Nationwide Science Basis
Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Financial Sciences
Division of Social and Financial Sciences
Full Proposal Goal Date(s):
January 18, 2024
January 18, Yearly Thereafter
August 19, 2024
August 18, Yearly Thereafter
IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND REVISION NOTES
New and clarified program and proposal necessities are described on this solicitation:
DRMS helps doctoral dissertation analysis enchancment grants (DDRIGs), and this doc clarifies the methods through which DDRIG proposals should adjust to necessities past these listed within the NSF Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information (PAPPG). Investigators should comply with this solicitation and the present PAPPG. The place the solicitation differs from the PAPPG, the solicitation takes priority.
To guarantee that the proposal is suitable for DRMS, the advisor of the doctoral scholar is strongly inspired to contact one of many DRMS program administrators by e mail previous to the preparation of the DDRIG proposal.
Any proposal submitted in response to this solicitation ought to be submitted in accordance with the NSF Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information (PAPPG) that’s in impact for the related due date to which the proposal is being submitted. The NSF PAPPG is often revised and it’s the accountability of the proposer to make sure that the proposal meets the necessities specified on this solicitation and the relevant model of the PAPPG. Submitting a proposal previous to a specified deadline doesn’t negate this requirement.
SUMMARY OF PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
Common Data
Program Title:
Determination, Threat and Administration Sciences – Doctoral Dissertation Analysis Enchancment Grants (DRMS-DDRIG)
Synopsis of Program:
The Determination, Threat and Administration Sciences Program (DRMS) helps scientific analysis directed at growing understanding and effectiveness of determination making by people, teams, organizations and society. DRMS helps analysis with stable foundations in theories and strategies of the social and behavioral sciences. This social and behavioral science analysis ought to advance data, tackle elementary scientific and societal points and have sturdy broader impacts. DRMS funds doctoral dissertation analysis enchancment grants (DDRIGs) within the following areas:
Judgement and determination making.
Determination evaluation and determination aids.
Threat evaluation, notion and communication.
Societal and public-policy determination making.
Administration science and organizational design.
All analysis should be grounded in idea and generalizable. Purely theoretical or algorithmic proposals will not be applicable for DRMS DDRIG proposals.
Cognizant Program Officer(s):
Please notice that the next data is present on the time of publishing. See program web site for any updates to the factors of contact.
Claudia Gonzalez-Vallejo, Program Director,
SBE/SES,
phone:
(703) 292-4710,
e mail: [email protected]
Robert E. O’Connor, Program Director,
SBE/SES,
phone:
(703) 292-7263,
e mail: [email protected]
Relevant Catalog of Federal Home Help (CFDA) Quantity(s):
47.075
— Social Behavioral and Financial Sciences
Award Data
Anticipated Sort of Award: Commonplace Grant
Estimated Variety of Awards: 20 to 30
It’s anticipated that 20 to 30 DDRIG awards will probably be made per fiscal 12 months.
Anticipated Funding Quantity: $450,000 to $675,000
The anticipated funding quantity is $450,000 to $675,000 whole per fiscal 12 months (1 October via 30 September), pending availability of funds.
Challenge budgets ought to be developed at scales applicable for the work to be carried out. Proposal budgets can not exceed $30,000 in whole prices (direct and oblique prices) for your complete period of the award. Oblique prices are topic to the recipient’s present federally negotiated oblique price fee. The utmost mission period is 12 months.
The proposer might concurrently submit a doctoral dissertation proposal to different funding organizations. Please point out this within the “Present and Pending (Different) Help” part of the NSF proposal, in order that NSF might coordinate funding with the opposite organizations.
Eligibility Data
Who Could Submit Proposals:
Proposals might solely be submitted by the next:
Establishments of Larger Training (IHEs) – Ph.D. granting IHEs accredited in, and having a campus positioned in, the U.S. performing on behalf of their school members.
Who Could Function PI:
DRMS DDRIG proposals should be submitted via common organizational channels by the dissertation advisor. The principal investigator (PI) should be the doctoral scholar’s dissertation advisor and the co-principal investigator (co-PI) should be the doctoral scholar. If applicable, and on the discretion of the submitting group, an extra school advisor on the similar or one other establishment could also be listed as one other co-PI. Doctoral college students are anticipated to be on the applicable stage of their tutorial careers to allow them to work with their dissertation advisors to arrange and to submit the DDRIG proposal.
Restrict on Variety of Proposals per Group:
There aren’t any restrictions or limits.
Restrict on Variety of Proposals per PI or co-PI:
There is no such thing as a limitation on the variety of DDRIG proposals submitted to the DRMS Program by advisors or different school members functioning because the PI, both throughout a selected competitors or over the course of their careers.
Proposal Preparation and Submission Directions
A. Proposal Preparation Directions
Letters of Intent: Not required
Preliminary Proposal Submission: Not required
B. Budgetary Data
Different Budgetary Limitations:
Different budgetary limitations apply. Please see the total textual content of this solicitation for additional data.
C. Due Dates
Full Proposal Goal Date(s):
January 18, 2024
January 18, Yearly Thereafter
August 19, 2024
August 18, Yearly Thereafter
Proposal Evaluation Data Standards
Advantage Evaluation Standards:
Nationwide Science Board accepted standards apply.
Award Administration Data
Award Situations:
Extra award situations apply. Please see the total textual content of this solicitation for additional data.
Reporting Necessities:
Commonplace NSF reporting necessities apply.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Abstract of Program Necessities
Introduction
Program Description
Award Data
Eligibility Data
Proposal Preparation and Submission Directions
Proposal Preparation Directions
Budgetary Data
Due Dates
Analysis.gov/Grants.gov Necessities
NSF Proposal Processing and Evaluation Procedures
Advantage Evaluation Rules and Standards
Evaluation and Choice Course of
Award Administration Data
Notification of the Award
Award Situations
Reporting Necessities
Company Contacts
Different Data
I. INTRODUCTION
The Determination, Threat and Administration Sciences Program (DRMS) awards Doctoral Dissertation Analysis Enchancment Grants (DDRIGs) in all areas of analysis supported by the DRMS program. This doc clarifies the methods through which DDRIG proposals should adjust to necessities past these listed within the PAPPG. The place the solicitation differs from the PAPPG, the solicitation takes priority.
To guarantee that the proposal is suitable for DRMS, the advisor of the doctoral scholar is strongly inspired to contact one of many DRMS program administrators by e mail previous to the preparation of the DDRIG proposal.
II. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
The Determination, Threat and Administration Sciences Program (DRMS) helps scientific analysis directed at growing understanding and effectiveness of determination making by people, teams, organizations and society. DRMS helps analysis with stable foundations in theories and strategies of the social and behavioral sciences. This social and behavioral science analysis ought to advance data, tackle elementary scientific and societal points and have sturdy broader impacts. DRMS funds doctoral dissertation analysis enchancment grants (DDRIGs) within the following areas:
Judgment and determination making.
Determination evaluation and determination aids.
Threat evaluation, notion and communication.
Societal and public-policy determination making.
Administration science and organizational design.
All analysis should be grounded in idea and generalizable. Purely theoretical or algorithmic proposals will not be applicable for DRMS DDRIG proposals.
Proposal budgets can not exceed $30,000 in whole prices (direct and oblique prices) for your complete period of the award. Oblique prices are topic to the recipient’s present federally negotiated oblique price fee. The utmost mission period is 12 months.
Extra Program Issues
Knowledge Administration Plan
DRMS requires that curated knowledge be submitted to a publicly accessible repository inside 2 years of ultimate knowledge assortment.
III. AWARD INFORMATION
Anticipated Sort of Award: Commonplace Grant
Estimated Variety of Awards: 20 to 30
It’s anticipated that 20 to 30 DDRIG awards will probably be made per fiscal 12 months.
Anticipated Funding Quantity: $450,000 to $675,000
The anticipated funding quantity is $450,000 to $675,000 whole per fiscal 12 months (1 October via 30 September), pending availability of funds.
Estimated program funds, variety of awards and common award dimension/period are topic to the supply of funds.
IV. ELIGIBILITY INFORMATION
Who Could Submit Proposals:
Proposals might solely be submitted by the next:
Establishments of Larger Training (IHEs) – Ph.D. granting IHEs accredited in, and having a campus positioned in, the U.S. performing on behalf of their school members.
Who Could Function PI:
DRMS DDRIG proposals should be submitted via common organizational channels by the dissertation advisor. The principal investigator (PI) should be the doctoral scholar’s dissertation advisor and the co-principal investigator (co-PI) should be the doctoral scholar. If applicable, and on the discretion of the submitting group, an extra school advisor on the similar or one other establishment could also be listed as one other co-PI. Doctoral college students are anticipated to be on the applicable stage of their tutorial careers to allow them to work with their dissertation advisors to arrange and to submit the DDRIG proposal.
