Empire Innovation Program 2019-20 RFP

The Empire Innovation Program (SUNY EIP) is a state-funded grant program designed to help recruit and retain world-class faculty at the State University of New York (SUNY). The program aims to expand SUNY’s research enterprise by building on existing research strengths in areas that SUNY has established capacity and realizing significant growth through additional investments in human capital to establish SUNY as a leader in those areas and strengthen SUNY’s research leadership overall.

The SUNY EIP program is designed to leverage existing campus research strengths to grow SUNY’s capacity as the go-to partner for state, federal, industrial, and philanthropic research support in areas that address pressing societal challenges. The opportunity to seek funding for cutting-edge research efforts is now open. Priority areas for this funding cycle include:

• AI Applications in Machine Learning, Healthcare, Education, Energy, and Security
• Next-Generation Computing and Communication
• Medicine and Biomedical Research
• Aging Research
• Substance Addiction Research
• Clinical Trials and Translational Biomedical Research
• Clean Energy and Energy Storage
• Resilient Communities and Critical Infrastructure
• Environmental Health and Medicine

All SUNY four-year campuses, including those currently receiving SUNY EIP funding, are eligible to submit a proposal under this RFP.

Submission Deadline

Proposal submission deadline is Thursday, October 31^st, 2019, by 5 p.m. Materials should be submitted via e-mail to eip@suny.edu.

Proposal documents

• 2019-20 Empire Innovation Program RFP - (PDF)
• 2019-20 EIP Proposal Cover Sheet - (docx)
• 2019-20 EIP Budget Template - (xls)