For Faculty

There is one form for all OVPIA faculty grant applications. Explore the individual grant requirements in advance and complete the form when you are ready.

We have discontinued the language learning grant. It was the least utilized of OVPIA’s internal funding programs. With the conversion of IU’s rich array of credit-bearing language instruction to online modality during spring 2020, it has become much more feasible for busy faculty to take advantage of their IU employee tuition benefit and enroll in language instruction offered here, especially online at another campus or over the summer.

The Overseas Conference Grant has been replaced with the more general Faculty International Mobility Grant.

These grants are open to permanent, full-time academic appointees at any IU campus. Competitive priority will align with the applicant’s performance evaluation criteria. Tenure-track faculty members receive highest priority. However, non-tenure-track faculty may be eligible for support if their evaluation criteria include research or creative activity, or may be supported for teaching- or service-focused activities. Faculty members in Visiting or Emeritus status are not eligible for these grants, nor are graduate students or academic specialists. OVPIA awards are expressly contingent upon recipients’ continued employment at IU in the semester following the term in which travel takes place.

Generally, it is not advisable to do so, as the OVPIA grants cannot be combined or held simultaneously. Faculty members should consult with OVPIA staff to determine which opportunity best meets their needs. Our competitive process gives priority to applicants who have not received OVPIA support recently, and some programs, such as the faculty exchanges, have established a set timeline for how often a faculty member may travel on an exchange.

OVPIA would determine appropriateness of this scenario on a case-by-case basis. A main goal of our programs is faculty mobility, so we would give lower priority to applications where there is already substantial support of the faculty member’s work at the foreign location.

Internal matching requirements can be met with a funding commitment from an IU department, school, or campus, including a commitment of available unrestricted balances in a faculty member’s IU research account. It is also fine to use travel funding from one of IU’s area studies centers as match. However, we will not consider expenditures of personal funds (out-of-pocket) to meet this requirement.

Schools, in addition to departments, may have matching funds available—for instance, the Bloomington campus College of Arts and Sciences has a matching funds program for OVPIA proposals. Access the College matching funds form here.

OVPIA funding serves two related but distinct purposes::

1. To support individual faculty members engaged in international research, teaching or service
2. To advance institutional priorities in particular countries or regions.

Program administration is aligned accordingly. Along with short-term faculty exchanges, three of the grant programs—the Faculty International Mobility Grant, the Overseas Study Program Development Grant, and the International Short-Term Visitor Grant—serve primarily the first purpose. Applications for these categories of funding are reviewed by faculty committees.

The Global Gateway Grant and the International Collaboration Grant serve both purposes, and therefore funding decisions regarding these programs take university priorities into account. Global Gateway Grants, which support activities at IU’s gateway offices, are reviewed and approved by the academic director of the relevant gateway. International Collaboration Grants are reviewed and approved by the OVPIA Partnerships team.