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Published on Friday, October 18, 2024

Abstract

The France-Berkeley Fund (FBF) is pleased to announce its 2025 Call for Projects. The Fund invites applications for up to $15,000 in seed funding for new collaborations between faculty and researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and their counterparts in France.The core mission of the FBF is to advance innovative basic and applied research in all fields. 

Announcement

General presentation

The France-Berkeley Fund (FBF) is pleased to announce its 2025 Call for Projects.

The Fund invites applications for up to $15,000 in seed funding for new collaborations between faculty and researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and their counterparts in France.The core mission of the FBF is to advance innovative basic and applied research in all fields.

The program accepts single-discipline or interdisciplinary proposals on any research topic in STEM, arts and humanities, social sciences, law, business, education, and public health.

Priority is given to proposals that demonstrate a balanced exchange and demonstrate complementary expertise between teams; projects involving early-career researchers; projects designed to generate new research approaches and strategies; and projects likely to foster long-term connections. 

Eligibility

FBF grants are open to all faculty and researchers who hold a permanent appointment and principal investigator status at UC Berkeley and/or the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Allowable Expenses

FBF grants may be used exclusively for expenses specific to the proposed collaboration. Awards should be used primarily to support the generating of research rather than its dissemination.

Grants may cover project-specific travel to enable shortterm visits and exchanges between research teams. FBF monies should NOT be used to cover everyday living expenses that would be incurred regardless of the project. All travel expenses are subject to University of California policy.

Grants may be used for research-related services (e.g. duplication costs, purchases of microfilm, digitization of documents, production of questionnaires/surveys, human subject costs, data entry, transcriptions of interviews, running focus groups, etc.). Grants may NOT be used to cover translation or publication costs.

Grants may NOT be used to pay the salaries or stipends of any personnel on the project, including administrative staff, students, or postdocs. The FBF does NOT pay for release time for faculty.

Grants may be used to cover organizing expenses for conferences and workshops, including facility rental, catering, printing, etc. FBF grants may NOT be used to cover registration fees for existing conferences.

Grants may NOT be used for the purchase of equipment (e.g. computers, recording equipment, etc.), supplies, or software, aside from project-specific materials that will be consumed over the course of the collaboration.

Duration

Grants will be awarded on July 1 and funded projects must be completed within 18 months (by December 31). Grantees may request a one-time no-cost extension of six months for extenuating circumstances. Extension requests must be submitted to fbf@berkeley.edu before the project’s end date and will be reviewed on a caseby-case basis. Any unused grant funds that remain after the project’s end date must be returned to the FBF.

Grant Reporting

All grantees are required to submit interim and final reports describing progress and status of project goals and outcomes, including how funds were spent to date. Interim reports are due within six months of the project’s start date; final reports are due upon completion of the project.

Application instructions

STEP 1: Compile the supporting materials requested below into a single PDF file, in the following order:

  1. Cover sheet
  2. Project proposal, in ENGLISH and in FRENCH (max 3 pages each, including references). The proposal should describe the nature of the collaboration, how the project contributes to advancing scientific knowledge and research methods within the applicants’ fields, the involvement of junior scholars (detailing their names and roles in the project), and the proposed scientific and institutional impact of the collaboration. Please also include a project timeline.
  3. Letter of intent (max 1 page), signed by both project coordinators, indicating their commitment to collaborate and to observe the project timeline and budget. This letter can be either in French or in English.
  4. Project budget (max 1 page) indicating a breakdown of expenses by category (airfare, lodging, etc.) and other sources of funding (potential and actual).
  5. Curriculum vitae (max 2 pages) of each project coordinator. CVs can be either in French or in English.
  6. For UC Davis applicants only: Cover letter from UCD Office of Sponsored Programs and applicant's home department (see below instructions)

STEP 2: Complete the online application form and upload all supporting materials before submitting your application.

To assist our office, please save your supporting document PDF file with the following title format: Last Name of UC PI-Last Name of France PI-FBF Year

Proposals must be submitted jointly with a colleague who holds a permanent appointment at a university or research center in France.

Application deadline: January 31, 2025, by midnight PST. 

Selection

Selection will be made by UC Berkeley members.

Director of the France-Berkeley fund: Larry Hyman.

Co-director of the France-Berkeley fund: Clément Sanchez.


Date(s)

  • Friday, January 31, 2025

Keywords

  • Grant, Berkeley, French

Reference Urls

Information source

  • Rachael Longuepee
    courriel : rlonguepee [at] berkeley [dot] edu

License

CC0-1.0 This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.

To cite this announcement

« 2025 France-Berkeley Fund », Call for tender, Calenda, Published on Friday, October 18, 2024, https://doi.org/10.58079/12j06

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