Terms and conditions

 

A project must aim to provide clear benefit to the wider discipline community, in the form of new knowledge or the development or sharing of a resource or good practice in learning and teaching. A project should not primarily be for internal staff training and development (although this may be a secondary outcome).

PALATINE will recognise the Development Award recipient's intellectual contribution to the work, and the recipient or their employer (as appropriate) will retain the intellectual property. The award recipient will, therefore, be free to publish and profit from their work in any way. It is a condition of award, however, that a Development Award recipient will grant to PALATINE non-exclusive rights of publication in all media and for all time. This is in order that PALATINE may disseminate the results and outcomes, free of charge, in print and via electronic media such as the Internet or CD/DVD, in order that the UK HE community may benefit from work facilitated by funding from HE Funding Councils via PALATINE.

Any equipment bought with funds from HE Funding Councils, via PALATINE, must be returned to PALATINE at the end of the Development Award work so that it can be made available to other colleagues.

PALATINE will not normally fund more than one Development Award in any one discipline in any one department or institution.

PALATINE strongly recommends that applicants discuss their plans with their head of department, dean, principal (or whoever is most likely to be aware of internal conflicts of interest) in order to ensure that institutions prioritise their bids according to their own needs and plans.  Submitted Development Award applications must be accompanied by a brief written statement of support from the applicant's HoD (or dean or principal, as appropriate).

PALATINE reserves the right to refuse to offer Development Awards to any institution which has failed to complete work funded by a previous PALATINE Development Award.

Potential Development Award applicants are encouraged to contact PALATINE early in their planning; PALATINE staff are always willing to discuss possible bids at any stage during their development.

 

Funding and reporting

Please note that it is the award holder’s responsibility to ensure that PALATINE is invoiced for each instalment of funding and to submit progress reports by the agreed dates. Payment of the full award is attached to the condition of satisfactory reporting on the progress of the project, and PALATINE cannot approve payment of the second instalment until a satisfactory progress report has been received.

For most projects, a report of one or two pages normally provides a sufficient summary of how work is progressing in relation to the proposal. As indicated in the contract letter, the funding and reporting timetable follows this pattern: