Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID) (nsf23616) | NSF

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NSF 22-620

Nationwide Science Basis

Directorate for Organic Sciences

Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Financial Sciences

Directorate for Geosciences

Directorate for Mathematical and Bodily Sciences

Nationwide Institutes of Well being

    John E. Fogarty Worldwide Middle

    Nationwide Institute of Basic Medical Sciences

    Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Illnesses

Nationwide Institute of Meals and Agriculture

United Kingdom Analysis and Innovation

United States-Israel Binational Science Basis

Nationwide Pure Science Basis of China

Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitter’s native time):

     November 15, 2023

     Third Wednesday in November, Yearly Thereafter

IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND REVISION NOTES

The Directorates for Organic Sciences and Geosciences at NSF require that proposers who embrace off-campus or off-site analysis as a part of their mission submit, as supplementary documentation, a Plan for Secure and Inclusive Work Environments. For this solicitation, this doc replaces the required plan related to the certification in Chapter II.E.9 of the Proposal and Award Insurance policies and Procedures Information (PAPPG). Directions for inclusion of the Plan for Secure and Inclusive Work Environments could be discovered within the extra Proposal Preparation Directions on this solicitation.

There may be new steerage about tasks that embrace services, logistics, or assignable asset prices (e.g., NEON, Arctic Analysis Assist and Logistics, SME to be used of Tutorial Analysis Fleet). Such tasks should present proof displaying that requests have been submitted for acceptable assist and use.

Any proposal submitted in response to this solicitation needs 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 frequently 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

Basic Data

Program Title:

Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Illnesses (EEID)

Synopsis of Program:

The multi-agency Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Illnesses program helps analysis on the ecological, evolutionary, organismal, and social drivers that affect the transmission dynamics of infectious ailments. The central theme of submitted tasks have to be the quantitative, mathematical, or computational understanding of pathogen transmission dynamics. The intent is discovery of rules of infectious illness (re)emergence and transmission and testing mathematical or computational fashions that elucidate infectious illness techniques. Initiatives needs to be broad, interdisciplinary efforts that transcend the scope of typical research. They need to concentrate on the determinants and interactions of (re)emergence and transmission amongst any host species, together with however not restricted to people, non-human animals, and/or crops. This contains, for instance, the unfold of pathogens; the affect of environmental components comparable to local weather; the inhabitants dynamics and genetics of vectors and reservoir species or hosts; how the physiology or habits of the pathogen, vector, or host species biology impacts transmission dynamics; the suggestions between ecological transmission and evolutionary dynamics; and the cultural, social, behavioral, and financial dimensions of pathogen transmission and illness. Analysis could also be on zoonotic, environmentally-borne, vector-borne, enteric, or respiratory pathogens of both terrestrial, aquatic, or marine techniques and organisms, together with ailments of animals and crops, at any scale from particular pathogens to inclusive environmental techniques. Proposals for analysis on illness techniques of public well being concern to Low- or Center-Earnings International locations (LMICs) are strongly inspired, as are illness techniques of concern in agricultural techniques. Investigators are inspired to develop the suitable multidisciplinary group, together with for instance, anthropologists, modelers, ecologists, bioinformaticians, genomics researchers, social scientists, economists, oceanographers, mathematical scientists, behaviorists, epidemiologists, evolutionary biologists, entomologists, immunologists, parasitologists, microbiologists, bacteriologists, virologists, pathologists or veterinarians, with the purpose of integrating information throughout disciplines to boost our skill to foretell and management infectious ailments.

Cognizant Program Officer(s):

Please be aware that the next data is present on the time of publishing. See program web site for any updates to the factors of contact.

Samuel M. Scheiner, Program Director, NSF/BIO, phone: (703) 292-7175, electronic mail: [email protected]
Christine Jessup, Program Director, NIH/FIC, phone: (301) 496-1653, fax: (301) 402-0779, electronic mail: [email protected]
Colette M. St. Mary, Program Director, NSF/BIO, phone: (703) 292-4332, electronic mail: [email protected]
Katharina Dittmar, Program Director, NSF/BIO, phone: (703) 292-7799, electronic mail: [email protected]
Zhilan Feng, Program Director, NSF/MPS, phone: (703) 292-7523, electronic mail: [email protected]
Rebecca Ferrell, Program Director, NSF/SBE, phone: (703) 292-7850, electronic mail: [email protected]
Daniel J. Thornhill, Program Director, NSF/GEO, phone: (703) 292-8143, electronic mail: [email protected]
Sadhana Sharma, Head of Bioscience for an Built-in Understanding of Well being, UKRI/BBSRC, phone: 44 1793-413200, electronic mail: [email protected]
Stephanie Coomes, Well being Scientist Administrator, NIH/NIAID, phone: (301) 761-6855, electronic mail: [email protected]
Timothy Sullivan, Nationwide Program Chief, USDA/NIFA, phone: (816) 527-5434, electronic mail: [email protected]
Andrea Keane-Myers, Program Director, NIH/NIGMS, phone: (240) 281-2361, electronic mail: [email protected]
Nikki Mackie, Senior Portfolio Supervisor, UKRI/BBSRC, phone: 44 1793-413200, electronic mail: [email protected]
Rachel (Heni) Haring, Deputy Government Director, BSF, phone: 972 2 5828239, electronic mail: [email protected]
Jing Chen, Deputy Director, NSFC, phone: 86 10-62326877, electronic mail: [email protected]

Relevant Catalog of Federal Home Help (CFDA) Quantity(s):

10.310 — USDA-NIFA Agriculture and Meals Analysis Initiative
47.049 — Mathematical and Bodily Sciences
47.050 — Geosciences
47.074 — Organic Sciences
47.075 — Social Behavioral and Financial Sciences
93.859 — Nationwide Institute of Basic Medical Sciences
93.989 — John E. Fogarty Worldwide Middle

Award Data

Anticipated Sort of Award: Customary Grant or Persevering with Grant

Estimated Variety of Awards: 12

Anticipated Funding Quantity: $36,000,000

in FY 2024, pending the provision of funds. That quantity contains roughly $14.5M from NSF for brand spanking new normal or persevering with awards, roughly $7.5M from NIH for brand spanking new or persevering with awards, and $14.0M from NIFA for brand spanking new awards. The anticipated funding from UKRI for the UK element of the US-UK Collaborative Initiatives might be a most of £5.0M. The anticipated funding from the BSF for the Israeli element of the US-Israel Collaborative Initiatives might be roughly $1,200,000. The anticipated funding from the NSFC for the Chinese language element of the US-China Collaborative Initiatives might be a most of ¥9M.

Eligibility Data

Who Might Submit Proposals:

Proposals might solely be submitted by the next:

Establishments of Greater Training (IHEs) – Two- and four-year IHEs (together with group faculties) accredited in, and having a campus positioned within the US, appearing on behalf of their school members. Particular Directions for Worldwide Department Campuses of US IHEs: If the proposal contains funding to be offered to a world department campus of a US establishment of upper schooling (together with by use of subawards and advisor preparations), the proposer should clarify the profit(s) to the mission of efficiency on the worldwide department campus, and justify why the mission actions can’t be carried out on the US campus.

Non-profit, non-academic organizations: Unbiased museums, observatories, analysis laboratories, skilled societies and comparable organizations positioned within the U.S. which are instantly related to academic or analysis actions.

Tribal Governments: The governing physique of any Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, or group that the Secretary of the Inside acknowledges to exist as an Indian tribe beneath the Federally Acknowledged Indian Tribe Checklist Act of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 479a, et seq.)

Who Might Function PI:

There aren’t any restrictions or limits.

Restrict on Variety of Proposals per Group:

There aren’t any restrictions or limits.

Restrict on Variety of Proposals per PI or co-PI: 2

In a given 12 months, a person might take part as a PI, co-PI, or subaward lead on not more than two proposals submitted in response to this solicitation. This restrict doesn’t embrace Analysis Coordination Networks (RCN) proposals. As well as, a person from Israel might take part in no a couple of US-BSF proposal and a person from China might take part in no a couple of US-China proposal. Proposals in extra of the restrict for any individual might be returned with out overview within the reverse order acquired. Collaborating in a proposal as different senior personnel doesn’t rely on this restrict. Modifications in investigator roles post-submission to satisfy the eligibility limits is not going to be allowed. It’s the accountability of the submitters to verify that all the group is inside the eligibility pointers.

Proposal Preparation and Submission Directions

A. Proposal Preparation Directions

Letters of Intent: Not required
Preliminary Proposal Submission: Not required
Full Proposals:

B. Budgetary Data

Value Sharing Necessities:

Inclusion of voluntary dedicated price sharing is prohibited.

Oblique Value (F&A) Limitations:

Not Relevant

Different Budgetary Limitations:

Different budgetary limitations apply. Please see the total textual content of this solicitation for additional data.

C. Due Dates

Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitter’s native time):

     November 15, 2023

     Third Wednesday in November, Yearly Thereafter

Proposal Evaluation Data Standards

Benefit Evaluation Standards:

Nationwide Science Board accepted standards. Further benefit overview standards apply. Please see the total textual content of this solicitation for additional data.

Award Administration Data

Award Situations:

Further award circumstances apply. Please see the total textual content of this solicitation for additional data.

Reporting Necessities:

Further reporting necessities apply. Please see the total textual content of this solicitation for additional data.

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
Benefit 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 previous twenty-five years have seen a dramatic improve in our consciousness of the necessity to perceive the ecological and evolutionary drivers of illness emergence and transmission dynamics. Whereas our information has elevated about particular techniques and the essential rules of straightforward techniques, understanding of complicated techniques and translation of these rules into ecosystem, public well being, and agricultural well being administration instruments stays difficult. System complexity contains such components as a number of interacting species of hosts, pathogens, reservoirs, and/or vectors; interactions amongst pathogenic and non-pathogenic microbes; host habits and social construction; interactions between organic, cultural and social components; results of spatial and temporal construction; and evolutionary dynamics.

The emergence and the re-emergence of quite a few infectious ailments around the globe have coincided with unprecedented charges of change within the construction and variety of the atmosphere and human social and financial techniques. Almost the entire world’s terrestrial, aquatic, and marine ecosystems have undergone dramatic adjustments resulting from quite a lot of human actions comparable to habitat transformation, human displacement and relocation, urbanization, fast long-distance transport and elevated worldwide commerce, species invasions, deliberate introduction of infectious ailments for organic management, wildlife trafficking, use of antimicrobial brokers in agriculture and medication, and local weather change. The coincidence of broad scale environmental adjustments, the growth of human social and financial networks, and the emergence and re-emergence of infectious ailments might level to underlying predictable ecological and eco-evolutionary relationships.

We now have improved our skill to outline the molecular identification and dynamics of pathogens and have vastly elevated our understanding of host protection techniques. We’re in a position to apply genetic information to know the evolutionary dynamics of infectious ailments. These enhancements have contributed considerably to our information of the epidemiology and transmission patterns of ailments. Nevertheless, the connection of those components to the biotic and structural complexity of ecological, agricultural, and social techniques during which transmission happens stays poorly understood. For instance, little is thought in regards to the transmission dynamics of interacting pathogens and non-pathogens inside a standard host, how the host immune system influences illness dynamics, or how the habits and social construction of hosts influences transmission. As well as, though these dynamics happen over evolutionary time for pathogens and within the context of human social techniques, inadequate consideration has been given to integrating ecological, epidemiological, evolutionary, oceanographic, and socio-economic dynamics.

