The California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) is excited to announce that the 2023 Research Grants Program is open for applications.
Donor Name: California Department of Pesticide Regulation
State: California
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/22/2022
Size of the Grant: $3.15 million
Grant Duration: 2.5 years
Details:
To support the use of safe, effective, sustainable pest management practices in California, DPR annually funds Research Grants projects that advance integrated pest management (IPM) knowledge in agricultural, urban, or wildland settings. Projects should focus on reducing impacts to public health or the environment from pesticides of high regulatory concern and/or considered high-risk. The Program has a long history of awarding diverse projects that meet these goals and advance many different aspects of IPM.
Successful applications will provide strong evidence of high-risk or high concern pesticide usage and support for the project’s potential to reduce or eliminate this usage. Highly ranked projects typically include economic analyses of the proposed IPM tools or practices to demonstrate their utility. The most successful Research Grant projects are those that can serve as a model for similar situations and have a high potential for wide adoption.
Funding Information
This year, the Program has $3.15 million in funding for projects up to 2.5 years in length (end date of December 31, 2025). Projects with budgets between $50,000 and $3.15 million are invited to apply.
Eligibility Criteria
- The project must primarily benefit the people of California.
- The project must not mention, promote, or disparage a pest control brand or trade name in a deliverable or use the image of a product in a deliverable. Active ingredient names must be used instead.
- All applicants, principal investigators, key personnel, subawardees, subcontractors, and consultants must meet all eligibility requirements and be eligible to contract with DPR.
- All University of California/California State University System (UC/CSUS) grantees, principal investigators, key personnel, subawardees, subcontractors, and consultants must abide by all of the provisions of the applicable UC/CSUS Terms and Conditions, including overhead capped at 25%. We highly recommend UC/CSUS applicants have grant administration staff review application materials to ensure that the Terms and Conditions can be met.
- All Non-UC/CSUS grantees, principal investigators, key personnel, subawardees, subcontractors, and consultants must abide by all of the provisions of the Non-UC Terms and Conditions, including overhead capped at 25%. They highly recommend applicants have anyrelevant grant administration personnel review application materials to ensure that the Terms and Conditions can be met.
- Research team members must have the appropriate background and technical experience to complete the project.
- The funding requested must be within the minimum and maximum funding limits of $50,000- $3.15 million.
- The project must not depend on other sources of funding for the completion of any task or deliverable. However, in-kind contributions of personnel time, equipment, facilities, and materials by Research Team members are allowed.
- The project goals and objectives must be directed towards developing methods or practices to reduce risks associated with pesticides of high regulatory concern and/or considered high-risk and which can be incorporated into an IPM system.
- The project must demonstrate the economic feasibility and efficacy related to scalable implementation of the proposed IPM practices to be promoted.
- The project must focus primarily on research; however, outreach regarding research outcomes should be a final component included in the overall project. Projects focusing primarily on outreach, not research, are encouraged to apply to DPR’s Alliance Grants Program.
- The project must not include activities directed toward, or used to subsidize, DPR personnel, DPR work activities, or any DPR-funded work activities delegated to others, such as county agricultural commissioners.
- Eligible applicants may include (but are not limited to) entities such as government and tribal agencies, universities, colleges, consultants, pest control businesses, commodity groups, and nonprofit organizations. Principal Investigators, key personnel, subawardees, subcontractors, and consultants must not have outstanding fines or penalties with DPR or with any County Agricultural Commissioner.
- DPR employees are not eligible to receive funds or participate as part of the Research Team; however, other State employees may receive funds and participate as part of the Research Team.
- PMAC members or their alternates involved in a Research Grant Proposal Application must abide by the conflict of interest requirements contained within the PMAC Charter.
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