Restrict on Variety of Proposals per Group:
There aren’t any restrictions or limits.
Restrict on Variety of Proposals per PI or co-PI:
There is no such thing as a limitation on the variety of DDRIG proposals submitted to the DRMS Program by advisors or different school members functioning because the PI, both throughout a selected competitors or over the course of their careers.
V. PROPOSAL PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
A. Proposal Preparation Directions
Full Proposal Preparation Directions: Proposers might choose to submit proposals in response to this Program Solicitation by way of Analysis.gov or Grants.gov.
Full Proposals submitted by way of Analysis.gov: Proposals submitted in response to this program solicitation ought to be ready and submitted in accordance with the overall pointers contained within the NSF Proposal and Award Insurance policies and Procedures Information (PAPPG). The entire textual content of the PAPPG is obtainable electronically on the NSF web site at: https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pappg. Paper copies of the PAPPG could also be obtained from the NSF Publications Clearinghouse, phone (703) 292-8134 or by e-mail from [email protected]. The Put together New Proposal setup will immediate you for this system solicitation quantity.
Full proposals submitted by way of Grants.gov: Proposals submitted in response to this program solicitation by way of Grants.gov ought to be ready and submitted in accordance with the NSF Grants.gov Software Information: A Information for the Preparation and Submission of NSF Purposes by way of Grants.gov. The entire textual content of the NSF Grants.gov Software Information is obtainable on the Grants.gov web site and on the NSF web site at: (https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=grantsgovguide). To acquire copies of the Software Information and Software Varieties Bundle, click on on the Apply tab on the Grants.gov website, then click on on the Apply Step 1: Obtain a Grant Software Bundle and Software Directions hyperlink and enter the funding alternative quantity, (this system solicitation quantity with out the NSF prefix) and press the Obtain Bundle button. Paper copies of the Grants.gov Software Information additionally could also be obtained from the NSF Publications Clearinghouse, phone (703) 292-8134 or by e-mail from [email protected].
See PAPPG Chapter II.D.2 for steering on the required sections of a full analysis proposal submitted to NSF. Please notice that the proposal preparation directions offered on this program solicitation might deviate from the PAPPG directions.
The next part lists DRMS-DDRIG proposal data and necessities that increase the PAPPG normal steering:
Proposal Set-Up
Choose “Put together New Full Proposal” in Analysis.gov. Seek for and choose this solicitation title in Step 1 of the Full Proposal wizard. The data in Step 2, The place to Apply, will probably be prepopulated by the system. Choose “Analysis” because the proposal sort. Within the proposal particulars part, choose “Single proposal (with or with out subawards). Individually submitted collaborative proposals will probably be returned with out overview. The mission title should start with “Doctoral Dissertation Analysis:” adopted by a succinct, descriptive and jargon-free title of the dissertation analysis mission that emphasizes the generalizable science that the analysis will tackle.
Senior Personnel
Checklist the first dissertation advisor because the PI and listing the doctoral scholar (and different advisors, provided that extremely applicable to the conduct of the analysis) as Co-PI(s).
The proposer might concurrently submit a doctoral dissertation proposal to different funding organizations. Please point out this within the “Present and Pending Help” part of the NSF proposal, in order that NSF might coordinate funding with the opposite organizations.
B. Budgetary Data
Price Sharing:
Inclusion of voluntary dedicated price sharing is prohibited.
Different Budgetary Limitations:
Proposal budgets can not exceed $30,000 in whole prices (direct and oblique prices) for your complete period of the award. Oblique prices are topic to the recipient’s present federally negotiated oblique price fee.
Funds could also be used to assist all analysis bills allowed underneath the PAPPG, together with journey by the doctoral scholar to skilled conferences and publication prices for articles derived from DDRIG analysis. Exceptions are that funds might not be used for stipends or wage for the doctoral scholar or advisor, tuition, journals, dissertation preparation, or journey by the dissertation advisor to skilled conferences.
