Partnership to Advance Conservation Science and Practice (PACSP) (nsf24531)

Replaces Doc(s):NSF 22-613

Nationwide Science Basis

Directorate for Organic Sciences Division of Integrative Organismal Methods Division of Environmental Biology

Paul G. Allen Household Basis

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

April 24, 2024

December 19, 2024

Third Thursday in December, Yearly Thereafter

IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND REVISION NOTES

The Directorate for Organic Sciences requires that proposers who embrace off-campus or off-site analysis as a part of their undertaking submit, as supplementary documentation, a Secure and Inclusive Fieldwork (SAIF) Plan. 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 SAIF plan could be discovered within the further Proposal Preparation Directions on this solicitation.

There’s new steering about initiatives that embrace services, logistics, or assignable asset prices (i.e., NEON). Such initiatives should present proof displaying that requests have been submitted for applicable assist and use.

This system now defines a conservation instruments improvement monitor with particular proposal directions.

Tasks might now be as much as 60 months in length.

Any proposal submitted in response to this solicitation must 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 commonly revised and it’s the duty 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 Info

Program Title:

Partnership to Advance Conservation Science and Follow (PACSP)

Synopsis of Program:

The Nationwide Science Basis (NSF) and the Paul G. Allen Household Basis (the inspiration) are persevering with their partnership to assist this program, to be administered by NSF, supporting conservation science and science-informed conservation apply in the US. The target of the PACSP Program is to assist conservation analysis that investigates organismal biology, ecology, and/or evolution and is designed to contribute to the event and implementation of evidence-based actions and/or expertise options to advance biodiversity conservation. We search proposals that contain the implementation of conservation actions primarily based on conservation science rules through academic-conservation group partnerships. The strongest initiatives will contain ongoing evaluation of biodiversity outcomes, for example through an adaptive administration framework, that inform each scientific understanding and conservation actions. A major distinction between the PACSP program and different NSF applications is that proposals to this program should clarify and well-defined connections between primary analysis questions and the implementation of conservation targeted actions.

The Program’s focus is on conservation goal-related analysis that can immediately translate to on-the-ground biodiversity conservation efforts. Proposals that undertake a convergent strategy between local weather and/or different anthropogenic environmental change, conservation, and the well being of ecosystems and the organisms therein are particularly inspired. Proposals are additionally anticipated to include undertaking outcomes inside the context of broader societal impacts and, as applicable for the analysis proposed, interact non-academic companions in collaboration.

For proposals really useful for funding, NSF will fund the proposed analysis scope and the inspiration will fund the proposed conservation part of the undertaking.

Cognizant Program Officer(s):

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

Colette M. St. Mary, Division of Integrative Organismal Methods, phone: (703) 292-4332, e mail: [email protected]
Kari Segraves, Division of Environmental Biology, phone: (703) 292-8935, e mail: [email protected]

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

47.074 — Organic Sciences

Award Info

Anticipated Sort of Award: Customary Grant or Persevering with Grant

Estimated Variety of Awards: 8 to 16

Tasks as much as 5 years in length might be thought-about.

Anticipated Funding Quantity: $16,000,000

Pending availability of funds, $16,000,000 in FY 2024, which is estimated to incorporate $8M from the NSF for brand spanking new normal and/or persevering with awards and $8M from the Paul G. Allen Household Basis.

Eligibility Info

Who Could Submit Proposals:

Proposals might solely be submitted by the next:

Establishments of Increased Schooling (IHEs) – Two- and four-year IHEs (together with neighborhood 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 supplied to a global department campus of a US establishment of upper schooling (together with by use of subawards and guide preparations), the proposer should clarify the profit(s) to the undertaking of efficiency on the worldwide department campus, and justify why the undertaking 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 immediately related to instructional or analysis actions.
See beneath for Paul G. Allen Household Basis eligibility.

Who Could 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:

There aren’t any restrictions or limits.

Proposal Preparation and Submission Directions

A. Proposal Preparation Directions

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

B. Budgetary Info

Price Sharing Necessities:

Inclusion of voluntary dedicated value sharing is prohibited.

