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Bridge Internal Grants (BIG) Program
About
The Office of Sponsored Programs & Research Integrity鈥檚 (OSPRI) Bridge Internal Grants Program provides funding to support faculty, staff, and students in the pursuit of research, scholarship, creative activities, and community outreach projects. These funding opportunities are designed to strengthen capacity and enhance the competitiveness of proposals for external funding.
Departmental approval is required for the Principal Investigator (PI) and all co-Principal investigators (co-PIs) before any Bridge grant application will be considered eligible for review and support.
BIG Program Funding Opportunities
Proposal Enhancement Grant (PEG):
The Proposal Enhancement Grant (PEG) provides funding for pilot studies, feasibility studies, or the collection of baseline data in support of externally funded grant applications. The PI must be a full-time faculty member. The program provides up to $5,000 per project, determined by need and justification.
Grant Details:
- Project Duration: up to 24 months
- Award Limit: 1 award per PI/PD every 3 years
- Application Deadline: October 15th
- Earliest Start Date: January 1st
New and Early-Career Faculty Exploratory Grant (NEFE):
The New and Early-Career Faculty Exploratory Grant provides seed funding to support the research, scholarship, and creative activities of new tenured or tenure-track faculty during their first five years of employment at 91导航. This program is designed to support the development of a robust research and/or scholarly activity portfolio and enhance competitiveness for external funding opportunities. Funding may be used to initiate pilot projects, generate preliminary data, or advance creative and scholarly work that positions faculty for future grant submissions.
The program provides up to $5,000 per project, determined by need and justification. Faculty are eligible to receive funding once through this program.
Grant Details:
- Project Duration: up to 12 months
- Award Limit: 1 award per PI/PD
- Application Deadline: October 15th
- Earliest Start Date: January 1st
GRIT Grant:
The GRIT Grant is designed to strengthen the competitiveness of previously submitted extramural grant proposals that received favorable peer review but were not selected for funding. The GRIT Grant provides targeted funding to address reviewer comments and recommendations, refine proposal components, and generate additional data to improve the proposal for resubmission. The program provides up to $5,000, determined by need and justification. Award recipients are expected to resubmit the revised proposal to a federal, state or other external funding. agency during the current or following academic year.
Eligibility:
- Proposals must have received competitive scores and favorable review by an extramural
grant review panel. Examples include but are not limited to the following:
- NIH proposals that received an overall Impact/Priority Score of 40 or lower.
- NSF proposals that received a majority of ratings of 鈥淕ood鈥� or above.
- U.S. Department of Education proposals that received a score of 75% or higher of the total possible points or were designated as fundable but not funded due to budget limitations.
- U.S. Department of Labor proposals that received a score of 75% or higher of the total possible points or were deemed competitive but not funded.
- Proposals submitted to other external funders, evaluated on a case-by-case basis based on documented reviewer comments, recommendations, and evidence that the proposal is competitive and likely fundable upon revision.
- Applicants must include panel summaries or score documentation as part of the GRIT Grant application.
Grant Details:
- Project Duration: up to 12 months
- Award Limit: 1 award per PI/PD per project
- Application Deadline: April 15th
- Earliest Start Date: June 1st
For questions, please contact Katie Mudd by email at ospbridge@ucmo.edu.