C. Due Dates
Full Proposal Goal Date(s):
January 18, 2024
January 18, Yearly Thereafter
August 19, 2024
August 18, Yearly Thereafter
D. Analysis.gov/Grants.gov Necessities
For Proposals Submitted Through Analysis.gov:
To organize and submit a proposal by way of Analysis.gov, see detailed technical directions out there at: https://www.analysis.gov/research-portal/appmanager/base/desktop?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=research_node_display&_nodePath=/researchGov/Service/Desktop/ProposalPreparationandSubmission.html. For Analysis.gov consumer assist, name the Analysis.gov Assist Desk at 1-800-381-1532 or e-mail [email protected]. The Analysis.gov Assist Desk solutions common technical questions associated to using the Analysis.gov system. Particular questions associated to this program solicitation ought to be referred to the NSF program employees contact(s) listed in Part VIII of this funding alternative.
For Proposals Submitted Through Grants.gov:
Earlier than utilizing Grants.gov for the primary time, every group should register to create an institutional profile. As soon as registered, the applicant’s group can then apply for any federal grant on the Grants.gov web site. Complete details about utilizing Grants.gov is obtainable on the Grants.gov Applicant Sources webpage: https://www.grants.gov/net/grants/candidates.html. As well as, the NSF Grants.gov Software Information (see hyperlink in Part V.A) gives directions relating to the technical preparation of proposals by way of Grants.gov. For Grants.gov consumer assist, contact the Grants.gov Contact Middle at 1-800-518-4726 or by e mail: [email protected]. The Grants.gov Contact Middle solutions common technical questions associated to using Grants.gov. Particular questions associated to this program solicitation ought to be referred to the NSF program employees contact(s) listed in Part VIII of this solicitation.
Submitting the Proposal: As soon as all paperwork have been accomplished, the Approved Organizational Consultant (AOR) should submit the applying to Grants.gov and confirm the specified funding alternative and company to which the applying is submitted. The AOR should then signal and submit the applying to Grants.gov. The finished utility will probably be transferred to Analysis.gov for additional processing.
Proposers that submitted by way of Analysis.gov might use Analysis.gov to confirm the standing of their submission to NSF. For proposers that submitted by way of Grants.gov, till an utility has been obtained and validated by NSF, the Approved Organizational Consultant might test the standing of an utility on Grants.gov. After proposers have obtained an e-mail notification from NSF, Analysis.gov ought to be used to test the standing of an utility.
VI. NSF PROPOSAL PROCESSING AND REVIEW PROCEDURES
Proposals obtained by NSF are assigned to the suitable NSF program for acknowledgement and, in the event that they meet NSF necessities, for overview. All proposals are fastidiously reviewed by a scientist, engineer, or educator serving as an NSF Program Officer, and normally by three to 10 different individuals exterior NSF both as advert hoc reviewers, panelists, or each, who’re specialists within the explicit fields represented by the proposal. These reviewers are chosen by Program Officers charged with oversight of the overview course of. Proposers are invited to counsel names of individuals they consider are particularly effectively certified to overview the proposal and/or individuals they would favor not overview the proposal. These ideas might function one supply within the reviewer choice course of on the Program Officer’s discretion. Submission of such names, nonetheless, is non-compulsory. Care is taken to make sure that reviewers don’t have any conflicts of curiosity with the proposal. As well as, Program Officers might receive feedback from website visits earlier than recommending ultimate motion on proposals. Senior NSF employees additional overview suggestions for awards. A flowchart that depicts your complete NSF proposal and award course of (and related timeline) is included in PAPPG Exhibit III-1.
A complete description of the Basis’s benefit overview course of is obtainable on the NSF web site at: https://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/coverage/merit_review/.
Proposers also needs to pay attention to core methods which might be important to the success of NSF’s mission, as articulated in Main the World in Discovery and Innovation, STEM Expertise Growth and the Supply of Advantages from Analysis – NSF Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years (FY) 2022 – 2026 . These methods are built-in in this system planning and implementation course of, of which proposal overview is one half. NSF’s mission is especially well-implemented via the combination of analysis and training and broadening participation in NSF applications, initiatives, and actions.
One of many strategic targets in assist of NSF’s mission is to foster integration of analysis and training via the applications, initiatives, and actions it helps at tutorial and analysis establishments. These establishments should recruit, practice, and put together a various STEM workforce to advance the frontiers of science and take part within the U.S. technology-based financial system. NSF’s contribution to the nationwide innovation ecosystem is to offer cutting-edge analysis underneath the steering of the Nation’s most inventive scientists and engineers. NSF additionally helps growth of a powerful science, know-how, engineering, and arithmetic (STEM) workforce by investing in constructing the data that informs enhancements in STEM instructing and studying.
