowships (F); NSF IGERT