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Summary of Research Professional Features

FEATURES DESCRIPTION & BENEFITS

Service for Funding OpportunitiesEvery research funding opportunity from The European Commission. We also have a comprehensive coverof sponsors from major European countries, as well as the USA and International sponsors across everydiscipline that your researchers are eligible to apply for. We have over 6,550 sponsors on our databasefrom across the globe.

Service for News

Up-to-the-minute research policy news from every major European country, plus the US, Australia andAfrica. Our news service gives independent analyses and commentary on the research programmes of allmajor European funders, the European Union, including the Framework Programme and the EuropeanResearch Council; Insights into the people and ideas at the interface of research and policy-making in theEU; Opinion pieces by the leaders who shape EU research policy and their critics and a genuinelyEuropean perspective on major national research policy. Our readers stay ahead of the competition andkeep on top of everything thats important in research policy.

Detailed Sponsor & Program information We dont just give you information about the funding grant but also provide you with deep website links tothe sponsor and program of the respective funding grant.

Multiple Alerts Profiles Everyone with an account to Research Professional can create unlimited saved searches and alert profiles-both for the funding content and news articles.

Personal Folders Everyone can save items to their own personal folders, which only they can view.

Filtered for EligibilityWe create your account to be pre-filter for Austrian eligibility so your researchers will only ever seefunding grants that they can apply for as an Austrian institution- saving them a significant amount of timeby not having to go through several calls only to find out they cannot apply for them.

Access to news and funding database All the latest funding sources AND research policy news in one place

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Online web calendars

You can create a calendars based on your saved search. By the click of a button, you can diarise all of theclosing dates for the funding opportunities search. That calendar can be displayed as a webpage and/ordownloaded as a PDF. You can also subscribe to a calendar so every time we add new fundingopportunities matching the saved criteria of a calendar; your calendar is automatically updated! You canalso add the URL of a calendar to your internal webpages at the University if you wish.

iCal funding calendar feeds

You can also create iCal Calendar feeds which integrate with your own calendar programme at theUniversity such as Outlook, Google calendar etc. This allows you can view the funding deadline dates inyour own calendar system without having to log into Research Professional. You will be able to see asummary of the finding opportunities and a link will be provided for you so you can log back to intoResearch Professional to view the full information.

Content annotation

Administrators & Editors can annotate our content with your own internal information. For example, byadding internal deadlines, appointing an internal mentor, adding your own URLs- directing researchers torelevant information, adding internal notes and marking an opportunity as a high priority. The ability toappoint your users as an internal mentor is particularly useful if you want to indicate who within yourinstitution has had success with applications to a particular sponsor and to whom you wish to direct morejunior researchers to! The ability to annotate our content is one way that the Networked functionalityfeatures help capture the knowledge and the know-how within your institution and ensures that itsshared effectively!

Customisable user magazines

Administrators & Editors can create a magazine that is relevant to a particular faculty, department,strategic theme etc. that would be relevant for that particular workgroup. So for example, you can createa magazine for the Faculty of Social Science which would be relevant to everyone in that faculty. Thismagazine can then be viewed online, or emailed to people or users can opt to subscribe to the magazinewhich will be emailed to them every time a magazine is published. This again is an excellent way ofcustomizing our content to the requirements of your researchers so they will only ever see informationthat is directly relevant to them.

Free Annual site visitYour client service manager is happy to visit you at the University to provide training and/or discuss any ofyour needs of the service as part of your Networked subscription.

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ImplementationAs this is an online database, there are no IT issues of implementation with your own systems, so again,you can rest assured that the process from sign off to using the database is quick and uncomplicated

Embedding process: Timing The embedding process is relatively quick and can be completed within a few days once we have receivedall the necessary information from you

Embedding Services: Setting up youraccount

As part of the embedding process, we will assist you to set up accounts for all your scientific employees aswell as anyone else within the University. We can also help you create work groups on your account andassign individuals into particular work groups. Administrators can then create saved searches for aparticular workgroup, meaning that all the individuals that belong to a particular work group would be seecalls that are relevant to them!

You would do this with support and guidance from our client service team and all we would need from youto create personal user accounts are the names and email addresses of the individuals. We would thencreate a bulk upload onto Research Professional (RP) and an email would be automatically send toeveryone informing them that an account has been created for them in RP. The email will also contain a

brief introduction about Research Professional.

Embedding Services: Marketing ResearchProfessional Internally

We will provide you with marketing materials to increase aware of Research Professional within yourinstitution. These include personalised posters in various sizes, electronic versions, and email templates,among others. Your client service manager is happy to discuss your exact needs with you to ensure yourrequests are met.

Embedding Services: Training on ResearchProfessional

Training sessions for administrators and end users, both via online training sessions. As a Networkedfunctionality subscriber, we would also offer you onsite training sessions which are held throughout theday at the University in Vienna.

Apart from the above personalised training session that we provide, we also run monthly online trainingsessions which anyone can attend. They are interactive and allow the attendees to ask our client servicemanager any questions they may have.