The Bioeconomy Institute provides pre-award support to save researchers critical time in preparing their competitive research proposals. From complex federal funding applications to philanthropic foundations or small industry contracts, the Bioeconomy Institute ensures its applicants’ proposals are competitive, compliant, and responsive to each sponsor's priorities.
Our institute offers services and resources at no charge to Iowa State University faculty and P&S staff to support all projects that advance the bioeconomy to benefit society.
What BEI offers:
- Locate and review funding opportunities, interpret funding solicitations
- Prepare budgets and justifications for projects of any size ($20,000 - $100,000,000)
- ISU Streamlyne Proposal entry, review, routing, submission, and communication with OSPA
- Serve as Administrative and Financial Liaison with departments, sponsors, & subrecipients
- Project team coordination, both 1:1 meetings and large team meeting guidance
- Provide a checklist of required documentation
- Develop an action-item-focused timeline to allow sufficient time to prepare and submit
- Refer Lead PI to external proposal consultants and internal project managers on request
- Collect, draft, and distribute templates; prepare forms and attachments
- Pre-submission, non-technical review of application package for completeness
- File uploads and final submission to a variety of federal and non-federal web portals
Where to start:
Need Proposal Assistance?
Contact Assistant Director for Grants, Scott D. Moseley (smoseley@iastate.edu)
Sign up to receive our “ISU Funding opportunity announcements” email (~1 email/month):
Contact smoseley@iastate.edu with email header: “Funding Opportunity List Request.”
All pre- and post-award processes are carried out in accordance with the requirements of applicable funding agencies and ISU Office of Sponsored Programs Administration (OSPA), Sponsored Programs Accounting (SPA), and OIPTT Industry Contracts.