This all-University grant program supports the establishment and strengthening of innovative and sustainable international interdisciplinary partnerships between units at the University of Minnesota and those at universities and/or related institutions outside the United States. International partnerships should foster deep, sustained, interdisciplinary scholarly and/or creative activities in research, teaching, and/or related educational programs and must be characterized by a genuinely collaborative participation by all partners. Proposals from the broadest possible range of disciplines and academic units are encouraged. Grants for up to $25,000 will be awarded to support year-long initiatives. Smaller grants will be awarded to faculty in the earliest stages of international partnership start-up activities.