Faculty Travel Incentive Program

The Faculty Travel Incentive Program (FTIP), facilitated and supported by Research & Innovation (R&I), is designed to reinforce UTEP school analysis productiveness and visibility by offering monetary help for journey to conferences, workshops, or conferences with skilled organizations and funding businesses. This program encourages school to interact in networking and collaboration alternatives that may strengthen future grant proposals, advance analysis initiatives, and elevate the college’s analysis profile.

Program Goals

• Foster collaboration with colleagues, potential funders, and researchers.
• Support school engagement in tutorial, trade, and authorities conferences instantly associated to the event of a analysis proposal.
• Encourage conferences with program officers from funding businesses to debate potential proposals.
• Enhance the visibility of UTEP analysis at nationwide and worldwide venues.

Eligibility Criteria

• Full-time school members at UTEP, together with scientific, tenure-track, and tenured school, are eligible to use.
• Faculty will need to have an energetic analysis agenda, with desire given to these submitting grant proposals inside the present tutorial yr.
• Travel, whether or not home or worldwide, should be associated to presenting analysis (e.g., papers, posters, panels), attending skilled coaching periods, taking part in collaborative conferences, or partaking instantly with program officers or potential funders.
• Priority will likely be given to school whose participation aligns with proposal improvement or enhances the potential for future exterior funding.
• Faculty who obtain an award might reapply after two years.
• Awarded journey funds are non-transferable and is probably not allotted to different school members or college students.

Funding Details

• Award quantities will fluctuate relying on vacation spot and justification however usually vary from $500 to $1,500.
• Covered bills embody airfare, convention registration charges, lodging, and meals, topic to the relevant per diem charges.
• Faculty should search cost-sharing from their division or school when attainable.

Application Requirements

• A accomplished software by way of InfoReady, together with:

1. Brief description of the occasion or assembly and its relevance to your analysis (500 phrases most).
2. An in depth finances outlining journey prices and different bills.

   1. Conference registration
   2. Per diem
   3. Lodging
   4. Transporation (e.g. air fare, rental, journey share, mileage)

3. Confirmation of division or school cost-share help (if relevant).
4. A timeline for the journey and anticipated outcomes (e.g., collaborations, proposal improvement).

Selection Criteria

• Potential to reinforce analysis productiveness and visibility.
• Alignment with UTEP’s analysis priorities and strategic objectives.
• Impact on future funding prospects, together with proposal improvement and submission.
• Quality and readability of the appliance.

Travel Reporting

• Awardees should submit a quick report through the supplied [form link] inside two weeks of their return, detailing the next:

  • Key takeaways and the way the journey superior their analysis objectives.
  • Outcomes embody new collaborations, partnerships, or conferences with program officers.
  • Future steps in proposal submission or analysis improvement.

Timeline

• Applications will likely be accepted thrice a yr for Spring, Summer, and Fall. Deadlines for every time period are:

  • Spring: December 31
  • Summer: April 30
  • Fall: August 31
  • Note: If the deadline falls on a weekend, the appliance deadline will likely be prolonged to the next enterprise day.

Contact Information

For extra data or questions concerning the Faculty Travel Incentive Program, please contact [email protected] .