From EPIIC to IHE APPLI: A New Guide for Building ERI Capacity

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The NSF’s Enabling Partnerships to Increase Innovation Capacity (EPIIC) program tested a new approach to strengthening research competitiveness. Through a live, high-support grant process, participants received intensive guidance in challenge identification, solution design, and proposal preparation.

Across three iterative cycles, the program refined a model for helping build institutional capacity and compete more effectively for federal funding. Those lessons informed IHE APPLI, a customizable framework for future grant-making programs. This guidebook shares the core practices, promising enhancements, and implementation advice needed to support broader participation, innovation capacity, and research leadership across U.S. higher education.

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