We will follow the same process we used in the fall semester of 2021. Two symposiums were held to help researchers prepare proposals for potential funding. The first symposium held in October aimed to have individual faculty members pitch their ideas while others in the room listened. Then faculty were encouraged to network and find interdisciplinary partners to elevate their best pitches for the second symposium in November. During that session teams pitched more refined ideas.
Please save the date for this year’s second symposium on Nov. 18. More details about that event are forthcoming. From then, teams will have until December to submit Letters of Intent and until March 2022 to submit formal proposals. The final proposals will be reviewed and rated by a group of experts drawn from a wide range of disciplines from across the state of Colorado. The reviewers will rate the proposals for their clarity of purpose, and potential impact. The reviewers also will provide constructive comments to all the proposal teams who submit. The winning teams for Round 2 will be announced at Future Fest 2023.