CREATIVE CAMPUS INNOVATION GRANT PROGRAM  

The Curb Center at Vanderbilt is pleased to offer its signature Creative Campus Innovation Grant Program, which provides Vanderbilt faculty, staff, and students the opportunity to produce original ideas and harness their creativity as a force for positive social change.

More specifically, our innovation grants fund pilots and projects that—

• support course and curricular innovations, especially those that integrate media, design, creative problem solving and expression with rigorous disciplinary training;
• encourage people to challenge assumptions through serendipitous, out-of-the-ordinary encounters and experiences;
• provoke conversations that bring together unexpected parties and inspire novel approaches to engaging ideas, debates, and problems;
• illuminate extraordinary and everyday creative lives, highlighting the common creative process that threads through artistic, scientific, engineering, entrepreneurial, and design work;
• foster creative problem solving and the capacity of faculty, staff, and students to imagine ideas and lead others in making innovations a reality; and
• create a community of catalysts—faculty, staff, students, and Nashville community members who thrive on making the non-routine happen in their classrooms, research, and work.