2008 Application Procedure

The HIG competition has two rounds:
 
1. Pre-proposal—Open to the public. Deadline: April 28, 2008
 
2. Full proposal—By invitation only. Top 10% of candidates from the pre-proposal round will be invited to enter the final round of the competition, with separate instructions. The HIG winners will be selected exclusively from these full proposals.
 
Pre-Proposal Submission Instructions:
 
Contents: A pre-proposal should include cover page information, a brief (3 to 5 page) project description, and a sign-off sheet from you university (download the editable sign-off sheet). Pre-proposals must be submitted using electronic mail, PDF format (2MB max file size).
 
Cover page information:

1. A statement that the document is a pre-proposal to Honda Initiation Grant 2008 program
2. Principal Investigator name, telephone, fax number and email address
3. Name and address of PI's institution
4. Title of proposal
5. Keywords (5 or less)

Project description should include the following (12pt double-spaced):

1. Abstract of proposed research
2.  A statement of the uniqueness of your idea, including comparisons to existing solutions directly
3. Explanation of your methodology
4. Anticipated results in one year
5. Anticipated results at conclusion of investigation
6. One-year project schedule including start date, milestones, assigned labor, completion date
7. Detail of items needed from Honda (data, samples, other) to perform research

We have provided an HIG 2008 Pre-Proposal Template for your convenience.

Sign-off sheet information:
 
All proposals must be accompanied by an editable sign-off sheet, which is to be faxed to (614) 340-6082. Sign-off sheets may additionally be scanned and emailed with your proposal, however faxing the sheet serves as a cross reference of your submittal, in case your emailed pre-proposal is inadvertently screened by our spam filters.
 
Submission Procedure:
 
Each e-mail should contain no more than one proposal. If you are submitting multiple proposals, use separate e-mails.
 
We request that the PI use his/her own e-mail to send the proposal. Mismatching between sender name and proposal PI name may cause delay in the review, as we process many proposals.
 
The proposal file should be attached in the e-mail, and named using this file-naming convention (important: 60 characters max.):
 
lastname.institution.Title_three_words.HIG08
 
where

• lastname is the last name of the first PI
• institution is the university to which the first PI belongs (words may be truncated/abbreviated)
• Title_three_words  is the first 3 words of your title – leaving out “a”, “an” or “the”
  
  

Send to (before midnight April 28,  2008) hondainitiationgrant@honda.com.
 
Note: To combat e-mail spam, only submissions originating from e-mail domains .edu, .org, or .ca will be accepted. Submissions from other domains will be rejected by our spam filters.
 
Inquiries:
 
Inquiries should be addressed to the above with the subject line stated as "HIG08 inquiry <your question>".