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Line-by-line instructions for internal funding applications.

Name: Your name will automatically be entered.
Department: Enter your School or Department. Directors of Centers, Institutes or Museums must enter the the Center, Institute or Museum for the Summer Stipends for Collaborative Research and Creative Activity Program.
Campus Address: Enter your campus address, building and room number.
Phone: Enter your area code and phone number in this format: 999-999-9999
Email Address: Your email address will automatically be entered. If not, enter your email address in this format: username@indiana.edu
Rank:Select your rank from the list.
To which program are you applying? Select the grant for which you are applying from the list.
Title of Project: Enter the title of your project, maximum 80 characters.
Campus:Select your campus from the list.
Fiscal Officer username: Enter the username of your department fiscal officer. If you do not know the name of your fiscal officer, click on "Click here to look up your Fiscal officer". Your application will route to the fiscal officer. If your Fiscal Officer has received approval for you application from the chair, dean, or unit head, your application may be approved at this point; if not, the application will route to the department chair, dean, or unit head for final approval before being submitted to OVPR.
Start Date: Enter the date that work on your project will start in this format: mm/dd/yyyy.
Completion Date: Enter the date that work on your project will be completed: mm/dd/yyyy.
Budget Total (in whole dollars): Enter the amount you are requesting from this grant program (in the format: 25000) Be sure there are no commas and that it equals the "running amount" calculated by the Budget Builder. please click Work on your budget which is located in the "Attachment Type" section as a link near the bottom of the electronic application form. Enter each of your budget line items. [If you are applying for a Digital Arts & Humanities Fellowship, enter "1".]
Special Needs: Does this project require: Check the boxes to indicate which special needs are required for your project. Note: If awarded, release of funds is contingent upon meeting all appropriate research compliance requirements, e.g. animal, biosafety, and human subject approval.
Keywords (256 character limit): Not required. Enter single words or phrases, separated by commas, relative to your project.
General Project Overview (750 character limit): Enter a brief description or abstract of your project. Character limitations include spaces. The copy and paste functions should work in the application.
Collaboration Information: Enter the names and departments of other faculty collaborating on this project. If you are the principal investigator (PI) of this proposal, do not list yourself as a collaborator.
Funding Information: Other funding related to this project (past, current, and projected).
Supporting Materials, Attachment Type:Budget
Applications for the following grants require budgets. If you are applying for one of ther following grants, please click Work on your budget which is located in the "Attachment Type". section as a link near the bottom of the electronic application form. Enter each of your budget line items.
  • Faculty Research Support Program (FRSP)
  • Grant-in-Aid
  • All New Frontiers Grants
  • Summer Stipends for Collaborative Research and Creative Activity
Letters of support
Please add the names of those providing the letters and how they will be sent in the notes section at the bottom of the application
. Letters of support can be submitted in any of the following ways:
  • uploaded by the applicant, along with other supporting documents, to the online application form
  • sent via fax to 812-855-6396
  • mailed or delivered to OVPR, Franklin Hall 116-Y, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47404
  • sent via email
Email addresses to send letters of support:
  • Digital Arts & Humanities to
  • Emergency Grant-in-Aid to
  • Faculty Research Support Program (FRSP) to
  • Grant-in-Aid to
  • all New Frontiers grant submissions to
  • Retired Faculty Grant-in-Aid to
  • Summer Stipends for Collaborative Research and Creative Activity to
REQUIRED SUPPORTING MATERIALS FOR EACH GRANT
Save the required documents as separate files on your computer. To upload the attachments to the electronic application, use the "Browse" button to locate and select each of the saved files. Use the "save" button (letters in red, located directly to the right under "Action") to add each file to your application. Please upload the required supporting documents of the specified grant for which you are applying:

