Finding Funding
Finding the right funder is crucial to your bid’s success, as each funder has their own priorities and funding criteria. Each bid will be scored against their specific requirements so even an excellent bid will be rejected if it does not relate specifically to what they are looking for. You will find it quite rare that a funding call is released that matches entirely with the project you had in mind, but being flexible in your ideas and approaches will allow you to adjust your project accordingly.
Funding Institutional
Funding Institutional (FI) is integrated with Pure and is a searchable database that combines over 33,000 active funding opportunities with information on over 8 million awarded research grants from a wide-range of funders. It is designed to help you find active, accurate funding opportunities from a wide range of research, government and private funding sources, and offers insight into research that has already been funded in your area of interest.
Funding Institutional allows staff to:
- Search for funding opportunities
- Find new sources of external grant income
- Set up alerts to be notified automatically of new funding opportunities
- Share funding opportunities with other colleagues
- Export opportunities into your Pure profile account
- Discover the most active funders in your research discipline
- Analyse the award trend over the years for your search query
Getting Started
To get started, log into www.fundinginstitutional.com (FI) with your usual University login details and then click on Sign in via your institution (University of Northampton). The interface is user-friendly with searchable options for Opportunities, Awards and Funders. If you click on the circled question mark, you can access a support centre and a full user manual with tips and instructions on how to use the database. There is also the option to use the suggested opportunities based on aspects in researchers’ Scopus Author Profile, including research discipline, seniority and location. To get started, click on the and use the Suggestions module Add a new researcher link to locate relevant funding opportunities for you or a researcher.
To get you started on your funding journey look at the Quick start guide and watch the introduction YouTube video below. The video does not have all the updated elements of FI, however it covers the main features to get you started.
Linking Funding Institutional with Pure Award
Funding Institutional is integrated into Pure through Award Management so that you can access opportunities from Pure or Funding Institutional directly and easily share opportunities with colleagues. To enable this to happen it requires linking both your accounts (Funding Institutional and Pure).
Funding Institutional
- Log in via institution – https://www.fundinginstitutional.com/.
- Click on your profile at the top right. It’s the circle with your initials in it at the top right
- Click on “Account” and scroll to the bottom of the page
- There you will see a screen that reads:
Connect with Pure
Use this ID to connect your Funding Institution and Pure account: XXXXX. Once connected, the funding opportunities you’ve sent to Pure will appear there as expected.
- Copy the ID presented there. Don’t copy the one in the screenshot. Copy the one in your FI
Pure
- Log into Pure
- Go to your profile settings at the top and the following can be found:
- Paste the ID from FI there
- Click save
Training sessions
You will find our FI training sessions on the LibCal Staff Development site. If you have a question on FI please email research@northampton.ac.uk.