Oblique Price (F&A) Limitations:

Not Relevant

Different Budgetary Limitations:

Different budgetary limitations apply. Please see the complete textual content of this solicitation for additional info.

C. Due Dates

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

April 24, 2024

December 19, 2024

Third Thursday in December, Yearly Thereafter

Proposal Evaluate Info Standards

Advantage Evaluate Standards:

Nationwide Science Board authorised standards. Further benefit evaluation standards apply. Please see the complete textual content of this solicitation for additional info.

Award Administration Info

Award Circumstances:

Customary NSF award situations apply.

Reporting Necessities:

Customary NSF reporting necessities apply.

Abstract of Program Necessities

Introduction
Program Description
Award Info
Eligibility Info
Proposal Preparation and Submission Directions
Proposal Preparation Directions
Budgetary Info
Due Dates
Analysis.gov/Grants.gov Necessities

NSF Proposal Processing and Evaluate Procedures
Advantage Evaluate Ideas and Standards
Evaluate and Choice Course of

Award Administration Info
Notification of the Award
Award Circumstances
Reporting Necessities

Company Contacts
Different Info

I. INTRODUCTION

In response to a collaborative evaluation by the Intergovernmental Science-Coverage Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Companies (IPBES) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Local weather Change (IPCC), unprecedented adjustments in local weather and biodiversity have mixed and more and more threaten nature, human lives, livelihoods, and well-being. Biodiversity loss and large-scale environmental change mutually reinforce one another, and neither might be efficiently resolved except each are tackled collectively.

The consequences of large-scale environmental change and the related biodiversity crises require rapid motion by governments, the non-public sector, educational establishments, non-governmental organizations, philanthropies, and people. The Nationwide Science Basis (NSF) and the Paul G. Allen Household Basis (the inspiration) have established a public-private partnership to maneuver ahead science-based conservation actions and expertise options to deal with local weather and/or different anthropogenic environmental change and biodiversity loss. This partnership represents the primary NSF public-private partnership targeted on conservation.

The Companions every have substantial prior funding in associated efforts: The Nationwide Science Basis has been investing in understanding responses to local weather and different environmental change for years by a portfolio of applications that advance the frontiers of information, develop new approaches, and allow cross-disciplinary collaborations. Because the company appears to be like to the long run, NSF is dedicated to strengthening its capability to innovate, produce breakthroughs, and speed up the interpretation of basic discoveries from lab to software.

The Paul G. Allen Household Basis helps a world portfolio of companions working to protect ocean well being, shield wildlife, fight local weather change, and strengthen communities. The muse invests in grantees to leverage expertise, fill knowledge and science gaps, and assist public coverage to allow lasting change.

With this partnership, and through this solicitation, our joint purpose is to allow the institution of efficient partnerships between educational researchers and conservation practitioners to advance science-based conservation efforts within the U.S. The Partnership to Advance Conservation Science and Follow (PACSP) program requires initiatives that contain primary analysis and the event of evidence-based conservation motion plans, such that the implementation of these plans, and their ongoing evaluation, will inform each primary science and conservation efficacy.

II. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The Partnership to Advance Conservation Science and Follow (PACSP) program focuses on pressing biodiversity conservation issues and analysis that can make important and impactful progress in advancing conservation science and apply. This system goals to fund integrative and transdisciplinary analysis, and initiatives should span each primary and utilized conservation analysis endeavors. It helps partnerships between scientists and conservation practitioners to implement science-based conservation motion plans and to interact in ongoing evaluation that informs each conservation efficacy and the science on which these plans are primarily based.

