Strategies for Collaboration & Leveraging Resources – The Federal Perspective

Concurrent Sessions # 5 & 6

Richard Hood & Gregory Smith

SERD - CSREES

CSREES Funding Opportunities

• National Research Initiative (NRI)

• Small Business Innovation (SBIR)

• And other, peer reviewed, competitive programs…

All grant programs encourage collaboration and partnerships

Web source:http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/funding.cfm

SERD Funding Opportunities 14 grant programs in SERD for:

• Land-grant, and

• Other public, academic institutions, including specific grants targeted just for Minority-serving Institutions

All grant programs also encourage collaboration and partnerships

Web source:csrees.usda.gov/about/offices/serd_funding.html

Collaboration Attributes

• Multidisciplinary, multi-state, university-based

• Aligned with Agency’s mission and goals

• Meets local, state, regional need

Collaboration Budget Concerns

• What percentage of funds can I share with my partners?

• What resources can we exchange in leveraging with partners?

Collaboration Challenges

• Collaboration works when you demonstrate to others that you enhance their mission

• You must identify best way to make partnership work for your campus

Division of Computer and Info Science:Advanced Learning Technologies (ALT)

• Emphasis on improvements in learning through innovative computer and information technologies, and

• Learning environments and learning technology platforms that build across disciplines and establish linkages among theory, experiment, and design

Web source: nsf.gov

 

 

         

Office of Postsecondary Education:

Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE)

• Innovation in curriculum and instruction• Student-centered or technology-mediated

strategies, and• Cost-effective improvements in operations

and instruction

Web source:http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/fipse/

index.html

Division of Undergraduate Education:Advanced Technological Education (ATE)

• Emphasis on two-year colleges• Partnerships between academic institutions

and employers to promote improvement in the education of science and engineering technicians at the undergraduate and secondary school levels

Web source: nsf.gov

 

 

         

Energy and USDA Award $25 Million

• Joint Biomass Research and Development Initiative

• Funds will be used for biomass research, development and demonstration projects 

CFDA Number 81.087

Web source: energy.gov

EPA

National Center for Environmental Innovation (NCEI)

• Enable information exchange and learning by State and EPA employees that are interested in new approaches for achieving environmental results

• Identify and highlight environmental innovations that can help States learn about new ways to achieve environmental results

CFDA Number 66.611Web source: epa.gov

 

 

         

Department of Commerce -- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

• Educational Partnership Program with Minority-Serving Institutions, Environmental Entrepreneurship Program

CFDA Number 11.481

• Web source: commerce.gov