The 4-VA mission is to promote inter-university collaborations that leverage the strengths of each partner university in order to accomplish more than any individual university could achieve alone. The legislation creating 4-VA explains that the collaborative was established “to utilize emerging technologies to promote collaboration and resource sharing to increase access, reduce time to graduation and reduce unit cost while maintaining and enhancing quality.”
The Collaborative Research Grants (CRG) program is intended to improve research competitiveness at Mason and within the Commonwealth.
4-VA@Mason encourages:
- Collaboration with faculty from at least one of the other 4-VA partner schools
- Engaging undergraduate and graduate student research, providing opportunities for real-world experience and growth
- Dissemination of research findings to raise visibility of the project
- Supporting pilot research focused on 4-VA goal areas that could be used as a springboard for subsequent, major federal grants.
Research proposals could also support course redesign.
Funding amounts typically range from $5,000 to $20,000 per grant, not including complementary funding that may be supplied by partner institutions.
Proposals are accepted March through April. See 4-VA website for more information.
January 26, 2021
