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Guidelines
- UF Guidelines for Limited Application Programs
- University of Florida Research Foundation Professorships Guidelines
- Research Opportunity Seed Fund Guidelines
- Researcher's Handbook
- UF Centers and Institutes
UF Guidelines for Limited Application Programs
Funding agencies are increasingly restricting the number of applications an institution can submit in response to many funding opportunities. The University of Florida designates these “Limited Application Programs.” If more than the specified number of applications are submitted in response to a limited application opportunity, all applications from the institution will be returned without review. Therefore, complying with this restriction is critical. The Office of Research has established these guidelines for selecting the proposal (or proposals) that will be submitted in response to a limited application program.
University of Florida Research Foundation Professorships Guidelines
These competitive professorships are awarded to tenured faculty who have a distinguished current record of research. The purpose of these awards is to recognize recent contributions and to provide incentives for continued excellence in research. The primary selection criteria is performance in the past five years and evidence of a strong research agenda that is likely to lead to continuing distinction in their field.
Research Opportunity Seed Fund Guidelines
The Research Opportunity Seed Fund provides funding for new, faculty-initiated research programs that are multi/interdisciplinary and that have the expectation and a reasonable plan for becoming externally-funded programs at the University of Florida. Awarded projects are innovative, support institutional mission goals, have strong potential for garnering future funding from external sources, or have outstanding commercial potential.
The Researcher's Handbook contains the policies and procedures for conducting research at the University of Florida, as well as general information about the Office of Research. The Office of Research offers a full range of financial, information, and administrative assistance for identifying, obtaining and administering external research funding.
Centers and Institutes focus on domains of knowledge that reside within a discipline or are cross-disciplinary in scope. These are organizational mechanisms that can be used to provide greater depth in teaching and/or research to a focal area within a discipline, or to apply a broader vision to problems that cross traditional knowledge boundaries. Centers may help develop new areas of research that enhance faculty development, encourage interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches to teaching and research, provide relevant focus for service to external and internal constituencies, and/or promote sharing of resources (e.g., equipment, labs) and collaboration across departmental and college boundaries.