The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) supports faculty research, scholarship, and creative endeavors through a wide range of internal funding programs.  OVPR internal grants serve as high-leverage, strategic investments in outstanding faculty research projects that are at critical stages of development.  Our internal funding mechanisms are designed to competitively identify projects that fit our key funding criteria–projects that meet the highest disciplinary standards for excellence and are at a “tipping point” where specific work can lead to breakthroughs, external funding, and/or significant recognition. Recognizing that those crucial moments occur at various stages of the research process (and require different levels of funding to address, depending on your discipline), OVPR internal funding programs include large and small dollar mechanisms that focus on seed funding, completion/publication funding, and commercialization funding.

If you are a UConn/UConn Health faculty member who has a project that is ready to move to the next level, we invite you to browse our program guidelines to learn more.  You are also welcome to contact us (research@uconn.edu; 860.486.6378) to ask questions and to discuss which mechanisms are best suited to meet your needs.

Overview of FY 22 – FY 23 Internal Funding Opportunity Timelines (Last updated 1/17/23)

Program	Applications open	Applications due	Target for Notifications
CRISP FY22	Feb 16	April 1	January 2023
JEDI FY22	May 9	August 15	February 2023
SFF Spring (Storrs/Regional Campuses only) FY23	August 16	December 1	January 1
SPARK FY23	9/30/2022	November 1 (LOI), February 1 (Full proposal by invitation only)	March
CARIC FY23	October 1	December 15	March 2023
REP FY23	October 1	December 15	End of April 2023
SCHARP FY23	October 1	December 15	March 2023
CRISP FY23	TBD	TBD	TBD
JEDI FY23	TBD	TBD	TBD
SFF Fall (Storrs/Regional Campuses only) FY24	January 1	June 1	July 1

 

 

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