Grants

The application should demonstrate project deliverables, a detailed project timeline, a reasonable budget, and clear next-step goals. Proposed timelines should demonstrate the feasibility of project completion within a 12-month period (with an optional one year extension).

The project must be led by a current JHU student or faculty member from any JHU school.  

• Student Proposals: Students may be undergraduate, graduate or doctoral students, may apply individually or in teams, and may enrolled in any school at JHU. 
• Researcher Proposals:  Tenured, tenure-track faculty, as well as non-tenure track researchers – including assistant and associate professors, scientists, instructors, and post-doctoral fellows are eligible to apply. 
• Instructor Proposals: The new or existing course must be approved by a department/academic program.

Proposals should clearly describe how the research projects would result in findings, recommendations, or impacts that help to inform and/or advance JHU’s Climate Action & Sustainability Plan.

Proposals should outline a clear plan to develop or build on an established partnership with the university administrator to implement the research or course project. JHU administrative partners would be asked to agree to both support the project conceptually and ensure researcher access to campus resources to implement the project successfully. 

• Student Proposals: both a faculty mentor and administrative partner are required
• Researcher Proposals:  a JHU administrative partner is required.
• Instructor Proposals: a JHU administrative partner is required 

Research should be innovative in that it tests an novel sustainability solution utilizing a JHU campus, and preferably differs from existing research in the field of study. Researchers can propose solutions to build off the objectives and actions identified in the JHU Climate Action & Sustainability Plan or evaluate, pilot, or test strategies already under consideration. 

Project proposals should impact sustainability-related research or course outcomes. Outcomes may include gathering data or information, providing technical expertise, or advancing practical solutions. Project outcomes should help inform university decision-making and student learning outcomes with the potential for long-term benefits.  

Project findings should be scalable, locally or globally, utilizing the campus as an innovation testbed to support JHU’s sustainability priorities. As project findings are intended to be scalable beyond campus, grant recipients are asked to share their findings both internally with the campus community and to publish broadly.

A group of interdisciplinary reviewers, including faculty members, administrators, and students, selected by the Sustainability Leadership Council and Office of Sustainability.

Campus as a Living Lab Grant Funding Applications are open annually beginning in the spring semester.

Unfortunately, not at this time.

Recipients will submit a one page project progress report each semester, consisting of short questions and brief project updates. Additionally, we request that grant recipients provide photographs depicting various stages of the project for educational and storytelling purposes. Recipients may also be asked to present their work at the annual Sustainability Symposium.

Schools located at all JHU Campuses, including East Baltimore, Homewood, Applied Physics Laboratory, Peabody, Washington D.C, and Harbor East are eligible.

Eligible JHU schools/divisions and affiliates are as follows:

• Applied Physics Laboratory (APL)
• Berman Institute of Bioethics (BI)
• Bloomberg School of Public Health (BSPH)
• Carey Business School (CBS)
• Jhpiego
• Krieger School of Arts & Sciences (KSAS)
• Peabody Institute
• School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
• School of Education (SOE)
• School of Medicine (SOM)
• School of Nursing (SON)
• Sheridan Libraries
• Whiting School of Engineering (WSE)