FACULTY & RESEARCH / GLOBAL CHALLENGES RESEARCH TEAMS
Interdisciplinary teams tackling the world’s most pressing sustainability issues
Seed funding for cross-campus partnerships that bring environmental, societal, and economic knowledge together to address real-world problems.
Global Challenges Research Teams (GCRTs) are collaborative teams of CSU faculty that build cross-campus partnerships to address regional and global sustainability issues. The School provides seed funding to foster creative, innovative approaches to sustainability grand challenges and to establish interdisciplinary relationships for research in new areas with expanded applicability.
About the program
Each year the School seeks proposals for new, interdisciplinary partnerships of faculty to address sustainability grand challenges through creative research and synthesis. GCRTs advance sustainability by integrating environmental, societal, and economic knowledge in team-based work on real-world problems.
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The School issues a request for proposals each December with a late January deadline for the following academic year.
2025-2027 Global Challenges Research Teams
Collaboratories
One-year funded research and scholarship communities for early-stage ideation.
Funding opportunities
Current funding calls and applications open to CSU faculty.