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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Roboto",serif;color:#333333">Funding proposals that have more than one Principal Investigator (PI) require a PI Certification from each PI.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Roboto",serif;color:#333333">A ‘PI Certification Request’ is sent to all individuals with the role of PI/PD when the below steps are completed. PI Certification is
the only component of a funding proposal that must be completed by a PI.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:"Roboto",serif;color:#333333">Funding proposals cannot be submitted to a sponsor without a completed PI Certification for all PIs listed on a funding proposal, and
these certifications are expected to be completed in addition to the funding proposal at least four (4) business days prior to the sponsor deadline</span></b><span style="font-family:"Roboto",serif;color:#333333">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Roboto",serif;color:#333333">Once 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</span><span style="font-family:"Roboto",serif;color:#333333">:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Roboto",serif;color:#333333">1 - For funding proposals being submitted
</span><a href="https://electronicresearch.pitt.edu/glossary-of-terms/#s"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Roboto",serif">System-to-System</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Roboto",serif;color:#333333"> (i.e. via Grants.Gov) within
MyFunding, the activity ‘Update SF424 Research Plan’ should be used (see Figure 1).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Roboto",serif;color:#333333">Figure 1. ‘Update SF424 Research Plan’ activity<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Roboto",serif;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">After the proposal documents (including research plan and attachments) are uploaded into MyFunding, Question 14 should be marked as ‘yes’ (see Figure 2).
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Roboto",serif;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">Figure 2. ‘Update SF424 Research Plan’ activity pop up window<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Roboto",serif;color:#333333">OR<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Roboto",serif;color:#333333">2 - </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Roboto",serif;color:#333333">For funding proposals being submitted within MyFunding as </span><a href="https://electronicresearch.pitt.edu/glossary-of-terms/#o" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Roboto",serif">‘Other
(Submitted by Office of Sponsored Programs)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Roboto",serif;color:#333333;text-decoration:none">’ (ex: NSF FastLane) or ‘</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Roboto",serif">Other (Submitted by Department)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Roboto",serif;color:#333333;text-decoration:none">’
(ex. Pitt as a subrecipient to another university)</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Roboto",serif;color:#333333">, the activity ‘Submit Proposal Documents’ should be used (see Figure 3).</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Roboto",serif;color:#333333">Figure 3. ‘Submit Proposal Documents’ activity<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Roboto",serif;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">After the proposal documents (including research plan and attachments) are uploaded into MyFunding, Question 2 should be marked as ‘yes’ (see Figure 4).</span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Roboto",serif;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">Figure 4. ‘Submit Proposal Documents’ pop up window</span></strong><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<img border="0" width="814" height="284" style="width:8.4791in;height:2.9583in" id="Picture_x0020_25" src="cid:image011.png@01D757D0.C5EF7E20"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Roboto",serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Roboto",serif;color:#333333">Performing either of the above activities will trigger the following PI Certification notification to all of the PI’s (must have the role
‘PD/PI’) listed on the ‘Additional Personnel’ page of the funding proposal (see Figure 5).
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt"><span style="font-family:"Roboto",serif;color:#333333">Figure 5. ‘Additional Personnel’ page<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt"><span style="font-family:"Roboto",serif;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 (see Figures 6 and 7).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Roboto",serif;color:#333333">Figure 6. ‘PI Certification Request’ email notification example<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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