Office of Research

Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI:BIC)

Limited Submissions

The Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI:BIC) program supports academe-industry partnerships which are led by an interdisciplinary academic research team collaborating with a least one industry partner. In this program, there is a heavy emphasis on the quality, composition, and participation of the partners, including the appropriate contributions for each role. These partnerships focus on the integration of technologies into a specified human-centered service system with the potential to achieve transformational change, satisfying a real need by making an existing service system smart(er) or by spurring the creation of an entirely new smart service system. The selected service system should function as a test bed.

Application Instructions

Please submit:

  1. a two-page letter of intent with a description of proposed aims and approach
  2. Biosketch or CV of the PI
  3. A letter of support from the Dean or Chair. This letter of support signifies that the Dean or Chair have ensured that the nominee and application are likely to be of sufficient quality to be competitive nationally

 

To research@uw.edu before 5:00PM Thursday 10/29/15. A required LOI is due to the sponsor 12/2/15, so you will need to have your materials in to OSP by 11/23/15, if given the go ahead by the limited submissions review committee. Full proposals are due to the sponsor 1/27/16.

Opportunity Details

Program web page

Program Announcement No.

NSF 15-610

Deadlines
10/29/2015 UW Internal Deadline Closed
11/23/2015 OSP Deadline
01/27/2016 Sponsor Deadline
Sponsor

National Science Foundation (NSF)

Funding amount

$1,000,000

Maximum Number of Applications

2

Eligible groups
  • All campus

Inquiries and Contact Information

Investigators who identify a grant, award or fellowship program that restricts the number of applications that can be submitted from an Institution should immediately contact their Chairperson, Associate Dean for Research (or Dean, if no ADR) and the Office of Research (see below) if they intend to prepare a response. Failure to do so, or to meet the deadlines for submission of pre-proposal, will preclude submission of the application through the Office of Sponsored Programs.

For general inquiries, or to request a listing of a limited submission opportunity that should be but is not already listed, please email us at limitedsubs@uw.edu.