Tufts Springboard is an internal grants program sponsored by the Tufts University Office of the Provost, Office of the Vice Provost for Research, and the Office of the Vice Provost for Education, as well as Tufts Medicine. The goal of Tufts Springboard is to stimulate high impact research, scholarship and educational initiatives that have an explicit plan leading to extramural funding or other outcomes that influence research, scholarship, educational outcomes, and/or policy.  Moreover, the Tufts Springboard program aims to further the priorities of the University and its schools and to fortify Tufts' status as a R1, very-high research activity university and member of the Association of American Universities.

Special consideration will be given to research, scholarship, and educational projects that focus on racial inequities and/or promoting anti-racist interventions in keeping with the University’s and Tufts Medicine’s commitment to be an anti-racist institutions. 

Tufts Springboard has two tracks:

Research and Scholarship: Managed by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, the Springboard Research and Scholarship program focuses on internal funding to support projects that will allow investigators to be competitive for external funding or to use research and scholarship to otherwise raise Tufts’ profile as a research university. The next Research and Scholarship deadline and request for applications will be announced in the coming weeks.

Education: Managed by the Office of the Vice Provost for Education, the Tufts Springboard Education intramural grants program is designed to support innovative educational and curricular activities that support Tufts’ goals to attract, retain, and cultivate diverse, impactful leaders and change makers committed to advancing positive change in the world.

Both tracks should build on the applicant’s prior work and lead to a long-term research, scholarship, or curricular endeavor. The Springboard program is not intended for one-off projects, but rather to make a lasting contribution to Tufts’ research, scholarship, and/or educational missions.