CITRIS Seed Funding

The application deadline expired at Midnight on April 1, 2012

CITRIS Seed Funding Projects FY 2012 Announcement

We are proud to announce the 2012 Seed Funding Opportunity and would like to invite CITRIS Investigators at CITRIS’s partner campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Merced and Santa Cruz) to apply for a One Year Seed Grant (in the range of $30,000 to $60,000). CITRIS’s Seed Grants are intended to initiate new research programs where Information Technologies (IT) are developed and used to creatively address important societal problems. We are inviting proposals in the following areas (further details can be found here on the CITRIS website):

Requirements:

Proposal is a multi-campus CITRIS PI collaboration
Proposal supports a CITRIS Initiative

Evaluation Criteria: Seed Grant proposals will be evaluated by a committee according to the following criteria:
A.    The scientific and technical merits of the proposal
B.    The likelihood that the project will have a tangible and positive impact on society
C.    The likelihood of larger-scale funding from government agencies or industries
D.    Evidence of collaboration among researchers based at the four CITRIS campuses
E.    Potential for contributing to the CITRIS research initiatives in fiscal year 2012-2013.
F.    The likelihood that CITRIS researchers have or can establish a leadership position in the field of research

Successful applications will be those seeking support for high-impact projects of superior scientific and technical merit that have a high probability of contributing to the CITRIS research initiatives in the coming fiscal year. Proposals must involve collaborations among researchers based at more than one of the CITRIS campuses. Our goal is to provide support to enable the further development of initial ideas, to demonstrate the feasibility of innovative technologies and to attract larger-scale support from Federal/State funding agencies or the industrial/private sector.