CITRIS Seed Funding
The 2023 program is closed for submissions
The CITRIS Seed Funding program issues short-term, targeted awards to further the institute’s research priorities for societal benefit, catalyze early results that can lead to significant funding and strengthen connections across UC campuses.
Through engagement with our collaborators, CITRIS has identified four critical Grand Challenges in Information Technology. We seek innovative proposals that bring the university’s expertise and ingenuity to bear on the complex issues.
Proposals are invited from principal investigators at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Davis Health, UC Merced and UC Santa Cruz. Awardees embody the university’s public mission and innovative spirit of California.
- $40,000–$60,000 awarded per project
Funded projects offer a glimpse at new frontiers of technology and have attracted more than $60 million in follow-on support from federal, state, corporate and private sources.
Team Formation:
To encourage collaboration, proposals should engage at least two investigators from different CITRIS campuses. Search our researcher directory or tap your own network to build a team.
To view the full RFP and eligibility and application information, please visit: https://citris-uc.org/labs-programs/seed-funding/citris-core-seed-funding/
For more information, contact Michael Matkin, executive director of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute at UC Santa Cruz, at mmatkin@ucsc.edu.
Each year, we invite Principal Investigators at UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Davis Health System and UC Merced to apply for seed funding that furthers CITRIS and the Banatao Institute research initiatives, strengthens connections among UC campuses, and catalyzes early-stage research that can lead to external funding. Individual awards are between $40,000-$60,000 for teams of researchers from at least two CITRIS campuses.
Funded projects have attracted follow-on support from federal, state, industrial, and private sources including the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Intel, Microsoft, Mellon Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Click below to learn about our available seed funding opportunities.
To discuss a new joint seed funding opportunity or larger proposal collaboration, please contact seeds@citris-uc.org.