Proposals submitted to the PACSP program could be in any space of primary analysis on organismal biology (e.g., physiological, behavioral, immunological, and developmental responses to a altering atmosphere), ecology (e.g., dynamics of small populations, responses to altering neighborhood composition, together with symbiotic interactions, or ecosystem-level perform) or evolution (e.g., results of low genetic variety, choice and the results of maladapted phenotypes) that contributes to the event or implementation of science-based conservation plans. Equally, proposals might give attention to particular person species, teams of species, communities, or ecosystems. Critically, the fundamental analysis part have to be targeted on a biodiversity conservation want within the US or related territories. Examples might embrace, however are usually not restricted to: testing hypotheses concerning the mechanism(s) inflicting a biodiversity conservation drawback; exploring how organismal, ecological, or evolutionary processes relate to pressing conservation wants; understanding how environmental variation, rising ailments, or altering environments affect organismal responses and therefore biodiversity conservation.

This system goals to assist initiatives that combine three elements: (1) primary analysis questions motivated by an pressing biodiversity conservation want, (2) the event and implementation of science-informed conservation actions particularly associated to the biodiversity conservation want, and (3) a plan for on-going analysis or evaluation of the success of the conservation motion to tell each the science and efficacy of the conservation motion. Proposals to the PACSP program may embrace plans to leverage expertise to fill knowledge and science gaps and may also be geared toward driving optimistic public coverage to advance data and allow lasting change within the realm of biodiversity conservation. Recognizing that initiatives targeted on leveraging or creating new applied sciences to be used within the conservation sphere don’t naturally observe this similar construction, we provide a selected instruments monitor inside this solicitation (TOOLS). These initiatives ought to have analogous built-in elements, together with (1) primary analysis questions motivated by an pressing biodiversity conservation want, (2) the event and implementation of science-informed utilization of a brand new conservation device that’s associated to the biodiversity conservation want, and (3) a plan for on-going analysis or evaluation of the efficacy of that new expertise in assembly conservation objectives, together with comparisons to current instruments the place applicable. Moreover, the PACSP program encourages actions that advance understanding and conservation of wildlife and ecosystems by enhancing the gathering, curation, evaluation, visualization, and dissemination of knowledge to strengthen useful resource administration and assist conservation outcomes. Different areas of emphasis embrace convergence between responses to local weather and/or different environmental change, organic conservation, and the well being of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

PACSP Associate Pursuits:

Nationwide Science Basis

All proposals submitted to the Nationwide Science Basis should embrace dialogue of the broader impacts of the undertaking for societal profit. Along with the conservation impacts, the PACSP program encourages broader impacts that improve the recruitment, coaching, and retention of people or teams underrepresented in conservation science and apply. The PACSP program will prioritize broader impacts that develop, improve, or strengthen relationships between primary conservation researchers, conservation practitioners, and the human communities concerned. We encourage submissions from EPSCoR states.

Paul G. Allen Household Basis

In step with this, the inspiration is desirous about PACSP proposals that develop or implement science and data-informed conservation actions. Conservation plans ought to immediately relate to the fundamental analysis query addressed by PACSP proposals and must be evidence-based. Profitable PACSP proposals will develop conservation actions by merging primary analysis outcomes with present finest practices in biodiversity conservation and thru built-in partnerships between educational researchers and conservation practitioners. Proposals to the PACSP program may also embrace a plan for the on-going evaluation or analysis of the proposed conservation actions. A purpose of this system is to information the event of profitable partnerships that contribute to optimistic biodiversity conservation outcomes. A plan to formally consider or assess any proposed conservation actions is required. Just like the event and implementation of the conservation plans, evaluation of these plans must be rooted in present finest practices.

For this competitors, the Paul G. Allen Household Basis will fund the conservation actions described within the proposal. To be able to be eligible to obtain funding from the inspiration, conservation motion companions should doc their eligibility by submission of proof of 501(c)(3) tax standing and a press release that the proposer has reviewed the Paul G. Allen Household Basis Grantee Code of Conduct and that verifies their compliance with such code. See part V.A.- Proposal Preparation Directions: Conservation Companions for additional steering.

Particular Info:

A. Proposals Involving Fieldwork: The PACSP program is concentrated on pressing biodiversity crises in the US. Due to this fact, any proposed fieldwork should happen inside the US or related territories. No overseas fieldwork could also be supported.

