Building a Safer Campus
Application Period:
Open all year round
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1. PURPOSE OF CEF
With effect from November 2021, CEF provides funding of up to 80% of the total deficit cost capped at $5,000.
Example of funding calculation: 80% * Total Deficit Cost
= 80% * (Total of Supportable Expenditures - Total income generated from project)
Funding is on a reimbursement basis, students will have to incur and bear all expenses upfront. Students can claim for completed projects as long as it is within the financial year of approval.
- Organising committee should consist of only full-time NUS undergraduate students.
- Applicant/Project leader should complete the project before graduating from the University.
- Project teams should aim to pursue their passion, apply their skills and knowledge in real-life community projects to bring positive and meaningful impact to the community.
- Projects should aim to promote the well-being of the community and/or environment.
- Projects need to work with a community partner which could be a NUS department, faculty, residences and/or external community partners.
- Projects must have a NUS Staff Advisor either from faculty or department.
The proposals are evaluated based on the following criteria:
- Number of NUS students engaged to serve the community (eg. organising team members and/or volunteers)
- First time application or repeated application
- Indirect (eg. Awareness, social media campaign) or direct engagement (eg. collaborative, interactive workshop)
- Collaborative effort of team to engage all team members and community partner(s) in the project designing stage
- Social integration (eg. having a mix of international and local students in the group)
- Diversity (eg. having a mix of students from different faculties/interest groups etc.)
- Research effort (eg. including primary and secondary research)
- Value-adding to community partner organisation and their initiatives
- Application and learning of skills and knowledge
- Demonstrates application of plans/actions to achieve sustainability beyond project duration
Check out the CEF Assessment Rubrics to find out more!
- Projects that aim at, or will result in, financial or material gain for the organising committee
- Projects that lack a clear community angle, or where the community angle is tangential to the project
- Repeated projects (previously funded by CEF) which are unable to demonstrate evidences of project improvement (methodology/implementation plan or sustained impact)
- Projects that successfully received OSA funding from other OSA funding sources such as Teach Singapore and University Support for Pursuit of Arts, Culture and Sports (U-Sparks).
The following expenditures will not be supported, even if the project as a whole is approved:
- General operating expenses of start-up costs of student clubs, societies or interest groups
- Direct cash prizes or outright donations to beneficiaries
- Overseas travel expenditure (including but not limited to airfare, flight/train tickets, accommodation costs)
- Goodie bags, door gifts and volunteers' t-shirts
- Vendor fees and honorarium e.g. workshop training fees
- Audit, legal, utilities, fines and penalties fees, insurance premiums for equipment e.g. third-party liability insurance;
- Purchase and maintenance of fixed assets/equipment
- Tobacco and alcohol products
- Any private and personal consumption items
- Items, goods or services where approved team members have a direct stake or interest in (This is to avoid conflict of interest)
- Items that are not directly relevant to the proposed project or for which alternatives or substitutes are available within the University