RAP offers grant competitions twice a year in Spring and Fall.
The deadlines are posted on the website and are pre-set allowing the applicants the benefit of strategic planning.
An email announcement signed by the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost opens up the call for applications.
Each cycle provides the opportunity to offer new grant mechanisms or to bring on board new funding agencies. This has made the program extremely dynamic and enables us to follow intercampus initiatives and to maximize funding trends.
Posters and flyers, both print and digital, are distributed across campus to disseminate the call and to bring awareness to our research community. Announcements re: application submission deadlines are also disseminated via monthly campus-wide digital newsletters ('Pulse'; 'UCSF Research Resource').
Finally, more about how RAP funding has impacted successful research careers of UCSF faculty after five years of receiving the initial RAP seed-funding is found under the website's ('Resources') 'RAP Impact' section.
The RAP submission is an electronic submission done via the RAP portal. A user account is needed in order to submit an application.
The user account provides individuals a personal dashboard where it is possible to do the following:
- Begin the application
- Edit the application until the submission deadline
- Submit the application
- Keep track of submitted applications
- View submitted application results
- Reviewers can view and download the ‘reviewer service acknowledgement letters’