We are now accepting proposals for 2023 recipients of the BTG Incubator. See details and apply here.
Bridging the Gap (BTG) is pleased to announce the launch of our new BTG Incubator. Generously supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York’s continued funding of our work, the BTG Incubator is designed to help catalyze emerging initiatives consistent with our mission.
Over time, as BTG has grown and expanded, other scholars and institutions interested in supporting and facilitating policy-engaged and public-facing research have requested our advice, programming assistance, or financial support to kickstart their own initiatives. For example, BTG provided programming advice and financial support to the Future Strategy Forum initiative designed to connect women national security scholars and graduate students with leading practitioners in the field, hosted by Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the Center for Strategic and International Studies in collaboration with PhD candidates in MIT’s Security Studies Program. Similarly, BTG has advised, supported, or collaborated with the fp21 initiative, the Canadian Defence and Security Network, and the BTG program at Monash University in Australia.
We launch our new BTG Incubator in the hope that a more formal call for proposals will encourage a broader group of scholars with a diverse and innovative range of ideas to partner with us in advancing the overarching Bridging the Gap mission. For 2023, as we pilot the BTG Incubator, we will make one award of $5,000 or split the total pool between two projects. Incubator awardees will also receive focused guidance from members of our leadership team to help catalyze their initiative. We plan to fund additional (not repeat) projects in 2024 and 2025.
BTG will use a competitive application process to select emerging programmatic initiatives that align with our own strategic priorities. Submissions might, for example, propose new modalities of academic–practitioner engagement; ways to enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion in policy-engaged scholarship; expanded approaches to professional development training for scholars keen to share their work with public audiences; etc. We are eager to receive a full range of ideas.
Please direct any and all questions to bridgingthegap@du.edu.