At current, fundamental and utilized analysis in infectious illness ecology and evolution will not be nicely built-in. The potential advantages of an interdisciplinary analysis program on this space embrace:

growth of illness transmission principle,
improved understanding of how ailments (re)emerge,
elevated understanding of how key host or pathogen physiological processes permit or forestall transmission,
improved understanding of host inhabitants and ecosystem results on illness transmission,
elevated capability to forecast and reply to outbreaks,
improved understanding of unintended well being results of growth tasks affecting terrestrial, freshwater, and marine techniques,
enhanced security of meals provides, and
improved methods to regulate or forestall infectious ailments and improve bio-security.

An understudied side of illness transmission is the significance of socio-ecological components and processes. Vital new insights into the drivers and management of infectious ailments in people and different species can solely be achieved by built-in approaches that consider the methods during which the pure and social environments have an effect on the emergence and unfold of infectious illness. This idea, usually referred to as “one well being,” hyperlinks medical, veterinary, social and environmental sciences by drawing on a standard pool of information between the three sectors with the intention to exploit the potential of animal illness analysis to supply insights into ecosystem, agricultural, and human well being.

This exercise is a continuation of the earlier joint Nationwide Science Basis/Nationwide Institutes of Well being/United States Division of Agriculture (NSF/NIH/USDA) Ecology of Infectious Illness competitors. Data on previous awards could be discovered at EEID Awards. Further data for NIH could be discovered at https://www.fic.nih.gov/Packages/Pages/ecology-infectious-diseases.aspx and for USDA at https://nifa.usda.gov/funding-opportunity/ecology-and-evolution-infectious-diseases.

II. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The purpose of the Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Illnesses (EEID) program is to assist necessary and progressive analysis on the ecological, evolutionary, behavioral, physiological, oceanographic, and socio-ecological rules that affect the transmission dynamics of infectious ailments. This system’s focus is on the invention of common rules and processes and on constructing and testing fashions that elucidate these rules. Initiatives should deal with the quantitative, mathematical, or computational understanding of pathogen transmission dynamics. Analysis in EEID is predicted to be an interdisciplinary effort that goes past the scope of typical research funded by the standing packages of the accomplice businesses. Initiatives ought to convey collectively such areas as anthropology, habits, bioinformatics, computational science, ecology, economics, epidemiology, evolution, meals science, genomics, geography, world well being, immunology, arithmetic, medication, microbiology, oceanography, plant science, inhabitants biology, sociology, bodily environmental sciences, techniques science, and veterinary medication. Analysis inside EEID is predicted to generate rigorously characterised and examined fashions which are of worth to the scientific group, and in addition could also be helpful in determination making. The historical past of the EEID program has proven that essentially the most aggressive proposals are those who advance broad, conceptual information that reaches past the precise system beneath examine and that could be helpful for understanding public, agricultural or ecosystem well being, pure useful resource use and wildlife administration, and/or financial growth. Such proposals are usually interdisciplinary of their method and/or the character of the query(s) being addressed.

Infectious illness transmission displays complicated, dynamic relationships that happen on various spatial and temporal landscapes, are created by ecological, evolutionary, and host behavioral or physiological processes, and are revealed in genome structure, physiological techniques, inhabitants dynamics, and group construction, in addition to behavioral and social dynamics. The interactions between disease-causing organisms, their reservoirs, vectors, and their host(s) are embedded inside a lot bigger networks of interacting techniques, together with different microorganisms which will or might not trigger illness, a number of vector species, and a number of host or reservoir species. Evaluation of environmental influences (organic, geophysical, financial, and social) on particular person and inhabitants susceptibility is prime to understanding these complicated techniques of infectious ailments. Analysis into the ecology (inhabitants, group, evolutionary, and social) and biology of infectious ailments will contribute to a deeper understanding of those complicated infectious illness techniques, to the event of nicely characterised and examined fashions, and to the elucidation of common ecological, evolutionary, behavioral, and physiological rules.

Insights into the dynamics of infectious illness techniques might require integration throughout a number of temporal, spatial, and practical scales together with molecular, particular person, inhabitants, societal, and ecosystem ranges. Equally, they could require integration throughout organic, socio-economic, and geophysical domains. The sector of evolutionary ecology, which focuses on each the significance of ecological context in research of evolution and the significance of evolutionary change for ecological techniques, can also present necessary insights into infectious illness techniques. The interaction of evolution, ecology, and host and pathogen habits and physiology has implications for understanding how infectious brokers emerge as pathogens, adapt to a number of hosts, work together with different microbial communities (e.g., microbiome), and are transmitted amongst hosts.

A crucial purpose of analysis supported by this program is the technology of rules and conceptual frameworks that set up and inform the analysis and that result in mathematical, computational, and statistical fashions of infectious illness dynamics. Various modeling approaches are acceptable, together with, however not restricted to, mathematical equations, computational simulations, geospatial algorithms, and statistical fashions. For the EEID program, essentially the most aggressive proposals are organized round an overarching conceptual framework that results in such a mannequin. Fashions ought to intention to be explanatory past the precise system beneath examine and have to be well-characterized and rigorously examined. Proposals should describe how fashions might be developed, evaluated, and disseminated. Proposals should establish which particular person(s) will oversee the quantitative approaches and supply proof of demonstrated experience in mathematical, computational, or statistical modeling and/or information evaluation. Likewise, methods for information assortment have to be nicely designed to contribute to and check mannequin design. Proposals should embrace plans for dissemination of information, fashions, and instruments developed by this program.

A wide range of subjects, questions, techniques and approaches are acceptable. Among the many areas of specific curiosity are: the function of social influences on the susceptibility of people or populations; multi-way interactions between pathogenic and non-pathogenic organisms and their mutual hosts and vectors; the function of medical, agricultural or environmental practices on pathogen emergence and transmission; emergence of pathogens from non-pathogenic populations; host switching; innate or acquired immune responses that permit or hinder pathogen transmission; the function of animal motion and social construction in shaping transmission dynamics; evolutionary dynamics in an ecological context comparable to illness management interventions and drug resistance. These subjects have vital ecological and evolutionary elements that needs to be studied as a system, not in isolation. Relying on the hypotheses or analysis questions being addressed, investigations may entail some mixture of laboratory experiments, discipline observations or manipulations, public well being interventions (though scientific trials are past the scope of the EEID program), evaluation of social and cultural processes, or ethnographic research. Analysis can also concentrate on novel analyses of current information and/or theoretical investigations of ecological and evolutionary dynamics. Investigations might concentrate on mannequin infectious illness techniques in pure (terrestrial, freshwater, or marine) or laboratory settings the place these techniques elucidate common rules.

Analysis might use quite a lot of examine techniques. The organism(s) or system(s) chosen for examine needs to be justified with respect to its suitability to review questions of ecology and/or evolutionary ecology. Analysis might contain quite a lot of infectious brokers, particular person ailments, or teams of ailments, and may contain a number of social techniques, areas, habitats, or teams of organisms. Proposals might concentrate on terrestrial, aquatic or marine techniques and organisms and will embrace infectious ailments of people, non-human animals, or crops. Whatever the system or method taken, a proposal will need to have a big concentrate on the ecology of pathogen transmission to be eligible for funding.

Due to the complexity of research on the ecology and evolutionary ecology of infectious ailments, multidisciplinary groups of home and worldwide collaborators with experience from numerous disciplines are prone to be best. Investigators are inspired to develop collaborations with public well being analysis communities the place that’s acceptable. Collaborative groups may embrace, for instance: ecologists, epidemiologists, medical scientists, veterinary scientists, oceanographers, evolutionary biologists, social and behavioral scientists, entomologists, meals scientists, microbiologists, pathologists, parasitologists, geologists, oceanographers, hydrologists, geospatial analysts, and mathematical scientists. The analysis plan ought to point out how a number of disciplines might be built-in and the way new investigators in U.S. and collaborating international establishments might be ready to additional this analysis.

The EEID program just isn’t supposed to be the one avenue of assist by the collaborating businesses for supporting analysis on infectious ailments. Particularly, proposals submitted in response to this solicitation should deal with ecological dynamics and among-host transmission, even when evolutionary research are a substantive a part of the proposal. Investigations which are exterior the scope of this EEID announcement embrace:

these restricted solely to genetic patterns of evolutionary change (e.g., comparative genomics),
those who focus solely on human ailments with out contemplating the broader ecological context,
those who focus solely on pathogen discovery,
those who focus solely on within-host organic processes,
those who focus solely on vector species ecology,
those who haven’t pre-identified at the very least one pathogenic organism that would be the focus of the examine,
these that target antimicrobial resistance or transmission of resistance genes with out contemplating pathogen transmission dynamics, and
those who would fall beneath the US authorities coverage on life sciences twin use analysis of concern (DURC) (i.e., analysis that makes use of one in every of 15 choose brokers, produces one in every of 7 results that result in “gain-of-function”, and has the potential to be misused). Extra data on NSF DURC coverage could be present in Chapter II.E.6 and Chapter XI.B.5 of the PAPPG.

The EEID competitors broadly welcomes, however doesn’t require, that tasks embrace worldwide collaborators. Three particular types of collaboration (US-UK Collaborative Initiatives, US-Israel Collaborative Initiatives, and US-China Collaborative Initiatives) are described beneath. These particular actions don’t preclude different worldwide collaborations. Purposes involving analysis in Low- and Center-Earnings International locations (LMICs) ought to replicate true LMIC analysis collaboration with LMIC-investigator(s) in a management function on the proposed analysis.

EEID Associate Pursuits

Fogarty Worldwide Middle

The Fogarty Worldwide Middle (FIC) is devoted to advancing the mission of the Nationwide Institutes of Well being (NIH) by supporting and facilitating world well being analysis performed by U.S. and worldwide investigators, constructing partnerships between well being analysis establishments within the U.S. and overseas, and coaching the following technology of scientists to deal with world well being wants. The FIC is enthusiastic about EEID functions that embrace specific plans for capability constructing in Low- or Center-Earnings International locations (LMICs), as outlined by the World Financial institution and encourages functions which are centered on vital and/or rising infectious illness threats, together with zoonotic illness threats, to human well being in LMICs. To be thought of for FIC assist, EEID functions should display true LMIC analysis collaboration with LMIC investigator(s) in a management function on the proposed analysis. The FIC will think about supporting meritorious EEID analysis functions that deal with the above priorities and/or meritorious EEID Analysis Coordination Community (RCN) functions geared toward capability constructing in LMICs.

Nationwide Institute of Basic Medical Sciences

The Nationwide Institute of Basic Medical Sciences (NIGMS) helps fundamental analysis that improves understanding of organic processes and lays the inspiration for advances in illness diagnoses, prevention, and therapy. NIGMS additionally has a powerful curiosity in coaching and assist of the nation’s scientific workforce. NIGMS is enthusiastic about EEID functions that deal with the evolution of hosts, pathogens and their interactions in addition to fundamental biology and inhabitants genetics of hosts and pathogens as they relate to illness transmission and prevention. NIGMS will think about supporting meritorious EEID analysis functions as single-PI or multi-PI analysis program grants.

Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Illnesses

The Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Illnesses (NIAID) conducts and helps fundamental and utilized analysis to higher perceive, deal with, and in the end forestall infectious, immunologic, and allergic ailments. NIAID helps analysis on almost 300 infectious brokers and investigates the organic properties of those pathogens and the immune system’s responses to them. Findings from this analysis are important to NIAID efforts to create vaccines, medicine, and diagnostic instruments to higher diagnose, forestall, and deal with infectious ailments.

USDA/NIFA

The Nationwide Institute of Meals and Agriculture (NIFA) helps analysis, schooling, and extension work that addresses key issues of nationwide, regional, and multi-state significance in sustaining all elements of meals and agriculture, together with farm effectivity and profitability, ranching, bioenergy, forestry (each city and agroforestry), aquaculture, rural communities and entrepreneurship, human diet, meals security, bodily and social sciences, dwelling economics and rural human ecology, biotechnology, and traditional breeding, and together with each typical and natural meals manufacturing techniques.

Candidates might submit proposals that assist a number of of the six USDA’s strategic targets for FY2022-2026 (https://www.usda.gov/websites/default/information/paperwork/usda-fy-2022-2026-strategic-plan.pdf). Any such exercise proposed (e.g., partnerships, exchanges, coaching, and/or journey), should in the beginning assist NIFA’s home program targets. Candidates should clearly describe and display how worldwide actions proposed in functions will contribute to and assist advances in U.S. agriculture.

US-UK Collaborative Proposals

Recognizing the potential for worldwide collaboration to advance EEID analysis and schooling targets, NSF has partnered for this solicitation with UK Analysis and Innovation (UKRI). This partnership will facilitate coordinated funding of US and UK analysis collaboration inside the EEID program. UKRI encourages proposals that target mycology and anti-fungal resistance, avian influenza, plant well being, and resistance evolution, though different subjects are additionally eligible.

UK researchers making use of beneath this heading should meet UKRI eligibility necessities for managed mode calls and should apply by an establishment eligible to obtain UKRI funding. Please see UKRI funding guidelines: https://bbsrc.ukri.org/paperwork/grants-guide/.

PIs are strongly inspired to contact the related cognizant Program Officer to verify that the UK element meets UKRI necessities. Purposes with non-eligible UK companions is not going to be thought of for funding as a US-UK Collaborative Initiatives.

US-Israel Collaborative Proposals

Recognizing the potential for worldwide collaboration to advance EEID analysis and schooling targets, NSF has partnered for this solicitation with the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Basis (BSF), which is a company owned by the 2 governments with the intention of facilitating scientific relations between them. The Israeli element of the US-Israel Collaborative Initiatives might be funded by the BSF utilizing particular funds offered by the Israeli authorities.

Israeli researchers making use of beneath this heading should meet BSF eligibility necessities and should apply by an establishment eligible to obtain BSF funding. Please see BSF eligibility guidelines: https://www.bsf.org.il/funding-opportunities/nsf-bsf-joint-research-grants/the-programs/.

US-UK-Israel Collaborative Proposals

Multinational collaborative analysis tasks that contain researchers from the US, UK and Israel are additionally welcome. Any such tasks should meet the necessities of every of NSF, UKRI, and the BSF.

US-China Collaborative Proposals

Recognizing the potential for worldwide collaboration to advance EEID analysis and schooling targets, NSF has partnered for this solicitation with the Nationwide Pure Science Basis of China (NSFC). The Chinese language element of the US-China Collaborative Initiatives might be funded by the NSFC utilizing funds offered by the Chinese language authorities.

Chinese language researchers making use of beneath this heading should meet NSFC eligibility necessities and should apply by an establishment eligible to obtain NSFC funding. Please see NSFC eligibility guidelines: http://www.nsfc.gov.cn/publish/portal0/tab1401/. Purposes with non-eligible China companions is not going to be thought of for funding as a US-China Collaborative Mission.

US-China-UK Collaborative Proposals

Multinational collaborative analysis tasks that contain researchers from the US, China and the UK are additionally welcome. Any such tasks should meet the necessities of every of NSF, the NSFC, and UKRI.

US-China-Israel Collaborative Proposals

Multinational collaborative analysis tasks that contain researchers from the US, China and Israel are additionally welcome. Any such tasks should meet the necessities of every of the NSF, the NSFC, and the BSF.

Analysis Coordination Community (RCN) Proposals

The EEID program will settle for proposals to determine Analysis Coordination Networks that target points involving infectious illness ecology, socio-ecology, and evolution. RCN tasks are additionally eligible to be submitted as US-UK, US-China, or US-UK-China Collaborative Initiatives. Data on the scope of RCN tasks and the format of these proposals could be discovered at (https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=11691). Such RCN proposals needs to be submitted beneath the EEID solicitation and deadline.

III. AWARD INFORMATION

Award dimension: Below this solicitation, the utmost award dimension for all years for the US element is $3.0 million, together with oblique prices. The minimal award dimension is $1.5 million whole mission prices for all years, aside from worldwide collaborative proposals (US-UK, US-Israel, and US-China Collaborative Initiatives) which have a minimal award dimension of $1.0 million for the US element. These collaborative tasks can request extra funding for the worldwide element of the mission. For US-Israel Collaborative Initiatives, the utmost award dimension for the Israeli portion is $600,000. For US-China Collaborative Initiatives, the utmost award dimension for the Chinese language portion is ¥4.5M whole mission prices for all years.

Award length: The utmost award length is 5 years.

RCN proposals: The utmost award dimension for RCN proposals is $600,000. For worldwide Collaborative RCN proposals, the utmost award dimension for the US element is $600,000.

Award quantity: Roughly 12 new awards are anticipated in FY 2024, relying on the standard of submissions and the provision of funds; the anticipated funding might be $36.5 million. That quantity contains roughly $14.5M from the NSF for brand spanking new normal or persevering with awards, roughly $7.5M from the NIH for brand spanking new or persevering with awards, and $14.0M from the NIFA for brand spanking new awards. Of these 12 awards, as much as 5 are anticipated to be US-UK Collaborative Initiatives, relying on the standard of submissions and the provision of funds; the anticipated funding from UKRI for this name is as much as £5.0M. This quantity displays 80% of the total financial prices within the U.Ok. Of these 12 awards, there isn’t any restrict on the variety of US-Israel Collaborative Initiatives, relying on the standard of submissions and the provision of funds; the anticipated funding from the BSF for the Israeli element of every US-Israel Collaborative Mission might be a most of $80,000/12 months for one PI or $120,000/12 months for 2 or extra PIs. Of these 12 awards, as much as 2 are anticipated to be US-China Collaborative Initiatives for a complete of ¥9M, relying on the standard of the submissions and the provision of funds.

Upon conclusion of the overview course of, meritorious proposals could also be really helpful for funding by both NSF, NIH, or USDA, on the choice of the businesses, not the proposing organizations. Unattributed opinions and the panel abstract might be shared with NIH or USDA. Proposals chosen for funding by NIH or USDA will should be reformatted and resubmitted to that company. Subsequent submission and grant administration procedures might be in accordance with the person insurance policies of the awarding company. Additional data might be offered to those candidates after choice.

Proposals chosen for funding consideration by the NIH might be invited to resubmit to the Division of Receipt and Referral (DRR) in NIH’s Middle for Scientific Evaluation (CSR) (see Part VI.B). PIs submitting to the NIH have to be registered in eRA Commons and the applicant’s group have to be registered with SAM, Grants.gov and eRA Commons. As well as, all people designated as Senior/Key Personnel should present a legitimate eRA Commons username (Commons ID). PIs ought to due to this fact make sure that all registrations required for NIH submission are in place earlier than the NIH receipt deadline.

USDA/NIFA Legislative Authority: The USDA authority for this RFA is 7 USC 3157 Aggressive, Particular, and Amenities Analysis Grant Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to determine the Agriculture and Meals Analysis Initiative (AFRI); a aggressive grant program to supply funding for elementary and utilized analysis, extension, and schooling to deal with meals and agricultural sciences. AFRI is topic to the provisions discovered at 7 CFR Half 3430.

For US-UK, US-UK-Israel, or US-UK-China Collaborative Initiatives, the UK element of the collaboration might be awarded by UKRI in accordance with its insurance policies.

For US-Israel, US-Israel-UK, or US-Israel-China Collaborative Initiatives, the Israeli element of the collaboration might be awarded by the BSF in accordance with its insurance policies and laws. The collaborative proposal have to be submitted to the BSF by the Israeli scientist by the BSF-established deadline.

For US-China, US-China-UK, or US-China-Israel Collaborative Initiatives, the Chinese language element of the collaboration might be awarded by the NSFC in accordance with its insurance policies and laws. The collaborative proposal have to be submitted to the NSFC software submission system by the Chinese language scientists by the NSFC-established deadline.

IV. ELIGIBILITY INFORMATION

Who Might Submit Proposals:

Proposals might solely be submitted by the next:

Establishments of Greater Training (IHEs) – Two- and four-year IHEs (together with group faculties) accredited in, and having a campus positioned within the US, appearing on behalf of their school members. Particular Directions for Worldwide Department Campuses of US IHEs: If the proposal contains funding to be offered to a world department campus of a US establishment of upper schooling (together with by use of subawards and advisor preparations), the proposer should clarify the profit(s) to the mission of efficiency on the worldwide department campus, and justify why the mission actions can’t be carried out on the US campus.

Non-profit, non-academic organizations: Unbiased museums, observatories, analysis laboratories, skilled societies and comparable organizations positioned within the U.S. which are instantly related to academic or analysis actions.

For-profit organizations: U.S.-based business organizations, together with small companies, with robust capabilities in scientific or engineering analysis or schooling and a ardour for innovation.

Tribal Governments: The governing physique of any Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, or group that the Secretary of the Inside acknowledges to exist as an Indian tribe beneath the Federally Acknowledged Indian Tribe Checklist Act of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 479a, et seq.)

Who Might Function PI:

There aren’t any restrictions or limits.

Restrict on Variety of Proposals per Group:

There aren’t any restrictions or limits.

Restrict on Variety of Proposals per PI or co-PI: 2

In a given 12 months, a person might take part as a PI, co-PI, or subaward lead on not more than two proposals submitted in response to this solicitation. This restrict doesn’t embrace Analysis Coordination Networks (RCN) proposals. As well as, a person from Israel might take part in no a couple of US-BSF proposal and a person from China might take part in no a couple of US-China proposal. Proposals in extra of the restrict for any individual might be returned with out overview within the reverse order acquired. Collaborating in a proposal as different senior personnel doesn’t rely on this restrict. Modifications in investigator roles post-submission to satisfy the eligibility limits is not going to be allowed. It’s the accountability of the submitters to verify that all the group is inside the eligibility pointers.

Further Eligibility Data:

NIH Eligibility: Scientific trials will not be allowed. The NIH will solely think about functions that don’t suggest scientific trials. People who’re contemplating submitting a proposal in response to this solicitation ought to overview https://grants.nih.gov/ct-decision/ in figuring out whether or not the mission meets the NIH definition of a Scientific Trial. Establishments eligible for awards by the NIH’s Fogarty Worldwide Middle (FIC) embrace international establishments in low- and middle-income nations (LMICs), as outlined by the World Financial institution (international establishments in high-income nations will not be eligible for FIC awards).

