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Grants and Grant Opportunities NEXTRANS Selected for Continued Funding The NEXTRANS Center has been selected to receive $3.5 million in new grant fund- ing from the U. S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) for continued research, education and technology transfer. The center is among 22 university transportation centers (UTCs) being awarded a total of $77 million this year to address critical transportation challenges. DOT's Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), which administers the UTC program, used a competitive selection pro- cess to select the centers, each of which must match its $3.5 million grant with funds from non-federal sources. The 22 UTCs selected are all consortia, involving a total of 121 different universities. extrans "We are excited about the proposals these consortia put forward. They have the potential to advance basic and applied transportation research today and ensure a robust pipeline of professionals for the transportation workforce of tomorrow, RITA Acting Administrator Greg Winfree. "It is absolutely crucial that we continue to invest in research, which has the added benefit of attracting and developing the high level of professionals needed for innovation and expertise in transportation." " says Skolkovo Foundation The Skolkovo Foundation, a non-profit organization that works with inno- vators, scientists and international corporations to spur a culture of inno- vation and technology entrepreneur- ship in Russia, has grant opportunities available. UTCs, which are located throughout the United States, conduct research that directly supports the priorities of the U.S. Department of Transportation. "Transportation matters in everyone's daily life. These research centers will help us solve the trans- portation challenges we face today and those that we know lay ahead of us," says U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. The NEXTRANS Center, which is administered by Discovery Park, was established in 2007 based on a competitive award from RITA to conduct a multidisciplinary program of transportation research, education and technology transfer. A regional university transportation center representing federal region 5, NEXTRANS is a multi-university consortium of universities from Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin. Founded in 2010 and charged by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev with creating a new science and tech- nology development center in the Moscow suburb of Skolkovo, the foun- dation has an innovation ecosystem comprised of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, corporate R&D centers, business incubators and accelerators, private seed and venture funds, and start-up companies, as well as residential space and social infra- structure. Within the Skolkovo project are five clusters for innovative projects: infor- mation, biomedical, energy efficiency, nuclear and space technologies. More details are available at www.sk.ru/en/ GetInvolved/Innovator.aspx. If you are interested in pursuing an opportunity with the foundation, before beginning your proposal development, please contact Michael Reckowsky (mreckowsky@purdue. edu or 494-1852), Cookie Bryant- Gawthrop (ibg@purdue.edu or 494-7458), or Peter Dunn (pedunn@ purdue.edu or 494-3996). Any of these individuals can assist you in understanding potential export con- trol issues related to sharing technical data, technology or software with the Skolkovo Foundation. Spring 2012 3