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The 2025 TRAILS Seed Funding Request for Proposals (RFP) has been released. Optional letters of intent due March 7, 2025. Full proposals due April 4, 2025.

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Request for Proposals

• 💡 2025 Seed Funding RFP
  • Main RFP document (last updated 2/19/25)
    • Budget Description Template (last updated 2/19/25)
    • Budget Justification Template (last updated 2/19/25) [CORNELL BEING CHECKED]
  • Submit proposals (including LOIs) and reviews here (EasyChair)
    • For LOIs, complete and submit an application, including just the required fields, with the PDF of your LOI as the only uploaded proposal document. You'll be able to go back later and edit your submission to include your full proposal when it's ready.

Online Networking Resources

• Networking board
  • Use this Padlet board to share proposal ideas on which you’d like feedback from other researchers, find collaborators with the expertise you need on your team, or explain what expertise you might bring to a team you join. (To post, you will need to sign up for a free Padlet account, which takes 30 seconds.)
• TRAILS Directory
  • Contact information for current TRAILS members and affiliates
• Previously Funded Projects
  • Titles, descriptions, and team member lists for seed research projects funded by TRAILS in 2023 and 2024.

Supporting Events

TRAILS is offering three types of events to support you as you find collaborators and develop proposals, office hours, collaboration mixers, and roundtables.

• Please RSVP to events you plan to attend using the links below to get updates and help the facilitators plan activities.

• See all the events on a calendar:

  TRAILS Seed Funding Support Events Calendar

Office Hours

Office hours are your opportunity to ask TRAILS leaders questions about the RFP and TRAILS research more generally. Summarizes and/or recordings of the Q&A will be posted online.

• Friday, February 21, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM
  • In person location: Room 2000, George Washington University Science and Engineering Hall, 800 22nd St NW, Washington, DC 20052
  • Remote link: Zoom
  • RSVP here
• Thursday, March 20, 12:00-1:00 PM ET
  • In-person location: Dept. of Advanced Studies, Leadership, and Policy Conference Room, Banneker Hall, Morgan State University, 1700 E Cold Spring Ln, Baltimore, MD 21251
  • Remote link: Zoom
  • RSVP here
• Tuesday, March 25, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM ET
  • In-person locations: Room 4109, Iribe Center, University of Maryland, 8125 Paint Branch Dr, College Park, MD 20742
  • Remote link: Zoom
  • RSVP here

Collaboration Mixers

These sessions provide an opportunity to meet other researchers from TRAILS-partner universities, discuss ideas, and plan collaborations. We encourage you to attend in person if at all possible, but remote participation will also be possible.

• Monday, March 3, 2:00-3:30 PM ET
  • In person location: Room 2600, George Washington University Science and Engineering Hall, 800 22nd St NW, Washington, DC 20052
  • Remote link: Zoom
  • RSVP here