Funding

Finding Collaborators

Collaboration can improve your project proposals and offers the opportunity to increase your scholarly output.  In addition, funders are increasingly requiring collaboration on externally funded projects. If you need help finding collaborators:

• Contact the Director of Grant Development for ideas and assistance
• Access GrantForward to identify potential research partners at SIUE and other member institutions. Please create an account if you currently do not have one. Contact us if assistance is needed.
• Participate in a speed networking event
• Contact SIUE Research Centers, which provide opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborative research:
  
  • C-PAN
    • The Center for Predictive Analytics (C-PAN) is a university-wide research center that serves both the SIUE community and external partners by using and developing state-of-the-art data analysis, machine learning and data visualization techniques to mine complex data for meaningful insights and real-world applications.

• • IRIS
    • The IRIS Center at SIUE is an interdisciplinary facility designed to support individual and collaborative scholarship that applies digital content as a primary methodology. The center's mission is to facilitate cross-disciplinary projects that involve innovative uses of technology in the humanities and social sciences, support these projects with facilities, equipment, and human resources, foster active collaboration between faculty and students, encourage the development of curricular innovation that makes use of digital applications, and promote digital endeavors that intersect with community initiatives.

• • GeoMARC (Geopspacial Mapping, Application, and Research Center)
    • GeoMARC is a research center that is focused on the use of advanced technologies in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, digital image processing, geospatial automation, and machine learning to help solve a wide range of issues within government, private, institutional, and local communities.

• • NCERC
    • The NCERC is a nationally recognized research center dedicated to the development and commercialization of biofuels, specialty chemicals and other renewable compounds. The NCERC’s fully functional dry grind pilot plant and laboratories are equipped with advanced biofuels capabilities including corn fractionation, pretreatment, and a fermentation suite. Facilities are staffed by industry veterans with the flexibility and expertise to design and carry out projects in any region of the advanced biofuels or specialty chemicals space.

• • STEM
    • The SIUE Center for STEM Research, Education and Outreach is a collaborative enterprise among several SIUE academic units, local community colleges and school districts, regional offices of education, and the community at large. The Center’s mission is to develop, strengthen and promote STEM research, education and outreach in the region.