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Program Goals

The University of South Florida Nexus Initiative (UNI), administered through the Office of the Provost at USF, offers tenured/tenure-track and full-time research faculty members the opportunity to collaborate with global and national partners in research and scholarly and innovative efforts with the potential to significantly advance current human understanding and address pressing societal needs. UNI has the following goals:

  1. Enhance the research and scholarly activity of faculty members at USF by enabling a variety of partnerships that provide both intellectual and infrastructure stimulus to catalyze and extend ongoing work at USF
  2. Provide avenues for the exploration of joint research and scholarship with external partners and initiate activities currently not possible at USF
  3. Enable opportunities for developing sustained research and scholarship programs with high-impact researchers at other institutions through the submission and funding of joint grant proposals
  4. Create opportunities for our best graduate students to expand the breadth of their research and scholarly experience through participation in multi-investigator (potentially interdisciplinary) inquiry.

Proposals are requested for two avenues offering awards responsive to the broad goals of UNI:

The USF Faculty Global Collaboration Initiative offers tenured/tenure-track and full-time research faculty members UNI Awards of up to $15,000 in annual support for travel and expense funds to collaborate with a colleague at an institution of higher education outside the U.S. to engage in research and scholarly activities.

The USF Faculty National Collaboration Initiative offers tenured/tenure-track and full-time research faculty members UNI Awards of up to $10,000 in annual support for travel and expense funds to collaborate with a colleague at an institution of higher education within the U.S. to engage in research and scholarly activities.