U-LINK: The University of Miami Laboratory for INtegrative Knowledge

• Support building a sustainable and meaningful partnerships with academic or community partners. 
• Support projects that will identify, develop, and/or test strategies to enhance the creation, adoption, integration, scale-up, sustainment of evidence-based research. 
• Promote the submission of grants to external funding agencies. 
• Build trust and engagement among team members and collaborators to build sustainable partnerships prior to conceptualizing and submitting a grant to ensure effective team integration.
• Promote scholarly publications and scientific presentations derived from these proposals. 

• Teams of faculty representing at least two distinct disciplines (e.g., a team comprised of individuals from humanities, social science, engineering, design, medicine, and basic science).  
• Priority will be given to teams that approach this challenge by establishing creative collaborations drawing from diverse methodologies and/or approaches to scholarship and problem-solving.  
• Meaningful engagement of academic, community and/or external partners is required.  
• Applicants are encouraged to engage with new collaborators and investigators from different Schools and Colleges and departments (not within the same departments). 
• Investigators interested in pivoting to a new area are also encouraged to apply. 
• U-LINK will optimally support longitudinal work, occurring over multiple years, to assess the longer-term impact and diverse outcomes of funded projects.

This call is offered annually during the fall semester. Award notifications are issued in January. The funding period spans June 1st through May 31st of the following year. Dates are subject to change. 

OVPRS will fund up to 10 projects for at least one year, covering up to $100K in eligible expenses per project.  

For questions about this funding opportunity, please contact Eva Olivares at eolivares@miami.edu.