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 		 IMPORTANT NEW REQUIREMENT - Conflict of Interest Training
Personnel appearing as PI or CoPI on PARS proposals created on or after
April 1, 2013 will be required to complete the UMS Conflict of Interest Training course offered by CITI. Instructions and a link to the course are available at http://www.orsp.umesp.maine.edu/ORSPDocs/Info/CITI_Instructions_COI.pdf
Once the course is completed, the participant must enter the date the course was passed into their PARS user profile. PIs will not be able to route a proposal in PARS and CoPIs will not be able to approve their participation on the project until the requirement is met and recorded in PARS. Date information will be matched with CITI's records periodically to validate the entries.
This is a work in progress. Until the kinks are worked out ORSP will make sure that proposals are submitted to sponsors on time if the training is the only factor holding  up the submission.
In order to route a proposal to approvers, it must be assigned a submission number by ORSP which the preparer then enters into PARS. The number will be assigned when the preparer contacts their ORSP Grants and Contracts Specialist to begin working on the proposal budget.
Please download and use the latest version of the ORSP budget spreadsheet.
In order to perform research or other extramurally sponsored activities at the University of Maine, approvals are required from various administrators and others who allocate University resources. Click here for a list of approvals required to submit a proposal and other information about the approval process.

Important notice about data entry in PARS: For security reasons, the semicolon(;) and double dash (--) characters should not appear in any of the information that you enter directly into PARS (this does not include your uploaded files). If you include these characters in your responses, you will be instructed to use your "Back" button to return to the page and remove the character before the information will be saved.

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First time users: click here to register (allow 1-2 business days for processing). If you need immediate access to the system call Robin Crocker (1-1471) or Cliff Wilbur (1-1419).
Retrieve Password  Click here to have PARS email your login information to you.

Webmaster: Cliff Wilbur clifford.wilbur@umit.maine.edu  (207) 581-1419

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