1. X-Grants Full Proposal Information Session
May 14, 2018

2. Remote attendees may email questions to xgrants@tamu.edu

3. Agenda Submission Instructions Evaluation Criteria Budget
Public Presentations
Misc. Information
Q&A

4. Submission Instructions
Instructions

5. Evaluation Criteria (100 points total)

6. Budget
Guidelines
Template
Effective Start Date: July 1, 2018

7. Budget Guidelines
 Salaries
Must be paid employees (faculty or staff) at Texas A&M University, Texas A&M University-Galveston, Texas A&M University-Qatar, TEES, TEEX, AgriLife Research, AgriLife Extension, or TTI; or students at Texas A&M University, Texas A&M University-Galveston, or Texas A&M University-Qatar.
Faculty – Only summer salary allowed with a maximum of one month/year. Must include salary and fringe. Faculty on 12-months salaries cannot receive salary from the project. Total faculty salaries must not exceed 15% of total budget
Graduate assistants – must include tuition, fees, and fringe
Staff and students –must include salary and fringe
Travel and Other
Domestic travel allowed and must follow state travel guidelines. Only limited amount of international travel funds are available.
No food/beverages
Equipment
Must provide strong justification for individual equipment exceeding $10,000
Subcontracts
No subcontracts will be allowed
Cost Sharing
Committed cost sharing to an external sponsor is the only cost sharing that must be tracked. Since this is an internal grant, cost sharing will not be tracked and should not be included on budgets. 
Award limits
Pilot and planning research grant awards should not exceed a total of $500,000 and two years duration.
Other research grant awards should not exceed a total of $1,500,000 and three years duration.

8. Public Presentations https://president.tamu.edu/xgrants/index.html
Each team must make a public presentation.
Pilot/Planning Research Grants-Thursday, May 17, 2018, Rudder 601, from 1:00 pm-5:00 pm.
Other Research Grants-Friday, May 18, 2018, Rudder 601, from 9:00 am-12:00 pm.
Presentations should provide a general overview of the proposed work and include:
An explanation of how the proposed work will advance Texas A&M’s national prominence in this area,
A description of the outcomes of the proposed work, together with long-term plans for the research team after the proposed work is completed, and
A description (for pilot/planning grants) detailing how the project qualifies for a pilot/planning grant.
Presentations should be up to 15 minutes each: 12 minutes for the presentation and three minutes for Q&A.
your presentations to or arrive 30 minutes before the overall session begins.

9. Misc. Information
Bios – should include funding dates. Please update existing Bios if not included
Planning & Pilot Grants
Qualifications of grant: A description (for pilot/planning grants) detailing how the project qualifies for a pilot/planning grant.
Members
Can add members to teams in full proposal step
Need X-Grants admin approval to remove members

10. Q&A
questions to