The Jefferson Institute for Smart and Healthy Cities (JeffSmart) is excited to provide a seed grant program for faculty across Thomas Jefferson University. The seed grant is provided to help faculty develop ideas into a state suitable for large proposal submissions.

This is also an opportunity to become a JeffSmart Fellow through applied research promoting the goals of smart and healthy cities. A JeffSmart Fellow is an ambassador supporting the mission of transdisciplinary research, education and innovation to advance the development of the urban environment into smart and healthy cities through innovative collaboration across the architecture, design, engineering, health and science disciplines.

We strongly encourage applications from faculty of all Colleges (full-time and parttime) across Thomas Jefferson University who believe they can make significant contributions to smart and healthy cities and are interested in seeking external funding. Every project must have a full-time faculty member listed on the project proposal. 

Fundamentally, this is a seed grant opportunity. The goal is to help you get started on research that can be funded at a higher level through external sources. The priorities for the JeffSmart Seed Grants are:

• Conduct research centred on smart and healthy cities, addressing any or all scales of interaction, from individual to building to city planning.
• Transform this initial research project into larger, fundable proposals.