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RCEI Groundwork Grants

The 2024 Groundwork Grants have been awarded. An announcement can be found here. Congratulations to all of the awardees!

Rutgers Climate and Energy Institute recognizes that navigating the complex landscape of grant applications can often be daunting. RCEI’s Groundwork Grants are conceived to serve as a catalyst, empowering affiliates of RCEI to develop comprehensive, competitive external funding proposals. These modest planning grants are offered to RCEI affiliates, including tenured faculty, tenure-track faculty, and staff scientists.

This grant will fund capacity building activities such as:

  • organizing collaborative meetings or workshops;
  • fostering networking opportunities;
  • analyzing existing data or models for use in external funding proposals; and
  • literature review for preparation of external funding proposals.

Refer to our Budget Guidelines document for what this grant will not fund.

Proposals must use funds to develop a project or idea aligned with the specified theme below with the goal of applying for external funding. A statement of affirmation that you will submit a proposal for external funding is required. Proposals that include some form of matching and/or in-kind contributions are welcome, but matching is not required.  There is a limit of one grant application per faculty/staff member per cycle.

Submission for the 2024 RCEI Groundwork Grants is now open through June 7, 2024 at 5:00 PM.

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