Penn State's Institutes of Energy and the Environment announced the availability of seed grant funds focused on energy and the environment. Deadline to apply is November 7.
The strategic research themes of focus are (alphabetically)-- Climate and Ecosystem Change; Future Energy Supply; Health and the Environment; Smart Energy Systems; and Water and Biogeochemical Cycles.
This year the seed grant program will support each of these themes as they do each year.
In addition, this year they are interested in supporting three crosscutting topics: Food-Energy-Water Systems, High-Performance Building Systems, and Energy and Environmental Resilience.
IEE established a Seed Grant Program in 2013 to foster basic and applied research focused on these strategic research themes. Over the previous rounds, IEE has awarded over $2 million to 96 interdisciplinary projects with investigators from fifteen Penn State colleges and campuses.
For 2018-19, at least $500,000 of funding is available. To encourage establishment of new collaborations and enhancement of networks, larger grants will require innovative partnerships of investigators from multiple colleges and/or campus locations.
Funds up to $5,000 can be awarded for a single investigator project; up to $10,000 for two or more faculty from the same college (University Park) or Commonwealth Campus; and up to $50,000 for multi-college (across University Park) and multi campus (between campuses) collaborative grants.
Learn more about how researchers can submit proposals that demonstrate interdisciplinary innovations in all five of IEE’s research themes at the Seed Grant Program 2018 webpage.
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