Application open DEC 1, 2024 – JAN 31, 2025
- Up to $3,000 (for a new ‘study away’ program within the United States) or up to $5,000 (for a new ‘study abroad’ international program) to support exploratory/scoping visits by prospective program directors to destination countries.
- Up to $3,000 (for a new ‘study away’ program within the United States) or up to $5,000 (for a new ‘study abroad’ international program): for an additional faculty member to accompany an existing program (improve program longevity by training other faculty members to run the program in the future).
- Up to $10,000 per year, for three years: budget support for a new faculty-led program (domestic or international)
OGA is especially interested in supporting proposals by faculty who are new to study abroad.
Awarded programs must be run through UW Study Abroad.
Special consideration will be given to applications that involve one or more of the following:
- Programs offered at the UW Rome Center or UW Leon Center, especially during Autumn, Winter and Spring quarters
- Programs with a STEM focus
- Programs located in the Global South (Africa, Latin America/Caribbean, South Asia, Southeast Asia)
- Planned program longevity (multiple planned iterations/multiple potential program directors)
Contact OGA with questions at uwgif@uw.edu.
You may apply for both a pre-program visit and one of the three-year awards.
Pre-program visit
- Award is for up to $3,000 for new domestic programs (within the United States) and up to $5,000 for new international programs.
- The pre-program visits should be for location scouting, scoping, and for developing on-the-ground partnerships that can help support a new program.
Fund an additional faculty member to attend an existing program to share the responsibility of maintaining the program in the future
- Award is for up to $3,000 for new domestic programs (within the United States) and up to $5,000 for new international programs.
- Award seeks to improve program longevity by training other faculty members to run the program in the future.
Create a new faculty-led program:
- Award is for up to $10,000 per year for three years
- The funding will go directly to the program budget and reduce the program fee for all participating students
- UW faculty members
- UW research scientists, and non-faculty researchers
- UW professional staff are also eligible (must be paired with a UW faculty member to run the program)
| Application opens | December 1, 2024 |
| Application deadline | January 31, 2025 |
| Award use period | February 15, 2025 – March 31, 2026 |
| Reimbursement due | No later than March 31, 2026 |
| Post-award reports due | No later than March 31, 2026 |
| Unused funds returned to OGA | No later than March 31, 2026 |
Budget updates and short program updates must be submitted once a year, by March 31 to receive the additional funding for the following year.
All funded projects must submit a post-award report at the end of the award use period.
- Brief narrative report – describe the purpose, outcomes, and next steps for your project
- Photos and/or videos
- Updated budget including actual expenditures
Please mention the Global Innovation Fund in any communications or news related to your project. Use #UWGlobal on social media UWGlobal LinkedIn, UWGlobal Instagram, and UW Study Abroad Instagram.
OGA may follow up to do additional marketing and story-telling around each community.
Failure to submit the final report and budget on time will cause exclusion from future GIF applications.
Note:
- For awards for pre-program visits or to fund an additional faculty member to attend an existing program, award funds will be disbursed to the lead applicant’s department.
- For awards to support new faculty-led programs, award funds will be disbursed to UW Study Abroad to offset the cost of the program to students for the first three years the program runs.
Previously successful proposals:
Program on the Environment: Exploring Environmental and Social Resilience
–Destination: Taiwan
–Proposal: To develop a new study abroad program where students can meet with local experts, participate in field trips, and create culminating projects that compare resilience and adaptation challenges and strategies between Taiwan and Washington state.
–Primary Applicant: Yen-Chu Weng, Program on the Environment
–Collaborators: Jackson School Taiwan Studies Program, National Taiwan University
Academic Support Programs Study Abroad
–Destination: Italy
–Proposal: To develop a new study abroad program where students can explore questions of identity, immigration, and community in post-colonial Italy and the US and learn academic habits and study skills that will help them thrive at the UW upon their return from Rome.
–Primary Applicant: Ryan Burt, Academic Support Programs -Undergraduate Academic Affairs
-Collaborators: College of Arts & Sciences, Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity
Global Health Partnerships in Disaster Preparedness and Response
–Destination: Peru, Nepal, Japan
–Proposal: To develop a new study abroad program focused on disaster preparedness and response with health science students from UW, Tohoku University in Japan, Kathmandu University in Nepal, and Universidad San Marcos in Peru.
–Primary Applicants: Sarah Gimbel and Pamela Kohler, Center for Global Health Nursing
-Collaborators: UW-Tohoku University, Urban Design & Planning, Department of Global Health