Application Form Autumn 2015 - EXAMPLE

To complete your application you need to:

1.  Submit the online version of this application form

2.  Ensure that your completed application endorsement is received by email to

A.  Lead applicant information

Your full name / Ellie Haines
Your personal email /
Your phone number / 01904 324463

B.  Your group

Name of the club, society, college or department applying for funding / iGEM
Group/project email /
Group Officer position & email / Vicky Patteson, Treasurer,
Group Officer position & email / Susie Braithwaite, Chair,
Group Officer position & email / Jane Andrews, Social Secretary,
1.  Number of paid up members of your group. / 20 / Annual membership fee £0
2.  Current club/society own funds balance at time of application. / £521 / These funds are set aside for a pre-competition conference which we hope to send three members to.
3.  Has the society, club or project received funding from YuFund or York Annual Fund in the past? (please indicate*) / No / Yes / If yes, please indicate when & how much:
iGEM York £8,000.00 Apr-13
iGEM York 2014 £6,000.00 Dec-13
iGEM York 2015 £2,000.00 Dec-14

*check the list of past YuFund projects available on www.yorkspace.net/students/yufund

C.  Project Information

1.  Title of the project or activity for which the funding is sought. / iGEM York 2016
2.  Project type (please tick all that apply). / Volunteering
Creative/Society
Sport
Improved facilities
Supports diversity and inclusion
Employability
Other (please list) – Reputation of the University and Department
3.  Outline your project and 2/3 key objectives (300 characters max, excluding spaces). / iGEM stands for international genetically engineered machine and is a synthetic biology competition for undergraduates run by MIT. With YuFund we could:
·  Pay the team registration fee
·  Pay the conference attendance fee
As a result top students from York can represent the University and enhance their learning opportunities, improving employability.
4.  Number of members actively taking part in your project / 20
5.  Brief description of your project or activity and what you hope to achieve for your group. (1200 characters max, excluding spaces). / iGEM is the premier synthetic biology competition in the world. Student teams are given a kit of biological parts at the beginning of the summer from theRegistry of Standard Biological Parts. Working at their own universities over the summer, they use these parts and new parts of their own design to build biological systems and operate them in living cells. If we are able to take part in iGEM 2016 we will spend the first part of the year researching and designing our project before spending the summer in York making our synthetic organism. We hope that we will make it to the regionals in Europe and subsequently the finals at MIT in Boston. We have achieved excellent results in the past and hope to excel once more in 2016.
It is an extremely exciting opportunity for students at York to put ideas into practise and to turn academic study into a real life scenario.
The reason we are applying to YuFund is so that undergraduate students at York can take part in this amazing competition. Without funding it is impossible for students to be involved, therefore they miss out on a unique and important opportunity.
6.  Please demonstrate how your project contributes to the wider University of York or York City community / iGEM is an important, internationally renowned competition which will help to enhance the reputation of the University. It will help to attract academically-excellent students to York and will boost the opportunities provided by the department of Biology.
Through the competition we go out into the wider community to promote science, thus promoting the University at the same time. We will be appearing at yornight to promote our research and make it as accessible as possible.
7.  Demonstrate how your project will advance personal or career development of students / This project is truly valuable as it combines a passion for science with entrepreneurial skills. It provides real life skills and drastically increases the employability of the students taking part, as well as providing them with unique experiences that they will always value.
The competition has an outstanding reputation and if we are successful this achievement will help us stand out from the competition when we graduate. The additional skills that we gain from organising and taking part in such a competition are invaluable. These transferable skills will help us to demonstrate what we are capable of to future employers and will show that we can excel beyond the field of science. The funding we could receive would undoubtedly help us attain our future goals.
8.  How will you be able to acknowledge the support of YuFund publicly? / We will include the YuFund logo on all of our posters, presentations and t-shirts/merchandise. We will also display the YuFund logo and a biography on our websites, blogs and wiki. We use a range of social media and would be proactive in using it to thank YuFund.

D.  Project Budget

Project costs (insert more rows/amend headings if necessary)

Expenditure item / Amount
Team Registration fee / £2,000
Conference attendance fee / £3,500
Lab Equipment / £2,000
Lab consumables / £3,000
Travel/accommodation / £2,000
Student stipends / £4,000
A.  Total Project Cost / £16,500
Income source (amend headings as applicable) / Projected / Confirmed
Croda / £500 / £0
Yorkshire Water / £500 / £0
Synbiota / £500 / £0
Genscript / £1,000 / £0
YuStart / n/a / £8,500
B.  Total income / £2,500 / £8,500

E.  Funding

Amount of grant requested:
Project costs A minus project income B / £5,500
When do you plan to spend this grant, if it is awarded? (Please indicate ) / Spring Term 2016
Summer Term 2016
Other (please give details)