Thursday, April 27, 8-10 AM

As a two-hour academic-focused professional development opportunity, this interactive session will discuss best practices and strategies for leading the development of large, multi-disciplinary team-based grant efforts. The workshop is designed for project directors who have been successful in winning small team grants and are looking to transition to larger team efforts, such as the USDA NIFA AFRI Sustainable Agricultural Systems (SAS) program. The SAS program awards up to $10M in support of creative and visionary projects that use transdisciplinary teams and integrated research, education, and extension/outreach activities to solve present and future food and agricultural production system challenges. Participants will explore strategies for establishing interdisciplinary proposal teams, leveraging prior research, developing a project vision, and best practices for scheduling proposal production and writing the proposal to achieve well-integrated research-education-extension grant applications. Questions and discussions will be encouraged throughout the session. Additionally, one-on-one consultations to discuss specific project plans and grant opportunities will be available after the session concludes.

Moderator:
Vanity Campbell, Coordinator, Proposal Development Services

Speaker:
Lucy Deckard, Research Development Consultant, Academic Research Funding Strategies