Janet Goucher wrote:

> In this day of collaboration we have had several lead PIs ask to have
> persons at other universities listed as a co-pi on their projects -
> rather than subcontracting work out to that person.  Does anyone allow
> this.  Does anyone have an opinion of the pitfalls or benefits of
> allowing this?

Janet,

We allow co-PIs from other institutions, though we structure the budget
so that we subcontract to the other university for personnel, fringe,
supplies, travel, indirects, etc. We do not treat the other co-PI as one
of our employees unless we can hire them (we've done this once in the
last few years, hiring a school district administrator for summer work).
I've found that NSF makes it easiest to list co-PIs and collaborators
from other institutions, even allowing us to add other institutions to
our budget. Of course, doing so implies that we have the other
institution's okay.

--
Diane M. Schmitz
Assistant Director, Pre-Award Administration
Grant & Research Development
Eastern Washington University
Cheney WA 99004-2444
Phone:  (509) 359-2517	* Fax:  (509) 359-6693

http://www.ewu.edu/grants

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 -Serbian proverb

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