MyNetResearch Grant Awards Competition 2009 - Guidelines (Submission Date: August 10th, 2009 - extended)

Academic research practices have remained virtually identical in their conduct and organization over the last few decades.  Disparate groups of researchers work on ideas, projects and inventions in isolated clusters, with little sharing of information and synergies from collaboration.  Differing versions of documents, project management challenges, and communication breakdowns can also sap productivity.

The advent of Web 2.0-based research networks such as MyNetResearch has dramatically reduced the barriers and obstacles of people interacting with each other across the world.  In addition, they are designed to improve document management, project management, collaboration, and idea discovery.

We invite proposals from research faculty that describe how MyNetResearch can help researchers at their universities create productive university-wide research collaborations and improve overall efficiency of their university's research efforts. These could include:

• Support of research consortia within or across universities
• Support of academia/industry research collaborations
• Support of research Centers within or across universities
• Improving research across the university in support of accreditation efforts
• Creating a support infrastructure for PhD students' dissertation and management
• Support of multiple-country research efforts

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1. Nature of the Award
The competition shall consist of three (3) awards of 1-year Institutional Licenses for the grant applicants' universities, worth $50,000 each. This license may be used by research faculty and graduate students at the grantee's university.

2. Purpose of the Award
The competition was established to provide support to universities seeking to advance their research programs.  In 2009, the competition will recognize three awardees from any discipline, and from any country. This international award will be made for the most outstanding proposals that describe how e-Research collaborative portals such as MyNetResearch can be used to advance collaborative research and knowledge sharing within the proposer's university.   

The awarded license will give up to 1,000 research faculty and graduate students at the grantee's university full use of MyNetResearch Premium features for one full year free-of-charge. We will also publish the winning proposals on theMyNetResearch website.

3. Eligibility
3.1 The award recipient must be an active faculty member in an accredited degree-granting institution with a graduate program.

4. Submissions
The submission package should include the following:
(a) A prposal between 1,000 and 1,500 words.
(b) An accompanying letter of support from the proposer's Dept. Head, Dean, or VP Research.
(c) All submissions must be made by July 15th, 2009 through the MyNetResearch website through Article Submissions. (Register at: https://www.mynetresearch.com/SignUp/SignUp.aspx)

5. Competition Administration

• The MyNetResearch Grant Awards are sponsored by MyNetResearch LLC, and is administered by its Advisory Board.
• The MyNetResearch Grant Awards Panel is composed of members of the Advisory board headed by the Senior Editor. 
• Submissions will be judged on merit of the potential significance of research to the applicant’s respective discipline. The Panel’s decisions are final.
• The Senior Editor of MyNetResearch will email award notifications to the winners of the competition and their names will posted on www.MyNetResearch.com.

6. Publicity
The grant awardees shall be publicized in the MyNetResearch newsletter.

7. Timetable for projects for funding during AY 2009-2010:
All submissions must be made by August 10th, 2009 through the MyNetResearch website.

The MyNetResearch Grant Award Decisions will be made by August 17, 2009.

The MyNetResearch Grant Awards were initially established in 2008. The 2009 awards are sponsored by MyNetResearch LLC and administered by its Senior Editor and the Editorial Board.