Our Team and Mission
Bold Challenges Team
OVPR Leadership
Core Operations and Support
Research Development Support
Bold Challenges supports core objectives:
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Increase cross-school collaboration, public impact, and U-M’s competitiveness for large grants on essential challenges.
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Forecasts funding opportunities and identifies comparative advantages.
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Offers broad and inclusive pathways to large-scale external research funding.
Pollination Events
Bold Challenges events empower U-M researchers to:
Meet collaborators
Learn about funders and funding opportunities
Engage external partners such as industry and community organizations
Improve communication
Enhance leadership skills
Build dynamic teams
Create stronger proposals
Programs
The programs offer expert resarch development support tailored to meet the needs of each awarded team. Each awarded team will have a staff member embedded on their team to support progress toward research and proposal goals and receive funding to support activities that are necessary to prepare competitive proposals.
Boost is an interdisciplinary team development program that empowers dynamic cross-school research groups to generate competitive large-scale proposals in the next two to five years.
Accelerate is a large-scale proposal development program for advanced, cross-school teams ready to submit large proposals within the next two years.