Collaborative Seed Grants
Funds Texas A&M interdisciplinary faculty collaborations focused on high-risk, high-impact cross-domain research.
The Collaborative Seed Grants (CSG) program is part of the Targeted Proposal Teams (TPT) initiative administered by the Texas A&M University Office of Research, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. CSG funds interdisciplinary faculty teams at the earliest stages of research, supporting high-risk, high-reward projects where preliminary data is needed to establish research capacity and improve competitiveness for future external funding. The program is internal to Texas A&M University — only TAMU faculty are eligible, and teams must consist of at least two investigators from different disciplines. Single-PI or same-discipline proposals do not meet the eligibility threshold.
Awards are up to $60,000 over a 12-month performance period. Allowable expenses include personnel costs covering research associates, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students; research supplies directly supporting preliminary data collection; and project-specific domestic travel. The FY2027 application deadline is September 4, 2026, at 5:00 PM CST, with submission through the InfoReady platform (tamu.infoready4.com). CSG shares this deadline with two sibling TPT programs — the Proposal Planning Grants and Grants on the Edge — allowing research teams to assess which mechanism best fits their project stage.
CSG is designed for teams at the ideation-to-preliminary-data phase: the program explicitly targets projects that are too early-stage or high-risk to win external funding without internal bridge support. Interdisciplinary teams bridging fields such as engineering and medicine, agriculture and data science, or environmental science and materials are archetypal applicants. Because the award is intended to generate data for future external proposals, teams with a clear target federal or private sponsor and a realistic pathway to a larger grant are positioned to make the strongest case to reviewers. Contact: TAMU Division of Research, (979) 845-8585.
Funds early-stage, high-risk interdisciplinary research by teams of at least two TAMU faculty from different disciplines to generate preliminary data and build competitiveness for external grants.
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