B. Assortment and Switch of Samples: Plans to gather and switch organic samples must be authorised by the suitable authorities authorities. Preparations for using conventional data or the gathering of samples from the lands and waters of native peoples must be primarily based upon full disclosure and knowledgeable consent of these communities and people. Beneath finest practices, undertaking elements are co-produced and stem from a partnership with early and ongoing full participation of neighborhood representatives in undertaking design and implementation. If Indigenous peoples, primarily based on non secular or different issues, object to particular makes use of, widespread dissemination or different therapies of the data or sources they supply, these issues must be revered.

C. Environmental Coverage Concerns of Fieldwork: Federal businesses should adjust to the Nationwide Environmental Coverage Act (NEPA) and different relevant legal guidelines and insurance policies such because the Endangered Species Act, the Marine Mammal Safety Act, and the Nationwide Historic Preservation Act. Tasks might be assessed for environmental impacts previous to award and extra consultations, or mitigation efforts could also be required (see Environmental Impacts Guidelines). PIs ought to anticipate to be concerned within the evaluation and environmental compliance course of for his or her initiatives. To the extent that initiatives have permits and approvals in place, these must be submitted as supplementary paperwork. Researchers proposing work that will have an effect on cultural or historic properties, or whose work includes tribal lands, should cooperate with NSF in complying with the session necessities of part 106 of the Nationwide Historic Preservation Act and the Native American Graves Safety and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). For extra info on cultural or historic preservation points, see the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation’s website at http://www.achp.gov/work106.html; for info regarding NAGPRA see http://www.nps.gov/nagpra/.

III. AWARD INFORMATION

Anticipated Sort of Award: Customary Grant or Persevering with Grant

Estimated Variety of Awards: 8 to 16

Tasks as much as 5 years in length might be thought-about.

Anticipated Funding Quantity: $16,000,000

Estimated program funds, variety of awards and common award dimension/length are topic to the provision of funds.

IV. ELIGIBILITY INFORMATION

Who Could Submit Proposals:

Proposals might solely be submitted by the next:

Establishments of Increased Schooling (IHEs) – Two- and four-year IHEs (together with neighborhood 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 supplied to a global department campus of a US establishment of upper schooling (together with by use of subawards and guide preparations), the proposer should clarify the profit(s) to the undertaking of efficiency on the worldwide department campus, and justify why the undertaking 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 immediately related to instructional or analysis actions.
See beneath for Paul G. Allen Household Basis eligibility.

Who Could 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:

There aren’t any restrictions or limits.

Further Eligibility Data:

Paul G. Allen Household Basis Eligibility: Eligible entities who can function conservation motion companions and obtain an award from the inspiration embrace: Nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3), U.S. organizations; Models of state or native authorities; State faculties or universities; or federally acknowledged tribal communities or tribes. All supported organizations should evaluation and comply with the Paul G. Allen Household Basis Grantee Code of Conduct discovered right here: https://pgafamilyfoundation.org/_ui/img/pgafoundation/Grantee_Code_of_Conduct.pdf. Eligible establishments don’t embrace overseas organizations.

V. PROPOSAL PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

A. Proposal Preparation Directions

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

Full Proposals submitted through Analysis.gov: Proposals submitted in response to this program solicitation must 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 must be ready and submitted in accordance with the NSF Grants.gov Software Information: A Information for the Preparation and Submission of NSF Functions 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 website, then click on on the Apply Step 1: Obtain a Grant Software Bundle and Software Directions hyperlink and enter the funding alternative quantity, (this system solicitation quantity with out the NSF prefix) and press the Obtain Bundle button. Paper copies of the Grants.gov Software Information additionally could also be obtained from the NSF Publications Clearinghouse, phone (703) 292-8134 or by e-mail from [email protected].

In figuring out which technique to make the most of within the digital preparation and submission of the proposal, please be aware the next:

Collaborative Proposals. All collaborative proposals submitted as separate submissions from a number of organizations have to be submitted through Analysis.gov. PAPPG Chapter II.E.3 supplies further info on collaborative proposals.

See PAPPG Chapter II.D.2 for steering on the required sections of a full analysis proposal submitted to NSF. Please be aware that the proposal preparation directions supplied on this program solicitation might deviate from the PAPPG directions.

