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Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI)

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This document has been archived. See NSF 12-513 for the latest version.

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Synopsis

Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) promotes university-industry partnerships by making project funds or fellowships/traineeships available to support an eclectic mix of industry-university linkages. Special interest is focused on affording the opportunity for:
  • Faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and students to conduct research and gain experience in an industrial setting;
  • Industrial scientists and engineers to bring industry's perspective and integrative skills to academe; and
  • Interdisciplinary university-industry teams to conduct research projects.

This solicitation targets high-risk/high-gain research with a focus on fundamental research, new approaches to solving generic problems, development of innovative collaborative industry-university educational programs, and direct transfer of new knowledge between academe and industry. GOALI seeks to fund transformative research that lies beyond that which industry would normally fund.

Program contacts

Name Email Phone Organization
Donald Senich
GOALI Solicitation Coordinator: Senior Advisor, Small Business Procurement Policy
 dsenich@nsf.gov (703) 292-7082
Morris L. Aizenman
GOALI Program, Senior Science Associate, Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences
 maizenma@nsf.gov (703) 292-8807
William S. Bainbridge
GOALI Program, Program Director - Information and Intelligent Systems
 wbainbri@nsf.gov (703) 292-8930
John Cherniavsky
GOALI Program, Senior EHR Advisor for Research
 jchernia@nsf.gov (703) 292-5136
Leonard E. Johnson
GOALI Program, Program Director - Division of Earth Sciences
 lejohnso@nsf.gov (703) 292-8559
Graham M. Harrison
GOALI Program, Program Director - Office of International Science and Engineering
 gharriso@nsf.gov (703) 292-7252
Jacqueline Meszaros
GOALI Program, Program Director - Innovation and Organizational Sciences
 jmeszaro@nsf.gov (703) 292-7261
Diane Jofuku Okamuro
GOALI Program, Program Director - Integrative Organismal Systems
 dokamuro@nsf.gov (703) 292-4400 BIO/IOS
Sonia Ortega
GOALI Program, Program Director - Division of Graduate Education
 sortega@nsf.gov (703) 292-8697

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