CITRIS Seed Funding

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The application deadline is Midnight on May 1 2011

CITRIS Seed Funding Projects FY 2011 Announcement
We announce the 2011 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 $75,000).  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 on the CITRIS website):
• Delivering “Quality Healthcare Everywhere” for Californians - This initiative is designed to improve access to, and reduce disparities in, healthcare by creating a statewide, trusted “medical-grade” network for patients, providers, public health officers and educators.  Remote patient monitoring is also a focus.
• Adaptable Cities – This initiative aims to identify socially significant aspects of the urban infrastructure likely to be stressed by global climate change (e.g. water supply, air quality and sustainability) and to develop novel devices and integrated systems to enable cities and other urban communities to address these problems and thus adapt to climate change and create sustainable communities.
• Energy Modeling and Intelligent Systems – The i4Energy program aims to support the creative application of social media, information technology, or sensor and monitoring innovation to advance the use of renewable energy, to increase the efficiency of energy systems, to reduce energy consumption and thus decrease green-house gas emissions.  Proposals that leverage UCB, UCD, UCM and UCSC energy efficiency and /or micro grid test beds are particularly encouraged.

In addition and in order to make sure that CITRIS is able to support innovative projects as well as these main strategic areas, we are also announcing:

• General Research Seed Grants - Next-generation information technology in which new devices, sensors, controls, software/hardware systems, and interfaces combine to address significant societal challenges across all areas of science, engineering, public policy, economics, business, social science, and the humanities in general.  All projects will be evaluated on their general scientific and technical merits, independent of topic area.