“For-Profit” Effort

Individuals serving as Principal Investigators (PIs) of projects funded by for-profit companies or industry clearly are spending UGA-paid time to work on said project, even if they are just supervising a graduate student or a staff technician. PIs must include their effort in project budgets and the company sponsor must reimburse UGA/UGARF in full for that effort. A minimum of at least 2% effort is expected to be charged to budgets in such cases.