SCALe Mini Grants
As of Summer 2025, new SCALe Mini Grant applications are on pause, but applied learning continues in other ways!
- Students interested in an applied learning project may consider a course-based applied learning collaboration or pursue a campus need. View additional pathways for faculty and staff.
About The mini grants
The aim of the Sustainability and Climate Applied Learning (SCALe) Mini Grant is to engage Duke students, staff and faculty with real-world sustainability and climate challenges [and opportunities] that exist within the context of Duke’s campus.
SCALe Mini Grants offer one-time seed funding to pilot new collaborative projects, activities and applied benchmarking research that use Duke’s campus as a classroom for climate and sustainability learning, teaching, campus community building and transformation.
SCALe Mini Grants are intended to enhance student learning and position students, staff and faculty as change agents through collaborative, hands-on experiences that imagine a more sustainable campus culture; activate sustainable behavior change at Duke; and unite Blue Devils as a community invested in campus-wide climate and sustainability progress.