RAMP Grants remains on course to go-live on July 1, 2020.  We are grateful to many individuals throughout the colleges and departments for working with us to establish workflow decisions for each department last month.  This information will be entered into the system in preparation for our testing sessions, which will begin next month.  Many testing sessions will be offered and we encourage participation from all department administrators, faculty, chairs, deans and directors.  Participants will have the opportunity to test drive the RAMP Grants module and share valuable feedback to aid in our training efforts.  Information will be shared with the research community soon regarding the dates, times and location of the testing sessions.  Additionally, training workshops will begin in late April to early May and continue well beyond system deployment.  Various training methods will be utilized and detailed information will be published once the curriculum is finalized.

Our team is beginning to meet with faculty and college leadership throughout campus to provide an overview of RAMP Grants and address any questions or concerns.  Please reach out to Angie Rowe at 850-644-8659 or arrowe@fsu.edu if you would like for us to share information at your next faculty, chair and/or deans meeting.  Also, we will be holding town hall meetings over the next few months.  These meetings are designed to brief the research community on the functionality offered within the RAMP Grants module and connect with researchers and administrators to address questions, concerns and feedback.  Following are the details for the February meeting:

RAMP Grants Town Hall
February 21 | 11:00am – 12:00pm
College of Medicine Auditorium

As always, please reach out to us if you have any questions or concerns about RAMP.

Angie Rowe, Project Manager, Office of Research
arrowe@fsu.edu
(850) 644 - 8659

Kerry Peluso, Assistant Vice President for Research Administration and Finance
kpeluso@fsu.edu
(850) 644 – 8664