Research
Seed Funding Request For Proposal
CITRIS is pleased to announce a new round of seed funding for Fiscal Year 2010.
It is open to all CITRIS investigators in UC Berkeley, Davis, Merced,
and Santa Cruz. Seed funding supports high-risk/high-impact projects
that are distinctive and novel in their approach and have potential to
attract larger scale grants. We are seeking innovative proposals in all
areas of interest to CITRIS, including Energy and the Environment,
Delivery of Healthcare, Intelligent Infrastructures, Technology for
Underserved California regions, and Art, Technology and Culture.
To apply, the proposers should submit a 3-page proposal, along with a cover page and a budget table. (click here to download the pdf form that contains more info and the required pages to fill out).
Proposal Format:
- Cover page
- Research description, 3-page PDF
- Summary and expected main achievement of CITRIS research
- Background and research thus far
- Creative contributions of the research
- Expected, key outcomes
- Prospects for ongoing funding (and from which source) - Budget table
The application deadline is January 29, 2010. Completed forms should be sent to .
Award Amount: $30,000 to $75,000 for a duration of 1 year
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The previous round of CITRIS seeding funding, the “Big Ideas”
competition and other initiatives have been enormously successful: the
investigation on networking for next-generation healthcare information
technology has led to the partnership with California Tele-health
Network, which has attracted $22.6M fund from FCC to provide healthcare
access to three million rural Californians; Cellscope enables the use
of cell phone cameras for remote diagnosis in resource-poor areas. It
will be used in a field trial in Mexico. The Mobile Millennium project
uses GPS-equipped smartphones to collect and distribute traffic
information to the driving public. Altogether, the 32 seed projects
supported 64 graduate students, 38 undergraduate students, and 13
postdocs. -----------------------------------------------
Short History: CITRIS is the Center for Information Technology in the
Interest of Society. The planning for CITRIS began in 1999-2000 and it soon
became one of the four California Institutes for Science and Innovation
(CISIs), centers of excellence, funded by then-Governor Gray Davis'
administration. It serves 4 UC campuses (Berkeley,
Davis, Merced and
Santa Cruz).
The umbrella organization of CITRIS then hosts many multi-disciplinary smaller
centers in which information technology is being developed to solve large
societal problems including healthcare, services, and intelligent
infrastructures (such as energy, water, earthquake safety and sustainability).
New space was created on the Santa Cruz campus
for CITRIS and, at Berkeley, Sutardja Dai Hall opened in the spring of 2009.
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