Electronic Application Instructions
Line-by-line instructions for internal funding applications
| Name: | Your name will automatically be entered. |
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| Department: | Enter your School or Department. Directors of Centers, Institutes or Museums must enter the the Center, Institute or Museum for the Summer Stipends for Collaborative Research and Creative Activity Program. |
| Campus Address: | Enter your campus address, building and room number. |
| Phone: | Enter your area code and phone number in this format: 999-999-9999 |
| Email Address: | Your email address will automatically be entered. If not, enter your email address in this format: username@indiana.edu |
| Rank: | Select your rank from the list. |
| To which program are you applying? | Select the grant for which you are applying from the list. |
| Title of Project: | Enter the title of your project, maximum 80 characters. |
| Campus: | Select your campus from the list. |
| Fiscal Officer username: | For the IU Collaborative Research Grant program (IUCRG), enter "fhawkins". Enter the username of your department fiscal officer. If you do not know the name of your fiscal officer, click on "Click here to look up your Fiscal officer". Your application will route to the fiscal officer. If your Fiscal Officer has received approval for you application from the chair, dean, or unit head, your application may be approved at this point; if not, the application will route to the department chair, dean, or unit head for final approval before being submitted to OVPR. |
| Start Date: | Enter the date that work on your project will start in this format: mm/dd/yyyy. |
| Completion Date: | Enter the date that work on your project will be completed: mm/dd/yyyy. |
| Budget Total (in whole dollars): | Enter the amount you are requesting from this grant program (in the format: 25000) Be sure there are no commas and that it equals the "running amount" calculated by the Budget Builder. If the Running Total does not match the Budget Total amount you entered on the application form, we will use the Running Total amount in the review of your application. Please click Work on your budget which is located in the "Attachment Type" section as a link near the bottom of the electronic application form. Enter each of your budget line items. This link will give an error if you have not selected the program from the drop down box "To which program are you applying?". |
| Special Needs: Does this project require: | Check the boxes to indicate which special needs are required for your project. Note: If awarded, release of funds is contingent upon meeting all appropriate research compliance requirements, e.g. animal, biosafety, and human subject approval. |
| Keywords (256 character limit): | For the IU Collaborative Research Grant program (IUCRG), enter area of focus (I, II, III, or IV): I. Biological and Health Sciences: innovative multidisciplinary or multi-collaborator approaches to issues in heal, health care; neuroscience; biological, biophysical or chemical sciences; II. Technology, Engineering and Computer Sciences: innovative multi-disciplinary or multi-collaborator approaches to compelling issues in technological or engineering research, or approaches to other areas of research that rely upon innovative uses of technology, engineering, or computer sciences; research into effective approaches to K-12 STEM education (not curricular development) or education for sustainability; III. International and global studies: innovative multidisciplinary or multi-collaborator approaches to understand and addressing global issues including: global health, global economies, global research collaborations; global natural resources; global politics and societies; IV. Social and behavioral sciences: innovative multi-disciplinary or multi-collaborator approaches, reliant upon methodologies of the social and behavioral sciences, to issues of local, state, national or international significance. |
| General Project Overview (750 character limit including apaces): | Enter a brief description or abstract of your project. The budget building does not allow single 'quotes' or double "quotes". Please do not use hard returns. The copy and paste functions should work in the application. |
| Collaboration Information: | Enter the names and departments of other IU faculty collaborating on this project. If you are the principal investigator (PI) of this proposal, do not list yourself as a collaborator. If your team has more than four Co-PIs/collaborators, attach a list of all PIs and collaborators to your application form. |
| Funding Information: | Other funding related to this project (past, current, and projected). |
| Supporting Materials, Attachment Type: | Budget Applications for the following grants require budgets. If you are applying for one of ther following grants, please click Work on your budget which is located in the "Attachment Type". section as a link near the bottom of the electronic application form. Enter each of your budget line items.
Please add the names of those providing the letters and how they will be sent in the notes section at the bottom of the application. Letters of support can be submitted in any of the following ways:
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REQUIRED SUPPORTING MATERIALS FOR EACH GRANT
Save the required documents as separate files on your computer. To upload the attachments to the electronic application, use the "Browse" button to locate and select each of the saved files. Use the "save" button (letters in red, located directly to the right under "Action") to add each file to your application. Please upload the required supporting documents of the specified grant for which you are applying:Collaborative Research and Creative Activity Funding
PDFs are preferred to ensure that application formatting is not lost.- 3-4 page Project Description that must provide specific information on the collaborative nature of the project and the anticipated outcomes
- Budget submitted using the Work on your budget function found on the online application form
- 2-3 page Curriculum Vitae of the Faculty applicant (in the case of individual faculty applicants) or the center, institute, or museum Director (in the case of directors applying on behalf of their units)
- Brief letter of support from the department chair (in the case of individual faculty applicants)
- Brief letter of support from the center, institute, or museum director (in the case of individual faculty applicants)
- Brief letter of support from a knowledgeable colleague (in the case of directors applying on behalf of their units)
Emergency Grant-in-Aid
- Project description (4-page maximum)
- Letter of support from the department chair, dean, or unit head
Faculty Research Support Program (FRSP)
PDFs are preferred to ensure that application formatting is not lost. Email, fax or mail letters of support to Donna Carter's attention.
