Quick Start (all)

Your first time on AVA? Or has it been a while? QuickStart videos show the 'unavoidable' tasks from logging in to submitting. So they are on the longer side (with timestamps for orientation) and do a minimum fair-weather scenario. For details on the processes covered in video A to E, please consult the references in the description. 

Videos A to D are meant for researchers and admins who manage their own projects via AVA.

Video E shows the work of 'Advisors' (researchers involved in support of others' projects) using the example of the financial signoff.

Applications to some SNSF funding lines (PRIMA, Ambizione, R'Equip) as well as all EU and NIH-projects  require the home institution's support. QS video 1 shows how to submit a project to the institution's support process and how to track its progress.

Timestamps (approx.): 0:00 Login and Profile Settings. 1:30 Data entry. 5:20 Start of support process and status tracking. 

For more detail see video 5 in the Instructions for Researchers & Admins. If you are interested in the side of 'advisors' in this process, see videos 26 and 27 in the Instructions for Advisors.

Got the donor's approval and documentation? Congratulations! Here's how you can initialize a new project (i.e. how your submission for legal/financial review, financial signoff and SAP project creation works). What data and documentation is required? When/how am I informed about the status of my project?

Timestamps (approx.): 0:00 Login & Profile settings. 1:41 Data entry and document upload. 6:22 Process completion

The 'Instructions for Researchers/Admins' provide more detail on special cases in initializing a new project (video 10) or on how to initialize SNSF projects via their grant number (video 9).

How to change your project's duration. 

Timestamps (approx.): 0:00 Login. 0:43 Project selection and new end date. 

'Instructions for Researchers/Admins' has more detail on other modifications like short title (video 13), admin (video 14) and/or changes in financial PI/profit center (video 15).

All expenses have been made and the final report is submitted: Here is how you initiate the closing of a project.

Timestamps (approx.): 0:00 Login 0:25 Closure

'Instructions for Researchers/Admins' shows you how to verify that all criteria for project closure are met (video 17).

AVA sent an e-mail? Here are the next steps shown for the case of a financial signoff.

Timestamps: 0:00 When you get an e-Mail. 1:00 Login and review 3:36 Financial signoff

'Instructions for 'Advisors'' has extra detail on the processes of institutional support (letters) in videos 26 and 27. 

Please note that the review confirmation is available in German only. For questions, contact your admin support or the backoffice.