Annual BRIDGE Seed Fund 2024
The annual BRIDGE Seed Fund with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is now open for applications.
The annual BRIDGE Seed Fund with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is now open for applications.
The deadline is 17:00 (UK time) 28 February 2024.
The “Birmingham-Illinois Partnership for Discovery, Engagement and Education” (BRIDGE) agreement exists to support and grow collaboration between the University of Birmingham and UIUC. Part of BRIDGE is the annual Seed Fund, established to stimulate wider academic engagement between our two universities.
The BRIDGE Seed Fund is open to all good ideas, but we are particularly interested in the following:
Implementation Grants to support and strengthen existing faculty-faculty relationships leading to clearly defined outputs.
We are particularly interested in applications that:
Initiation Grants to encourage wider faculty involvement and expand institutional engagement.
We are particularly interested in:
Teaching and Learning Grants.
We also invite funding applications from colleagues interested in developing educational relationships with counterparts at UIUC in order to support student learning. We are particularly interested in:
Proposals that have identified funding for sustaining the collaboration beyond BRIDGE Funding (e.g., UKRI, NSF, NIH, or other external funding bodies) are (of course) particularly encouraged.
For this year, we would like especially to encourage proposals:
But to repeat: we are primarily interested in good ideas. So while the above areas are encouraged, the Seed Fund is open to all. There are no restrictions on the forms of activity undertaken with BRIDGE funding: it is available to support planning visits, workshops, exchanges etc.; it can support meetings in third party locations where there is potential to develop and/or showcase collaboration; and it can also cover e.g., consumables, if the case for this is clearly made.
Please work with your UIUC co-PI to submit the application into the UIUC Special Programs portal and provide the following information in the application form.
The BRIDGE Seed Fund will close at 5pm (UK time) on Wednesday 28th February.
Further information regarding the BRIDGE Seed Fund including guidelines and application form can be found here: Special Programs | University of Illinois
If you have any queries, then please contact Lindsay Avery (Birmingham Global) - l.c.avery@bham.ac.uk.