The Undertaking Description ought to observe the PAPPG (II.D.2.d) steering. The Undertaking Description is restricted to fifteen pages. Along with the reporting requirement format described by the PAPPG (see Outcomes from Prior NSF Help, II.D.2.d.iii), the Outcomes from Prior NSF Help part should embrace proof of deposition of samples, knowledge and/or knowledge merchandise in acknowledged, accessible, community-accepted repositories by itemizing such repositories and, if sensible, metadata. All publications, knowledge, knowledge merchandise, applications and/or scripts which are particularly talked about within the Outcomes from Prior NSF Help part have to be referenced within the References Cited part and should present distinctive, resolvable, and protracted identifiers (comparable to Digital Object Identifiers [DOIs]; Uniform Useful resource Locators [URLs], or comparable).

Undertaking Descriptions should embrace the next sections and headers (indicated in daring).

Mental Advantage – This portion of the outline, as detailed within the PAPPG, will function the mental contributions of the proposed analysis components. It should embrace a bit with the subheading Proof-based Conservation Planning, which describes how the analysis elements of the initiatives will inform the conservation motion plan and units aims that may be evaluated to tell biodiversity conservation efficacy and the underlying science.

Broader Impacts – This portion of the outline, as detailed within the PAPPG, will talk about the assorted broader impacts of the undertaking and should particularly embrace sections with the subheading Conservation Motion Plan, which articulates the deliberate conservation intervention, and Plan Evaluation, which particulars the plan to evaluate in an ongoing or periodic method the diploma to which the Conservation Motion Plan is assembly its objectives and inform the elemental science on which it’s primarily based.

Lastly, the Undertaking Description should additionally embrace a bit entitled Undertaking Administration that particulars how the personnel and partnering organizations will work collectively to attain the objectives of the undertaking. The proposed administration construction should clearly guarantee deliberate actions combine throughout the elemental analysis and conservation implementation elements of the undertaking and have interaction each events within the evidence-based conservation planning. It also needs to deal with how trainees concerned within the undertaking might be engaged to guarantee they’ve alternatives to work throughout the academic-conservation practitioner boundary. This part ought to describe the precise duties every member of the analysis group is anticipated to supervise. The Undertaking Administration part should additionally embrace a Undertaking Timeline that specifies undertaking progress and, specifically, when particular undertaking aims are anticipated to be met.

TOOLS Monitor initiatives – Please preface the descriptive title with PACSP TOOLS:. For this monitor, the Proof-based Conservation Planning part ought to embrace the rationale for the proposed device software and potential to enhance on current expertise the place applicable, the Conservation Motion Plan ought to element how the device might be applied in a conservation context, and the Plan Evaluation part ought to element a plan to guage the efficacy of the device to fulfill conservation objectives, together with comparability to current applied sciences the place applicable.

Price range – The funds and funds justification submitted ought to conform to PAPPG steering and solely be for the analysis portion of the proposed undertaking that might be funded by NSF. The funds and justification for the conservation accomplice should use the identical format because the NSF funds and have to be submitted as a supplementary doc (see beneath).

Supplementary Paperwork:

1) Knowledge Administration and Sharing Plan (most 2 pages). The PAPPG (II.D.2.i) requires the inclusion of an information administration and sharing plan with all full proposal submissions. The Directorate for Organic Sciences supplies further context and steering to PIs right here: https://www.nsf.gov/bio/biodmp.jsp.

2) Secure and Inclusive Fieldwork (SAIF) Plan (most 2 pages). All proposals submitted to this solicitation that embrace analysis that might be carried out off-campus or off-site should submit a plan for secure and inclusive fieldwork as a supplemental doc that might be thought-about underneath the broader impacts evaluation criterion. This supplemental doc is in lieu of the required plan related to the certification known as for in Chapter II.E.9 of the PAPPG. Extra info concerning evaluation of the plan is supplied underneath Solicitation Particular Evaluate Standards.

It’s NSF coverage to foster secure and harassment-free environments wherever science is carried out. Work carried out off-campus or off-site must 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 individuals.

