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Faculty Research and Creative Activity Support Grants
Purpose
The Faculty Research and Creative Activity Support Grants are intended to enable the acquisition of pilot data for research or creative activities to facilitate applications to extramural sponsors. The intent of this grant program is to invest into efforts that seed funding of extramural sponsored programs or that bridges a gap in extramural support in order to increase the competitiveness of the PI for further external funding.
General Rules for Intramural Funding Opportunities
This program is subject to overarching rules and guidelines in place for all intramural programs. A summary of these rules may be found under the General Rules for Intramural Funding Opportunities.
Eligibility
Applicants to this program must meet all eligibility requirements listed in the General Rules for Intramural Funding Opportunities.
Additionally, the following restrictions also apply to this program.
- Faculty members working under active start-up packages are not eligible to apply (as PIs or co-PIs) to this program.
- No more than one support grant may be awarded to a faculty member in a 12-month period (as PI or co-PI).
Funding detail Accordion Closed
Award information
Faculty Research and Creative Activity Support Grant applicants may request up to $20,000.
Award period
Funds are awarded for a 12-month period.
Eligible Uses of Award Funds
Award funds must be used according to the requirements set forth in the “Allowable and Unallowable Costs” section of the General Rules for Intramural Funding Opportunities.
The following program specific rules also apply.
When to apply Accordion Closed
Applications for Faculty Research and Creative Activity Support grants will be considered once per year. Submissions are due January 31 at 5 p.m. with the award beginning March 1.
How to apply Accordion Closed
Faculty Research and Creative Activity Support Grant
The body of the proposal must be written using the Narrative Template provided and the document must be saved as a PDF. The PDF document must be saved as follows: FSGYEAR_Last name of applicant_First name of applicant, e.g., FSG2023_Smith_John.
Applications for funding must be submitted electronically through the submission portal. Applicants must complete all informational sections in the portal and attach the completed Narrative Template as a PDF. Please direct any questions regarding this process to ovpr@nau.edu.
Selection criteria Accordion Closed
The intent of this program is to support efforts that seed new funding of extramural sponsored programs or that bridge a gap in extramural support. The likelihood that award funds will enable success of the PI for further external funding is a primary consideration of this grant program, and priority will be given to meritorious proposals that articulate the most clear and strong plan to position the applicant favorably for follow-on funding from an external source.
Preference may also be given to proposals led by early-stage investigators, or those from faculty who have an upcoming promotion evaluated on the merits of the body of their scholarly work. Priority may also be considered for interdisciplinary teams, or mid-career researchers developing a new area of scholarly pursuit.
It is essential that all proposals contain a specific plan for work, a description of student engagement in the work and a detailed plan for publications, presentations and efforts to obtain follow-on external funding. Proposals should summarize results from any previous NAU intramural grant support.
It is expected that a proposal for external support will be submitted within one year of completion of the Support Grant award, evidence of the potential for which must be described in the proposal.