Dear Colleagues,
We are excited to announce a new initiative to support Tech Park industry partnerships. The University of Connecticut plans to invest $40 million in equipment matching fund to grow industry sponsored research, federal grants, innovation and job creation. Our initial investments have already created important collaborations and investments from industry including the $7.5M GE Partnership for Advanced Materials, $10M UTC Partnership for Systems Engineering, $5M Fraunhofer Center for Energy Innovation, and the Pratt & Whitney Additive (3-D) Manufacturing Innovation Center, and the CHASE Center for Hardware Security.
For the upcoming year, we plan to make an initial investment of $10M as cost-share for equipment for faculty proposals in the area of advanced manufacturing & materials, systems engineering and science, biomedical devices and biotechnology. Funds will be committed as a 50% match for equipment on federal, state and industry proposals that demonstrate strong industry collaboration.
Details of the proposed competition will be shared shortly but we wanted to inform the faculty with this exciting opportunity.
Best,
Larry Silbart, Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives
Jeff Seeman, Vice President for Research
For more information, contact: Courtney Wiley at courtney.wiley@uconn.edu