Tisch Mega Grants Incubator

Tisch Mega Grants Incubator is a biennial resource program designed to transform ambitious ideas into impactful, large-scale research projects.

The Mega Grants Incubator at Tisch School of the Arts is open to all full-time faculty members, whether your concept is fully-formed or in early, nascent stages. The incubator provides seed funding ranging from $500 to $8,000 for the development of promising ideas that could attract substantial external funding of $100,000 to $1M or more.

Over a two-year period, participants receive financial support and join a small cohort of peers receiving ongoing guidance in developing their projects. The incubator fosters interdisciplinary collaboration and helps researchers refine their ideas, with the ultimate goal of creating competitive proposals for large-scale, externally funded research initiatives.

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    Mega Grants Incubator Request for Proposals

    2024 - 2025 Request for Proposal Now Closed

    Read the most recent request for proposals here.

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    Past Incubator Cohorts

    Meet the 2020 Mega Grants Incubator awardees, the first cohort of Tisch faculty to receive support from TCR to develop their projects into competitive proposals for the University's Mega Grants Initiative.

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    NYU Mega Grants Initiative Seed Fund

    The Provost's Mega-Grants Initiative offers seed funding to pay for the acquisition of preliminary data, project/program team coordination, grant writing and editing, and other activities that serve to strengthen proposals for large, complex grant applications, and increase their chance of being funded.

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