Seed Grants for Innovative Approaches to Enhancing Inclusive Excellence and Sense of Belonging

To promote and advance scholarship in diversity, inclusion, and belonging at Purdue, faculty, staff, and faculty/staff teams are invited to submit proposals for internal seed grants focused on innovation in inclusive excellence and belonging.  These seed grants are intended to facilitate the discovery, development, pilot-testing, refinement, and publishing of novel research, teaching, or engagement tools and approaches that promote excellence, and enhance success and belonging at and/or beyond Purdue.

Proposals with elements of training/engaging young professionals in cross-disciplinary research are encouraged. The maximum award per research project is $10,000, with a duration of one year and a start date of May 15, although other dates may be considered for project initiation. Full proposal requirements and instructions can be found at this link

The rubric can be found here

Example proposal can be found here

Last modified: April 19, 2023


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