2011 Systems Science Grantsmanship Workshop - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

2011 Systems Science Grantsmanship Workshop

USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture

in cooperation with

University of Tennessee AgResearch

The Grant Process:Application, Review, and Award

Daniel Schmoldt

After an application package is submitted, the AR will receive a series of four e-mails. The titles of the four e-mails are:

And, there’s one more…

• If accepted for peer review, the application will be assigned a NIFA application number (e.g., YEAR-XXXXX). This number should be cited on all future correspondence.

• The first part of the process is the administrative review
• A main focus of the administrative review is to facilitate the peer review
• The second part of the process is a peer review

• Reviewers for a particular year are selected based on the types of applications that are submitted
• All panelists are considered experts in their fields
• Panelists can include: academia, federal labs, NGOs, industry, technology providers
• Around 30 % of the panelists are from the previous year
• A number of diversity criteria are applied before invitations are sent

• Each application must be reviewed by at least 3 external reviewers
• Panelists are generally assigned 10 to 20 applications to review
• Reviewers are provided with the RFA and the evaluation criteria
• Applications that don’t adhere to the guidelines and criteria are not likely to be funded