Steps to Submit Financial Incentives Application (For
Principal Investigators)
Log into TRESS, select ‘Open Research Grants’
Click on ‘Financial Incentive’ button in the right of the screen, adjacent to the approved ORG.
To start a new application for financial incentive, click on the button ‘Apply for ORG Outputs financial
incentives’ on the right side of the page.
All outputs entered in the Research Directory, as well as budget expenditure figures and progress reports
of this particular ORG will be displayed in this page.
If you still have not entered ORG outputs of this particular grant in the Research Directory, you can go to
the Research Directory to enter them by clicking on ‘Research Directory’ tab/link available on the left
side of TRESS link, in top menu of the page. After adding ORG outputs in the Research Directory, go back
to TRESS by clicking TRESS tab/link on the left side of the Research Directory, in top menu of the page.
Click ‘Reload’ button on this page to refresh the newly entered ORG outputs in the Research Directory.
To view how to enter ORG outputs in the Research Directory, please go to the ‘Entering outputs in the
Research Directory’ section at the end of this document.
All items will contain a check box ‘Include in this Application’ which is selected by default (if the
conditions are met). You can unselect it, if you do not want to include a particular item in a new
application.
In ORG Budget Expenditure section, one item is displayed for each completed year separately. You are
required to enter the percentage of budget spent in that ORG year in ‘Spent Percentage’ field. A
reference to the audit report can be viewed from ‘View Audit Report’ link. Please note that the audit
report shows the percentage of unused budget but in the ‘Spent Percentage’ you are required to enter
the used percentage [So this should be 100 - <percentage shown in audit report>]. If the Percentage
amount entered is less that seventy five, it will be automatically excluded from incentive application,
after submission.
The section ‘ORG Progress/Final Reports Submission’ lists all the progress reports submitted by you for
completed years along with the status of these reports. The reports submitted within the allotted time
and approved by TRC can be included in the new application. The deadline of submission of yearly
progress/final reports is within two months, starting from the due date of the reports. The date of
submission of progress/final report is the date when the Principal Investigator submits it.
Finally you can submit the application using ‘Submit Financial Incentives Application’ button at the
bottom of the page.
You will receive a conformation email of submission. A separate email will be sent to the institutional
focal point. She/he will select individual items for approval or rejection. For rejected items he/she must
give justifications. When the Institutional Focal point takes a decision of your incentive application, you
will receive an email. Only then you will be able to view in TRESS the status of approved and rejected
items of your incentive application with justifications for the rejected ones. Your incentive application
will be automatically sent to TRC. TRC personnel will approve/reject items in your incentive application,
giving justifications for rejected items. TRC will then calculate the total financial amount of approved
items, which will be sent to your institute. You will be able to edit the rejected items in the Research
Directory and will only be allowed to include them in the next incentive application. Please note that the
incentives application could only be submitted within two months, starting from the end of the ORG
year, given that the progress report for that particular year is submitted and approved by TRC. For
completed ORGs, one application for all items must be sent within three years after the completion of
the ORG, given that the progress report of the final year is submitted and approved by TRC. Patents are
exempt of this period.
Entering ORG outputs in Research Directory
Click on Research Directory tab/link in top menu of the page, then click ‘Update Your Profile’ link.
Click on ‘Publications’ link
Then click on ‘Add Publication’ button
Select ‘Publication Type’, and then select the ORG from the list ‘Output of TRC Funded Project’. Fill in the
form and upload the required attachment in the lower section of the page, and click save button.
Similarly, you can add publications, ‘Supervision, ‘Patents, one at a time, using the appropriate link.