Information on Internet2 activities in the international arena.

[Christina Siroskey <>]

Greetings Colleagues,

The following announcement from the American National Institutes of 
Health (NIH) may be of interest to international partner universities 
receiving project and collaboration funding through NIH.
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH), an Internet2 Affiliate member, 
and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) are converting 
to the electronic SF424 (Research and Related [R&R]) grant application 
forms.  Beginning December 1, 2005, individual research programs will 
begin requiring electronic submission through Grants.gov, with a 
complete transition scheduled by 2007.  NIH and AHRQ are encouraging 
applicant organizations to register now with both Grants.gov 
(http://grants.gov/) and NIH eRA Commons 
(https://commons.era.nih.gov/commons/), as the registration process can 
take up to 4 weeks to complete.

More information on these changes is available at 
http://era.nih.gov/ElectronicReceipt/.

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