Funding

Funding Opportunities

Research in Rome

Notre Dame Global and departments across the University offer funding opportunities for international research that can be used toward work at Notre Dame Rome.

Short-term Faculty and Graduate Research Fellowships

In Partnership with the Center for Italian Studies

These short-term fellowships enable graduate students in any discipline to spend periods of research in residence in Rome, including office space and access to Roman libraries.

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Franco Institute Global Micro-Residencies

Notre Dame faculty in the College of Arts and Letters are invited to apply for grants to support short-term periods of research that would be improved through time in Rome.

Sciola Grants

Franco Family Institute for Liberal Arts and the Public Good invites undergraduates and graduate students in all Arts and Letters disciplines whose research interests address the impact of Catholic traditions upon Italian artistic culture to submit proposals to the Sciola Grant Program. In order to be eligible for funding, research must take place in Italy.

Biblioteca Ambrosiana Research Awards

The Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, one of the most famous libraries of the world and the oldest in Europe, was founded between 1603 and 1609. With the Medieval Institute, the Center of Italian Studies co-sponsors the Biblioteca Ambrosiana Research Awards. These awards enable individual scholars or groups of scholars—including graduate students and postdoctoral fellows—to pursue projects in connection with the Biblioteca Ambrosiana and its holdings in Milan and Notre Dame. Please send a C.V., a proposal of fewer than 750 words that describes the project, and a detailed budget to italianstudies@nd.edu. Cost sharing is encouraged and should be included in the proposed budget. Open to researchers outside of Notre Dame and to Notre Dame faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students.

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Research at Notre Dame

Following opportunities for research available on Campus.

Italian Studies Library Research Award

The Notre Dame Center for Italian Studies and Notre Dame Global jointly administer an Italian Studies Library Research Award. This award provides grant funding for scholars to use the collections of the Hesburgh Libraries for research in Italian studies.

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Rome Research Development Grant

Notre Dame Global is pleased to offer the Global Network Research Development Grants that link to the University’s global locations. It invites proposals that aim to deepen research/institutional connections between the global locations, institutions in their locale, and Notre Dame faculty.

Funding requests can be made up to $10,000, with additional funding available for ND Jerusalem.

The Rome Research Development Grant focuses on Notre Dame Rome, specifically on initiatives that further ND's Strategic Framework. It invites proposals that aim to deepen institutional/research connections between ND Rome and Sapienza Università di Roma by supporting the convening of strategic meetings in one of two ways:

OPTION 1
Faculty going to Rome to establish new, reinvigorate, or deepen existing collaborations at Notre Dame Rome

OPTION 2*
Faculty bringing collaborators from the locale of Notre Dame Rome to South Bend to deepen an existing collaboration with Notre Dame Rome and/or enhance collaborators' overall understanding of the University

*Cost Share required with an on-campus hosting unit for this option

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