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Seed Grant Program for Business School Faculty
International business research by faculty members generates direct carryover into the graduate and undergraduate courses taught by faculty members who engage in such research, improving the quality of our courses. To facilitate this carryover, the IBC offers the Seed Grant program for Business School Faculty to provide research support for faculty members to use in seeking larger funding sources; it also provides funding for travel, data acquisition, maintenance and other research costs as a supplement to released time the School provides for productive researchers. An ad hoc faculty committee will be established to review each proposal.
The guidelines for the IBC research grant program are as follows:
- Proposals may be in any of the fields in which our faculty normally undertake research, but the project must relate to some dimension of international business and should normally entail some period at a foreign site (or sites) for its successful completion.
- The scale and scope of the project should normally be such as to require partial or full-term released time from teaching responsibilities under the School's course teaching reduction program (though the period abroad may be of shorter duration).
- Proposals should be accompanied by a budget estimate.
- Notifications of awards will be made as soon as possible after submission and approved expenditures may be incurred immediately after approval.
- This program is separate from the UCIS GAP program, also funded by the IBC.
For more information about the Faculty Research Grant program, contact the IBC at 412-648-1778 or email dhernandez@katz.pitt.edu.