Research Support Fund

Definition of Indirect costs: the operational costs that underpin an institution’s research activities (i.e., heating, lighting, ethics reviews, facilities for animals used in research, management of intellectual property, environmental assessment and safety compliance). The services that give rise to indirect costs are institutionally based and are not specific to individual research grants.

Institutions have flexibility in deciding how to use their RSF grant, provided that the funds are used for the payment of current expenditures of indirect costs attributed to federally sponsored research that falls within the following five categories:

1. Research Facilities
2. Research Resources
3. Management and Administration of the Institution's Research Enterprise
4. Regulatory Requirements and Accreditation
5. Intellectual Property and Knowledge Mobilization

The expenditures must always adhere to the general principles of the RSF program.

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Allocation of the Grant- Bow Valley College allocates the entirety of RSF each year for: Management and administration of the institution's research enterprise

Specifically:

1. Institutional support for the completion of grant and award applications/research proposals and in support of the National Security Guidelines for Research Partnerships, including:
   • salaries and benefits for staff who work on grant applications and research proposals (e.g., grant facilitators, award/prize facilitators, and administrative assistants).
2. Training of faculty and research personnel, including:
   • costs associated with attending research administration-related conferences for professional development (e.g., CARA, CAUBO).

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Total amount of the RSF grant received by Bow Valley College for the previous five years: