Internal LIVE Grants
LIVE provides internal grants to help Vanderbilt faculty, students, postdoctoral scholars, and research scientists develop learning technologies, advance emerging research, and share their work with broader scholarly communities. Explore current and past funding opportunities below.
Ignite Tech Development Grants
LIVE Ignite Grants provide up to 160 hours of focused development support from LIVE’s research engineer to bring promising ideas for innovative learning technologies to life or help existing tools take bold new steps forward. Selected teams work closely with the research engineer on a focused, achievable project to move from a defined concept toward a functional prototype or add a significant new capability to an existing tool.
Student Horizon Travel Grants
LIVE Student Horizon Grants provide up to $1,000 to support LIVE-affiliated students presenting their research at international conferences. The grants supplement other funding and foster academic and professional growth by helping students share their work and build connections with scholars around the world.
LIVE SPARK! Research Grants
LIVE SPARK! Grants support interdisciplinary research on emerging learning technologies across educational, workplace, and community contexts. Selected projects explore promising new ideas and build toward future research, partnerships, and real-world application.
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