Application open DEC 1, 2024 – JAN 31, 2025
- Seed funding is available up to $3,000 (domestic program) and up to $5,000 (international program) to support pre-program visits for the creation of a study abroad program.
- Funding up to $10,000 a year, for three years, to embed a global component to a spring or winter class.
- Funding up to $10,000 a year for three years to create a new domestic (within the U.S.) study away program.
OGA is especially interested in supporting proposals by new entrants and early-career faculty.
Awarded programs must be run through UW Study Abroad.
Applications which demonstrate consideration for the following will be given priority:
- Cross-disciplinary collaboration
- Diversity, equity, and accessibility
- Environmental sustainability
- Longevity of the program/project
- Bi-directional relationships with global partners
Contact OGA with questions at uwgif@uw.edu.
You may apply for both a pre-program visit and one of the three-year awards.
Pre-program visit
- Award is for up to $3,000 for domestic and up to $5,000 for international program.
- The visits should be for location scouting and developing partnerships.
Fund an additional faculty member to attend an existing program to share the responsibility of maintaining the program in the future
- Award is for up to $3,000 for domestic and up to $5,000 for international program.
- Awards aims to improve program longevity by training other faculty members to run the program in the future.
Embed a global component to a spring or winter class
- Award is for up to $10,000 a year for three years.
- The funding will offset the cost of the program to students for the first three years that it runs.
- The global component must take place during spring break.
Create a new domestic study away program
- Award is for up to $10,000 a year for three years.
- The funding will offset the cost of the program to students for the first three years that it runs.
- Award aims to broaden access to study abroad for students.
- UW faculty members
- UW research scientists, and non-faculty researchers
- UW professional staff are also eligible (must be paired with a UW faculty member to run the program)
| Application opens | December 1, 2024 |
| Application deadline | January 31, 2025 |
| Award use period | February 15, 2025 – March 31, 2026 |
| Reimbursement due | No later than March 31, 2026 |
| Narrative reports due | No later than March 31, 2026 |
Budget updates and short program updates must be submitted once a year, by March 31 to receive the additional funding for the following year.
All funded projects must submit a post-award report at the end of the award use period.
- Brief narrative report – describe the community, outcomes, and next step
- Photos
- Budget report reflecting actual expenditures
Please mention the Global Innovation Fund in any communications or news related to your project. Please mention the Global Innovation Fund in any communications or news related to your project. Use #UWGlobal on social media UWGlobal LinkedIn, UWGlobal Instagram, and UW Study Abroad Instagram.
OGA may follow up to do additional marketing and story-telling around each community.
Failure to submit the final report and budget on time will cause exclusion from future GIF applications.
Note:
- For awards for pre-program visits or to fund an additional faculty member to attend an existing program, award funds will be disbursed to the lead applicant’s department.
- For awards to embed a global component to a spring or winter class or to create a new domestic study away program, award funds will be disbursed to UW Study Abroad to offset the cost of the program to students for the first three years the program runs.
Previously successful proposals:
Program on the Environment: Exploring Environmental and Social Resilience
–Destination: Taiwan
–Proposal: To develop a new study abroad program where students can meet with local experts, participate in field trips, and create culminating projects that compare resilience and adaptation challenges and strategies between Taiwan and Washington state.
–Primary Applicant: Yen-Chu Weng, Program on the Environment
–Collaborators: Jackson School Taiwan Studies Program, National Taiwan University
Academic Support Programs Study Abroad
–Destination: Italy
–Proposal: To develop a new study abroad program where students can explore questions of identity, immigration, and community in post-colonial Italy and the US and learn academic habits and study skills that will help them thrive at the UW upon their return from Rome.
–Primary Applicant: Ryan Burt, Academic Support Programs -Undergraduate Academic Affairs
-Collaborators: College of Arts & Sciences, Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity
Global Health Partnerships in Disaster Preparedness and Response
–Destination: Peru, Nepal, Japan
–Proposal: To develop a new study abroad program focused on disaster preparedness and response with health science students from UW, Tohoku University in Japan, Kathmandu University in Nepal, and Universidad San Marcos in Peru.
–Primary Applicants: Sarah Gimbel and Pamela Kohler, Center for Global Health Nursing
-Collaborators: UW-Tohoku University, Urban Design & Planning, Department of Global Health