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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%">Funding proposals that have more than one Principal Investigator (PI) require a PI Certification from each PI.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%">A ‘PI Certification Request’ is sent to all individuals with the role of PI/PD when the below steps are completed.
<span lang="EN" style="color:#333333">PI Certification is the only component of a funding proposal that
<i><u>must</u> </i>be completed by a Principal Investigator (PI). <b>Funding proposals
<u>cannot</u> be submitted to a sponsor without a completed PI Certification for all PIs listed on a funding proposal, and these certifications are required to be completed in addition to the funding proposal at least four (4) business days prior to the sponsor
deadline.</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:19.5pt"><span lang="EN" style="color:#333333">Once all of the proposal documents have been finalized and uploaded into the funding proposal in MyFunding, the Department Administrator should execute
one of the following two activities to trigger the PI Certification for the PI:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN">For funding proposals being submitted </span><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="https://electronicresearch.pitt.edu/glossary-of-terms/#s" target="_blank"><span lang="EN" style="color:blue">System-to-System</span><span lang="EN" style="color:#F3690E">
</span></a></span><span lang="EN">(i.e. via Grants.gov) within MyFunding, the activity ‘Update SF424 Research Plan’ should be used:<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="color:#333333"><img border="0" width="286" height="61" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D5D108.1B139770" alt="Update SF424 Research Paln - checkbox"></span><span lang="EN" style="color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="color:#333333">After all of the proposal documents (including research plan and attachments) are uploaded into MyFunding, Question 14 should be marked as “yes” (as seen below):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#333333"><img border="0" width="310" height="70" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image010.png@01D5D108.98D0EC30" alt="Research Plan Attachment are complete: radio buttons: yes , no"></span><span lang="EN" style="color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:19.5pt"><b><u><span lang="EN" style="color:#333333">OR<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<span lang="EN">For funding proposals being submitted within MyFunding as </span>
<span style="color:windowtext"><a href="https://electronicresearch.pitt.edu/glossary-of-terms/#o" target="_blank"><span lang="EN" style="color:blue">‘Other Submitted by Office of Sponsored Programs’ (ex: NSF FastLane) or ‘Other Submitted by Department’ (ex.
Pitt as a subrecipient to another university)</span></a></span><span lang="EN">, the activity ‘Submit Proposal Documents’ should be used:<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span lang="EN" style="color:#333333"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#333333"><img border="0" width="310" height="61" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image005.png@01D5D108.1B139770"></span><span lang="EN" style="color:#333333">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="color:#333333">After all of the proposal documents (including research plan and attachments) are uploaded into MyFunding, Question 2 should be marked “yes” (as seen below):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#333333"><img border="0" width="342" height="65" id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image011.png@01D5D108.98D0EC30"></span><span style="color:#333333">
<span lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:19.5pt"><span lang="EN" style="color:#333333">Performing either of the above activities will trigger the following PI Certification notification to all of the Principal Investigators listed on the
funding proposal:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:19.5pt"><span style="color:#333333"><img border="0" width="549" height="217" id="Picture_x0020_5" src="cid:image008.png@01D5D108.1B139770"></span><span lang="EN" style="color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:19.5pt"><span lang="EN" style="color:#333333">The link provided in the notification will take each of the PIs into the funding proposal workspace to complete the PI Certification by clicking on the
‘Submit PI Certification’ activity:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:19.5pt"><span style="color:#333333"><img border="0" width="280" height="52" id="Picture_x0020_6" src="cid:image009.png@01D5D108.1B139770"></span><span lang="EN" style="color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%"><a name="_Hlk22294775"><span style="color:black">For any questions related to the PERIS™ project, using MyFunding<i>,
</i>or to arrange training, please email </span></a><a href="mailto:perisproject@pitt.edu"><span style="color:blue">perisproject@pitt.edu</span></a><span style="color:black">, or visit the
</span><a href="http://electronicresearch.pitt.edu/"><span style="color:blue">project website</span></a><span style="color:black"> for more information.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%"><span style="color:black">To sign-up for the PERIS ™ Listserv, please visit
</span><a href="https://list.pitt.edu/mailman/listinfo/peris-listserv"><span style="color:blue">https://list.pitt.edu/mailman/listinfo/peris-listserv</span></a><span style="color:black">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">To unsubscribe from the PERIS™ Listserv, please click
</span><a href="mailto:peristeam@pitt.edu?subject=Unsubscribe%20from%20PERIS%20Listserv"><span style="color:blue">here</span></a><span style="color:black">.</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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