Training Grant Matching Fund Program

The Graduate School provides matching funds for pre-doctoral training grant applications to improve the competitiveness of training grant applications and to help leverage other internal sources of matching support.

Priority given to applications that:

require institutional matching fund by the funding agencies.
have secured matching support from other University unit(s) such as department, college, and/or center/institute.
have been selected to be the institutional representative(s) for NSF IGERT

Matching amount depends on:

the total direct cost requested to the funding agency
the number of pre-doctoral trainees that will be supported on the grant per year
the average stipend currently being offered by the trainees' programs
the amount of matching support from other University unit(s)
fund availability of the current year budget allocation

Procedures:

complete the Request for Training Grant Matching Fund Form with appropriate information and signatures
submit to Belinda Cheung (cheun002@umn.edu) no less than four weeks before the application is due at Sponsored Projects Administration (SPA)
if approved, a commitment memo will be provided

Note: If the actual award amount is less than the requested amount, the level of matching support from the Graduate School may be prorated.