1. Personal Details: Applicant name and contact information (Text fields)

2. Key Collaborator/Partner Information: Include names, affiliations, and project titles (e.g. Co-PI, Co-I, Advisor) for key members of the project team (Text fields)

3. Proposal Title (Text field)

4. Project Period: (Text field)
Enter a suggested start and end date. Project periods can range considerably based on the emergent partnership activities. IHDSC will work with you to co-determine the appropriate end date for your award. The earliest possible start date is May 2025. 

5. Requested budget: Awards will range from $5,000 - $10,000. (Text field)

6. Budget narrative (2-3 sentences): (Text field)
Describe the kind of support you may need. This may include faculty or research effort, travel, food and beverage costs, supplies and materials, subawards and consultants, etc. Please note: IHDSC will schedule follow-up conversations with the project team to discuss the budget in more detail to support its development. 

7. Other forms of support: (Text field)
Describe additional forms of support beyond monetary investment. This may include IHDSC or other NYU staff time, support for the development of partnership agreements, access to space, etc.

8. Partnership Description: (Attachment)
The partnership description should be no more than 2 single-spaced pages including all pictures, graphs, and tables. References can be included, as needed, and will not count toward the 2-page limit. Please be succinct, avoid jargon, and spell out acronyms when used for the first time.

Please consider including responses to the following sections within your partnership description:

• Partner information: Name, location, mission, primary point of contact
• Rationale for how this partnership aligns with your short and long term scholarly interests and goals: How will the requested Seed Award funding contribute to your short and long term research, impact, and/or funding goals? How will the requested Seed Award funding contribute to the partner organization’s short and long term research, impact, and/or funding goals?

• History of relationship between NYU Investigator(s) and partner: For new partnerships, please explain how/why you connected and the nature of the conversations or activities to date. If you are not yet connected, describe why you feel this is an important partner to pursue.
• Ideas for relationship building and partnered activities: Describe how you plan to engage with the partner. This may include meetings, site visits, observations, travel, research support or evaluation, capacity building initiatives, data infrastructure projects, technical assistance and training, event coordination, communications and dissemination effort, etc.
  • Please note: This may change upon further discussion with IHDSC staff.  
• Ideas for products and/or outcomes: Describe potential products and/or outcomes that may result from the activities described above. This may include developing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) or other type of partnership agreement that establishes the relationship, the development of data access and sharing plans, establishing collaboratively identified work to pursue, creating an outline and/or timeline for proposed collaborative work, identifying future funding opportunities, etc.
  • Please note: Interim products/outcomes and long term goals may be modified or changed upon further discussion with IHDSC staff and partners
• Sustainability plan and long term goals: Describe your plans to sustain the relationship with the partner organization. What are some long term goals for the future of the partnership?

9. Curriculum Vitae and Partner Details: (Attachment)
Include CVs, resumes, biographies, or biosketches for any named NYU investigators or key academic personnel involved in the proposal. Please provide a brief description of your main (or targeted) contacts at the external partner organization and their role, and include a CV, resume, or biography for them if available.  All CV and bio information should be combined and attached as one file.

10. Letter(s) of Support: (Optional; Attachment)
If you have an established relationship and feel comfortable asking for a letter of support, it would be helpful to receive a letter as part of the application. If you are establishing a brand new partnership, you can skip the letter of support for now