Summary of Research Professional Features

FEATURES DESCRIPTION & BENEFITS

Service for Funding Opportunities
Every research funding opportunity from The European Commission. We also have a comprehensive cover
of sponsors from major European countries, as well as the USA and International sponsors across every
discipline that your researchers are eligible to apply for. We have over 6,550 sponsors on our database
from across the globe.
Service for News
Up-to-the-minute research policy news from every major European country, plus the US, Australia and
Africa. Our news service gives independent analyses and commentary on the research programmes of all
major European funders, the European Union, including the Framework Programme and the European
Research Council; Insights into the people and ideas at the interface of research and policy-making in the
EU; Opinion pieces by the leaders who shape EU research policy and their critics and a genuinely
European perspective on major national research policy. Our readers stay ahead of the competition and
keep 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 to
the 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 Eligibility
We create your account to be pre-filter for Austrian eligibility so your researchers will only ever see
funding grants that they can apply for as an Austrian institution- saving them a significant amount of time
by 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

Customisable searches
The ability to build complex searches using a combination of various elements, such as discipline, award
types, country of funder, type of funder, funder name, among others. This ensures that your search is as
accurate as you need, again, saving you a significant amount of time.
Dedicated technical support
Though we rarely encounter any technical issues with our database, were a problem to arise, our IT team
will work with you to ensure your technical issues are resolved in a prompt and effect manner
Dedicated customer support
I will continue to be your account manager and you will also be appointed a client service manager to deal
with any questions and request that you have.
Content sharing tools With one click of a button, you can send emails to everyone in a particular department, faculty, unit etc.
This ensures that the information reaches all those who it is relevant to while saving you time and
resources.
Administrator interface
Those with Administrator and Editor rights will have the ability to create and control your account at a
higher and more sophisticated level than end users.
Knowledge Management Capabilities
You can annotate sponsors, programmes and funding opportunities records with guidance, internal
deadlines or mentors. This means that all the key internal information relating to pre-proposal activity can
be stored on the system and easily retrieved, thereby crystallising a lot of tacit knowledge that is
currently fragmented or lost within the institution.
Detailed usage reports
You are able to run detailed usage reports to gain a view of the quantity and quality of usage within the
institution.
Workgroup hierarchies
Administrators & Editors can organise your account to have various workgroup hierarchies and this is a
great way of capturing and sharing the knowledge of experts within any given department or faculty. Each
workgroups can be assigned an editor or administrator who can create saved searches or other relevant
content for that workgroup, which only members of that workgroups can see. Members of that work groups
can then save those searches onto their own personal accounts and set up alerts to receive new funding
opportunities matching the same search criteria. Remember, once the alerts are set up, the researchers
dont need to keep re-running the searches are they will automatically receive funding grants matching
that exact criteria each week! The work groups also ensure that the information researchers are receiving
is directly relevant to them!

Online web calendars
You can create a calendars based on your saved search. By the click of a button, you can diarise all of the
closing dates for the funding opportunities search. That calendar can be displayed as a webpage and/or
downloaded as a PDF. You can also subscribe to a calendar so every time we add new funding
opportunities matching the saved criteria of a calendar; your calendar is automatically updated! You can
also 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 the
University such as Outlook, Google calendar etc. This allows you can view the funding deadline dates in
your own calendar system without having to log into Research Professional. You will be able to see a
summary of the finding opportunities and a link will be provided for you so you can log back to into
Research Professional to view the full information.
Content annotation
Administrators & Editors can annotate our content with your own internal information. For example, by
adding internal deadlines, appointing an internal mentor, adding your own URLs- directing researchers to
relevant information, adding internal notes and marking an opportunity as a high priority. The ability to
appoint your users as an internal mentor is particularly useful if you want to indicate who within your
institution has had success with applications to a particular sponsor and to whom you wish to direct more
junior researchers to! The ability to annotate our content is one way that the Networked functionality
features help capture the knowledge and the know-how within your institution and ensures that its
shared 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 create
a magazine for the Faculty of Social Science which would be relevant to everyone in that faculty. This
magazine can then be viewed online, or emailed to people or users can opt to subscribe to the magazine
which will be emailed to them every time a magazine is published. This again is an excellent way of
customizing our content to the requirements of your researchers so they will only ever see information
that is directly relevant to them.
Free Annual site visit
Your client service manager is happy to visit you at the University to provide training and/or discuss any of
your needs of the service as part of your Networked subscription.


Implementation
As 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 received
all the necessary information from you
Embedding Services: Setting up your
account
As part of the embedding process, we will assist you to set up accounts for all your scientific employees as
well as anyone else within the University. We can also help you create work groups on your account and
assign individuals into particular work groups. Administrators can then create saved searches for a
particular workgroup, meaning that all the individuals that belong to a particular work group would be see
calls that are relevant to them!

You would do this with support and guidance from our client service team and all we would need from you
to create personal user accounts are the names and email addresses of the individuals. We would then
create a bulk upload onto Research Professional (RP) and an email would be automatically send to
everyone 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 Research
Professional Internally
We will provide you with marketing materials to increase aware of Research Professional within your
institution. 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 your
requests are met.
Embedding Services: Training on Research
Professional
Training sessions for administrators and end users, both via online training sessions. As a Networked
functionality subscriber, we would also offer you onsite training sessions which are held throughout the
day at the University in Vienna.

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