Applications Requested for the Plasticity of Well-being Pilot Awards

Applications Requested for the Plasticity of Well-being Pilot Awards

June 25, 2021

The Plasticity of Well-being network, funded by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), is one of six networks that NIH supporting to advance the understanding of emotional well-being. The Center for Healthy Minds is a collaborator in this network.

The Plasticity of Well-being Network aims to refine and test key concepts that advance the study of emotional well-being as well as to develop innovative measures of the key pillars of well-being.

Plasticity of Well-being Pilot Awards The Plasticity of Well-being network invites applications for Pilot Awards for projects that explore emotional well-being measurement and assessment. Priority will be given to applications that supplement, support, or expand on existing Plasticity of Well-being network research efforts by faculty collaborators from the Center for Healthy Minds, the University of Wisconsin Madison, Northwestern University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Funding is available in the amount of up to $100,000 total. No indirect costs are allowed.

Review the full Request for Application (RFA). Applications must be received by July 15, 2021.

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