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2026 Call for Workshop Proposals 

Deadline: October 19, 2026 

The Center on Aging, Health, & Environment (CACHE) invites applications for funding for a topical in-person or hybrid workshop to be held during the academic year 2026-2027. We expect to support one workshop at $15,000. We encourage affiliates to seek matching or additional external funds if more support is needed. 

CACHE-supported workshops must: 

  • Align with the Center’s overall aim (see details here) which is to facilitate research on aging-health-environment topics.  All three dimensions must be considered in workshop content, and the workshop should aim to include experts from these three pillars. 
  • Have a data and/or methodological focus. CACHE aims to break down the barriers in aging-health-environment research, such as the challenges in integrating social-environmental data, for example. While workshops may propose a focus on an underused dataset, attention must also be given to relevant social or environmental data that can be integrated with the existing data.  
  • See an example of a CACHE organized workshop focusing on environmental data linkages with the Health and Retirement Survey here.  
  • CACHE workshops must include some early-career researchers (doctoral students, post-docs, assistant professors), and the workshop should be a networking opportunity for them. 
  • Workshops are expected to produce sharable content (slide decks, papers, videos) that can be disseminated on the CACHE Website.  

Workshop funds can support: 

  • Participant and speaker travel expenses, including lodging 
  • Facility and equipment rental 
  • Graduate student salary for workshop planning and support activities  

Workshop funds cannot support: 

  • Faculty salary 
  • Group meals 

*In terms of budget, these will not be funded as subawards. Instead, CACHE will handle the finances including funding room reservations, reimbursing participant travel, and other expenses.

Proposal (no more than two single-spaced pages) to include: 

  • Workshop title 
  • Workshop goal 
  • Significance and potential impact to the state-of-knowledge 
  • Alignment with CACHE goals 
  • Possible key participants and how participants will be selected or invited to participate 
  • Workshop format 
  • Budget (1-page, additional)  
  • If matching funds are to be sought to support the workshop, a description of that request or source of funding and how it will impact planning (1-page additional).  

Send applications to Julia Shipman at cache@colorado.edu with “CACHE Workshop Proposal” in funding line.