USDA/NIFA Eligibility: Eligible entities for award embrace, (1) State agricultural experiment stations; (2) faculties and universities (together with junior faculties providing affiliate levels or greater); (3) college analysis foundations; (4) different analysis establishments and organizations; (5) Federal businesses, (6) nationwide laboratories; (7) personal organizations or companies; (8) people who’re U.S. residents, nations, or everlasting residents; and (9) any group consisting of two or extra entities recognized in (1) by (8). Eligible establishments don’t embrace international and worldwide organizations.

V. PROPOSAL PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

A. Proposal Preparation Directions

Full Proposal Preparation Directions: Proposers might decide to submit proposals in response to this Program Solicitation through Analysis.gov or Grants.gov.

Full Proposals submitted through Analysis.gov: Proposals submitted in response to this program solicitation needs to be ready and submitted in accordance with the final pointers contained within the NSF Proposal and Award Insurance policies and Procedures Information (PAPPG). The whole textual content of the PAPPG is offered 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 through Grants.gov: Proposals submitted in response to this program solicitation through Grants.gov needs to be ready and submitted in accordance with the NSF Grants.gov Software Information: A Information for the Preparation and Submission of NSF Purposes through Grants.gov. The whole textual content of the NSF Grants.gov Software Information is offered 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 Types Bundle, click on on the Apply tab on the Grants.gov web site, 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 steerage on the required sections of a full analysis proposal submitted to NSF. Please be aware that the proposal preparation directions offered on this program solicitation might deviate from the PAPPG directions.

Particular Data and Supplementary Documentation:

Proposals Involving A number of Organizations. Of the 2 forms of collaborative proposal codecs described within the PAPPG, this solicitation permits solely a single proposal submission with subawards administered by that lead group. Within the case of proposals involving a number of organizations, a single group have to be recognized because the lead, and a single proposal describing all the mission have to be submitted by that group. Funds could also be distributed amongst accomplice organizations through subawards from the lead group. A funds using the usual NSF funds format needs to be submitted for every subawardee. The requirement for a single group to submit the only proposal for a mission is designed to facilitate efficient coordination amongst collaborating organizations and to keep away from difficulties that ensue in funded tasks when people change organizations and/or stop to meet mission tasks.

Outcomes of Prior NSF Assist. The Outcomes of Prior NSF Assist should embrace a transparent assertion about whether or not samples, information and/or information merchandise have been deposited in acknowledged, accessible, community-accepted repositories or in any other case are being made accessible.

Analysis Experiences for Undergraduates. Funds to assist Analysis Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) needs to be included within the unique proposal. A restricted variety of post-award dietary supplements could also be accessible if such actions had been unexpected on the time of submission and the request broadens participation in STEM fields. Eligibility for post-award academic dietary supplements for REU, RET, RAHSS, and ROA tasks is described on the DEB complement request web site: https://www.nsf.gov/bio/deb/suppopp.jsp. Submission Steering: The descriptions of proposed REU actions needs to be included within the Supplementary Paperwork. For REUs, comply with the rules for “REU complement requests as a part of a proposal” within the REU solicitation. REU tasks should contain college students in significant methods in ongoing analysis packages or in analysis tasks particularly designed for the REU scholar. If the intent is to interact college students as technicians, then an REU just isn’t the suitable assist mechanism; as an alternative, wage assist needs to be entered on the Undergraduate College students line of the proposal funds. The outline of those actions is proscribed to three pages. If a number of establishments on a collaborative proposal are requesting funds for REUs, all REU actions needs to be included in a single supplementary doc, restricted to three pages. All student-related prices, together with stipends and/or journey needs to be positioned in Participant Assist Prices on the funds. An in depth breakdown of the funds have to be included within the funds justification. Budgets for REUs are usually $6,000-8,000 per scholar.

Senior Personnel Checklist Spreadsheet. An extra spreadsheet itemizing all senior personnel concerned within the mission have to be submitted. This spreadsheet is separate from the spreadsheet that lists collaborators and different affiliations (COA) data. The spreadsheet template could be discovered at https://www.nsf.gov/bio/deb/debpersonnellist.xlsx. Please learn the directions fastidiously. Utilizing the template, compile an Excel file that gives data for all individuals recognized within the proposal as: “PI or co-PI” (i.e., these listed on the Cowl Sheet); “Different Senior Personnel/Subawardee”; or “Different Personnel” who’ve a biographical sketch included within the proposal, together with all worldwide collaborators. Just one spreadsheet needs to be submitted per mission. The file should embrace the proposal ID assigned after submission of your proposal (i.e., not the Non permanent ID # or Grants.gov ID #). As soon as accomplished, the file needs to be submitted by electronic mail to [email protected] inside one enterprise day of proposal submission.

Information Administration Plan. The PAPPG requires the inclusion of a Information Administration Plan with all full proposal submissions. The Information Administration Plan could be now not than two pages and have to be inclusive of all the mission. It should embrace two sections: (1) Information Plans, and (2) Mental Property (IP) Plans. These sections should deal with the next factors:

1) Information Plans. All tasks should make sure that information and organic supplies are collected, archived, digitized, and made accessible utilizing strategies that permit present and future investigators to entry information and materials. Funded tasks should disseminate mission information broadly in a well timed and accountable method, utilizing extensively accepted digital information requirements, a named community-accepted, publicly-accessible information repository and with as few restrictions as potential. Information and digital merchandise needs to be recognized, and the next described for every of them:

Format and normal of major information;
Metadata to be collected and disseminated with the first information;
Timetable of launch of ALL information, in keeping with privateness and different considerations relating to delicate data;
Public repository for use;
License to be used, with an emphasis on open supply licenses comparable to MIT and GPL;
Any constraints on launch, which have to be clearly justified; and
Particular person(s) accountable for the discharge.

All software program and code have to be in a versioned code repository (e.g., GitHub, BitBucket). We strongly encourage launch of ready-to-use software program and code by integration with computing sources (e.g., Galaxy, CyVerse), in Digital Machines (e.g., AWS, JetStream), and/or in Containers (e.g., Docker/DockerHub). Printed outcomes ought to at all times embrace data on the best way to entry the supporting information.

Further steerage in regards to the growth of Information Administration plans, together with domain-specific steerage, is offered by the Directorate for Organic Sciences, the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Financial Sciences, the Division of Ocean Sciences, and UKRI.

2) Mental Property Plans. The Information Administration Plan MUST present a protocol and timeline for the event of mental property agreements. The settlement ought to point out:

Who’re the homeowners of any information or different mental property;
How monetary advantages of the mental property might be allotted;
How authorship of publications might be decided; and
How IP disputes might be adjudicated.

An inexpensive cost for group sources is permissible, however the price construction have to be outlined clearly within the IP plan. If a Materials Switch Settlement is required, the phrases have to be described intimately. No reach-through rights are allowed. Information or supplies ensuing from NSF-funded analysis obtained with proprietary supplies have to be available with none restrictions to the customers. Because of this, the phrases of any utilization agreements needs to be said clearly within the IP plan.

For multi-organizational tasks, the lead group is accountable for coordinating and managing the mental property ensuing from the award. A whole IP settlement MUST be included with the primary annual report of the mission.

Polar and/or Marine Fieldwork Logistics, Assignable Property. Initiatives together with services, logistics, or assignable asset prices (e.g., NEON, Arctic Analysis Assist and Logistics, SME to be used of Tutorial Analysis Fleet) should present proof displaying that requests have been submitted for acceptable assist and use. Proposals centered on Polar and/or Marine habitats should be mentioned previous to submission with a Cognizant EEID program officer for added steerage and logistics necessities.

PIs are accountable for submitting the suitable requests for main analysis platforms; a replica of the request have to be submitted as a Supplementary Doc. Any science assist offered by third-party organizations have to be described in a 1–2-page Supplementary Doc that outlines the scope of assist and a value estimate. Please permit service suppliers 4-6 weeks to arrange Supplementary Paperwork to incorporate in proposals and provoke the request far upfront of proposal submission. For any instrument or infrastructure deployed to the sector, investigators ought to embrace the scope and price for the demobilization or different disposal of the property.

Proposals requesting assist for polar and/or marine fieldwork ought to anticipate to go to the sector no before 12 months after proposal submission, or 18 months for proposals requesting ship time from the Tutorial Analysis Fleet (https://www.unols.org/), to permit time to plan, funds, and full environmental compliance documentation. Per the NSF PAPPG, awardees are accountable for buying and complying with all permits crucial for his or her work and are accountable for all actions performed beneath the award. NSF just isn’t accountable for prices related to medical evacuations or different interruptions to scheduled fieldwork and reserves the fitting to hunt reimbursement for prices incurred for search, rescue, or medical evacuation. Proposers ought to guarantee all members of the sector group are lined by institutional medical evacuation insurance coverage or request funds to buy medical evacuation insurance coverage, which is an allowable grant price. All investigators ought to have a danger administration plan for his or her fieldwork together with a plan for emergencies.

Secure and Inclusive Work Environments Plan

All proposals submitted to this solicitation that embrace analysis that might be performed off-campus or off-site should submit a plan for a secure and inclusive working atmosphere as a supplemental doc that might be thought of beneath the broader impacts overview criterion. This supplemental doc is in lieu of the required plan related to the certification referred to as for in Chapter II.E.9 of the PAPPG. Extra data relating to overview of the plan is offered beneath Solicitation Particular Evaluation Standards.

It’s NSF coverage to foster secure and harassment-free environments wherever science is performed. Work performed off-campus or off-site needs to be an enriching expertise for everybody and assist draw researchers to organic and geological sciences analysis. By requiring superior planning and a focus to sustaining an inclusive atmosphere, NSF is working to make sure that off-campus or off-site analysis is secure and inclusive for all members.

Off-campus or off-site analysis is outlined as information/data/samples being collected off-campus or off-site, comparable to fieldwork and analysis actions on vessels and plane. The plan have to be not more than two pages and embrace:

a quick description of the sector setting and distinctive challenges for the group;
the steps the proposing group will take to nurture an inclusive off-campus or off-site working atmosphere, together with processes to determine shared group definitions of roles, tasks, and tradition, e.g., codes of conduct, trainings, mentor/mentee mechanisms and discipline assist which may embrace common check-ins, and/or developmental occasions;
communication processes inside the off-site group and to the group(s) that decrease singular factors inside the communication pathway (e.g., there shouldn’t be a single individual overseeing entry to a single satellite tv for pc telephone); and
the organizational mechanisms that might be used for reporting, responding to, and resolving problems with harassment in the event that they come up.



Letters of Collaboration. Supplementary Paperwork might embrace letters of collaboration from people or organizations which are integral components of the proposed mission however will not be listed as PI, co-PI, or different senior personnel on the primary proposal or any subaward. Such involvement might embrace subsidiary involvement in some side of the mission, cooperation on outreach efforts, or documentation of permission to entry supplies or information. Letters of collaboration ought to focus solely on affirming that the person or group is keen to collaborate on the mission as specified within the mission description. No extra textual content, particularly elaboration of the character of actions to be undertaken by the collaborator and endorsements of the potential worth or significance of the mission for the collaborator, could also be included. The template that have to be used for the preparation of letters of collaboration is offered beneath.

