Application Form: FY23 Incubating Interdisciplinary Initiatives (I3)

The Incubating Interdisciplinary Initiatives (I3) award program fosters new interdisciplinary research projects at UO. I3 partnerships should emerge from shared research interests and needs and be developed in light of external funding opportunities, UO’s institutional strengths, academic priorities, and institutional history. Partnerships may include external institutions of strategic importance.


Find the full RFP and Budget Template on the OVPRI Website.


Application Deadline: May 1, 2023

 

PI Eligibility

Eligible PIs are tenured or tenure track faculty, and career NTTF faculty with the classification of: research associate, research professor, research scientist, research engineer, or principal research scientist, with 0.75+ FTE appointments during the academic year(s) of the research award.



(Emeritus, retired, courtesy, visiting, instructor, library, and pro-tem faculty, as well as postdocs, are ineligible to apply as a principal investigator. They may be part of the team as Other Key Personnel.)

 
 
 

 

At a minimum, proposals are expected to have at least two Principal Investigators (PIs) from either different disciplines or from complementary research approaches.


Provide for all PIs (including contact PI):

  1. Name
  2. Rank
  3. Department (include joint appointments)
  4. Center/Institute Affiliations, if any
 
 

Please list all other members of the team. Include name, position/rank, and department(s).

 
 

Please provide the name of the budget manager/grant administrator in the department managing the award.

 
 

Please mark the appropriate box if you are asking to have your application considered for funding via either the Environment Initiative or the Sports and Wellness Initiative.

 

UO is now required to categorize all internally funded research activities as either basic, applied, or experimental.


If you are unclear as to which research category to choose, please review the definitions and examples on the OVPRI Internal Awards website. For those faculty who reviewed the definitions/examples and are still unclear as to which category to choose, please send a query to Research Development Services at rds@uoregon.edu.

 
 

Attachments

Please attach your combined PDF application. PDF should include the following, in order:

  1. Abstract
  2. Proposal narrative
  3. References
  4. Advancing DEI statement
  5. CVs
  6. Current & Pending Support for PIs
  7. Excel Budget (using the template provided on the I3 webpage)
  8. Budget Justification
  9. Letters of Support
 
Drop your files here