Office of Research

A Call for Ideas

Limited Submissions

Update: extending the OR deadline to Friday 4/3/20.

 

For the Proposal Submission Template and FAQs please request via email: research@uw.edu

 

From the RFP:

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation makes grants supporting basic research and we expect to start one or more new grant-making programs aimed at driving important advances in an area of science. We’re looking for inspired ideas so we’re asking a select group of researchers to send us their vision for either starting a new field of science or for advancing an existing area of science. Your ideas could mean near-term funding for a research project, longer-term support for a research community, or both.

 

A Call For Ideas: We’re asking researchers to sit down, dream about what might be possible for a program funded at up to $5-10M/yr for about a decade, and to then sketch-out that vision for us. Here ‘program’ refers to support for a community of investigators working on complementary aspects of a scientific problem. The proposed research should advance one or more areas in the physical and/or life sciences and should not be biomedically focused.

  1. Biology
  2. Chemistry
  3. Physics & Astronomy
  4. Neuroscience & Cognition
  5. Earth Systems Science (including Ocean Science)
  6. Interdisciplinary & Other Science
  7. Special Topics including Nanoscale Biophysics, Matter-to-Life, Visualizing the Nanoscale

 

We’re asking for brief (< 1700 word) proposals that communicate a broad vision for a field and then describe a specific project to start pursuing some aspect of that vision. We expect to select a handful of specific projects to support with Sloan Foundation grants of $500K- $1M/yr for up to 3 years. We’re open to high-risk/high-reward science so don’t be shy about proposing new and ambitious ideas. While submissions will be organized through a single lead PI, we encourage researchers to self-organize into proposal submission teams whose broader scope of expertise may strengthen a proposal.

 

Application Instructions

Please submit:

  1. A completed “Proposal Submission Template” (attached)
  2. CV (not NIH format)  of the PI

 

to research@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Friday April 4, 2020. Nominations are due to the sponsor 5/18/20.

Opportunity Details

Program Announcement No.

2020

Deadlines
04/03/2020 UW Internal Deadline Closed
04/06/2020 OSP Deadline
04/15/2020 Sponsor Deadline
Sponsor

Alfred P Sloan Foundation

Maximum Number of Applications

3

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.