Upcoming Training Opportunities

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SPO Office Hours

Bring your questions and join our knowledgeable staff for guidance and training on preparing and submitting proposals for extramural funding.

Drop in via Zoom the 1^st Thursday of each month between 10 and 10:30am

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SPO Office Hours are available to anyone who helps prepare or process proposals for submission to sponsors. Topics may include: Cayuse SP, Cayuse 424, eRA Commons, subawards, awards, and more…

To be clear, SPO staff will not be leading classes on specific topics during Office Hours. They are simply making themselves available by Zoom to respond to your inquiries.

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Research Administration Workshops

All workshops are 2-hours long and offered over Zoom. Write [email protected] to request the Zoom link for any workshop(s) you wish to attend.

• Submitting Multi-Component Applications to the NIH – Thursday, June 11, 2026, 1 – 3 PM
  A multi-component application is a single submission with multiple, interrelated components – each with their own budgets – that share a common focus or objective. This workshop will cover how to determine the required elements of a multi-component application, how to create a multi-component application in either Cayuse 424 or NIH ASSIST, and where to find tools to aid in preparing and submitting multi-component applications to NIH.

Write [email protected] to express interest in attending a workshop or to request materials from prior offerings. Topics include:

• Cost-Sharing and Effort in Proposals 
  This workshop covers:
  • Cost-sharing and effort definitions and requirements
  • How to apply cost-sharing by sponsor type
  • How to calculate effort in a budget
  • How to enter cost-sharing and effort into Cayuse SP and Cayuse 424
• Populating External Budgets
  This workshop facilitates the translation of internal budgets (OR Budget Templates) into standard proposal submission forms as well as into Excel templates required by some sponsors.
• Preparing a Cost Proposal Budget
  Some funding opportunity announcements request two proposals: A technical proposal on project details and a separate cost proposal on finances. This workshop provides guidance on cost proposal preparation.
• Submitting NSF Proposals in Research.gov
  This workshop covers the preparation of NSF proposals in Research.gov.

UC Learning Center Instructor-Led Trainings 

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UC Learning Center eCourses

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Note: we also offer “unlocked” versions of these eCourses. While they do not afford you course credit for completing them, “unlocked” eCourses allow you to navigate to any page to review helpful content. Write [email protected] to request a link to view an “unlocked” eCourse.

Sponsored Programs Basics

• • Sponsored Programs Essentials
  • Electronic Research Administration (eRA)

Preparing and Submitting Proposals

• • Proposal Preparation and Submission
  • Preparing a Proposal Budget: Basics
  • Cayuse 424
  • Cayuse Professional Profiles and Role Management

Processing Awards

• • Understanding the Awards Process
  • Cayuse SP: Awards and Post-Award Actions

Processing Subawards

• • Processing Subawards (Cayuse)