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From the towering pines in Tallahassee to the neon lights of South Beach — Florida is a truly special place.

As the third most populous and fastest growing state, we face a wide variety of challenges. How do we build healthy communities and promote resilience in the face of increasingly frequent natural disasters? What are the best ways to provide opportunity for new and existing residents, while ensuring that future generations can also thrive? How can we support the industries—agriculture, aerospace, and tourism— that built and sustain our economy? Who has a better Cuban sandwich— Tampa or Miami?

Collaborative Collision is an interdisciplinary team development program designed to build and accelerate new research teams to explore complex solutions to complex challenges. We connect researchers with complementary skills, expertise, and resources, guide these connections as they develop into collaborations, and fund promising new teams that have a clear path to developing impactful solutions, securing external funding, and establishing new areas of research, innovation, and creative excellence. Our program began on February 15th with Connector— a campus-wide research networking event focused on making connections between researchers with shared interest in exploring complex challenges. The top challenges identified at Connector have become the topics for Incubator— a ten-week team development program that guides new teams through interdisciplinary project planning, team development, strategic positioning, and proposal writing. At the end of Incubator every team has a complete funding proposal (including a video pitch) and the Office of Research will award one team up to $100,000 to accelerate their impact.

Collaborative Collision: Florida is working to ensure that our friends, neighbors — and yes, even Florida Man— benefit from the discovery, creativity, and innovation taking place at Florida State University!

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How will climate change and rising sea levels impact Florida?

How can we enhance pre-K to Grade 12 educational materials in Florida?

What new approaches are needed to improve STEM education and workforce development in rural Florida?

How do we improve health outcomes in disadvantaged communities in Florida?

How can we better coordinate emergency management resources, especially in areas with limited internet access?

How to ensure Florida’s transportation infrastructure is efficient, reliable, and resilient?

 

Up to $150,000 available to launch new teams!

Collaborative Collision uses a strategic science communication framework— centered on the creation of a multimedia internal funding proposal— to build new teams that not only communicate effectively with each other but are also well positioned to pursue external funding from a variety of potential sources.

Accelerator showcases each finalist team through a live presentation in which teams premier their video pitch and answer a series of questions regarding their proposals. A panel of judges will decide how to allocate up to $150,000 to launch these teams’ projects, with one team potentially receiving up to $100,000. Accelerator is an invitation-only event whose audience includes members of FSU leadership, key community members, strategic partners, and other distinguished guests.

Why join Collaborative Collision?

  • Expand your network of interdisciplinary collaborators and strategic partners.

  • Develop a multi-year strategy to explore research-based solutions to complex challenges.

  • Build your skills in collaboration, grant-writing, and strategic science communication.

  • Compete for up to $100,000 to accelerate your team's impact!

Turning connections into collaborations.

Collaborative Collision uses a strategic science communication framework— centered on the creation of a multimedia internal funding proposal— to build new teams that not only communicate effectively with each other but are also well positioned to pursue external funding from a variety of potential sources.

Participants are guided through a structured process in which they work together to understand the Challenge they are trying to solve, what kind of solution is needed to make an Impact, the multi-year Strategy needed to develop that solution, and the specific Project that will be their first step.

Learn more about the Collaborative Collision program.

Exploring complex solutions to complex challenges by building and accelerating new interdisciplinary teams at Florida State University.

For more information about Collaborative Collision: Florida please contact Evangeline Coker.