Digital Arts & Humanities Fellowship
  • Project description (4-page maximum) which clearly states which two semesters you are requesting course release (spring 2009, fall 2009, summer I 2009, summer II 2009, other)
  • Letter of support from the department chair, dean, or unit head
  • Letter of support from an expert in the field (may be from within or outside IU)
  • Curriculum vitae (3-page maximum)
Emergency Grant-in-Aid
  • Project description (4-page maximum)
  • Letter of support from the department chair, dean, or unit head
Faculty Research Support Program (FRSP)
PDFs are preferred to ensure that application formatting is not lost.
Send faxed or mailed letters of support to Donna Carter's attention.
  • Project description (4-page maximum)
  • Budget submitted using the Work on your budget function on the online application form
  • Letter of support from the chair or the head of the applicant's unit (e.g. department, divisition, center, institute, etc.). See Guidelines for specific letter requirements.
  • Letter of support from one of the principal unit's dean or equivalent that affirms support for the project
  • Letter of support from an expert in the field (may be from within or outside IU)
  • Curriculum vitae for no more than 4 key personnel (PI plus 3 collaborators) (3-page maximum each)
Grant-in-Aid
  • Project description (4-page maximum)
  • Budget submitted using the Work on your budget function on the online application form
  • Letter of support from the department chair, dean, or unit head
  • Two letters of support from experts in the field (may be from within or outside IU)
  • Curriculum vitae (3-page maximum)
New Frontiers
  • Project description (4-page maximum)
  • Budget submitted using the Work on your budget function on the online application form
  • Letter of support from the department chair, dean, or unit head
  • Letter of support from an expert in the field (may be from within or outside IU)
  • Curriculum vitae (3-page maximum)
New Frontiers: New Directions
  • Project description (4-page maximum)
  • Budget submitted using the Work on your budget function on the online application form
  • Letter of support from the department chair, dean, or unit head
  • Letter of support from an expert in the field (may be from within or outside IU)
  • Curriculum vitae (3-page maximum)
New Frontiers: New Perspectives
  • Project description (4-page maximum)
  • Budget submitted using the Work on your budget function on the online application form
  • Letter of support from the department chair, dean, or unit head
  • Letter of support from an expert in the field (may be from within or outside IU)
  • Curriculum vitae (3-page maximum)
New Frontiers: Exploration Traveling Fellowship
  • Project description (4-page maximum)
  • Budget submitted using the Work on your budget function on the online application form
  • Letter of support from the department chair, dean, or unit head
  • Curriculum vitae (3-page maximum)
Retired Faculty Grant-in-Aid
  • Project description (4-page maximum)
  • Detailed budget in any logical form (need NOT be submitted using the Work on your budget function)
  • Letter of support from the department chair, dean, or unit head
  • Curriculum vitae (3-page maximum)
Summer Stipends for Collaborative Research and Creative Activity
PDFs are preferred to ensure that application formatting is not lost.
  • 3-4 page Project Description that must provide specific information on the collaborative nature of the project and the anticipated outcomes
  • Budget submitted using the Work on your budget function found on the online application form
  • 2-3 page Curriculum Vitae of the Faculty applicant (in the case of individual faculty applicants) or the center, institute, or museum Director (in the case of directors applying on behalf of their units)
  • Brief letter of support from the department chair (in the case of individual faculty applicants)
  • Brief letter of support from the center, institute, or museum director (in the case of individual faculty applicants)
  • Brief letter of support from a knowledgeable colleague (in the case of directors applying on behalf of their units)
If your application is not complete, use the "save" button (at the bottom of the page, between "submit" and "cancel") to save your application for completion later.

To retrieve your saved data:
Login to OneStart.iu.edu. In the upper-right corner of the page, to the left of the Search box, click on "action list". There, in your action list, will be your application which you can continue to work on. Then, when you're ready to submit the application, choose the "Complete" button.
If your application is complete, use the "submit" button to send your application to the fiscal officer for approval or, if your application has been previously saved, use the "complete" button to send your application. [Note: There are two "save" buttons. Use the one on the right, under "Action", to add files to your application. Use the one at the bottom of the page, between "submit" and "cancel", to save your application for completion later.]
   
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