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

a short 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 ascertain shared group definitions of roles, tasks, and tradition, e.g., codes of conduct, trainings, mentor/mentee mechanisms and subject 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 particular person 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.

3) Conservation Associate Price range. The conservation apply portion of the funds, to be funded by the Paul G. Allen Household Basis, have to be submitted as a supplemental doc utilizing the NSF funds kind, and embrace a funds justification as detailed within the PAPPG; it shouldn’t be calculated or submitted as part of the NSF funded portion of the proposal. No oblique prices could be included in conservation accomplice budgets, all undertaking prices, together with these for undertaking infrastructure, have to be particularly included as direct prices; oblique prices is not going to be supported by the Paul G. Allen Household Basis.

Single Copy Doc:

1) Proof of Conservation Associate Eligibility. Proof of 501(c)(3) tax standing by offering Tax ID Quantity and Tax Classification. If the proposer is a unit of state or native authorities, a letter must be included confirming this truth. The proposer also needs to embrace a press release that the proposer has reviewed the Paul G. Allen Household Basis Grantee Code of Conduct and that verifies their compliance with such code. The Paul G. Allen Household Basis code of conduct is discovered right here: https://pgafamilyfoundation.org/_ui/img/pgafoundation/Grantee_Code_of_Conduct.pdf.

Senior Personnel Listing Spreadsheet. An extra spreadsheet itemizing all senior personnel concerned within the undertaking have to be submitted. This spreadsheet is separate from the collaborators and different affiliations (COA) info required for Senior/Key personnel. 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 info 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 conservation group collaborators. Just one spreadsheet must be submitted per undertaking. 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 must be submitted by e mail to [email protected] inside one enterprise day of proposal submission.

B. Budgetary Info

Price Sharing:

Inclusion of voluntary dedicated value sharing is prohibited.

Different Budgetary Limitations:

Budgets submitted to assist conservation motion companions, to be supported by the Paul G. Allen Household Basis, ought to embrace no oblique prices. Oblique prices are usually not eligible for assist on these budgets.

Price range Preparation Directions:

Budgets, each the NSF and the inspiration, ought to embrace funds for key personnel to attend 1 in particular person PI assembly on the NSF in 12 months 3 of the undertaking. PIs are inspired to offer a funds reflecting the equally balanced roles the educational and conservation companions ought to play within the undertaking.

C. Due Dates

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

April 24, 2024

December 19, 2024

Third Thursday in December, Yearly Thereafter

D. Analysis.gov/Grants.gov Necessities

For Proposals Submitted Through Analysis.gov:

To arrange and submit a proposal through Analysis.gov, see detailed technical directions obtainable 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 person assist, name the Analysis.gov Assist Desk at 1-800-381-1532 or e-mail [email protected]. The Analysis.gov Assist Desk solutions normal technical questions associated to using the Analysis.gov system. Particular questions associated to this program solicitation must be referred to the NSF program employees contact(s) listed in Part VIII of this funding alternative.

For Proposals Submitted Through Grants.gov:

Earlier than utilizing Grants.gov for the primary time, every group should register to create an institutional profile. As soon as registered, the applicant’s group can then apply for any federal grant on the Grants.gov web site. Complete details about utilizing Grants.gov is offered on the Grants.gov Applicant Assets webpage: https://www.grants.gov/net/grants/candidates.html. As well as, the NSF Grants.gov Software Information (see hyperlink in Part V.A) supplies directions concerning the technical preparation of proposals through Grants.gov. For Grants.gov person assist, contact the Grants.gov Contact Heart at 1-800-518-4726 or by e mail: [email protected]. The Grants.gov Contact Heart solutions normal technical questions associated to using Grants.gov. Particular questions associated to this program solicitation must 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 applying to Grants.gov and confirm the specified funding alternative and company to which the applying is submitted. The AOR should then signal and submit the applying to Grants.gov. The finished software might be transferred to Analysis.gov for additional processing.

