Big Ideas Initiative

See the RFP

Big Ideas Initiative

Big Ideas Initiative

Questions?

Contact bigideas@nebraska.edu with questions or comments.

Big Idea Proposals and Process

After downloading and reading the Request for Proposal, you can submit your proposal via the grants-awards.nebraska.edu website.

Once proposals for Big Ideas are received, they will be vetted by faculty panels using a scoring rubric that maps to the RFA. Ideas meeting the scoring criteria will be advanced for further university review by a steering committee, the CAOs and CROs, and the President and Chancellors. Accepted proposals will then go through external funding feasibility studies.

To note: while some ideas will advance as a University-wide Big Idea, others may be reviewed for private funding potential at the campus, college or unit level.

Big Idea Request for Proposal