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The Research Participation Agreement is an internal document used in sponsored research projects at UCalgary. It ensures that all project participants are bound by the sponsor’s requirements, including those related to:

• Confidential Information: How sensitive information must be handled
• Publications: Sponsor rights to review publications or results
• Intellectual Property: Sponsor rights to UCalgary IP developed in the project

The UCalgary Principal Investigator (PI) must ensure that all members of their research team understand and comply with the sponsor’s requirements. 

All staff and students should confirm with their supervisor and/or PI if there are any restrictions imposed on them, including around sharing information, publishing, or intellectual property rights.

Process 

After a research agreement is in settled form with a sponsor, the PI will ensure all members of the research team comply with the terms of agreements signed by UCalgary. The Principal Investigator (PI) is responsible for obtaining completed copies of the Research Participant Agreement from all lab personnel involved in the reserach project. Over the course of the project, the PI is also responsible for collecting additional Research Participant Agreements from each new lab personnel who joins the project.

The PI is also responsible for maintaining and storing the Research Participation Agreements in a controlled environment easily accessible to the PI and to provide copies to the University if requested.