Letters of collaboration shouldn’t be offered from any particular person designated as a principal investigator or as senior personnel, nor are letters of collaboration required from any group that might be a subawardee within the proposal funds.

Every letter of collaboration have to be signed by the designated collaborator. Requests to collaborators for letters of collaboration needs to be made by the PI nicely upfront of the proposal submission deadline, as a result of they have to be included on the time of proposal submission. Letters deviating from this template is not going to be accepted and could also be grounds for returning the proposal with out overview.

Template for use for letters of collaboration

To: NSF _________(Program Title)___________ Program

From: ____________________________________

(Printed title of the person collaborator or title of the group and title and place of the official submitting this memo)

By signing beneath (or transmitting electronically), I acknowledge that I’m listed as a collaborator on this proposal, entitled “_____(proposal title) _______,” with _______(PI title) ______ because the Principal Investigator. I conform to undertake the duties assigned to me or my group, as described within the mission description of the proposal, and I commit to supply or make accessible the sources specified therein.

Signed: _______________________

Group: ________________________________

Date: _________________________

Analysis Coordination Community proposals

These proposals ought to start the title with “RCN:” and comply with the proposal preparation directions within the RCN solicitation (https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=11691).

US-UK Collaborative proposals

For full software: These proposals ought to start the title with “US-UK Collab:”. Collaborative RCN proposals ought to start the title with “US-UK Collab: RCN:” Data for the UK portion of US-UK Collaborative Proposals needs to be included as Supplementary Paperwork or as a single copy doc as specified beneath. That data ought to embrace the next, and ONLY the next:

A. Supplementary Paperwork

Biographical sketches of UK senior personnel: These biographical sketches should conform to NSF format and limitations.
UK funds: Prices for the UK element of the mission needs to be submitted by The Funding Service (TFS). A PDF model of the shape needs to be saved and despatched to the US lead PI for inclusion as a supplementary doc within the proposal. Full particulars on what’s required could be obtained at (hyperlink to comply with). Candidates ought to make sure that they contact the primary UK Cognizant Programme Officer at UKRI to debate the remit of their proposal previous to submitting an software. The researchers might be requested to attend a gathering to be held at both NSF or an alternate location. Embody the required journey prices for attendance on the assembly within the proposed funds.
Letters of collaboration: Letters of collaboration from UK scientists are required. These letters have to be restricted to a press release of intent to collaborate solely as described above. Further data on the character of the collaboration and the roles of the investigators needs to be included within the Mission Description.
Institutional endorsement: An institutional certification of the submission have to be a signed letter from a certified UK institutional consultant with the next textual content and solely that textual content:

“I affirm on behalf of [insert name of institution] that the US-UK Collaborative proposal between [insert name of US PI and institution] and [insert name of UK PI] is endorsed and has been submitted by [name of Research Office].”

B. Single Copy Paperwork

Sharing of unattributed opinions: Unattributed opinions might be shared with UKRI. The next textual content have to be included and signed by the lead US investigator, confirming that the investigators concerned within the proposal acknowledge and ensure this truth.

On behalf of the proposal investigators, I, ___________(insert US Lead PI Identify), consent that the proposal in addition to its unattributed opinions might be shared with the EEID partner-funding businesses.

Signed: _______________________

Group: ________________________________

Date: _________________________

Collaborators and different affiliations. A COA doc have to be submitted for every senior personnel for whom a biographical sketch is included.

US-Israel Collaborative proposals

These proposals ought to start the title with “US-Israel Collab:”. Data for the Israel portion of the US-Israel Collaborative Proposals needs to be included as Supplementary Paperwork or as a single copy doc as specified beneath. That data ought to embrace the next, and solely the next:

A. Supplementary Paperwork

Biographical sketches of Israeli PIs: These biographical sketches should conform to NSF format and limitations.

Israeli funds: Prices for the Israeli element needs to be copied from the BSF submission of the proposal utilizing the BSF format: https://www.bsf.org.il/information/FormsToDownload/BSF-NSF_EEID_Program_Call_for_Proposal.pdf

Letters of collaboration: Letters of collaboration from scientists on the Israeli element are required. These letters have to be restricted to a press release of intent to collaborate solely as described above. Further data on the character of the collaboration and the roles of the investigators needs to be included within the Mission Description.

Institutional endorsement: An institutional certification of the submission have to be a signed letter from a certified Israeli institutional consultant and included in supplemental paperwork with the next textual content and solely that textual content:

“I affirm on behalf of [insert name of institution] that the U.S.-Israel Collaborative proposal between [insert name of US PI and institution] and [insert name of Israeli PI] is endorsed and has been submitted by [name of Research Office].”

B. Single Copy Paperwork

Sharing of unattributed opinions: Unattributed opinions might be shared with BSF. The next textual content have to be signed by the lead US investigator, confirming that the investigators concerned within the proposal acknowledge and ensure this truth.

On behalf of the proposal investigators, I, ___________(insert US Lead PI Identify), consent that the proposal in addition to its unattributed opinions might be shared with the EEID partner-funding businesses.

Signed: _______________________

Group: ________________________________

Date: _________________________

Collaborators and different affiliations. A COA doc have to be submitted for every senior personnel for whom a biographical sketch is included.

Full proposals that embrace an Israeli collaboration have to be additionally submitted to BSF by the Israeli accomplice. The BSF submission system can accessed through the use of the login button on the BSF homepage at https://www.bsf.org.il. Further data could be discovered at: https://www.bsf.org.il/funding-opportunities/nsf-bsf-joint-research-grants/the-programs/.

US-UK-Israel Collaborative proposals

These proposals ought to start the title with “US-UK-Israel Collab:”. Data for the UK and Israel portion needs to be included as Supplementary Paperwork as described above.

US-China Collaborative proposals

These proposals ought to start the title with “US-China Collab:”. Collaborative RCN proposals ought to start the title with “US-China Collab: RCN:” Data for the China portion of the US-China Collaborative Proposals needs to be included as Supplementary Paperwork or as a single copy doc as specified beneath. That data ought to embrace the next, and solely the next:

A. Supplementary Paperwork

Biographical sketches of Chinese language PIs: These biographical sketches should conform to NSF format and limitations.

Chinese language funds: Prices for the Chinese language element needs to be copied from the Chinese language submission of the proposal utilizing the NSFC format.

Letters of collaboration: Letters of collaboration from scientists on the Chinese language element are required. These letters have to be restricted to a press release of intent to collaborate solely as described above. Further data on the character of the collaboration and the roles of the investigators needs to be included within the Mission Description.

Institutional endorsement: An institutional certification of the submission have to be a signed letter from a certified Chinese language institutional consultant with the next textual content and solely that textual content:

“I affirm on behalf of [insert name of institution] that the U.S.-China Collaborative proposal between [insert name of US PI and institution] and [insert name of Chinese PI] is endorsed and has been submitted by [name of Research Office].”

B. Single Copy Paperwork

Sharing of unattributed opinions: Unattributed opinions might be shared with the NSFC. The next textual content have to be signed by the lead US investigator, confirming that the investigators concerned within the proposal acknowledge and ensure this truth.

On behalf of the proposal investigators, I, (insert US Lead PI Identify), consent that the proposal in addition to its unattributed opinions might be shared with the EEID partner-funding businesses.

Signed: _________________

Group: ________________________________

Date: _________________________

Collaborators and different affiliations. A COA doc have to be submitted for every senior personnel for whom a biographical sketch is included.

Full proposals that embrace a Chinese language collaboration have to be additionally submitted to the NSFC by the Chinese language accomplice as supplementary paperwork, together with the Letters of Collaboration, to their on-line functions, utilizing the NSFC software submission system: https://grants.nsfc.gov.cn/.

US-UK-China Collaborative proposals

These proposals ought to start the title with “US-UK-China Collab:”. Collaborative RCN proposals ought to start the title with “US-UK-China Collab: RCN:” Data for the UK and China portion needs to be included as Supplementary Paperwork as described above.

US-China-Israel Collaborative proposals

These proposals ought to start the title with “US-China-Israel Collab:”. Data for the China and Israel portion needs to be included as Supplementary Paperwork as described above.

B. Budgetary Data

Value Sharing:

Inclusion of voluntary dedicated price sharing is prohibited.

Different Budgetary Limitations:

EEID tasks will need to have a minimal funds of $1,500,000 in whole mission prices for all years, besides that US-UK Collaborative, US-Israel, and US-China Collaborative tasks will need to have a minimal US funds of $1,000,000 in whole mission prices for all years. Analysis that falls inside the scope of the EEID initiative however with mission goals that don’t require budgets of this magnitude needs to be directed to the suitable core program.

Funds Preparation Directions:

Subawards

In accordance with the relevant award phrases and circumstances, proposers are reminded of their tasks with regard to subawardees. Ought to an award be made, the first awardee is accountable for making certain compliance with the suitable phrases and circumstances to, in addition to the administration and oversight of, any subawardees on the mission, together with any international subawardees.

C. Due Dates

Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitter’s native time):

     November 15, 2023

     Third Wednesday in November, Yearly Thereafter

D. Analysis.gov/Grants.gov Necessities

For Proposals Submitted By way of Analysis.gov:

To organize and submit a proposal through Analysis.gov, see detailed technical directions accessible 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 NSF Assist Desk at 1-800-673-6188 or e-mail [email protected]. The NSF Assist Desk solutions common technical questions associated to using the Analysis.gov and FastLane techniques. Particular questions associated to this program solicitation needs to be referred to the NSF program employees contact(s) listed in Part VIII of this funding alternative.

For Proposals Submitted By way of 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 offered on the Grants.gov Applicant Sources webpage: https://www.grants.gov/internet/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 through Grants.gov. For Grants.gov consumer assist, contact the Grants.gov Contact Middle at 1-800-518-4726 or by electronic mail: [email protected]. The Grants.gov Contact Middle solutions common technical questions associated to using Grants.gov. Particular questions associated to this program solicitation needs 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 Licensed Organizational Consultant (AOR) should submit the appliance to Grants.gov and confirm the specified funding alternative and company to which the appliance is submitted. The AOR should then signal and submit the appliance to Grants.gov. The finished software might be transferred to the NSF FastLane system for additional processing.

Proposers that submitted through Analysis.gov might use Analysis.gov to confirm the standing of their submission to NSF. For proposers that submitted through Grants.gov, till an software has been acquired and validated by NSF, the Licensed Organizational Consultant might verify the standing of an software on Grants.gov. After proposers have acquired an e-mail notification from NSF, Analysis.gov needs to be used to verify the standing of an software.

VI. NSF PROPOSAL PROCESSING AND REVIEW PROCEDURES

Proposals acquired 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 often by three to 10 different individuals exterior NSF both as advert hoc reviewers, panelists, or each, who’re consultants within the specific fields represented by the proposal. These reviewers are chosen by Program Officers charged with oversight of the overview course of. Proposers are invited to recommend names of individuals they consider are particularly nicely certified to overview the proposal and/or individuals they would favor not overview the proposal. These options might function one supply within the reviewer choice course of on the Program Officer’s discretion. Submission of such names, nevertheless, is optionally available. Care is taken to make sure that reviewers haven’t any conflicts of curiosity with the proposal. As well as, Program Officers might get hold of feedback from web site visits earlier than recommending remaining motion on proposals. Senior NSF employees additional overview suggestions for awards. A flowchart that depicts all the 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 offered on the NSF web site at: https://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/coverage/merit_review/.

