You must disclose all titled academic, professional, or positions, domestic and foreign, including titled academic, professional, or institutional, regardless of whether full-time, part-time, voluntary, adjunct, visiting, honorary, or whether or not remuneration is received. These appointments need to be disclosed in your Biosketch. If appointments include any support (financial or in-kind) for research activity, you also need to report the appointment and support in Current & Pending Support. The appointment also needs to be disclosed to UC (OAR).

In addition to the information provided above, report "International Activities" on the proposal cover sheet. An International Activity is defined as research, training, and/or education carried out in cooperation with international counterparts either overseas or in the US using virtual technologies. Proposers also should enter the country/countries with which project participants will engage and/or travel to attend international conferences. If the specific location of the international conference is not known at the time of the proposal submission, proposers should enter "Worldwide." (See Chapter II.C.2.j).

Before you accept the invitation, you should talk with your Division/Department Chair or supervisor to decide whether it is advisable; the invitation cannot create a conflict of interest or conflict of commitment related to your institutional responsibilities. If you proceed with the engagement, several disclosures may be required to both UC and NSF:

1. Disclose your appointment/position, if any, as a commitment to UC in your outside activity report (OAR) and NSF Biosketch.
2. Any compensation you receive through this relationship, e.g., travel funds or consulting fees must be disclosed to UC as a Financial Interest (OAR). If there are any personal payments to you to support research, include them in the NSF Current & Pending Support.
3. Any research funds you receive from the foreign university must be reported as awards under Current & Pending Support.
4. Any in-kind resources such as facilities, equipment, personnel, or other resources must be disclosed as NSF "In-Kind Support." (Sponsor Disclosure in proposal or RPPR) and in the UC Disclosure (OAR) System.
5. There may be additional Export Compliance concerns, IP concerns, and possible foreign engagement concerns. Please contact the Conflict of Interest (COI) Officer for further guidance.

Issues:

1. Conflict of Commitment (OAR disclosure)
2. Financial Interest (OAR disclosure)
3. Current & Pending Support & Biosketch (Sponsor Disclosure)
4. Export Control issues, IP issues, possible foreign engagement issues

Contact the COI Officer regarding collaboration agreements. The COI Office will coordinate with other offices at UC, as necessary.

Reporting of collaborators on NSF proposals and awards is limited to 1) those that will contribute directly to the proposed project or 2) those that must be reported on the COA spreadsheet for purposes of identifying potential conflicts on proposal reviews. Consult the May 2018 NSF FAQ regarding the new COA spreadsheet.

NSF requires reporting of foreign or domestic collaborations that contribute to a specific NSF project and requires a letter of support at the time of application. Researchers need not list those collaborators in the application that will not contribute to the NSF project, however any anticipated financial or in-kind support from a collaborator toward any of your research must be reported as Current & Pending Support. The collaborator may need to be reported on the COA spreadsheet. See NSF instructions or contact Sponsored Research Services (SRS) for more details. If the collaboration arose during the period of performance, include the collaborator in the next annual report. Contact SRS for instructions or questions. If a collaborator should have been disclosed but was not, UC is required to disclose the collaborator within 30 days of discovering the error. This does not apply to awards that are closed. Contact the Conflict of Interest Officer for assistance in reporting items that you believe should have been reported earlier.

The primary disclosure of International Activities and collaborations occurs at the proposal stage or during the proposal update phase just before NSF makes an award. PIs are also required to update information about International Activities and Current & Pending Support throughout the life of the award. See the NSF post-award reporting instructions for more details. In addition, NSF award terms require that UC report any current awards or in-kind contributions that were not reported timely, within 30 days of discovering the error. Contact the Conflict of Interest Officer for assistance in reporting items that you believe should have been reported earlier.

These questions have been addressed in the NSF collaboration instructions above. However, as a rule of thumb regarding disclosure of collaborations, look toward publication. If you expect a foreign or domestic collaboration to result in a publication where you might acknowledge or confer authorship to your collaborator, it is likely a relationship that rises to the level of a collaborator and should be reported to the NSF.

If you have an appointment with the collaborator's institution, conducting research outside of UC, you should report that appointment or those activities as a commitment to UC using the OAR. Prior approval is required before agreeing to any outside professional activity, including domestic or foreign affiliations and appointments. The NSF reporting requirement for collaborators is to name those directly contributing to the project in Facilities, Equipment and Other Resources. Because the collaborator is not directly contributing to the NSF-funded project, the person need not be reported to NSF.

There are a couple of options in this case. Option 1: Agree to be listed as a co-author based on ideas you've offered in the past, and if the NSF grant that supported the project 10 years ago is still active (unlikely), list the collaboration in your next annual report. Do not list any award as the source of support for a publication that did not directly relate to or support the publication. Option 2: You could decline co-authorship on the paper if your contribution does not rise to the level of true authorship on the paper, which sounds more likely in this case. The authors should include their contributions in the acknowledgments. Appropriately site the funding source(s) and attribute each funding source to the respective author. Only provide research sponsors whose support led to the publication. 1 From the proposal instruction in the PAPPG - (iv) Unfunded Collaborations

If the consulting contract states that it's for commercial Research and Development, it should be disclosed as a research activity on your Current & Pending Support, whether or not the work is publishable. For cases that are not as clear-cut, review the NSF definition of research to help you decide if a consulting relationship must be reported. For example, consulting that includes acting as an expert witness or being on a science advisory board typically does not involve performing research. On the other hand, helping a company with their SBIR/STTR proposal/award, designing/conducting experiments, or providing training in research techniques as part of your outside activities are likely examples of performing research. We recognize that this is new, and therefore, not a straightforward area. When the matter is unclear, it protects both the researcher and UC for the researcher to disclose.

Unless you plan to use the compensation to support research, it does not need to be disclosed in Current & Pending Support. If you are being appointed as an editor, you must include the position on your Biosketch. In any case, you must disclose your time commitment and the income in your UC OAR disclosure.

Yes. NSF states that it considers the information submitted in the current and pending support section to assess the capacity of the individual to carry out the research as proposed, as well as to help assess any potential overlap/duplication with the project being proposed.

Visiting scholars, including visiting postdocs and visiting graduate students, do not need to be reported so long as the faculty member's collaboration/mentorship occurs at UC as part of the faculty member's institutional activities.

A visit by non-degree graduate student researchers is not permitted unless they are participating in a UC-approved program. In this case, NSF does not require that this be reported as "in-kind" support since the mentorship would be considered part of the PI's UC responsibilities. See FAQ 5.

If that student is not part of your group or contributing work to your research at UC, then this would not be considered "in-kind" support on your federally funded awards, nor would be any compensation received. If you are receiving compensation, this must be reported in the UC Disclosure (OAR) system. However, if you receive an appointment at the other university, this activity should receive prior approval from your department head and dean and be disclosed to both UC (OAR) and in your NSF Biosketch.

A visit by a non-degree graduate student researcher is not permitted unless they are participating in a UC-approved program. If the visiting student is working on an NSF-funded project, the visitor should be reported as in-kind support in the Facilities, Equipment, and Other Resources section of the proposal.