Application is closed
Seed funding is available up to $2,000 for innovative proposals that approach global learning through new perspectives, methods, and activities. Supporting the addition of a global module, project, or innovation to your course.
Priority to projects involving new or enhanced collaboration with an international partner.
- Add an element of International Virtual Exchange or Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) to your course (e.g., an international marketing project with students from the National University of Singapore)
- Student consulting or research project embedded in your course with an international company, non-profit, or NGO
- Incorporation of speaker(s) from an international organization (e.g., virtual lecture by Korean public health official on COVID response) or faculty member (e.g., expert from University of Queensland)
- Interactive international learning activity (e.g., virtual museum tour or remote company visit)
Awards cannot support long-term programs.
Contact OGA with questions at uwgif@uw.edu
- UW Faculty members, lecturers, and staff engaged in course development
- UW Staff members (with a co-lead faculty applicant)
- UW Post-docs (with a co-lead faculty applicant)
- UW Current PhD students (with a co-lead faculty applicant)
| 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 |
| Post-award reports due | No later than March 31, 2026 |
| Unused funds returned to OGA | No later than March 31, 2026 |
All funded projects must submit a post-award report at the end of the award use period.
- Brief narrative report – describe the purpose, outcomes, and next steps for your project
- Photos and/or videos
- Updated budget including actual expenditures
Please mention the Global Innovation Fund in any communications or news related to your project. Use #UWGlobal on social media UWGlobal LinkedIn and UWGlobal 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.
Previously successful proposals:
Comparative Health Systems
–Proposal: The course will include recorded videos (e.g., mini lectures, interactive interviews), featuring Ministers of Health or Ministers of Finance from one of the study countries (i.e., Mexico, Colombia, China, Bolivia, Thailand, and Burkina Faso). These recorded videos will provide students with insight into the distinct health systems from a local stakeholder perspective.
–Applicant: Yanfang Su, Department of Global Health
Law and Violence Data Laboratory
–Proposal: The course will invite five experts and activists from international human rights organizations focusing on media freedoms to attend seminars virtually via Zoom to interact with students by discussing how their organizations gather information on violence against journalists.
–Applicant: Geoffrey Wallace, Department of Political Science
Climate Change Resilience and Adaptation in Indigenous Communities in Taiwan
–Proposal: Collaborating with scholars and institutions from Taiwan, the course will create virtual field trips to several indigenous communities in Taiwan to showcase the challenges they face and community responses. Students in Taiwan will serve as field trip guides and present case studies to my class, and students in my class will create and share virtual field trip content based on case studies in WA state.
–Applicant: Yen-Chu Weng, Program on the Environment