Jumpstart - Virtual Project Sustainability Training

Are you...

• A team member of a recently funded project seeking to financially sustain your work?
• An early career professional wanting to learn about sustainable funding solutions?
• A research professional working on your next funding proposal?

The Jumpstart Your Sustainability Plan mini-course can help! It's free, and we're offering it virtually. 

The next Jumpstart mini-course will be September 12-14, 2023. 
Apply before September 8, 2023.

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Using core elements from our intensive, in-person, five day program, Gateway Focus Week, Jumpstart offers practical and effective steps for developing a sustainability strategy. This free mini-course offers research professionals, PIs of research and teaching-focused gateways, and project teams the perfect way to kick off sustainability planning, whether you are writing a new grant or ready to get to the next level with a more mature project. 

The mini-course will outline the core topics any sustainability plan should address, including: 

• Key components of a Sustainability Strategy
• Practical steps for developing your plan
• Pitfalls to avoid 

Subjects covered will include:

• What exactly is sustainability, and why is it important?
• Articulating your value proposition
• Audience as the key to a sustainability strategy
• Finding the funding model that works for you

Participants will receive: 

• Examples of real-world sustainability strategies
• Tips on what to include in a sustainability plan
• Tools to use to develop your plan, including the Sustainability Framework

Each day will include: 

• Main presentation and discussion addressing a major theme of sustainability

Agenda

Day 1 // 1:00–4:00 pm EDT 

Sustainability: How Science Gateways can thrive (not just survive)

Day 2 // 1:00-4:00 pm EDT 

Audience & Environment: Sustainability Through Impact

Day 3 // 1:00-4:00 pm EDT 

Finding your Funding Model, course wrap-up