Scialog seeks to accelerate the work of 21st-century transformational science through funding research, intensive dialogue and community building. Conceived as a research grant program emphasizing annual meetings and the opportunity, encouragement and expectation to form cross-disciplinary teams, the Scialog process is guided by a panel of nationally recognized scientists.
Scialog is intended to: 1) support early career scientists to expand research in a specifically focused area determined to be urgently important for the nation’s welfare; 2) encourage scientists to form collaborative cross-boundary or interdisciplinary teams to tackle the critical areas identified by RCSA, and; 3) help transition awardees to future funding.
The first Scialog initiative focused on funding early career scientists and building research teams to undertake groundbreaking studies in solar energy conversion. The most important characteristic of a successful proposal is the presentation of truly innovative ideas that have potential to result in transformative breakthroughs in fundamental scientific understanding.