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The Complex Grant Development Program assists faculty in accessing available UK research infrastructure and processes while providing tailored services for development and submission of a specific complex grant proposal.

This program will help familiarize faculty with available UK research infrastructure and processes. The program will provide specialized individual assistance and best practice support for development and submission of a specific complex grant proposal including preparation, submission, project management, and compliance.

Goals

  • To provide specialized assistance and best practice support across multiple research support domains.
  • To facilitate and expedite the development and submission of specific complex grant proposals.
  • To facilitate acquisition of needed resources that require coordinated multi-unit support.
  • To assist with proposal planning and preparation, budget and regulatory submission, project management, industry and partner liaisons/ coordination, overall compliance, and more.

Key Features of Complex Grants

  • Bold thematic vision and broad scope
  • Transformational research often contributing to a larger national agenda and impact
  • High value to the universities
  • Multiple synergistic or complementary components, such as projects and cores
  • Multi- or cross-disciplinary approaches
  • High-level team management
  • Coordination across contributing internal and external partners
  • Embedded education and training aligned within the program theme
  • Potential for sustainability of the program

See the Research Enrichment Program site for details on F&A return for complex grants.

Applications

  • See application for requirements
  • Continuous submission accepted (ongoing)

Eligibility

  • Faculty or staff with relevant expertise and evidence of success in the field of study are eligible to apply.
  • Applications to the Complex Programmatic Grant Development Program must identify a specific funding mechanism or grant opportunity as the focus of complex grant services.

Participants

Ian McClure (UK Innovate) Project: From a Carbon Centric to Circular Economy: Generating Advanced Manufacturing Excellence for Change (GAME Change) for the Southeastern Commerce Corridor, Phase II
Scott Berry (College of Engineering) Project: Environmental SurveillanCe for Assessing Pathogen Emergence (ESCAPE)
Todd Hastings (College of Engineering) Project: Light-Matter Interactions in Artificial Spin Lattices
Rodney Andrews (Center for Applied Energy Research) Project: Project: Climate Resilience through Multidisciplinary Big Data Learning, Prediction & Building Response Systems (CLIMBS)
Nancy Schoenberg (College of Medicine) Project: UK ASCEND (Achieving Success in Community-Engaged research to elimiNate Disparities)
Rick Honaker (College of Engineering) Project: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law - BIL - Development of a Strategic Materials Production System for Rare Earth Metals, Graphite and Other Critical Matter
Thomas Balk (College of Engineering) Project: HVE Combinatorial Screening of Gradient-Porosity Tungsten for Radiation-Tolerant Plasma Facing Material