- Project description (4-page maximum)
- Budget submitted using the Work on your budget function on the online application form (The FRSP program must be selected in drop down box ”to which program are you applying?” in order to function.)
- Letter from the chair, dean or head of the academic program/unit that addresses the intellectual aspects of the proposal, the budgetary needs of the project, and the ability of the investigator to complete the project on time. For resubmission of internal proposals, original letters may be submitted.
- Letter from an expert in the field (not necessarily from Indiana University) that assesses the significance of the project and the likelihood of its success.
- Curriculum vitae (3-page maximum each) for no more than 4 key IU personnel (PI plus 3 IU collaborators). For Type 2 proposals, additional IU Collaborators should be listed in a separate attachment with school, department, center, etc. included.
- "Research Account Balances” form completed by the Fiscal Office for each PI and IU Collaborator listed on the application (available as a download: http://ovpr.indiana.edu/funding/prog_frsp.shtml)
Grant-in-Aid
- Project description (4-page maximum)
- Budget submitted using the Work on your budget function on the online application form
- Letter of support from the department chair, dean, or unit head
- Two letters of support from experts in the field (may be from within or outside IU)
- Curriculum vitae (3-page maximum)
indiana university collaborative research grant (iucrg)
PDFs are preferred to ensure that application formatting is not lost. Send faxed or mailed letters of support: "Attention: IUCRG".
- Project description (12 point font; single spaced, 5-page maximum excluding references) comprised of the following:
- Budget submitted using the Work on your budget function on the online application form
- Budget justification and timeline: Explain why IUCRG funding is essential for securing external funding of the project. Please note that budget reasonableness is an important component of the review criterion.
- Letters of support from all PIs’ department chairs or unit heads (e.g. department, division, center, institute, etc.)
- Letters of support from all PIs’ deans or equivalent
- Specific agency and RFPs or parent announcements through which future funding will be sought (ex: NIH, R01 “Bioinformatics in Health Disparity Research” or NSF, “Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience”)
- Biosketch or brief Curriculum vitae for each investigator, showing current and pending support. Proposed projects must not overlap with current funding. (4-page maximum each)
Area(s) of focus (as outlined in the RFP)
Background and Significance of the larger project
Mention of related RFAs targeted for grant submission within 18 months
Goals of the pilot phase of the project
Overview of the Research Plan to accomplish goals
Explicit statement of each team member’s role on the project
New Frontiers
- Project description (4-page maximum)
- Budget submitted using the Work on your budget function on the online application form
- Letter of support from the school dean
- Letter of support from the department chair, center or institute director, or unit head
- Letter of support from an expert in the field (may be from within or outside IU)
- Curriculum vitae (4-page maximum)
New Frontiers: Exploration Traveling Fellowship
- Project description (4-page maximum)
- Budget submitted using the Work on your budget function on the online application form
- Letter of support from the department chair, center or institute director, or unit head
- Letter of support from an expert in the field (may be from within or outside IU)
- Curriculum vitae (4-page maximum)
Retired Faculty Grant-in-Aid
- Project description (4-page maximum)
- Detailed budget in any logical form (need NOT be submitted using the Work on your budget function)
- Letter of support from the department chair, dean, or unit head
- Curriculum vitae (3-page maximum)
If your application is not complete, use the "save" button (at the bottom of the page, between "submit" and "cancel") to save your application for completion later.
To retrieve your saved data:
Login to OneStart.iu.edu. In the upper-right corner of the page, to the left of the Search box, click on "action list". There, in your action list, will be your application which you can continue to work on. Then, when you're ready to submit the application, choose the "Complete" button.To submit your application:
If your application is complete, use the "submit" button to send your application to the fiscal officer for approval or, if your application has been previously saved, use the "complete" button to send your application. [Note: There are two "save" buttons. Use the one on the right, under "Action", to add files to your application. Use the one at the bottom of the page, between "submit" and "cancel", to save your application for completion later.]
