4.A.2. Activities: Faculty and Student Research Grants. Indicate all faculty and research grants planned during each academic year for the entire 2011-14 grant period, including the likely nature and impact of grant recipients’ activities. All grants in this category must be made by competitive process, and none can be awarded to EU Center staff (see section III of the Call for Proposals). Please also specify how these activities will further the program policy objectives and produce the related outcomes set out in section II of the Call for Proposals, and provide measurable criteria for evaluating their implementation. Attach additional page(s) if necessary.
All research and travel grants will be awarded through a competitive process and will not be open to the EU Center of Excellence staff, the Director, or members of the Executive Board. Furthermore, students working as research assistants for the faculty members sitting on the Executive Board or the Director will also not be able to apply for the research grants.
We will evaluate our research grant program by requiring the recipients to produce a report of activities following the conclusion of their grant. The report will be read by the members of the Executive Board and the Director and taken into consideration for the next round of the grants.
The EU center will offer the following 4 grant programs in each of the three years of its program:
