Editverse: Budgeting for Your Research Project

Research Project Budget: Cost Categories, Indirect Costs and NIH Data (2026)

Quick Answer: A research project budget prices every activity in the funder’s own cost categories and then adds indirect costs on the funder’s terms, and the terms differ. NIH applies your organization’s negotiated F&A rate to a direct cost base,1 UKRI asks you to enter 100% of each cost under directly allocated, directly incurred, indirect and exceptions headings,2 and Horizon Europe reimburses indirect costs as…