Apply Now for 2022 Sustainability Seed Grants

The UMass Amherst School of Earth and Sustainability (SES) is pleased to announce seed funding to advance inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research that can help eradicate inequity, enhance environmental and social justice and build a more resilient future. SES is looking for innovative, exploratory proposals linking the social and natural sciences and the natural and built environments in ways that create new knowledge enhancing sustainability and resilience. SES prioritizes projects that explore linkages between environmental and social equity and sustainability. Team composition should be experimental, bringing together diverse perspectives, worldviews, career stages, disciplines, backgrounds, ages and genders.

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Proposals for up to $10,000 must be received no later than 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, June 9.

Inter- or transdisciplinary research groups may request seed funding. The funds are intended to support the development of a research proposal suitable for an identified off-campus funding opportunity. Typical expenditures might include on-campus meetings, expenses associated with preliminary data gathering and travel support for off-campus collaborators. Expenditures are flexible, but they must follow standard University guidelines. SES seed grant recipients will ideally submit a proposal to an external funding agency, foundation or another funding source within 12 to 18 months of receiving SES support.

Proposals must:

• be related to the broad area of sustainability;
• be inter- or transdisciplinary in scope; and
• include at least three lead project proponents from three different departments (within or beyond SES departments and colleges).

Full criteria, contact information and all details for the SES seed grants can be found at https://www.umass.edu/ses/research/sustainability-seed-grant-funding.