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Can institute administrators (directors, deputy directors, department heads, etc.) receive Individual Financial Support as part of the project team?
For CRDF-Funded Awards: CRDF generally discourages the inclusion of “administrative superiors” in a proposal in any role for which individual financial support is requested. An “Administrative Superior” is defined as an individual who has direct administrative authority over the Project Director/Principal Investigator, and who works in the same division, laboratory or unit as the Project Director/Principal Investigator. Institutional leadership including university rectors, vice rectors and institute directors, deputy directors are also defined as “administrative superiors”. Unless approved specifically by CRDF in the original proposal and upon presentation of special justification, IFS payments to administrative superiors are not allowed.
For Grant Assistance Program Projects – Payments are made in accordance with the Budget & Schedule of Payments approved by the Sponsor or in accordance with specific payment instructions from the Sponsor.
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- I just received notification that my proposal was selected for funding by the CRDF. When can I submit my first request for IFS payments?
- Is there a specific format for IFS requests?
- Where do I send my requests? Are electronic copies acceptable?
- How will my team members receive IFS payments from CRDF?
- About how long does it take CRDF to process an IFS request?
- In order to simplify the payment process, can the Principal Investigator/Project Director receive the funds for the entire team and then distribute the payments to the individual team members?
- Do I have to use a bank specified by CRDF or may I use my pre-existing bank account to receive CRDF funds?
- Can I receive IFS funds in the U.S. while I am here on travel working with my U.S. collaborator on project-related activities?
- One of my team members recently passed away before receiving his IFS payment? How does CRDF handle these situations?
- One of my students working on the project recently received his Ph.D. I would like to increase his IFS rate based upon this development. Is this possible?
- We have requested and received a six-month no-cost extension to the term of our award. Since the final report will not be due until after the extension period is complete do we have to wait six months to receive our final IFS payments or can we receive p
- My project involves payments to numerous support staff and technicians who only work on the project for a few days or weeks and will not be part of the main project team. How can these individuals be paid under the CRDF grant?
- Our main project team is in Moscow, however, in order to carry out the project we are collaborating with colleagues in Kyiv. Can our colleagues in Ukraine receive IFS payments?
- In what currency are IFS payments made?
- I would like to include several new team members in my next IFS request. Is this permissible? What is the procedure for this?
- This is the last quarter of our award and we have not spent all of the award funds budgeted for Materials & Services and/or Travel. May we use these funds to pay additional Individual Financial Support to the project participants?
- May we use Institutional Support funds to pay Individual Financial Support to project participants?
- Can foreign Consultants be paid as Individual Financial Support (utilizing CRDF's tax privileges)?
- IFS FAQs - Printable Version
- LINK: IFS FAQs - Russian Language Version
- LINK: IFS FAQs - Ukrainian Language Version