4-VA

4-VA is a consortium of eight Virginia higher education institutions to promote four initiatives through collaboration across participating universities: Collaborative Research, Course Redesign, Course Sharing and Degree Completion.

The 4-VA consortium offers research grant competitions to its founding schools (GMU, JMU, UVa, VT). Founding schools are not permitted to transfer grant funds to other 4-VA members (ODU, VCU, VMI & W&M). Faculty from W&M and other non-founding members can participate without charge to the consortium. Satellite members may also contribute capital in the form of “complementary funding”, which will appear as committed cost share from those institutions. Such participation, though at no additional cost to the consortium, represents a resource obligation for the participating institution and reduces the remaining time that proposing faculty will have for other proposals.

So, all 4-VA proposals, even those at “no cost,” must be submitted through the regular OSP channels (). Per W&M Policy, no proposal with a commitment to match will be submitted without approval from the appropriate Department Chair/Unit Head and the Office of the Vice Provost for Research. (see Proposal Development > Tools & References > Cost Share/Matching Tutorial)

If additional resources, such as complementary funding, are required for a proposal, faculty should work with their home units (Departments, Programs, and Schools) to ensure that these matching resources are available prior to submission.

For more information on 4-VA, please review the 4-VA website available at https://4-va.org.