- Notice of Intent to Submit Deadline: March 18, 2026
- Proposal Deadline: April 1, 2026
Notices of intent to submit must be submitted via email, and proposals must be submitted in NuRamp (https://nuramp.nebraska.edu). Sign in to NuRamp using your institutional credentials.
For guidelines on how to prepare and submit an internal proposal to this competition, download the Request for Proposals.
Program Overview
Collaboration Grants support teams of University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) scholars building collaborations to take their programs of research, scholarship, and/or creative endeavors to a more collaborative level. Three grant types are available for teams at various stages of development.
- Team Formation and Ideation Grants: These grants provide support for teaming and ideation activities for collaborative groups to coalesce around a proposed project. The expected outcome is for recipients is to build and strengthen collaborative teams in a manner that will better position them to perform collaborative research, scholarship, and/or creative activity moving forward.
- Development Grants: These grants provide support for collaborative groups to conduct innovative, timely, and collaborative research, scholarship, and/or creative activity. The scope of work should be more early-stage, preliminary, and/or exploratory in nature than that supported by Catalyst Grants and should occur at an earlier stage of a team’s progression than work supported by Catalyst Grants. The expected outcome is for recipients to build and strengthen their team through collaborative work that will enhance competitiveness for external collaborative funding opportunities.
- Catalyst Grants: These grants provide support for well-established collaborative groups to implement a project that will better position the team to compete for collaborative external funding that would represent a significant investment toward the accomplishment of ambitious, long-term, collaborative goals. Competitive teams for Catalyst Grants will be able to articulate a robust plan of work for advancing their collaborative programs of research, scholarship, and/or creative activity and demonstrate the existing capacity of the team to effectively collaborate. The expected outcome is for recipients to conduct a project that will enhance competitiveness for external collaborative funding opportunities and begin to position the team for long-term project sustainability.
These grants are funded and administered by the UNL Office of Research and Innovation (R&I).
The Request for Proposals (RFP) available on this webpage is for Catalyst Grants. Separate RFPs are available for Team Formation and Ideation Grants and Catalyst Grants.
