Collaborative Planning & Development Awards
The successful increase in grant activity by individual investigators has led to the need to compete for larger center type grants that will support core infrastructure and allow research in priority areas to grow. The Office of the Executive Vice President for Research will support well designed programs, intended to stimulate increased collaborations among faculty with the intention of spurring a funded program project or center grant from an extramural funding agency. Grants will be available at two levels:
- Planning grants: Up to $10,000 for one year can be requested to bring together faculty whose interests fall into the same or complementary areas, but who have no prior collaborations or pilot studies that would be necessary to justify a developmental grant.
- Developmental grants: Up to $20,000 for one year can be requested for established groups who are at the point of developing a proposal to go to an outside agency. Proposals to an outside agency will be expected within one year of the award.
These grants will be awarded to groups who can identify a scientific theme around which they intend to build a collaborative partnership. These partnerships can include faculty from other disciplines within the university as well as partners from other institutions, including industry that can help build research capacity. The group will then need to outline their plans for developing a grant proposal to be submitted to an outside agency for funding. Preference will be given to groups proposing campus-wide projects.
The Research Advisory Committee will conduct reviews of these proposals. The RAC normally meets on the third Tuesday of each month. The Executive Vice President for Research may request an ad hoc member, for purposes of the review, in situations where adequate expertise is not available among the sitting members of the committee. The deadline for submission of grants to be considered in any month will be the first day of that month. In those months when there is no RAC meeting scheduled, review of the proposal will be deferred to the next scheduled meeting.
Monies requested under this program must be used to achieve the goal of an extramurally funded proposal in support of the center. Applications that propose funding individual research projects will not be considered. While we expect that the individual proposals will define the need for the funds, some of the anticipated costs might be:
travel to meet with program managers from funding agencies who might fund the center itself or projects under the center; support for planning meetings or journal clubs for the key players and others that might be identified as collaborators that could add to the overall goals of the program; funds to hire temporary support or support existing staff time to help pull together all the components of the project and construct the grant; necessary statistical design or pilot work to support the collaboration; funds to help develop joint publications that indicate synergy of the collaborators; a site visit by outside advisors/mentors who could come in and look at the program and comment on strengths and weaknesses; recruiting costs associated with a crucial postdoctoral and/or graduate student to add cohesiveness to the joint projects. The Office of Sponsored Programs Development will work with the groups to help identify potential collaborators as well as possible funding sources for the proposed projects.
Instructions and applications will be available from the Office of Sponsored Programs, Suite 100, Jouett Hall, or can be downloaded from the web.
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