How are research projects being proposed and selected?
A. Procedures for allocating funding for EBI research projects have been designed to create a nimble research enterprise that will empower faculty researchers to follow promising emerging research directions and take advantage of breakthroughs and unforeseen opportunities. The EBI will allocate financial support to faculty investigators at the three host institutions through a competitive peer-reviewed process each year.EBI research directions and program areas were broadly identified in the proposal and have been further refined by the EBI Executive Committee. Faculty investigators at UC Berkeley, Berkeley Lab and UIUC were invited on May 1, 2007, to submit a short preproposal to be reviewed by the EBI scientific review board (composed of the EBI Executive Committee augmented by subject matter experts) for relevance to the EBI’s research mission.
A. Procedures for allocating funding for EBI research projects have been designed to create a nimble research enterprise that will empower faculty researchers to follow promising emerging research directions and take advantage of breakthroughs and unforeseen opportunities. The EBI will allocate financial support to faculty investigators at the three host institutions through a competitive peer-reviewed process each year. EBI research directions and program areas were broadly identified in the proposal and have been further refined by the EBI Executive Committee. Faculty investigators at UC Berkeley, Berkeley Lab and UIUC were invited on May 1, 2007, to submit a short preproposal to be reviewed by the EBI scientific review board (composed of the EBI Executive Committee augmented by subject matter experts) for relevance to the EBI’s research mission. Of 250 preproposals, 75 researchers were invited in early July by the EBI scientific review board to submit full proposals because their pr