Proposers must also concentrate on core methods which are important to the success of NSF’s mission, as articulated in Main the World in Discovery and Innovation, STEM Expertise Improvement 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 by the combination of analysis and schooling and broadening participation in NSF packages, tasks, and actions.

One of many strategic targets in assist of NSF’s mission is to foster integration of analysis and schooling by the packages, tasks, and actions it helps at educational and analysis establishments. These establishments should recruit, prepare, and put together a various STEM workforce to advance the frontiers of science and take part within the U.S. technology-based economic system. NSF’s contribution to the nationwide innovation ecosystem is to supply cutting-edge analysis beneath the steerage of the Nation’s most inventive scientists and engineers. NSF additionally helps growth of a powerful science, expertise, engineering, and arithmetic (STEM) workforce by investing in constructing the information 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 are underrepresented in STEM disciplines, which is important to the well being and vitality of science and engineering. NSF is dedicated to this precept of variety and deems it central to the packages, tasks, and actions it considers and helps.

A. Benefit Evaluation Rules and Standards

The Nationwide Science Basis strives to spend money on a strong and numerous portfolio of tasks that creates new information and allows breakthroughs in understanding throughout all areas of science and engineering analysis and schooling. To establish which tasks to assist, NSF depends on a benefit overview course of that includes 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 collection of tasks.

1. Benefit Evaluation Rules

These rules are to be given due diligence by PIs and organizations when making ready proposals and managing tasks, by reviewers when studying and evaluating proposals, and by NSF program employees when figuring out whether or not or to not suggest proposals for funding and whereas overseeing awards. Provided that NSF is the first federal company charged with nurturing and supporting excellence in fundamental analysis and schooling, the next three rules apply:

All NSF tasks needs to be of the best high quality and have the potential to advance, if not rework, the frontiers of information.
NSF tasks, within the combination, ought to contribute extra broadly to attaining societal targets. These “Broader Impacts” could also be achieved by the analysis itself, by actions which are instantly associated to particular analysis tasks, or by actions which are 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 have to be nicely justified.
Significant evaluation and analysis of NSF funded tasks needs to be primarily based on acceptable metrics, maintaining in thoughts the doubtless correlation between the impact of broader impacts and the sources offered to implement tasks. If the scale of the exercise is proscribed, analysis of that exercise in isolation just isn’t prone to be significant. Thus, assessing the effectiveness of those actions might greatest be finished at the next, extra aggregated, degree than the person mission.

With respect to the third precept, even when evaluation of Broader Impacts outcomes for specific tasks is completed at an aggregated degree, PIs are anticipated to be accountable for finishing up the actions described within the funded mission. Thus, particular person tasks ought to embrace clearly said 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 rules present the idea for the benefit overview standards, in addition to a context inside which the customers of the standards can higher perceive their intent.

2. Benefit Evaluation Standards

All NSF proposals are evaluated by use of the 2 Nationwide Science Board accepted benefit overview standards. In some situations, nevertheless, NSF will make use of extra standards as required to spotlight the precise targets of sure packages and actions.

The 2 benefit overview standards are listed beneath. Each standards are to be given full consideration through the overview and decision-making processes; every criterion is important however neither, by itself, is enough. Due to this fact, proposers should totally deal with each standards. (PAPPG Chapter II.D.2.d(i). incorporates extra data to be used by proposers in growth of the Mission Description part of the proposal). Reviewers are strongly inspired to overview the standards, together with PAPPG Chapter II.D.2.d(i), previous to the overview of a proposal.

When evaluating NSF proposals, reviewers might be requested to contemplate 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 during which the mission might make broader contributions. To that finish, reviewers might be requested to guage all proposals towards two standards:

Mental Benefit: The Mental Benefit criterion encompasses the potential to advance information; and
Broader Impacts: The Broader Impacts criterion encompasses the potential to learn society and contribute to the achievement of particular, desired societal outcomes.

The next components needs to be thought of within the overview for each standards:

What’s the potential for the proposed exercise to
Advance information and understanding inside its personal discipline or throughout completely different fields (Mental Benefit); and
Profit society or advance desired societal outcomes (Broader Impacts)?

To what extent do the proposed actions recommend 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 nicely certified is the person, group, or group to conduct the proposed actions?
Are there satisfactory sources accessible to the PI (both on the dwelling group or by collaborations) to hold out the proposed actions?

Broader impacts could also be achieved by the analysis itself, by the actions which are instantly associated to particular analysis tasks, or by actions which are supported by, however are complementary to, the mission. NSF values the development of scientific information and actions that contribute to achievement of societally related outcomes. Such outcomes embrace, however will not be restricted to: full participation of girls, individuals with disabilities, and different underrepresented teams in science, expertise, engineering, and arithmetic (STEM); improved STEM schooling and educator growth at any degree; elevated public scientific literacy and public engagement with science and expertise; 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 schooling.

Proposers are reminded that reviewers may even be requested to overview the Information Administration Plan and the Postdoctoral Researcher Mentoring Plan, as acceptable.

Further Solicitation Particular Evaluation Standards

Reviewers might be instructed to guage the Plan for Secure and Inclusive Work Environments inside the Broader Impacts overview criterion, particularly:

Is there a compelling plan (together with the procedures, trainings, and communication processes) to determine, nurture, and keep inclusive off-campus or off-site working atmosphere(s)?
Does the proposed plan establish and adequately deal with the distinctive challenges for the group and the precise off-campus or off-site setting(s)?
Are the organizational mechanisms for use for reporting, responding to, and resolving problems with harassment, ought to they happen, clearly outlined?

NIH Data

Reviewers could also be requested to supply numeric NIH total influence scores from 1 (highest) to 9 (lowest) primarily based upon their evaluations of the mental deserves and broader impacts of the functions.

General Affect is the chance for the mission to exert a sustained, highly effective affect on the analysis discipline(s) concerned and is predicated on the next 5 core overview standards and related extra overview standards. An software doesn’t should be robust in all classes to be judged prone to have main scientific influence.

The 5 core overview standards for NIH are:

Significance. Does the applicant talk about the strengths and weaknesses of the rigor of the prior analysis used to assist the proposed mission?(Rigor of the prior analysis, which incorporates preliminary and printed outcomes, considerations the standard and power of the analysis being cited by the applicant as essential to assist the appliance; that is distinct from the speculation or justification.) How will the proposed analysis deal with weaknesses, gaps, necessary issues, or crucial boundaries to progress within the discipline? If the mission goals are achieved, how will scientific information, technical functionality, and/or scientific observe be improved? Will profitable completion of the goals change the ideas, strategies, remedies, applied sciences, providers, or preventative interventions that drive this discipline?

Investigator(s). Are the principal investigator (PI), mission director (PD), collaborators, and different researchers nicely suited to the mission? For these within the early phases of impartial careers, have they got acceptable expertise and coaching? For extra established investigators, have they demonstrated an ongoing document of accomplishments which have superior their discipline(s)? If the mission is collaborative or multi-PD/PI, do the investigators have complementary and built-in experience; are their management method, governance, and organizational construction acceptable for the mission?

Innovation. Does the appliance problem and search to shift present analysis or scientific observe paradigms by using novel theoretical ideas, approaches or methodologies, instrumentation, or interventions? Are the ideas, approaches or methodologies, instrumentation, or interventions novel to at least one discipline of analysis or novel in a broad sense? Is a refinement, enchancment, or new software of theoretical ideas, approaches or methodologies, instrumentation, or interventions proposed?

Strategy. Are the general technique, methodology, and analyses well-reasoned, acceptable, and supported by rigor within the prior analysis to perform the mission’s particular goals? Is there scientific rigor within the proposed examine? (Scientific rigor is outlined because the strict software of the scientific methodology to make sure strong and unbiased experimental design, methodology, evaluation, interpretation, and reporting of outcomes.) Are potential issues, various methods, and benchmarks for achievement offered? If the mission is within the early phases of growth, will the technique set up feasibility, and can significantly dangerous facets be managed? Have the investigators offered satisfactory plans to deal with related organic variables (e.g. intercourse, age, weight, well being situation, human ethnicity, animal species and strains, and so forth.) for research in vertebrate animals or human topics? If the mission entails human topics, are there plans for the safety of human topics from analysis dangers, and the inclusion (or exclusion) of people on the idea of intercourse/gender, race, and ethnicity, in addition to the inclusion (or exclusion) of people of all ages (together with kids and older adults), justified when it comes to the scientific targets and analysis technique proposed?

Setting. Will the scientific atmosphere during which the work might be finished contribute to the likelihood of success? Are the institutional assist, tools, and different bodily sources accessible to the investigators satisfactory for the mission proposed? Will the mission profit from distinctive options of the scientific atmosphere, topic populations, or collaborative preparations?

As related to the proposed mission, the next extra overview standards might be addressed and regarded within the dedication of scientific benefit and score as a part of the General Affect rating.

Protections for Human Topics. To be thought of human topics analysis, the collaborating people have to be residing and identifiable, and the info and/or specimens are particularly obtained for the proposed analysis. For analysis that entails human topics however doesn’t contain one of many classes of analysis which are exempt beneath 45 CFR Half 46.104, the committee will consider the justification for involvement of human topics and the proposed protections from analysis danger referring to their participation based on the next overview standards: 1) danger to topics, 2) adequacy of safety towards dangers, 3) potential advantages to the topics and others, and 4) significance of the information to be gained. For analysis that entails human topics and meets the standards for a number of of the eight classes of analysis which are exempt beneath 45 CFR Half 46.104, the committee will consider: 1) the justification for the exemption, 2) human topics involvement and traits, and three) sources of supplies.

Inclusion of Ladies, Minorities, and People Throughout the Lifespan. When the proposed mission entails human topics and/or NIH-defined scientific analysis, the committee will consider the proposed plans for the inclusion (or exclusion) of people on the idea of intercourse/gender, race/ethnicity or if non-US residents, in addition to the inclusion (or exclusion) of people of all ages together with kids (beneath 18 years previous), adults (18 to 64 years previous) and older adults (over 64 years previous) to find out whether it is justified when it comes to the scientific targets and analysis technique proposed.

Vertebrate Animals. The committee will consider the involvement of reside vertebrate animals as a part of the scientific evaluation based on the next standards: (1) a concise description of proposed procedures involving animals, together with figuring out the species, strains, ages, intercourse, and whole quantity for use and if concerned, the sources of canines or cats; (2) the justifications that the species are acceptable for the proposed analysis and explaining why the analysis targets can’t be achieved utilizing an alternate mannequin (e.g., computational, human, invertebrate, in vitro); (3) the interventions to reduce discomfort, misery, ache and harm; and (4) the justification for euthanasia methodology if NOT in keeping with the American Veterinary Medical Affiliation Pointers for the Euthanasia of Animals. Reviewers will assess using chimpanzees as they might every other software proposing using vertebrate animals.

Biohazards. Reviewers will establish potential biohazards (organic organisms or their merchandise, comparable to toxins, that pose a menace to human well being) and different hazards (comparable to radioactivity, harmful chemical compounds, or recombinant DNA) which are recognized of their skilled group to pose a very vital danger to analysis personnel and/or the atmosphere. Reviewers will assess whether or not supplies or procedures proposed are doubtlessly hazardous to analysis personnel and/or the atmosphere, and if wanted, decide whether or not satisfactory safety is proposed.

