Louisiana Board of Regents

The Preliminary Planning Grants for Major Initiatives program provides assistance to teams of researchers who are in the process of developing a proposal (or pre-proposal, if required) to a federal funding agency for a large-scale research and/or education program.  Applicants may seek support for the preparation of proposals to federal competitions that meet the following criteria:

• The resulting federal award will establish a multidisciplinary research and/or education project; and
• Total federal funding requested for the project must be at least $1 million.

Recipients of Planning Grants must submit a pre-proposal or full proposal to a federal funding agency during the period of the award, generally within one year.  The Planning Grant is not intended to support research to generate preliminary data.

It is expected that several awards of up to $10,000 each will be made under this competition, subject to availability of funds.

Awarded funds are to be used for activities in direct support of work required for development and preparation of a proposal to a federal funding agency, including, but not limited to, travel associated with proposal development, workshops, etc.

The deadline for next round of competition: TBA.


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