Interdisciplinary Group Toolkit

Institute for Advanced Study:

• Research and Creative Collaboratives
• 5x5 Initiative: 5 People, 5 Perspectives, 5 Meetings

Graduate School:

• Interdisciplinary Graduate Groups

College of Liberal Arts:

• Humanistic Commons Graduate Research Groups

College of Liberal Arts/College of Science and Engineering:

• C³: Curiosity, Community, and Collaboration

Digital Arts, Sciences, & Humanities (DASH) project

MnDRIVE, the "partnership between the university and the state of Minnesota that aligns areas of university strength with the state’s key and emerging industries to advance new discoveries that address grand challenges."

Big Ten Academic Alliance Geoportal, a collaborative project connecting users to digital geospatial resources, including GIS datasets, web services, and digitized historical maps from multiple data clearinghouses and library catalogs.

Experts@Minnesota, the University-wide expertise database

• Experts@Minnesota User Guide

College of Liberal Arts' Expertise Database

Campus networking events:

• UMN Events Calendar
• Institute for Advanced Study programs
• Graduate School's Interdisciplinary Initiatives

Grant Funding: Search Tools & Resources, including

• Internal U of M funding sources
• Departmental or college grants coordinators
• Resources on the grant writing process

Sponsored Projects Administration (SPA), the office that assists in submitting proposals and getting grants and mediates the grant process

IonE Mini Grants encourage new collaborations for interdisciplinary groups of faculty, staff and students from across U of M disciplines, units and campuses

Grand Challenges grants and research opportunities for collaboration across disciplines