December 14, 2009 –
Initiative will fund up to four grants per year for two years.
If you have any good ideas for wide-ranging multidisciplinary research, you could be in the money.
CALIT2, along with The Henry Samueli School of Engineering and the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, is financing a new initiative intended to stimulate development of comprehensive, externally funded interdisciplinary research projects or centers.
The Large-Scale Interdisciplinary Research Ignition Initiative will fund $40,000 to a maximum of four grants a year for the next two years. Proposals should be in the areas of health, energy, environment, information, communications or digital technologies, and must be submitted by teams of at least three UCI faculty and/or professional research staff. The proposals must entail interdisciplinary work that will evolve into a large-scale project or center to be funded by agencies outside of UCI.
Proposals, due by Feb. 26, 2010, should be submitted electronically (pdfs are preferred) to Goran Matijasevic, goran@uci.edu. They will be reviewed by the deans of the engineering and computer science schools, Rafael Bras and Debra Richardson, respectively, and G.P. Li, CALIT2 director. Awards will be announced by March 15.
“We are confident this initiative will create new and potentially significant multidisciplinary research proposals with long-range impact,” said Li. “This program adds an important incentive to the development of multidisciplinary collaborations, something CALIT2 has always supported.”
Proposals will be judged on criteria including:
• the likelihood of attracting funding of at least $500,000 a year for a minimum of three years;
• the prospect of creating long-term, multidisciplinary collaboration;
• innovation, novelty and scientific value of the research;
• the project’s ability to impact society as well as the research field.
New collaborations will be given priority, and support for development and submission of the proposals to funding agencies will be available. Click here to read a full description of the initiative and a list of requirements.