NSF’s mission requires the broadening of alternatives and increasing participation of teams, establishments, and geographic areas which might be underrepresented in STEM disciplines, which is crucial to the well being and vitality of science and engineering. NSF is dedicated to this precept of variety and deems it central to the applications, initiatives, and actions it considers and helps.
A. Advantage Evaluation Rules and Standards
The Nationwide Science Basis strives to put money into a sturdy and various portfolio of initiatives that creates new data and permits breakthroughs in understanding throughout all areas of science and engineering analysis and training. To determine which initiatives to assist, NSF depends on a benefit overview course of that comes with consideration of each the technical facets of a proposed mission and its potential to contribute extra broadly to advancing NSF’s mission “to advertise the progress of science; to advance the nationwide well being, prosperity, and welfare; to safe the nationwide protection; and for different functions.” NSF makes each effort to conduct a good, aggressive, clear benefit overview course of for the choice of initiatives.
1. Advantage Evaluation Rules
These ideas are to be given due diligence by PIs and organizations when getting ready proposals and managing initiatives, by reviewers when studying and evaluating proposals, and by NSF program employees when figuring out whether or not or to not advocate proposals for funding and whereas overseeing awards. On condition that NSF is the first federal company charged with nurturing and supporting excellence in fundamental analysis and training, the next three ideas apply:
All NSF initiatives ought to be of the very best high quality and have the potential to advance, if not rework, the frontiers of data.
NSF initiatives, within the mixture, ought to contribute extra broadly to attaining societal targets. These “Broader Impacts” could also be completed via the analysis itself, via actions which might be instantly associated to particular analysis initiatives, or via actions which might be supported by, however are complementary to, the mission. The mission actions could also be primarily based on beforehand established and/or progressive strategies and approaches, however in both case should be effectively justified.
Significant evaluation and analysis of NSF funded initiatives ought to be primarily based on applicable metrics, preserving in thoughts the doubtless correlation between the impact of broader impacts and the assets offered to implement initiatives. If the dimensions of the exercise is proscribed, analysis of that exercise in isolation shouldn’t be more likely to be significant. Thus, assessing the effectiveness of those actions might finest be executed at the next, extra aggregated, stage than the person mission.
With respect to the third precept, even when evaluation of Broader Impacts outcomes for explicit initiatives is completed at an aggregated stage, PIs are anticipated to be accountable for finishing up the actions described within the funded mission. Thus, particular person initiatives ought to embrace clearly acknowledged targets, particular descriptions of the actions that the PI intends to do, and a plan in place to doc the outputs of these actions.
These three benefit overview ideas present the idea for the benefit overview standards, in addition to a context inside which the customers of the factors can higher perceive their intent.
2. Advantage Evaluation Standards
All NSF proposals are evaluated via use of the 2 Nationwide Science Board accepted benefit overview standards. In some cases, nonetheless, NSF will make use of extra standards as required to spotlight the precise targets of sure applications and actions.
The 2 benefit overview standards are listed beneath. Each standards are to be given full consideration in the course of the overview and decision-making processes; every criterion is critical however neither, by itself, is enough. Subsequently, proposers should absolutely tackle each standards. (PAPPG Chapter II.D.2.d(i). incorporates extra data to be used by proposers in growth of the Challenge Description part of the proposal). Reviewers are strongly inspired to overview the factors, together with PAPPG Chapter II.D.2.d(i), previous to the overview of a proposal.
When evaluating NSF proposals, reviewers will probably be requested to think about what the proposers need to do, why they need to do it, how they plan to do it, how they may know in the event that they succeed, and what advantages may accrue if the mission is profitable. These points apply each to the technical facets of the proposal and the way in which through which the mission might make broader contributions. To that finish, reviewers will probably be requested to guage all proposals towards two standards:
Mental Advantage: The Mental Advantage criterion encompasses the potential to advance data; and
Broader Impacts: The Broader Impacts criterion encompasses the potential to profit society and contribute to the achievement of particular, desired societal outcomes.
The next parts ought to be thought of within the overview for each standards:
What’s the potential for the proposed exercise to
Advance data and understanding inside its personal area or throughout completely different fields (Mental Advantage); and
Profit society or advance desired societal outcomes (Broader Impacts)?
To what extent do the proposed actions counsel and discover inventive, unique, or doubtlessly transformative ideas?
