To encourage ongoing collaborations among its postdoctoral fellows, other alumni, and Stanford faculty, the Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research (SCANCOR) is pleased to announce its Alumni Network Grants program.

Alumni Network Grants provide funds to support face-to-face meetings for groups of scholars who are engaged in, or seeking to develop, collaborative research.  The Network Grants are premised on three ideas:  that collaboration is intellectually generative; that transnational collaboration fosters novel, cosmopolitan scholarship; and that in-person exchanges are important components of any distributed enterprise.

The Alumni Network Grants are intended to build upon and extend SCANCOR’s rich tradition of international, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational collaborative research.

 ELIGIBILITY:

Proposed collaborations must be among at least three researchers, representing at least two universities or research institutes.

At least one collaborator must be a SCANCOR postdoctoral fellow, Scholar, alumnus, or Stanford University faculty member.

AWARDS:

Alumni Network Grants provide between $1500 - $7000 USD to support travel and accommodation costs associated with convening face-to-face meetings.  Grants are payable upon submission of Progress Memos, which are intended to serve as vehicles for ongoing collaboration (see below).  Original receipts for costs are required for award payouts, which take the form of reimbursements.

EVALUATION:

Applications are evaluated by the SCANCOR Board of Directors. 

Evaluation is based on:

-- Intellectual promise: The likelihood that the proposed collaboration will ultimately generate innovative, high-quality research products;

-- Clarity and feasibility: The degree to which the proposals are logically coherent, understandable, and convey a manageable work plan;

-- Technical capacity: The degree to which participants of the proposed collaboration have, collectively, the training and research skills necessary to pursue the proposed work;

-- Complementarity: The degree to which the proposed collaboration is likely to extend the training, skills, and intellectual reach of each collaborator.

Preference will be given to proposed collaborations involving more than one SCANCOR postdoctoral fellow, Scholar, or alumnus; and to trans-Nordic/transnational collaborations. 

PROGRESS MEMOS:

Financial awards from this program will be disbursed to grantees upon their submission of a Progress Memo.  A Progress Memo is a brief (<2,000 words) summary of the intellectual progress achieved through the meetings underwritten by the grant. 

In addition, the Progress Memo outlines specific plans for ongoing collaboration, in the form of (for example) jointly authored papers or monographs, funding proposals, or collaborative data collection and analysis. 

Finally, the Progress Memo includes a 500-word Project Summary suitable for public distribution through the SCANCOR web site and other media.

We encourage creativity in the format of presentation of the Progress Memo.  It may include visual, audio, and/or interactive components suitable for distribution through the SCANCOR web site and other media.

APPLICATION PROCESS:

Find the web-based application portal at
http://www.scancor.org/alumni/alumni-network-grants-program/grants-program-application/: 

Complete applications include:

-- a brief rationale describing how the proposed collaboration meets the evaluation criteria specified above (<750 words);

-- brief statements about the strengths (intellectual, technical) each participant brings to the collaboration (<250 words per participant);

-- a budget

-- a timetable

-- a proposed meeting venue (note: meetings do not need to convene at SCANCOR/Stanford)

APPLICATION DEADLINES:

1 December 2012 (notification in January 2013)

1 April 2013 (notification in May 2013)