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What funders require of timesheets for staff on research grants, from the funders' own documents, and how to choose the tool that produces them.
Horizon Europe timesheet requirements
What the EU asks of time records for staff paid from a Horizon Europe grant, taken from the Commission's Annotated Grant Agreement and written for research offices and principal investigators.
UKRI timesheet requirements, including EPSRC
Which staff on UKRI grants need timesheets, what they must show and how quickly they must be signed off, taken from UKRI's terms and conditions and written for research offices and principal investigators.
Innovate UK timesheet requirements
What Innovate UK's grant terms ask a time record to show, how it feeds the quarterly claim and how long to keep it, taken from Innovate UK's own terms and written for research offices with staff on Innovate UK projects.
How long to keep research grant timesheets
Each funder sets its own period and counts it from a different date. Here they are side by side, from the funders' own terms.
Research grant timesheet template: what to include
What Horizon Europe, UKRI and Innovate UK each ask a timesheet to show, and one monthly layout that covers all three.
Timesheet software for research grants: the options compared
The tools universities use for research grant timesheets, who each is for and what it costs, checked against each vendor's own pages and written for department grants administrators. UniTimesheet is ours, so its section also says what it doesn't do.
The business case for research grant timesheet software
What moving grant timesheets off spreadsheets saves a department, and what it protects, worked through with every assumption on show. Written for grants administrators to send to a head of department or finance.
Person-months on research grants: how to calculate them
What a person-month is, how to work one out, and where funders use them and where they don't, from the Commission's and UKRI's own documents. Written for research offices planning and reporting staff time.
Electronic signatures on research grant timesheets: what funders accept
Whether funders accept a timesheet signed in software or by email instead of on paper, and what the record has to show, from the Commission's and UKRI's own guidance. Written for research offices moving timesheets off paper.
Annual leave and sickness on research grant timesheets
Whether leave belongs on a grant timesheet, and how it changes the time you can claim, funder by funder, from their own documents. Written for research offices whose staff take holidays like everyone else.