Is the plan for finishing up the proposed actions well-reasoned, well-organized, and primarily based on a sound rationale? Does the plan incorporate a mechanism to evaluate success?
How effectively certified is the person, crew, or group to conduct the proposed actions?
Are there enough assets out there to the PI (both on the dwelling group or via collaborations) to hold out the proposed actions?
Broader impacts could also be completed via the analysis itself, via the actions which might be instantly associated to particular analysis initiatives, or via actions which might be supported by, however are complementary to, the mission. NSF values the development of scientific data and actions that contribute to achievement of societally related outcomes. Such outcomes embrace, however will not be restricted to: full participation of ladies, individuals with disabilities, and different underrepresented teams in science, know-how, engineering, and arithmetic (STEM); improved STEM training and educator growth at any stage; elevated public scientific literacy and public engagement with science and know-how; improved well-being of people in society; growth of a various, globally aggressive STEM workforce; elevated partnerships between academia, trade, and others; improved nationwide safety; elevated financial competitiveness of the USA; and enhanced infrastructure for analysis and training.
Proposers are reminded that reviewers can even be requested to overview the Knowledge Administration Plan and the Postdoctoral Researcher Mentoring Plan, as applicable.
B. Evaluation and Choice Course of
Proposals submitted in response to this program solicitation will probably be reviewed by Advert hoc Evaluation and/or Panel Evaluation.
Reviewers will probably be requested to guage proposals utilizing two Nationwide Science Board accepted benefit overview standards and, if relevant, extra program particular standards. A abstract ranking and accompanying narrative will typically be accomplished and submitted by every reviewer and/or panel. The Program Officer assigned to handle the proposal’s overview will think about the recommendation of reviewers and can formulate a suggestion.
After scientific, technical and programmatic overview and consideration of applicable elements, the NSF Program Officer recommends to the cognizant Division Director whether or not the proposal ought to be declined or really useful for award. NSF strives to have the ability to inform candidates whether or not their proposals have been declined or really useful for funding inside six months. Massive or notably advanced proposals or proposals from new awardees might require extra overview and processing time. The time interval begins on the deadline or goal date, or receipt date, whichever is later. The interval ends when the Division Director acts upon the Program Officer’s suggestion.
After programmatic approval has been obtained, the proposals really useful for funding will probably be forwarded to the Division of Grants and Agreements or the Division of Acquisition and Cooperative Help for overview of enterprise, monetary, and coverage implications. After an administrative overview has occurred, Grants and Agreements Officers carry out the processing and issuance of a grant or different settlement. Proposers are cautioned that solely a Grants and Agreements Officer might make commitments, obligations or awards on behalf of NSF or authorize the expenditure of funds. No dedication on the a part of NSF ought to be inferred from technical or budgetary discussions with a NSF Program Officer. A Principal Investigator or group that makes monetary or personnel commitments within the absence of a grant or cooperative settlement signed by the NSF Grants and Agreements Officer does so at their very own danger.
As soon as an award or declination determination has been made, Principal Investigators are offered suggestions about their proposals. In all circumstances, opinions are handled as confidential paperwork. Verbatim copies of opinions, excluding the names of the reviewers or any reviewer-identifying data, are despatched to the Principal Investigator/Challenge Director by the Program Officer. As well as, the proposer will obtain a proof of the choice to award or decline funding.
VII. AWARD ADMINISTRATION INFORMATION
A. Notification of the Award
Notification of the award is made to the submitting group by an NSF Grants and Agreements Officer. Organizations whose proposals are declined will probably be suggested as promptly as doable by the cognizant NSF Program administering this system. Verbatim copies of opinions, not together with the identification of the reviewer, will probably be offered robotically to the Principal Investigator. (See Part VI.B. for extra data on the overview course of.)
B. Award Situations
An NSF award consists of: (1) the award discover, which incorporates any particular provisions relevant to the award and any numbered amendments thereto; (2) the funds, which signifies the quantities, by classes of expense, on which NSF has primarily based its assist (or in any other case communicates any particular approvals or disapprovals of proposed expenditures); (3) the proposal referenced within the award discover; (4) the relevant award situations, equivalent to Grant Common Situations (GC-1)*; or Analysis Phrases and Situations* and (5) any announcement or different NSF issuance that could be integrated by reference within the award discover. Cooperative agreements are also administered in accordance with NSF Cooperative Settlement Monetary and Administrative Phrases and Situations (CA-FATC) and the relevant Programmatic Phrases and Situations. NSF awards are electronically signed by an NSF Grants and Agreements Officer and transmitted electronically to the group by way of e-mail.
