Large and Collaborative Proposals
Our team focuses on providing assistance in the development stages of large, interdisciplinary and collaborative proposals. From team formation to management, planning and coordination throughout the proposal development process, we work with principal investigators and teams of researchers to support the creation of competitive proposals.
Individual Researchers and Smaller Proposals
Although our efforts are focused on assisting with the development of collaborative and large proposals, our team is available to help and guide individual researchers and provide them with resources.
Our goal is to increase research proposal competitiveness and the size and breadth of the overall research portfolio. While we do not replace ORED’s pre-award functions, we ensure that proposals are in the best and most complete form possible before they are sent to and submitted through ORED.
Our office can help with:
Identify a diverse set of funding opportunities.
- Identification of funding opportunities: Conduct a customized search on behalf of the faculty and/or assist faculty with setting up their own InfoSpin account and profiles for targeted searchs.
- Solicitation and guidelines interpretation (Grantsmanship): Interpret sponsor funding policy, eligibility criteria and other elements necessary to complete the submission.
Conduct brainstorming session for new ideas and/or new cross-disciplinary teams.
- Research collaboration and partnership building: Organize meetings to discuss collaboration opportunities, connect faculty, advise on forming interdisciplinary teams, tap into our extensive network of researchers, government agencies and community organizations, and team coordination.
Assist with proposal development.
- Navigating the proposal submission process: Assist in completing the sponsor’s agency online submission portal (e.g. grants.gov, research.gov).
- Proposal planning and development: Organize and facilitate meetings, create timelines to meet ORED and funding agency deadlines, coordinate and track assignments, create outlines for the writing team, and assemble necessary documents.
- Editing and proofreading of narrative.
- Revision and resubmission of declined proposals, including interpreting reviewers' comments.
- Required documents coordination: Ensure that all elements of the required documents comply with the funding agency’s policies (including Biosketch, Data Management Plan, and others).
- Broader impact or other specific section development: Work with faculty to design impactful programs to highlight and advance their strategic development, navigating K12 school relationships, and connecting researchers with existing educational programs.
Facilitate interactions with ORED pre-award team.
- Budget and budget justification development: Provide guidance on how to use the spreadsheet, draft budget justification, advice on ORED budget policies and procedures.
- ePRAF. Complete ePRAF questionnaire and ePRAF routing.
See the RDOffice FlyerWhile we have designated each RD officer a primary school and/or institute responsibility based on their background, the CASE RD team supports all CASE researchers. We work jointly on most proposals and will assign team members to each proposal based on workload balance and upcoming deadlines. Please contact us for assistance at CASERDoffice@fiu.edu or via the CASE Proposal Development Contact Form where you can indicate the type of assistance needed.
- Rita Teutonico, PhD, leads the Research Development Office and directs all areas of expertise provided by the office.
- Brian A. Raue, PhD, is the interim Associate Dean of Research.
- Marta D'Elia, PhD, primarily assists research teams from the School of Environment, Arts and Society (Biscayne Bay Campus) and the Institute of Environment.
- Juan J. Lopez primarily assists research faculty from the School of Integrated Science and Humanities and proposals to private foundations.
- M. Valeria Perez, MSc, MPA, primarily assist research faculty and teams from the School of Education and Human Development and the STEM Transformation Institute.
Ready to transform your big idea into a reality? Our CASE Proposal Development Contact Form has been designed with the needs of investigators in mind. Once you have completed and submitted a contact form, one of our CASE Research Development team members will be assigned to work with you directly in the development of your proposal.
In order for our team to best assist you, please be sure to contact us at least two months prior to the proposal submission deadline. Priority will be given to researchers who contact the CASE Research Development Office with information about solicitations/proposals of interest in a timely manner.
*All proposals to external sponsors for projects that will involve University faculty and/or staff must be sent to the FIU Office of Research and Economic Development at least 8 business days (if proposal contains subawards) or 5 business days (if proposal does not contain subawards) prior to sponsor submission deadline for review, approval and submission.
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