2025 AMLCI SEED GRANT OPPORTUNITY
The goal of the 2025 AMLCI Seed Grant Opportunity is to promote innovative collaborative research in materials science / soft matter that ultimately culminates in the submissions of new, external grant applications.
This seed grant program will provide 3 (three) AMLCI Seed Awards; one BLUE AWARD up to $10K and two GOLD AWARDS up to $5K each. The top-ranked proposal will secure the BLUE AWARD.
The framework of this program is centered around the following key requirements:
- At least one PI needs to be a member of the AMLCI,
- Duration of up to 1 year,
- The collaborative research should result in joint extramural grant applications that tap into new funding avenues not currently pursued by any of the PIs or co-PIs, and
- Peer-reviewed journal publications, patent applications, or prototypes.
Funding can be flexibly used to support activities most beneficial to conducting the study but should primarily support graduate and/or undergraduate students that will actively participate in the research efforts in each of the PI’s (co-PI’s) laboratories.
IMPORTANT DATES
- Submission deadline: December 19th, 2025
- Awardees notified: February 15th, 2026
- Start of 1-year award period: March 1st, 2026; (end of award: February 28th, 2027)
EVALUATION PROCESS
Reviews will focus on the merits of the proposed study, collaborative nature of the project, and the potential for future funding that tap into new funding sources.
An external joint application to an outside funding agency is required by or after the end of the one-year program (latest: Fall 2027), and proposals should include a timeline describing anticipated dates of grant submissions as well as intended new funding agency and/or mechanism.
SUBMISSION
Please submit your full proposal as a single, combined .pdf file via the following link: Online Submission
For proposal requirements, please use the following documentation: AMLCI Seed Grant Proposal Requirements