Internal Funding
Catalyst for Research Dissemination Grants
Award Cycle: Quarterly
Limit on Proposals per PI: An individual may participate as PI on one Research Dissemination Grant once per academic year.
Limit on Awards per PI: An individual may not have more than two active ORP awards at a given time.
Proposal Due Dates: First University of Arizona business Wednesday of July, October, January, and April.
Applications: Accepted through Arizona Cultivate.
Description: The Catalyst for Research Dissemination Grants are designed to augment research resulting from a prior ORP Research Development Grant by providing support to offset dissemination costs that were not allowable during the initial period of performance due to timing offsets. The proposed dissemination must be related to a previous ORP Research Development or TRIF-funded internal grant, and the submission must be within three years of the original award period. Other campus internal grants (non-Research Development Grant or non-TRIF-funded grants, e.g., the Provost's Investment Fund and specific strategic initiative seed grants) are not eligible for funding consideration. If you are unsure if your previous award qualifies, please consult resdev@arizona.edu.
The maximum amount is $3,000 per award and may be used for any costs associated with publication, dissemination, data storage, and other well-justified costs. A copy of the dissemination-related contract must be included in the application. Funds will not pass to the PI but instead paid directly to the vendor through an ORP account, which will be provided to the PI's business office to initiate the payment. All expenses will be reviewed by the ORP business team for approval. No more than two dissemination activities will be funded for any single internal grant.
Please note that this solicitation is intended solely for dissemination-related costs and may not be used for research, travel, supplemental compensation, or other costs that fall outside of the dissemination scope.
Eligibility:
Single investigators and teams are invited to apply for this grant up to three years from the date of the original award (as described above). However, the Principal Investigator of record must meet the PI eligibility requirements. Team proposals should list all Co-Authors.
Proposal preparation, submission, and processing information is available in the ORP Proposal Preparation Guide (PPG) v10, which is downloadable in Arizona Cultivate. The PPG includes requirements for the project narrative and supplemental documents; it is strongly encouraged that interested applicants read the PPG in full as proposals that do not match the PPG will be returned without review. While this opportunity is simplified, formatting should meet the PPG.
Please note the budget approval process which utilizes an applicant driven routing step after submission. Applicants will input the email address of their business officer or award/research administrator when prompted at the end of the application prior to submission. The email address should be for the person who has authority to create, review, and approve the budget. The system will send a link for approval via the email listed to the business officer or award/research administrator where they may confirm they reviewed and approved the submitted budget. This approval step is required before an application is accepted for compliance checks and formal review. The deadline for business officer or award/research administrator is the Friday following the deadline at 5:00 pm MST. ORP recommends the investigator alert their budget officer/research administrator of this process in advance of their submission.
Solicitation Specific Information:
- Narrative: the one-page narrative should demonstrate how the proposed publication relates to TRIF- or ORP-funded research
- Supplemental Documents: (please upload as one combined PDF)
- Table of co-authors, indicating name, professional title, college, department, ORCID iD, NetID (for UA-affiliated), and institution and institutional email address (for non-UA affiliated
- Budget template and justification outlining itemized budget request (Specific budget template and justification upload section included earlier in the application process)
- Copy of the dissemination-related contract from the publisher/contractor/institution
Letter of Support from Department Head or Director indicating relevancy of publication to your research and field