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About eSeaGrant

Built with Sea Grant.
Built for Sea Grant.

eSeaGrant has evolved through years of working directly with Sea Grant programs and the people who manage competitions, reviews, awards, projects and reporting every day.

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A platform shaped by the work

Sea Grant isn't a generic grants process.

Every program has responsibilities that extend well beyond collecting an application. Funding opportunities move through multiple phases. Proposals require coordinated review. Awards become active projects. Projects generate reporting obligations. People, students, publications and outcomes remain connected to that work over time.

eSeaGrant has grown around those realities. The platform reflects what programs have learned, requested and relied on through years of managing their work.

The goal has never been to make Sea Grant conform to software. It has been to make the software work for Sea Grant.
The eSeaGrant community

One platform. Many programs. Shared experience.

Each Sea Grant program operates in its own environment, but many of the challenges are shared. eSeaGrant creates an opportunity for improvements developed around one program's needs to strengthen the platform available to the broader community.

01 · LISTEN

Programs shape the priorities.

Ideas begin with the people doing the work. Program needs, operational challenges and opportunities for improvement inform how eSeaGrant evolves.

02 · BUILD

Ideas become working solutions.

Ecsion translates those needs into software, workflows and capabilities that fit within the broader eSeaGrant platform.

03 · SHARE

The community benefits.

Where capabilities have broad value, they can become part of the platform and create value beyond the program that first identified the need.

Continuous evolution

eSeaGrant has never stood still.

The platform has continued to evolve as program needs, technology and the way people work have changed. eSeaGrant 2026 is the next step in that evolution.

Program experienceYears of real grant administration establish the foundation for what the platform needs to do.
Shared improvementsProgram feedback and enhancement ideas continuously improve workflows and capabilities.
Connected solutionsNew capabilities can extend eSeaGrant into areas such as student tracking and broader program information.
eSeaGrant 2026A modern foundation for the next generation of grant and program management.
Community + engineering

Sea Grant expertise on one side. Software engineering on the other.

The strength of eSeaGrant comes from the combination. Sea Grant programs understand the work, the policy and the day-to-day realities. Ecsion brings the product, engineering and technology expertise required to turn those needs into a sustainable platform.

That partnership gives eSeaGrant something generic grants software cannot easily reproduce: a product history grounded in how Sea Grant programs actually operate.

The model

Designed around the network, without forcing every program to work the same way.

eSeaGrant provides a shared platform while preserving the ability for programs to configure funding opportunities, phases, forms, reviews and workflows around their own needs.

Shared foundation.
Program-level flexibility.

The next chapter

Built on what programs rely on today. Designed for what comes next.

eSeaGrant 2026 carries forward the productivity capabilities programs depend on while creating a stronger foundation for new workflows, connected information and future AI-assisted features.

Explore eSeaGrant 2026 →
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