As relevant for the proposed mission, reviewers will deal with every of the next overview issues, however is not going to think about them in offering an NIH General Affect rating.

Purposes from International Organizations. If the group of the contact principal investigator/mission director just isn’t US-based, reviewers will assess whether or not the mission presents particular alternatives for furthering analysis packages by using uncommon expertise, sources, populations, or environmental circumstances that exist in different nations and both will not be available in the USA or increase current U.S. sources.

Choose Agent Analysis. If the examine entails a Choose Agent (confer with the Federal Choose Agent Program http://www.selectagents.gov/SelectAgentsandToxinsList.html), reviewers will assess the knowledge offered on this part of the appliance, together with 1) the identification of the Choose Agent(s) for use within the proposed analysis, 2) the registration standing of all entities the place the Choose Agent(s) might be used, 3) the procedures that might be used to observe possession use and switch of Choose Agent(s), and 4) plans for acceptable biosafety, biocontainment, and safety of the Choose Agent(s).

Funds and Interval of Assist. Reviewers will think about whether or not the funds and the requested interval of assist are totally justified and affordable in relation to the proposed analysis.

Worldwide Collaborations and Expenditures

For all proposals involving worldwide collaborations, reviewers will think about: mutual advantages, true mental collaboration with the international accomplice(s), advantages to be realized from the experience and specialised expertise, services, websites and/or sources of the worldwide counterpart, and lively analysis engagement of U.S. college students and early-career researchers, the place such people are engaged within the analysis. Moreover, the justification for funding for a world department campus of a US IHE, or involvement of a international group (e.g., by use of subawards or advisor preparations), as described in PAPPG Chapter I.E, might be particularly reviewed to guarantee that circumstances for the justification of such expenditures have been met.

US-UK, US-Israel and US-China Collaborative Initiatives may even be reviewed with respect to the extent which they display a considerable collaboration between the US and international companions and improve analysis on infectious illness transmission.

B. Evaluation and Choice Course of

NSF will handle the overview of proposals in session with NIH and USDA, and within the case of US-UK, US-Israel or US-China Collaborative Initiatives, UKRI, BSF or NSFC, respectively. Copies of proposals and unattributed opinions might be shared with the accomplice funding organizations, as acceptable. Upon conclusion of the overview course of, meritorious tasks could also be really helpful for funding by any of the accomplice funding organizations on the choice of the businesses, not the proposing organizations.

Proposals submitted in response to this program solicitation might be reviewed by Advert hoc Evaluation and/or Panel Evaluation.

Reviewers might be requested to guage proposals utilizing two Nationwide Science Board accepted benefit overview standards and, if relevant, extra program particular standards. A abstract score and accompanying narrative will usually 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 advice.

NSF Course of: These proposals chosen for funding by NSF might be dealt with in accordance with normal NSF procedures. After scientific, technical and programmatic overview and consideration of acceptable components, the NSF Program Officer recommends to the cognizant Division Director whether or not the proposal needs to be declined or really helpful for award. NSF is striving to have the ability to inform candidates whether or not their proposals have been declined or really helpful for funding inside six months. The time interval begins on the deadline or goal date, or receipt date, whichever is later. The interval ends when the Division Director accepts the Program Officer’s advice.

A abstract score and accompanying narrative might be accomplished and submitted by every reviewer. In all instances, opinions are handled as confidential paperwork. Verbatim copies of opinions, excluding the names of the reviewers, are despatched to the Principal Investigator/Mission Director by the Program Officer. As well as, the proposer will obtain a proof of the choice to award or decline funding.

In all instances, after programmatic approval has been obtained, the proposals really helpful for funding might be forwarded to the Division of Grants and Agreements for overview of enterprise, monetary, and coverage implications and 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 needs 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.

NIH Course of: Proposals chosen for funding consideration by NIH might be invited to submit reformatted functions to the Division of Receipt and Referral (DRR) in NIH’s Middle for Scientific Evaluation (CSR). A receipt date of roughly March 15 yearly is in impact for the NIH formatted functions. Following the preliminary peer overview, really helpful functions which were resubmitted to the NIH are required to go to second degree overview by the Advisory Council or Advisory Board of the awarding Institute or Middle. The next might be thought of in making funding selections:

Scientific and technical benefit of the proposed mission as decided by scientific peer overview.
Availability of funds.
Relevance of the proposed mission to program priorities.

Subsequent award processing and grant administration procedures might be in accordance with NIH insurance policies and procedures.

USDA/NIFA Course of: Candidates submitting proposals chosen for funding by USDA/NIFA will obtain particular directions outlining what extra data is required in accordance with the insurance policies of the company. USDA/NIFA will make remaining funding selections primarily based on the outcomes of the peer overview course of. Purposes chosen for funding by NIFA might be forwarded to the USDA/NIFA Awards Administration Division for award processing in accordance with the USDA/NIFA procedures. All proposals chosen for funding by USDA/NIFA might be restricted to a 30 p.c oblique price fee (7 USC 3310). Due to this fact, the restoration of oblique prices on awards made by NIFA beneath this program space might not exceed the lesser of the establishment’s official negotiated oblique price fee or the equal of 30 p.c of whole Federal funds awarded. If the limitation of oblique prices adjustments, the applicant might be notified.

US-UK Collaborative Initiatives: The UK element of the collaboration might be awarded by UKRI in accordance with the insurance policies of that company. If UKRI selects an software for funding, the prices for the UK component of the proposal have to be submitted through UKRI’s funding software submission system earlier than remaining sign-off. UK collaborators ought to due to this fact guarantee they’re registered customers earlier than the proposal is submitted.

US-Israel Collaborative Initiatives: The Israeli element of the collaboration might be awarded by the BSF in accordance with its insurance policies and laws. The collaborative proposal should even be submitted to the BSF by the Israeli scientists and embrace the US scientists’ data, after being submitted to the NSF.

US-China Collaborative Initiatives: The Chinese language element of the collaboration might be awarded by the NSFC in accordance with its insurance policies and laws. The collaborative proposal have to be submitted by the Chinese language scientists to the NSFC as a supplementary doc to their on-line functions by the NSFC-established deadline.

VII. AWARD ADMINISTRATION INFORMATION

A. Notification of the Award

NSF Course of: Notification of the award is made to the submitting group by a Grants Officer within the Division of Grants and Agreements. Organizations whose proposals are declined might be suggested as promptly as potential by the cognizant NSF Program administering this system. Verbatim copies of opinions, not together with the identification of the reviewer, might be offered routinely to the Principal Investigator. (See Part VI.B. for added data on the overview course of.)

NIH Course of:If the appliance is into consideration for NIH funding, NIH will request “just-in-time” data from the applicant as described within the NIH Grants Coverage Assertion.

A proper notification within the type of a Discover of Award (NoA) might be offered to the applicant group for profitable functions. The NoA signed by the grants administration officer is the authorizing doc and might be despatched through electronic mail to the grantee’s enterprise official.

NIFA Course of: Notification of a really helpful award is made to the submitting PI by a Nationwide Program Chief at NIFA. Verbatim copies of opinions, not together with the identification of the reviewers, might be offered to the Principal Investigator on the time of the award advice notification.

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 circumstances, comparable to Grant Basic 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 through 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 necessary data on the administration of NSF awards is contained within the NSF Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information (PAPPG) Chapter VII, accessible 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, Guaranteeing the Future is Made in All of America by All of America’s Employees (86 FR 7475), it’s the coverage of the chief department to make use of phrases and circumstances of Federal monetary help awards to maximise, in keeping with regulation, using items, merchandise, and supplies produced in, and providers provided 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 accessible by this funding alternative could also be obligated for an award except all iron, metal, manufactured merchandise, and building supplies used within the mission are produced in the USA. For added data, go to NSF’s Construct America, Purchase America webpage.

Particular Award Situations:

Proposals funded by NIH:

Number of an software for award just isn’t an authorization to start efficiency. Any prices incurred earlier than receipt of the Discover of Award are on the recipient’s danger. These prices could also be reimbursed solely to the extent thought of allowable pre-award prices.

Any software awarded by NIH in response to this solicitation might be topic to NIH grants insurance policies as described within the NIH Grants Coverage Assertion.

All NIH grant and cooperative settlement awards embrace the NIH Grants Coverage Assertion as a part of the NoA. For these phrases of award, see the NIH Grants Coverage Assertion Half II: Phrases and Situations of NIH Grant Awards, Subpart A: Basic and Half II: Phrases and Situations of NIH Grant Awards, Subpart B: Phrases and Situations for Particular Sorts of Grants, Grantees, and Actions. Extra data is offered at Award Situations and Data for NIH Grants.

Proposals funded by USDA/NIFA:

Awards issued because of this RFA can have designated the Automated Customary Purposes for Fee System (ASAP), operated by the Division of Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service, because the fee system for funds. For extra data see https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/asap/.

A number of federal statutes and laws apply to grant functions thought of for overview and to mission grants awarded beneath this program. These might embrace, however will not be restricted to, those listed on the NIFA internet web page – http://nifa.usda.gov/federal-regulations.

NIFA Analysis Phrases and Situations will apply to all awards made beneath this solicitation. https://www.nifa.usda.gov/grants/regulations-and-guidelines/terms-conditions.

NIFA Federal Help Coverage Information — a compendium of fundamental NIFA insurance policies and procedures that apply to all NIFA awards, except there are statutory, regulatory, or award-specific necessities on the contrary is offered at http://nifa.usda.gov/policy-guide.

Different Necessities

USDA/NIFA:

1. Delegation of Fiscal Accountability

Except the phrases and circumstances of the grant state in any other case, the grantee might not, in complete or partly, delegate or switch to a different individual, establishment, or group the accountability to be used or expenditure of grant funds.

2. Modifications in Mission Plans

The permissible adjustments by the grantee, PD(s), or different key mission personnel within the accepted mission grant shall be restricted to adjustments in methodology, methods, or different comparable facets of the mission to expedite achievement of the mission’s accepted targets. If the grantee or the PD(s) is unsure as as to whether a change complies with this provision, the query have to be referred to the Licensed Departmental Officer (ADO) for a remaining dedication. The ADO is the signatory of the award doc, not this system contact.

Modifications in accepted targets or targets shall be requested by the grantee and accepted in writing by the ADO previous to effecting such adjustments. In no occasion shall requests for such adjustments be accepted that are exterior the scope of the unique accepted mission.
Modifications in accepted mission management or the substitute or reassignment of different key mission personnel shall be requested by the grantee and accepted in writing by the ADO previous to effecting such adjustments.
Transfers of precise efficiency of the substantive programmatic work in complete or partly and provisions for fee of funds, whether or not or not Federal funds are concerned, shall be requested by the grantee and accepted in writing by the ADO previous to effecting such transfers, except prescribed in any other case within the phrases and circumstances of the grant.
Modifications in Mission Interval: The mission interval could also be prolonged by USDA/NIFA with out extra monetary assist, for such extra interval(s) because the ADO determines could also be crucial to finish or fulfill the needs of an accepted mission, however in no case shall the entire mission interval exceed ten years. Any extension of time shall be conditioned upon prior request by the grantee and approval in writing by the ADO, except prescribed in any other case within the phrases and circumstances of a grant.
Modifications in Permitted Funds: Modifications in an accepted funds have to be requested by the grantee and accepted in writing by the ADO previous to instituting such adjustments if the revision will contain transfers or expenditures of quantities requiring prior approval as set forth within the relevant Federal price rules, Departmental laws, or grant award.

