Harvard Global Institute: Deadline for Expressions of Interest

Harvard Global Institute
Deadline for Expressions of Interest: February 1, 2016
Award Amount: $50,000-100,000 for small grants; $500,000-1,000,000 for large-scale grants

The Harvard Global Institute funds projects that bring Harvard faculty and students together with scholars from outside the United States to investigate problems of universal consequence, produce findings, and advance them in ways that achieve significant impact, whether upon the University curriculum, individual research fields, theories, methodologies, policies, and/or broader public discourse here and abroad.  HGI is currently funding proposals for interdisciplinary research in AY 2016-17 on issues that are of particular salience to China and of relevance to other parts of the world; that is, topics should be "China-inclusive" without being "China-exclusive."

Large-scale grants will support multi-faculty, cross-school, cross-discipline, integrative projects on problems or issues of global relevance that build on existing research and include significant collaboration with scholars in China (and potentially other countries and regions as well). The goal is to help innovative research "scale up" and "scale out."  The range of funding for these larger projects will be $500,000 to $1 million annually, with the potential for up to two years of funding. Please note that it is likely that there will be no more than one such grant awarded in the 2016-17 academic year. 

Small grants will support innovative, interdisciplinary projects that, like the large grants, focus on issues of global significance with a clear China focus and that would be unlikely to find funding from other sources.  Smaller-scale grants will range from $50,000 to $100,000. There is the potential for such a grant to receive up to two years of funding.