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The awards aim to encourage instructors to design teaching components that enhance students’ global competency, teaching practices that help promote global learning. For example, projects that include:

• Student consulting or research project embedded in your course with an international company, non-profit, or NGO
• Interactive virtual international learning activity (g., virtual museum tour or remote company visit)
• Case studies and project-based learning from diverse global perspectives
• Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) /Virtual Exchange elements to help students collaborate virtually with peers worldwide
• Development of an accessible database of global materials. This could involve translation work of untranslated texts, collecting primary sources from abroad, etc.
• Local examples to explore global issues (glocalization) (g., field trip or visit for local community to learn about diverse cultures)
• Development of teaching materials that provide intercultural perspectives that will strengthen students’ character, such as building their resilience, empathy, adaptability, curiosity, and humility.
• Development of language-learning materials that are not currently available (i.e. authentic texts) for a given language.

The above list is not meant to be exhaustive – if you have another type of global learning activity or resource that requires funding, that’s more than welcome!

All proposals should consider projects’ sustainability.

Awardees cannot receive the award for the same project for more than one year.

The Taiwan Studies Program encourages projects that involve Taiwan, and partners with UW Global in this call. Applicants proposing a humanities or social science course on Taiwan that includes ‘Taiwan’ in the course title and has a substantial focus on Taiwan within a comparative, regional, or global framework are encouraged to apply. This focus should be made explicit in the course description provided in the application. Applicants who intend to teach the supported course again in the future, ideally with a permanent course number from their home department, will be prioritized.Ìý After the course is taught, recipients are required to provide the syllabus, course enrollment numbers, course evaluation quotes, and a brief write-up to feature on the .

UW faculty members, research scientists, and non-faculty researchers from the Seattle, Tacoma, and Bothell campuses, are encouraged to apply. Graduate students, including PhD students, and post docs, are not eligible to apply; however, their involvement in the project’s delivery, such as serving as research assistants or interns, is encouraged.

Timeline to be announced for 2027.

All funded projects must submit a post-award report to the MyGlobal platform at the end of the award use period.

• Brief narrative report – describe the purpose, outcomes, and next steps for your projectÌý

• Photos and/or videosÌý

• Updated budget including actual expendituresÌý

Please mention the Global Innovation Fund in any communications or news related to your project. UseÌý#UWGlobalÌýon social mediaÌýÌýandÌý.Ìý

UW Global may follow up to do additional marketing and story-telling around each community.Ìý

Failure toÌýsubmitÌýthe final report and budget on time will cause exclusion from future GIF applications.Ìý

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