CSDE Seed Grants Program
CSDE Small Grants Program RFP-- Demography Research Seed Grants
Deadline: November 15, 2009
CSDE announces a new round of small grants for 2010 supported by the newly-funded two-year Recovery Act Administrative Supplement to our Population Research Infrastructure Program award from NICHD. Priority for these seed grant awards will be given to pilot studies and preliminary research by junior faculty and by mid-career faculty who are pursuing new directions in population research and, under the terms of this new award, to applications which propose to make use of the expanded GIS and spatial statistics capabilities of the CSDE Statistics Core.
The current call is for proposals to support projects that employ a graduate student research assistant for 9 to 12 months. Up to half a month of summer salary for the investigator may also be funded. Successful proposals will exhibit outstanding scientific merit, innovation, and priority will be given to projects that have a high probability of generating new extramural funding. Proposals should identify specific research and/or training grant funding opportunities that will be pursued.
Eligibility: To be eligible for a CSDE seed grant the applicant must be a regular (research, tenured or tenure-track) faculty member of the University of Washington and a CSDE affiliate. Faculty members who receive a CSDE award as PIs are ineligible to receive another until three years following the termination of the first.
Applicants may submit one application and may serve as co-investigators on any number of proposals. An award may not be used to fulfill matching funds or cost sharing requirement by any other sponsor without prior written permission. A CSDE award will be withheld or withdrawn if extramural funding for the same project is awarded to the PI or co-investigator(s). A proposal that is not funded may be resubmitted in a later round only if it is substantially revised or if the review committee recommends resubmission.
External Support: Proposals that show promise for future extramural funding will be given preference. Support will not be given merely to extend or supplement existing funded research projects, but may propose bringing together existing projects into an integrated research program that indicates substantial innovations and possibility for funding. Instead, proposals should seek to initiate new research ideas. An extramural grant based on research funded by a CSDE small grant will be administered through CSDE, a commitment for which the principal investigator must obtain concurrence from the appropriate Chair(s) and/or Dean(s) before an award is made.
Mechanism and allowable costs: Seed grants awards will begin on December 16, 2009 and must support a graduate research assistant for 9 to 12 months. The budget may also include up to a half month of summer salary for the investigator but other costs, such as travel or supplies, must be funded from other sources under the terms of the award. Awardees receive priority as a funded project for services from CSDE cores. Indirect (F&A) costs are not allowable.
Application procedure: Seed grant proposals should include a 250 word abstract, a four-page proposal including objectives, research plan, and a summary of future research and external funding activities, one-page budget and budget justification, and 2-page cv’s or biosketches for all key personnel.
Please send an email with your intent to submit to Scott Sipes dssipes@u.washington.edu as soon as possible and he will provide you with application materials and instructions.
Proposals are due on November 15, 2009,and awards will be announced in early December.