*These paperwork could also be accessed electronically on NSF’s Web site at https://www.nsf.gov/awards/managing/award_conditions.jsp?org=NSF. Paper copies could also be obtained from the NSF Publications Clearinghouse, phone (703) 292-8134 or by e-mail from [email protected].
Extra complete data on NSF Award Situations and different vital data on the administration of NSF awards is contained within the NSF Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information (PAPPG) Chapter VII, out there electronically on the NSF Web site at https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pappg.
Administrative and Nationwide Coverage Necessities
Construct America, Purchase America
As expressed in Government Order 14005, Making certain the Future is Made in All of America by All of America’s Staff (86 FR 7475), it’s the coverage of the chief department to make use of phrases and situations of Federal monetary help awards to maximise, in line with regulation, using items, merchandise, and supplies produced in, and providers supplied in, the USA.
According to the necessities of the Construct America, Purchase America Act (Pub. L. 117-58, Division G, Title IX, Subtitle A, November 15, 2021), no funding made out there via this funding alternative could also be obligated for an award until all iron, metal, manufactured merchandise, and building supplies used within the mission are produced in the USA. For extra data, go to NSF’s Construct America, Purchase America webpage.
Particular Award Situations:
Knowledge Administration Plan
DRMS requires that curated knowledge be submitted to a publicly accessible repository inside 2 years of ultimate knowledge assortment.
C. Reporting Necessities
For all multi-year grants (together with each normal and persevering with grants), the Principal Investigator should submit an annual mission report back to the cognizant Program Officer no later than 90 days previous to the top of the present funds interval. (Some applications or awards require submission of extra frequent mission reviews). No later than 120 days following expiration of a grant, the PI is also required to submit a ultimate mission report, and a mission outcomes report for most people.
Failure to offer the required annual or ultimate mission reviews, or the mission outcomes report, will delay NSF overview and processing of any future funding increments in addition to any pending proposals for all recognized PIs and co-PIs on a given award. PIs ought to study the codecs of the required reviews prematurely to guarantee availability of required knowledge.
PIs are required to make use of NSF’s digital project-reporting system, out there via Analysis.gov, for preparation and submission of annual and ultimate mission reviews. Such reviews present data on accomplishments, mission members (particular person and organizational), publications, and different particular merchandise and impacts of the mission. Submission of the report by way of Analysis.gov constitutes certification by the PI that the contents of the report are correct and full. The mission outcomes report additionally should be ready and submitted utilizing Analysis.gov. This report serves as a quick abstract, ready particularly for the general public, of the character and outcomes of the mission. This report will probably be posted on the NSF web site precisely as it’s submitted by the PI.
Extra complete data on NSF Reporting Necessities and different vital data on the administration of NSF awards is contained within the NSF Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information (PAPPG) Chapter VII, out there electronically on the NSF Web site at https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pappg.
VIII. AGENCY CONTACTS
Please notice that this system contact data is present on the time of publishing. See program web site for any updates to the factors of contact.
Common inquiries relating to this program ought to be made to:
Claudia Gonzalez-Vallejo,
Program Director,
SBE/SES,
phone:
(703) 292-4710,
e mail: [email protected]
Robert E. O’Connor,
Program Director,
SBE/SES,
phone:
(703) 292-7263,
e mail: [email protected]
For questions associated to using NSF methods contact:
NSF Assist Desk: 1-800-381-1532
For questions regarding Grants.gov contact:
Grants.gov Contact Middle: If the Approved Organizational Representatives (AOR) has not obtained a affirmation message from Grants.gov inside 48 hours of submission of utility, please contact by way of phone: 1-800-518-4726; e-mail: [email protected].
IX. OTHER INFORMATION
The NSF web site gives probably the most complete supply of data on NSF Directorates (together with contact data), applications and funding alternatives. Use of this web site by potential proposers is strongly inspired. As well as, “NSF Replace” is an information-delivery system designed to maintain potential proposers and different events apprised of latest NSF funding alternatives and publications, vital adjustments in proposal and award insurance policies and procedures, and upcoming NSF Grants Conferences. Subscribers are knowledgeable via e-mail or the consumer’s Net browser every time new publications are issued that match their recognized pursuits. “NSF Replace” additionally is obtainable on NSF’s web site.
