COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP MATCHING GRANTS

(up to one FTE, cost not deducted from the award budget) • Review Process: All proposals will be reviewed by external reviewers.

PRIORITIES:

• Interdisciplinary grants were developed specifically to promote collaboration on topics of interest which cut across two or more disciplines. This grant supports transformative learning by encouraging a continuum of research, creative, and scholarly activities in all disciplines at the University.

GOALS:

• The goal of the Interdisciplinary Grant is to provide an opportunity to facilitate the formation of collaborations among faculty with different areas of expertise. It is the duty of the researchers to illustrate and justify the interdisciplinary nature of the research project. Each group should have a designated leader, and the ORSP prefers that the collaboration include faculty members from at least two colleges. However, each group may consist of members from at least two departments/ disciplines within a single college. Inter-institutional interactions are allowable, although the PI must be a UCO faculty member.

OBJECTIVES:

• Interdisciplinary Grants: • stimulate the exploration of innovative ideas that will open new directions in research, creative, and scholarly activities, • enhance the intellectual environment of the campus, and; • lead to long-term funding support

from external sources.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Collaborative groups who have received an Interdisciplinary Grant 3 consecutive years and have not applied for external funding (private, state, or federal) are ineligible to apply for a 4th year. • If your project requires an IRB approval, an IRB application does not need to be completed at the time of your on-campus grant application, but the IRB approval must be obtained before your research project begins. • For more information on the

IRB application process, visit our website: https://www.uco.edu/academicaffairs/office-research-integritycompliance/ • For more information please visit: https://www.uco.edu/academicaffairs/office-research-sponsoredprograms/grants/interdisciplinary

• Application Due Date: February 15, 2023 • Funding Amount: Up to $2,500, matched dollar for dollar from the community organization

• Anticipated Date of Notification:

May 2023 • Funding Period: August 1, 2023-June 15, 2024 • Spending Period: August 1, 2023-April 30, 2024 • Eligible for Reassignment Time: Yes (up to 4 hours, cost deducted from the award budget) • Eligible for Research Assistants: Yes (up to one FTE, cost not deducted from the award budget) • Review Process: All proposals will be reviewed by external reviewers.

PRIORITIES:

• Community Partnership Matching grants support transformative learning by encouraging a variety of research, creative, and scholarly activities by faculty at UCO in all disciplines working with agencies and/or organizations in the local community.

GOALS:

• The goal of the Community Partnership Matching grant is to provide support for UCO faculty members who develop a research project partnering and collaborating with a community organization. Projects chosen for funding must provide educational and learning opportunities/benefits for UCO students as well as benefits for the local community. Projects must strengthen current community partnerships, build new partnerships, and foster opportunities for UCO students in areas of Transformative Learning (i.e., leadership, research, creative, and scholarly activities, service learning & civic engagement activities, global & cultural competencies, or self-awareness & healthy lifestyles).

OBJECTIVES:

• Proposed activities must have: • 1) Intellectual merit and 2) broader impact to the community.

PROJECTS TYPICALLY:

• improve student civic-mindedness and community engagement;