Types of Funding  

 

System Competitive Research Funding

The ARI annually allocates $800,000 in support of a multi-campus shared pool of competitive research funding for research of statewide significance. This funding is restricted to public domain projects.

Eligible Applicants: Any qualified researcher from the 22 CSU campus system. Principal Investigators (PI) may be faculty (tenure-track or adjunct), lecturers or research scientists with campus-defined eligibility from their respective CSU campus.

System grants can be funded for a maximum of 3 years with a minimum request of $75,000 per year and a maximum request of $150,000 per year. Pre-proposals are required. Requests for full proposals will be based on a pre-proposal evaluation and ranking.

System grants are open to all 22 CSU campuses. Collaboration is required; the PI must be from a CSU campus and the project must include at least one off-campus scientist serving as a Co-Investigator (CI). The CI may be faculty or research scientists from another CSU campus, the UC, industry or another qualified research organization’s faculty or research scientists. System proposals must document the research collaboration in terms of financial support and scope of work, through subcontracts, standard agreements, and/or transfer of matching funds from collaborator(s) to the Principal Investigator’s campus. System proposals involving multiple CSU campuses will receive priority.

The number of awards available is dependent on available funding each year.

Each System research project is required to obtain 1:1 match to ARI funds provided with a minimum of 25% cash.

Campus Competitive Funding

The ARI annually allocates $2.66 million to be dispersed by ARI Administration among the four CSU colleges of agriculture in support of individual intra-campus competitive applied agricultural research. Individual campus funding allocations are made specifically for addressing unique local and/or regional project activities. This funding is restricted to public domain projects.

Eligible Campuses: Cal Poly, Pomona, Cal Poly, SLO, Chico State, Fresno State, Cal Poly Humboldt, CSU Monterey Bay.
Eligible Applicants: In addition to residing at an ARI campus, Project Directors for Campus ARI projects must be faculty (tenure-track or adjunct), lecturers or research scientists with campus-defined eligibility from the member or associate campus that receives the ARI allocation.

Campus grants can be funded for a maximum of 3 years with a maximum request of $150,000 per year.

Collaboration is not required but encouraged.

The number of awards is dependent on available funding each year.

Each Campus research project is required to obtain 1:1 match to ARI funds provided with a minimum of 25% cash, with the exception of Seed and New Investigator Funding (see below).

Seed Funding

Eligible Campuses: Cal Poly Pomona, Cal Poly SLO, Chico State, Fresno State, Cal Poly Humboldt and CSU Monterey Bay.

Eligible Applicants: In addition to residing on an ARI campus, applicants must be faculty (tenure-track or adjunct), lecturers or research scientists with campus-defined eligibility from the member or associate campus that receives the ARI allocation. Please check with your campus ARI office for specific information and available funding, if any, for this type of application. A campus is not obligated to fund Seed grants in a given funding cycle.

Seed grants are funded for one year with a maximum request of $10,000. Collaboration and match are not required for individual projects. However, the campus research allocation must be matched in aggregate to cover seed grants.

New Investigator Funding

Eligible Campuses: Cal Poly Pomona, Cal Poly SLO, Chico State, Fresno State, Cal Poly Humboldt, and CSU Monterey Bay.

Eligible Applicants: In addition to residing at an ARI campus, an applicant must be a first- through fourth-year tenure-track faculty member who has not been a past or current recipient of a campus competitive award. Please check with your campus ARI office for the specifics and available funding, if any, for this type of application. A campus is not obligated to fund New Investigator grants in a given funding cycle.

New Investigator grants can be funded for a maximum of two years with a maximum request of $20,000 per year; no minimum.

Collaboration is not required.

The number of awards is limited to four per funding cycle per campus.

Each New Investigator project is required to obtain a minimum 75% total match; 20% of the 75% match must be cash. The campus research allocation must be matched in aggregate to cover new investigator grants.