3. Value Sharing Necessities for awards made by NIFA:

Matching funds necessities could also be discovered at 7 U.S.C. 3157 (b)(9). If an utilized Analysis or Built-in Mission with an utilized analysis element, is commodity-specific and never of nationwide scope, the grant recipient is required to match the USDA funds awarded on a dollar-for-dollar foundation from non-federal sources with money and/or in-kind contributions.

NIFA might waive the matching funds requirement primarily based on submitted doc for a grant if we decide that:

The outcomes of the mission, whereas of specific profit to a particular agricultural commodity, are prone to be relevant to agricultural commodities usually; or
The mission entails a minor commodity, the mission offers with scientifically necessary analysis, and the grant recipient is unable to fulfill the matching funds requirement.

US-UK Collaborative tasks:

UKRI Awardees are topic to UKRI reporting and administration necessities as acceptable and outlined within the Analysis Funding Information at https://www.ukri.org/councils/bbsrc/guidance-for-applicants/. US-UK Collaborative Initiatives ought to report on actions of all the collaborative effort and submit that data to each NSF and UKRI as a part of the annual and remaining stories.

US-Israel Collaborative tasks:

BSF Awardees are topic to BSF reporting and administration necessities as acceptable and outlined within the BSF web site: https://www.bsf.org.il/BSFPublic/DefaultPage1.aspx?PageId=41&innerTextID=41. US-Israel Collaborative Initiatives ought to report on actions of all the collaborative effort and submit that data to each NSF and BSF as a part of the annual and remaining stories.

US-China Collaborative tasks:

NSFC Awardees are topic to NSFC reporting and administration necessities as acceptable and outlined within the NSFC web site: https://www.nsfc.gov.cn/publish/portal2/tab475/info70247.htm. US-China Collaborative Initiatives ought to report on actions of all the collaborative effort and submit that data to each NSF and NSFC as a part of the annual and remaining stories.

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 packages or awards require submission of extra frequent mission stories). No later than 120 days following expiration of a grant, the PI is also required to submit a remaining mission report, and a mission outcomes report for most of the people.

Failure to supply the required annual or remaining mission stories, 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 look at the codecs of the required stories upfront to guarantee availability of required information.

PIs are required to make use of NSF’s digital project-reporting system, accessible by Analysis.gov, for preparation and submission of annual and remaining mission stories. Such stories present data on accomplishments, mission members (particular person and organizational), publications, and different particular merchandise and impacts of the mission. Submission of the report through Analysis.gov constitutes certification by the PI that the contents of the report are correct and full. The mission outcomes report additionally have to 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 might be posted on the NSF web site precisely as it’s submitted by the PI.

Extra complete data on NSF Reporting Necessities and different necessary data on the administration of NSF awards is contained within the NSF Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information (PAPPG) Chapter VII, accessible electronically on the NSF Web site at https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pappg.

Reporting on NIH Awards:

Awardees might be required to submit the Analysis Efficiency Progress Report (RPPR) yearly and monetary statements as required within the NIH Grants Coverage Assertion.

A remaining progress report, invention assertion, and the expenditure information portion of the Federal Monetary Report are required for closeout of an award, as described within the NIH Grants Coverage Assertion.

The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Transparency Act), features a requirement for awardees of Federal grants to report details about first-tier subawards and government compensation beneath Federal help awards issued in FY2011 or later. All awardees of relevant NIH grants and cooperative agreements are required to report back to the Federal Subaward Reporting System (FSRS) accessible at https://www.fsrs.gov on all subawards over $30,000. See the NIH Grants Coverage Assertion for added data on this reporting requirement.

Reporting on USDA Awards: Grantees are to submit preliminary mission data and annual abstract stories to NIFA’s digital, Net-based stock system that facilitates each grantee submissions of mission outcomes and public entry to data on Federally-funded tasks. The small print of those reporting necessities are included within the award phrases and circumstances.

Any extra reporting necessities might be recognized within the phrases and circumstances of the award (see Half VII, B. above for a hyperlink to view the NIFA award phrases and circumstances).

For informational functions, the “Federal Monetary Report,” Kind SF-425, consolidates right into a single report the previous Monetary Standing Report (SF-269 and SF-269A) and the Federal Money Transactions Report (SF-272 and SF-272A). The NIFA Company-specific Phrases and Situations embrace the requirement that Kind SF-425 is due on an annual foundation no later than 90 days following the award’s anniversary date (i.e., one 12 months following the month and day of which the mission interval begins and annually thereafter up till a remaining report is required). A remaining “Federal Monetary Report,” Kind SF-425, is due 90 days after the expiration date of this award.

US-UK Collaborative tasks:

UKRI Awardees are topic to UKRI reporting necessities as outlined within the Analysis Funding Information at https://bbsrc.ukri.org/paperwork/grants-guide/. US-UK Collaborative Initiatives ought to report on actions of all the collaborative effort and submit that data to each NSF and UKRI as a part of the annual and remaining stories.

US-Israel Collaborative tasks:

BSF Awardees are topic to BSF reporting and administration necessities as acceptable and outlined within the BSF web site: https://www.bsf.org.il/BSFPublic/DefaultPage1.aspx?PageId=41&innerTextID=41. US-Israel Collaborative Initiatives ought to report on actions of all the collaborative effort and submit that data to each NSF and BSF as a part of the annual and remaining stories.

US-China Collaborative tasks:

NSFC Awardees are topic to NSFC reporting and administration necessities as acceptable and outlined within the NSFC web site: http://www.nsfc.gov.cn/publish/portal0/tab475/info70247.htm. US-China Collaborative Initiatives ought to report on actions of all the collaborative effort and submit that data to each NSF and NSFC as a part of the annual and remaining stories.

VIII. AGENCY CONTACTS

Please be aware that this system contact data is present on the time of publishing. See program web site for any updates to the factors of contact.

Basic inquiries relating to this program needs to be made to:

Samuel M. Scheiner, Program Director, NSF/BIO, phone: (703) 292-7175, electronic mail: [email protected]
Christine Jessup, Program Director, NIH/FIC, phone: (301) 496-1653, fax: (301) 402-0779, electronic mail: [email protected]
Colette M. St. Mary, Program Director, NSF/BIO, phone: (703) 292-4332, electronic mail: [email protected]
Katharina Dittmar, Program Director, NSF/BIO, phone: (703) 292-7799, electronic mail: [email protected]
Zhilan Feng, Program Director, NSF/MPS, phone: (703) 292-7523, electronic mail: [email protected]
Rebecca Ferrell, Program Director, NSF/SBE, phone: (703) 292-7850, electronic mail: [email protected]
Daniel J. Thornhill, Program Director, NSF/GEO, phone: (703) 292-8143, electronic mail: [email protected]
Sadhana Sharma, Head of Bioscience for an Built-in Understanding of Well being, UKRI/BBSRC, phone: 44 1793-413200, electronic mail: [email protected]
Stephanie Coomes, Well being Scientist Administrator, NIH/NIAID, phone: (301) 761-6855, electronic mail: [email protected]
Timothy Sullivan, Nationwide Program Chief, USDA/NIFA, phone: (816) 527-5434, electronic mail: [email protected]
Andrea Keane-Myers, Program Director, NIH/NIGMS, phone: (240) 281-2361, electronic mail: [email protected]
Nikki Mackie, Senior Portfolio Supervisor, UKRI/BBSRC, phone: 44 1793-413200, electronic mail: [email protected]
Rachel (Heni) Haring, Deputy Government Director, BSF, phone: 972 2 5828239, electronic mail: [email protected]
Jing Chen, Deputy Director, NSFC, phone: 86 10-62326877, electronic mail: [email protected]

For questions associated to using NSF techniques contact:

NSF Assist Desk: 1-800-381-1532
Analysis.gov Assist Desk e-mail: [email protected]

For questions referring to Grants.gov contact:

Grants.gov Contact Middle: If the Licensed Organizational Representatives (AOR) has not acquired a affirmation message from Grants.gov inside 48 hours of submission of software, please contact through phone: 1-800-518-4726; e-mail: [email protected].

IX. OTHER INFORMATION

The NSF web site gives essentially the most complete supply of knowledge on NSF Directorates (together with contact data), packages 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 recent NSF funding alternatives and publications, necessary adjustments in proposal and award insurance policies and procedures, and upcoming NSF Grants Conferences. Subscribers are knowledgeable by e-mail or the consumer’s Net browser every time new publications are issued that match their recognized pursuits. “NSF Replace” additionally is offered on NSF’s web site.

Grants.gov gives a further digital functionality to seek for Federal government-wide grant alternatives. NSF funding alternatives could also be accessed through this mechanism. Additional data on Grants.gov could also be obtained at https://www.grants.gov.

A discover on the Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Illness analysis initiative and this announcement can also be posted within the NIH Information to Grants and Contracts https://grants.nih.gov/funding/index.html together with all NIH alternatives.

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 schooling in all fields of science and engineering.”

NSF funds analysis and schooling in most fields of science and engineering. It does this by grants and cooperative agreements to greater than 2,000 faculties, universities, Ok-12 faculty techniques, companies, casual science organizations and different analysis organizations all through the US. The Basis accounts for about one-fourth of Federal assist to educational establishments for fundamental analysis.

NSF receives roughly 55,000 proposals annually for analysis, schooling and coaching tasks, of which roughly 11,000 are funded. As well as, the Basis receives a number of thousand functions 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 educational degree.

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 tasks. 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 packages, 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 schooling 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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For Basic Data(NSF Data Middle):

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TDD (for the hearing-impaired):

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To Order Publications or Types:


 

Ship an e-mail to:

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or phone:

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PRIVACY ACT AND PUBLIC BURDEN STATEMENTS

The data requested on proposal varieties and mission stories is solicited beneath the authority of the Nationwide Science Basis Act of 1950, as amended. The data on proposal varieties might be utilized in reference to the collection of certified proposals; and mission stories submitted by awardees might be used for program analysis and reporting inside 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 supply or get hold of information relating to the proposal overview course of, award selections, or the administration of awards; to authorities contractors, consultants, volunteers and researchers and educators as crucial to finish assigned work; to different authorities businesses or different entities needing data relating to candidates or nominees as a part of a joint software overview course of, or with the intention to coordinate packages or coverage; and to a different Federal company, courtroom, or occasion 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 out potential candidates to function peer reviewers or advisory committee members. See System of File Notices, NSF-50, “Principal Investigator/Proposal File and Related Information,” and NSF-51, “Reviewer/Proposal File and Related Information.” Submission of the knowledge is voluntary. Failure to supply full and full data, nevertheless, might cut back the potential for receiving an award.

An company might not conduct or sponsor, and an individual just isn’t required to reply to, an data assortment except 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 knowledge is estimated to common 120 hours per response, together with the time for reviewing directions. Ship feedback relating to the burden estimate and every other side of this assortment of knowledge, together with options for decreasing this burden, to:

Suzanne H. Plimpton
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