Training opportunities for Grants Administrators
Financial management for international collaborative initiatives is a complex process for which a number of organisations offer specialised training. We've listed a few links below.
The Association of Research Administration in Africa (ARAA), provides training at its Annual General Meeting. The next AGM will be hosted at the University of Rwanda. You can find more details here: http://araafrica.org/
NIH Regional Seminars: https://grants.nih.gov/news/contact-in-person/seminars.htm .
The next training is scheduled for: 26-28 October 2016 in Chicago. Click here to find out how to register.
You can review the full calender here..
The Society for Research Administrator's International also offers a wide range of resources through their national and chapter meetings listed here http://srainternational.org/learn and through their online webinar series.
You can also review the training calender here.
The US based National Council of University Research Administrators also offers resources and training including those for the Financial Research Administrators (FRA). You can find out more about their offerings here:
Click here for their training calender.
They also have:
- an international regional group - http://ncuraintlregion.org/
- a Global Community of Research Adminstrators which is free to join. Find out more about this group here.
G11 Training Opportunities
Some of the G11 Extramural Associate Research Development Award FOAs at FIC, NIAID, and NICHD also offer options for training in grants administration. You can review these below:
- NIAID G11 Global Infectious Disease Research Administration Development Award for LMIC Institutions: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-15-131.html
- NICHD G11 Biomedical/Biobehavioral Research Administration Development (BRAD) Award: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-14-333.html
- Fogarty’s HIV Research Training Program G11 Infrastructure Development Training Programs for Critical HIV Research in LMIC Institutions: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-16-280.html
