Proposal Submission Deadline: currently closed for applications
Overview
Supported by a gift from Chilean benefactors, the Luksic family, to Notre Dame, the goal of this grant is to encourage the Notre Dame community to find new ways to collaborate with colleagues from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC) on research, exchanges, and conferences, and in particular to increase the flow of Notre Dame faculty and staff going to Santiago. Separately, the Luksic family has made a gift directly to PUC for their faculty and staff to come to Notre Dame. This grant builds on the previous four years of support from the Luksic family to support exchanges between Notre Dame and PUC.
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Eligibility/Grant Requirements
Full-time regular members of the Notre Dame faculty, library faculty, and special professional faculty are eligible to apply. Notre Dame staff members leading programs relevant to the goals of increasing collaboration with PUC may also submit a proposal.
Funding
Researchers have been imaginative and resourceful in continuing their international work wherever possible, during the COVID-19 pandemic. This call for proposals will focus on supporting and advancing collaborative international research in ways other than those that involve international travel.
Funding is available for a variety of collaborative opportunities but preference will be given to those that promote ongoing relationships between Notre Dame and PUC and will have a measurable impact on the local academic community or in increasing Notre Dame’s engagement in the region. The types of collaborations might include but are not limited to the following:
- Digitization of materials located at international locations which are central to a research project
- Projects for which field work can be conducted virtually (e.g., interviews, surveys, on-line collection of data)
- A virtual conference with modest honoraria for participating researchers/scholars
- A partial stipend for a Notre Dame graduate research assistant involved in the faculty’s new collaborative international research and writing in ways that contribute to the student’s intellectual formation
Individual grants will not exceed $10,000. Applicants are encouraged to demonstrate other sources of funding or cost sharing which will complement the Luksic Family Collaboration Grant funding. Other sources of funding may include funds dedicated to the proposed research collaboration by the international collaborators’ universities. Cost sharing must ensure that covered expenses are mutually exclusive.
Awards will not support clerical or secretarial help. The hiring of research assistants employed by and working at PUC will generally not be funded through the Notre Dame grant program.
Application Guidelines
To request funding from the Luksic Family Collaboration Grant , please submit a proposal in one document. As the proposal will be reviewed by a faculty committee from multiple disciplinary backgrounds, please write in clear, non-technical language and submit to NDG's submissions manager. Each proposal must include the following items:
- Proposal Title
- Project Team including International Partners: Project director (PD) name, department/center/institute affiliation and email. For international collaborator(s) include international institution(s), departmental/institutional affiliation (s) and email address(es)
- Abstract of the proposed project (one paragraph)
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Description of the proposed project (2 -page maximum, single spaced), including:
- The objective of the project
- Background, previous work and/or motivation as appropriate
- Methodology (if relevant)
- Outcomes e.g., how the project will promote collaboration between Notre Dame and PUC, publications
- Anticipated time schedule
- Budget (using template)
- Letter from Collaborator at PUC indicating their willingness to be involved in the project
- Curriculum vitae: (2-page maximum, current) for each faculty member (both ND and international collaborator(s)) listed on the cover sheet as project director; if postdocs, graduate students and/or undergraduates are included in the project as collaborators, describe their qualifications
Proposal Evaluation
The multi-disciplinary faculty committee will review proposals under the following criteria:
- The potential for developing or strengthening research relationships with PUC
- Potential for publication
- Potential for further support from external sources
- Overall quality of the proposal
- Budgetary appropriateness
Follow-up Report
Successful applicants are required to:
- Submit a final report no later than one month after the end date of the award. The report should include:
- A summary of the activities funded by the award and significant results achieved, including evidence that the project contributed to the collaboration between Notre Dame and PUC
- Any publications or manuscripts resulting from the award
- Submit brief updates (and pictures, if applicable) of any development related to the grant funding that is newsworthy (e.g. conference, launch of new program), including any relevant feedback from PUC collaborators
- Reference the PUC award in any relevant publications
Contact
For more information about NDG’s faculty engagement and research programs, please contact:
Geraldine Meehan
Director of Faculty Engagement
Notre Dame Global
Email: gmeehan@nd.edu
Phone: (574) 631-7742