Teaming Grants support the formation of new multi-disciplinary collaborations to pursue large-scale external funding. Example activities may include organizing strategic planning workshops, creating a working paper series, traveling to meet with potential funders’ program managers, or inviting potential collaborators for campus visits. Awards will be made for up to $60,000 for one-year.
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Eligibility
- Applicants must be full-time faculty members at the University of Pittsburgh. Eligible appointment stream faculty must have research as their core responsibility.
- Awardees from the immediate previous funding cycle may not apply to the same grant-type they were awarded funds for previously (i.e., Teaming awardees from FY25 cannot apply for a Teaming Grant in FY26). This applies to all PMF grant types.
- Faculty can join only one Teaming Grant proposal submission at a time.
- Teaming applicant teams must include faculty from at least three schools.
- The Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences (DSAS) divisions of the Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences will each be considered as separate “schools” for the purpose of this eligibility test.
- A team may not be comprised of faculty exclusively from DSAS.
- A team may not be comprised of faculty exclusively from Health Science schools.
- Up to one collaborator from an HBCU, non-R1 minority-serving institution (MSI), government agency, or local 501(c)(3) organization may be credited as a co-investigator for the purpose of this eligibility test if their organization has the capacity to join Pitt in large-scale, follow-on funding proposals. In the case of co-investigators at community-based non-profits, modest stipends to enable participation will be considered on a case-by-case basis.