Applications
Applications for the Imperial - Cornell Education Seed Fund are now closed.
Imperial and Cornell have committed to exploring a wider institutional partnership across research, education, and innovation.
As part of the partnership, Imperial and Cornell have launched the second round of the education seed. The fund encourages projects that combine expertise and efforts across Imperial and Cornell to jointly develop new teaching, learning and student experience opportunities.
Guidance
Projects are expected to benefit students and faculty/academic staff at both institutions. Applicants must clearly state the impact that the award will bring to both institutions in terms of student experience, and, where possible, involve faculty/academic staff-student partnerships in the design and delivery.
Projects which support development in the following areas are encouraged:
- Research-led education: projects that are informed by the most recent research in the relevant topic. This could entail encouraging students to participate in research projects.
- New applications for digital technologies: Projects that pursue innovative, inclusive and impactful online experiential learning opportunities.
- Multidisciplinary, global challenge topics that may be linked to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- Student entrepreneurship: Projects that provide students with the knowledge, skills, and resources to develop an entrepreneurial mindset through joint projects or creating experiential learning opportunities (e.g. joint hackathons).
- Digital lifelong learning: Projects that involve designing flexible, digital curricular that can be accessed by learners, students and/or alumni at different stages of life (including courses/modules that would utilize e-Cornell platforms and non-degree courses that use platforms such as Blackboard or insendi).
- Learning analytics: projects that foster knowledge exchange on approaches to building learning analytics platforms, structures , and designing metrics to support and enhance the student experience.
- Exchange of academic and professional knowledge: Study visits or workshops by faculty to clearly and demonstrably aid the exchange of academic and professional knowledge, including sharing of good practice to underpin the preparation of a long-term collaborative partnership (e.g. preparation of a PhD summer school, joint module delivery etc)
All projects are encouraged to incorporate digital innovations appropriate to achieving their project goals.
Projects can be either curriculum based or extracurricular. Interdisciplinary projects are encouraged.
Contact Information
Cornell - Imperial Education Seed Fund
globalseedfunds@imperial.ac.uk
International Relations Office
Imperial College London
Faculty Building Level 2
South Kensington Campus
London
SW7 2AZ
Tel: +44(0)20 7594 3712