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Submission deadline: Monday, April 6th, 2009
Description:
The Digital Technology Center is seeking proposals from University of Minnesota faculty members for seed projects in the following areas of digital technology:
Proposals should promote and foster DTC inter-disciplinary and inter-departmental excellence in research, and document how the seed funds will facilitate larger efforts toward securing external funding on the proposed DTC/DTI topics. Educating students and post-doctoral associates for high-technology careers continues to be a DTC mission.
The DTI grant program requires that:
The upper limit for support per DTI grant is $100,000. These one-year seed
grants can be used to support graduate students, research associates, travel
to facilitate collaborations, workshops related to the project, and up to
20% buy-out time during one academic semester, or, one-half summer month of
the PI.
It is anticipated that 4 or 5 awards will be granted totaling approximately
$300,000.
This will be the sixth year of the Digital Technology Initiative awards
program. This year (2008/2009) twenty-two proposals were received. Of the
twenty-two proposals, five were funded for a total of $218,335.
(http://www.dtc.umn.edu/programs/funded09.shtml)
The DTC will be hosting a DTI Project Forum on
Tuesday March 10th, 2009. The forum will feature
posters and short presentations from the current DTI seed grant winners.
Those interested in applying for the current round of awards may want to
attend this forum to learn more about these projects.
Eligibility:
All proposals must be led by a University of Minnesota faculty member. Each
proposal team must include at least one DTC faculty member. Each UMN faculty
member is limited to submitting one proposal as principal investigator.
There is no limit to the number of proposals a UMN faculty member can be
co-investigator on.
Proposal submission and deadline:
Deadline for submissions is Monday, April 6th, 2009. Proposals can be submitted as either PDF or Word documents to Cory Devor (devor@dtc.umn.edu).
Review procedure:
Proposals will be peer reviewed by a panel appointed by and including the
DTC Director. The review panel members are not involved in any DTI proposal
in this round. Proposals will be selected on the basis of the quality of the
proposed project, the impact of the proposed project in promoting the DTC
mission, the reasonableness of the budget, the extent to which the project
involves inter-disciplinary research, and the case made for follow on
external funding opportunities. Prior to award, each finalist will be
required to make a 30 minute presentation to the selection committee
covering the project and external funding plans.
Funding notification:
Funding notification will be made by Monday, May 11th,
2009.
Funds will be available immediately upon award, and through June 30, 2010.
Funds not spent by June 30, 2010, will be returned to the DTC unless an
extension is granted by the DTC Director.
These DTC funded seed grants will be made within the university. No indirect
costs will be charged on the amounts awarded. Proposals will not need to be
submitted through Sponsored Project Administration (SPA), and a PRF does not
need to be completed.
Questions: Cory Devor (devor@dtc.umn.edu) 612-625-1716
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