Grants.gov gives an extra digital functionality to seek for Federal government-wide grant alternatives. NSF funding alternatives could also be accessed by way of this mechanism. Additional data on Grants.gov could also be obtained at https://www.grants.gov.
ABOUT THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
The Nationwide Science Basis (NSF) is an impartial Federal company created by the Nationwide Science Basis Act of 1950, as amended (42 USC 1861-75). The Act states the aim of the NSF is “to advertise the progress of science; [and] to advance the nationwide well being, prosperity, and welfare by supporting analysis and training in all fields of science and engineering.”
NSF funds analysis and training in most fields of science and engineering. It does this via grants and cooperative agreements to greater than 2,000 schools, universities, Ok-12 college methods, companies, casual science organizations and different analysis organizations all through the US. The Basis accounts for about one-fourth of Federal assist to tutorial establishments for fundamental analysis.
NSF receives roughly 55,000 proposals every year for analysis, training and coaching initiatives, of which roughly 11,000 are funded. As well as, the Basis receives a number of thousand purposes for graduate and postdoctoral fellowships. The company operates no laboratories itself however does assist Nationwide Analysis Facilities, consumer services, sure oceanographic vessels and Arctic and Antarctic analysis stations. The Basis additionally helps cooperative analysis between universities and trade, US participation in worldwide scientific and engineering efforts, and academic actions at each tutorial stage.
Facilitation Awards for Scientists and Engineers with Disabilities (FASED) present funding for particular help or tools to allow individuals with disabilities to work on NSF-supported initiatives. See the NSF Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information Chapter II.F.7 for directions relating to preparation of all these proposals.
The Nationwide Science Basis has Telephonic System for the Deaf (TDD) and Federal Data Relay Service (FIRS) capabilities that allow people with listening to impairments to speak with the Basis about NSF applications, employment or common data. TDD could also be accessed at (703) 292-5090 and (800) 281-8749, FIRS at (800) 877-8339.
The Nationwide Science Basis Data Middle could also be reached at (703) 292-5111.
The Nationwide Science Basis promotes and advances scientific progress in the USA by competitively awarding grants and cooperative agreements for analysis and training within the sciences, arithmetic, and engineering.
To get the most recent details about program deadlines, to obtain copies of NSF publications, and to entry abstracts of awards, go to the NSF Web site at https://www.nsf.gov
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PRIVACY ACT AND PUBLIC BURDEN STATEMENTS
The data requested on proposal kinds and mission reviews is solicited underneath the authority of the Nationwide Science Basis Act of 1950, as amended. The data on proposal kinds will probably be utilized in reference to the choice of certified proposals; and mission reviews submitted by awardees will probably be used for program analysis and reporting throughout the Government Department and to Congress. The data requested could also be disclosed to certified reviewers and employees assistants as a part of the proposal overview course of; to proposer establishments/grantees to offer or receive knowledge relating to the proposal overview course of, award selections, or the administration of awards; to authorities contractors, specialists, volunteers and researchers and educators as vital to finish assigned work; to different authorities companies or different entities needing data relating to candidates or nominees as a part of a joint utility overview course of, or with a purpose to coordinate applications or coverage; and to a different Federal company, courtroom, or celebration in a courtroom or Federal administrative continuing if the federal government is a celebration. Details about Principal Investigators could also be added to the Reviewer file and used to pick potential candidates to function peer reviewers or advisory committee members. See System of File Notices, NSF-50, “Principal Investigator/Proposal File and Related Data,” and NSF-51, “Reviewer/Proposal File and Related Data.” Submission of the data is voluntary. Failure to offer full and full data, nonetheless, might cut back the potential for receiving an award.
An company might not conduct or sponsor, and an individual shouldn’t be required to answer, an data assortment until it shows a legitimate Workplace of Administration and Funds (OMB) management quantity. The OMB management quantity for this assortment is 3145-0058. Public reporting burden for this assortment of data is estimated to common 120 hours per response, together with the time for reviewing directions. Ship feedback relating to the burden estimate and another facet of this assortment of data, together with ideas for decreasing this burden, to:
Suzanne H. Plimpton
Studies Clearance Officer
Coverage Workplace, Division of Establishment and Award Help
Workplace of Funds, Finance, and Award Administration
Nationwide Science Basis
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