Funding Opportunities

NCIIA Grants (Update)

Course and Program grants (faculty):

  • Up to $50,000
  • Inspiring change through education and technology innovation

E-Team grants (faculty and students):

  • Up to $20,000
  • Supporting emerging university inventors and entrepreneurs

Proposals due December 4, 2009

For guidelines, to apply and for more information please visit http://nciia.org/grants/courseandprogram.

NCIIA Grants

NCIIA funds faculty from member institutions whose programs and projects encourage innovation and invention among students, and whose work benefits people and the environment.

Sustainable Vision grants

  • Up to $50,000
  • Creating breakthrough technologies for people living in poverty
  • Proposals due October 16, 2009

For guidelines, to apply and for more information please visit http://nciia.org/grants/sustainablevision.

Course and Program grants

  • Up to $50,000
  • Improving existing programs or building new programs in invention, innovation and entrepreneurship
  • Proposals due December 4, 2009

For guidelines, to apply and for more information please visit http://nciia.org/grants/courseandprogram.

CIMIT Prize for Primary Healthcare

CIMIT (the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology) has announced a dynamic new engineering prize competition: the CIMIT Prize for Primary Healthcare.

It calls for technological innovations with the greatest potential to support and catalyze improved delivery of healthcare at the frontlines of medicine. The top three entrants (individuals or teams) will receive $150,000, $100,000 and $50,000, respectively, to help advance their winning clinically relevant, primary care solutions.

Letters of intent will be accepted from December 1, 2008 - January 15, 2009.

Click here for more information.

Spring 2008 Investigation Awards

Due date approaching!

A Statement of Intent to Apply is due on March 14, 2008 and is less than a page long.  April 11, 2008 is the due date for full proposals.  Proposals will only be accepted by those who submitted a Statement of Intent.

Greetings,

Solicitation for the spring 2008 MTTC $40,000 Investigation Awards is now open.  Any Principal Investigator associated with a Massachusetts research institution is encouraged to apply.  This award program is open to all public and private research institutions, not just researchers associated with UMass. These awards provide a great opportunity to move inventions closer to commercialization.  Up to ten awards will be granted.

Please visit the updated Grants and Awards section of our website www.mattcenter.org for an application and information.  If you have any questions, please email me at mbernier@umassp.edu.

Sincerely,

Michele Bernier
Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center
(617) 287-7018

NCIIA Sustainable Vision Grants

The online RFP is now open for the NCIIA Sustainable Vision (SV) grants program. SV grants support the creation of US and international initiatives that define replicable models for effective and sustainable technology entrepreneurship through innovative collaborations between US universities and colleges and partners in the private, NGO and government sectors.

Proposal submission deadline October 19.

View complete Sustainable Vision guidelines on http://www.nciia.org/g_sustainable.html