Cornell-Chula Global Strategic Collaboration Awards 2024

14 June 2024

The Cornell University (Cornell) and the Chulalongkorn (Chula) have identified each other as strategic partners to foster deep collaborations in research and education, as part of Cornell’s Global Hubs initiative.

The Cornell-Chula Global Strategic Collaboration Awards (GSCA) are intended to provide Cornell and Chula faculty teams with initial financial support for collaborative research explorations with the potential to create new or expanded research partnerships, develop cutting-edge scholarship to create academic and societal impact, and attract external funding.

These international research exploration seed grants will help support early-stage research projects or capacity-building efforts to create and sustain long-term collaborations and secure extramural funding.

Applicants may propose new partnerships to explore and develop research collaborations, including organizing initial meetings and workshops and/or establishing research infrastructure for gathering preliminary data to develop a research idea (e.g., feasibility, pilot, and proof-of-concept studies) that may result in joint publications and enable subsequent applications for external funding. Alternately, applicants may expand an existing partnership if the research project explores new directions or aims at capacity-building and requires further development to attract future funding. Proposals should be sustainable in the long-term with a plan for engagement that includes the details for sustainable external funding and publication outputs.

We invite proposals from researchers in all disciplines at Chula and Cornell. In this round, up to five (5) proposals will be funded (each with two Principal Investigators: one from Cornell and one from Chula. Each successful proposal may receive up to the equivalent of $5,000 USD/200,000 THB from each university for a total of $10,000 USD/400,000 THB. Each Institution’s contributions will be used exclusively to fund its own researcher and their research expenses and will not be comingled. The award of any funds from either Institution will be subject, in each case, to the internal processes and procedures of such Institution.

Important Dates

Information Sessiom28 August 2024, 8:00 a.m. EST (Ithaca) / 7:00 p.m. (Bangkok)
Applications close4 October 2024, 11:59 p.m. EST (Ithaca) / 5 October 2024, 10:59 a.m. (Bangkok)
Successful applicants notified by15 December 2024
Earliest day for projects to start 1 January 2025
Mid-term progress review15 June 2025
Latest date for projects to end31 December 2025
Final reports due31 March 2026

Award

$5,000 USD/200,000 THB from each university for a total of $10,000 USD/400,000 THB.

Duration

Funding should be expended between 1 January 2025 and 31 December 2025.

Research Areas

All fields

Eligibility criteria

  1. Applications are open to any Cornell-eligible Principal Investigator and Chula-eligible Principal Investigator. Each grant requires at least one PI from Cornell and one PI from Chula. Additional collaborators are welcome but not required. In this round, no specific themes are prioritized for the research grants.
  2. Graduate students, post-docs, and research assistants/associates are not eligible to apply as Principal Investigators, but they are welcome to join the applications.
  3. Projects already funded by a GSCA are not eligible for funding in subsequent years. Grantees who have received funding within the past year and wish to be considered for subsequent grant funding might be considered only in highly exceptional situations and if they are proposing completely new activities and/or substantial enhancements to the initial project.

How to apply

Online application to website

Virtual Joint Info Session

28 August 2024, 8:00 a.m. EST (Ithaca) / 7:00 p.m. (Bangkok)

Register for the info session on Zoom

For more information

• Dr. Sebnem Ozkan
Director, Global Hubs
Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs (OVPIA)
Cornell University
Email: globalhubs@cornell.edu
Phone: +1 607 254 5801

• Dr. Pattharaporn Suntharasaj
Director of Chula Global Research and Innovation Promotion
Chulalongkorn University
Email: grip.oia@chula.ac.th
Phone: +66 2218 3124