The New Hampshire Long-term Investment to Fuel Transformative Research (NH-LIFT) project is a four-year initiative funded by an EPSCoR award from the National Science Foundation. NH-LIFT is an NSF EPSCoR Collaborations for Optimizing Research Ecosystems Research Infrastructure Improvement Program (E-CORE) award and is administered by the NH EPSCoR State Office.
NH-LIFT aims to foster a collaborative and inclusive research ecosystem that broadens participation, catalyzes innovation, and strengthens New Hampshire’s economy.
To support this aim, NH-LIFT is offering two complementary seed grant funding programs intended to build and strengthen research collaborations across NH-LIFT partner institutions and lead to successful proposals for external funding.
For information on NH-LIFT undergraduate SURE Grants contact the coordinator at your institution.
NH-LIFT Research Capacity Building Seed Grants
Collaboration Projects
Collaboration Seed Funds will be awarded to faculty at NH-LIFT partner institutions to build research collaborations with colleagues at other institutions or industry partners and work toward submitting proposals for external funding. The intent is to bring together teams who share similar research interests and expertise to explore how they could co-develop a research collaboration.
Catalyst Projects
Catalyst Seed Funds will provide funding for graduate students (MS or PhD) to advance critical research in support of multi-institutional collaborative research projects. These graduate students will support data collection, pilot studies, and other early research collaboration necessary to enable team readiness for publications and proposals.
Research Capacity Building FOA and Required Documents
Collaboration and Catalyst proposals have the same requirements and use the same documents housed below
Please download all required proposal documents
NH-LIFT 2025 Funding Opportunity Announcement
Please download the complete NH-LIFT FOA. For general questions please contact Amanda.Peterson@unh.edu.
NH-LIFT Partner Institutions are eligible to apply for Collaboration and Catalyst seed grant funds.
NH-LIFT Partner Institutions:
- Plymouth State College
- Keene State College
- New England College
- St. Anselm College
- Community College System of New Hampshire
- Antioch University of New England
- Dartmouth College
- University of New Hampshire
Please download this Cover Sheet for both the Collaboration and the Catalyst funding proposal.
2025 NH-LIFT Proposal Cover Sheet
Please download this budget template for both Collaboration and Catalyst funding proposals. For budget questions please contact Susan.Higgins@unh.edu
Please download this Academic Institution Approval to include with both Collaboration and Catalyst proposal submissions
- Abstract summarizing project objective - one paragraph
- Project Narrative - up to three pages
- Motivation and rationale for the collaboration
- Description of activities that will enable collaborative work, knowledge sharing, and timeline.
- Collaboration plan - how will partners interact, share information, manage students, and make project decisions.
- Statement of how the project will enhance advancement toward collaborative publications and proposals for external funding.
All faculty participants are required to submit a SciENcv-formatted NSF Biosketch
All required documents should be sent to Amanda.Peterson@unh.edu in a zipped file