DEPSCoR Capacity Building Funding Opportunity Strategy Session
On Wednesday, March 29, from 3:30-4:30 pm in MULL 452, the Division of Research and Innovation will host a strategy session to address the recent capacity-building funding opportunity by DEPSCoR. The intention of the meeting is to ascertain campus interest and collect ideas.
Relevant details:
- Proposals must be led by a member of the IHE's executive staff such as the vice president for research, who will serve as the team lead.
- Applications must address one or more of the technical basic research areas outlined in the services (Army Research Office [ARO], Office of Naval Research [ONR] and Air Force Office of Scientific Research [AFOSR]) broad agency announcements (BAA).
- Intent of this effort is to foster new, strategic, multi-thrust efforts to increase basic research capacity in a DoD-relevant research area.
- Expecting to award between one to four grants of up to $1.5 million (total cost) each.
- Each grant award will be funded up to $750,000 (total cost) per year for two years.
Come join us for the strategy session and cookies.
Contacts
Macey A Graham, communications graduate assistant
Division of Research and Innovation
479-575-5901,
mag039@email.uark.edu
Andy Albertson, senior director of communications
Research and Economic Development
479-575-6111,
aalbert@uark.edu
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