How Do I Track Page Limitations When I Have to Submit All of the Various Sections of the Research Plan as Separate PDF Files?
Separate attachments have been designed for the Research Plan sections to maximize automatic validations conducted by the eRA system. When the application is received by the agency, all of the Research Plan sections will be concatenated in the appropriate order so that reviewers and agency staff will see a single cohesive Research Plan. While each section of the Research Plan needs to eventually be uploaded separately, applicants are encouraged to construct the Research Plan as a single document, separating sections into distinct PDF attachments just before uploading the files. In this way the applicant can better monitor formatting requirements such as page limits. We suggest that you create the Research Plan in MS Word or some other word processing software; keep it to the 15 pages for Phase I, and 25 pages for Phase II Sections 2-5. Then “excise” the appropriate sections for each “Item” (2-5), and create a PDF from each excised part. There will be white space, which is fine, and exp
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