The NSF Grants.gov Proposal Processing in Analysis.gov informational web page supplies submission steering to candidates and hyperlinks to useful sources together with the NSF Grants.gov Software Information, Grants.gov Proposal Processing in Analysis.gov how-to information, and Grants.gov Submitted Proposals Regularly Requested Questions. Grants.gov proposals should cross all NSF pre-check and post-check validations with a purpose to be accepted by Analysis.gov at NSF.

When submitting through Grants.gov, NSF strongly recommends candidates provoke proposal submission at the least 5 enterprise days prematurely of a deadline to permit sufficient time to deal with NSF compliance errors and resubmissions by 5:00 p.m. submitting group’s native time on the deadline. Please be aware that some errors can’t be corrected in Grants.gov. As soon as a proposal passes pre-checks however fails any post-check, an applicant can solely appropriate and submit the in-progress proposal in Analysis.gov.

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 examine the standing of an software on Grants.gov. After proposers have acquired an e-mail notification from NSF, Analysis.gov must be used to examine 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 evaluation. 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 evaluation course of. Proposers are invited to recommend names of individuals they consider are particularly properly certified to evaluation the proposal and/or individuals they would like not evaluation the proposal. These solutions might function one supply within the reviewer choice course of on the Program Officer’s discretion. Submission of such names, nonetheless, is non-compulsory. Care is taken to make sure that reviewers haven’t any conflicts of curiosity with the proposal. As well as, Program Officers might get hold of feedback from website visits earlier than recommending closing motion on proposals. Senior NSF employees additional evaluation 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 evaluation course of is offered on the NSF web site at: https://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/coverage/merit_review/.

Proposers also needs to pay attention to core methods which are important to the achievement of NSF’s mission, as articulated in Main the World in Discovery and Innovation, STEM Expertise Growth and the Supply of Advantages from Analysis – NSF Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years (FY) 2022 – 2026. These methods are built-in in this system planning and implementation course of, of which proposal evaluation is one half. NSF’s mission is especially well-implemented by the combination of analysis and schooling and broadening participation in NSF applications, initiatives, and actions.

One of many strategic aims in assist of NSF’s mission is to foster integration of analysis and schooling by the applications, initiatives, and actions it helps at educational and analysis establishments. These establishments should recruit, practice, and put together a various STEM workforce to advance the frontiers of science and take part within the U.S. technology-based financial system. NSF’s contribution to the nationwide innovation ecosystem is to offer cutting-edge analysis underneath the steering of the Nation’s most inventive scientists and engineers. NSF additionally helps improvement of a robust science, expertise, engineering, and arithmetic (STEM) workforce by investing in constructing the data that informs enhancements in STEM educating 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 applications, initiatives, and actions it considers and helps.

A. Advantage Evaluate Ideas and Standards

The Nationwide Science Basis strives to spend money on a sturdy and various portfolio of initiatives that creates new data and allows breakthroughs in understanding throughout all areas of science and engineering analysis and schooling. To determine which initiatives to assist, NSF depends on a benefit evaluation course of that includes consideration of each the technical facets of a proposed undertaking 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 evaluation course of for the choice of initiatives.

1. Advantage Evaluate Ideas

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

All NSF initiatives must be of the best high quality and have the potential to advance, if not rework, the frontiers of information.
NSF initiatives, within the combination, ought to contribute extra broadly to reaching societal objectives. These “Broader Impacts” could also be completed by the analysis itself, by actions which are immediately associated to particular analysis initiatives, or by actions which are supported by, however are complementary to, the undertaking. The undertaking actions could also be primarily based on beforehand established and/or revolutionary strategies and approaches, however in both case have to be properly justified.
Significant evaluation and analysis of NSF funded initiatives must be primarily based on applicable metrics, maintaining in thoughts the seemingly correlation between the impact of broader impacts and the sources supplied to implement initiatives. If the scale of the exercise is restricted, analysis of that exercise in isolation just isn’t more likely to be significant. Thus, assessing the effectiveness of those actions might finest be completed at the next, extra aggregated, degree than the person undertaking.

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

2. Advantage Evaluate Standards

All NSF proposals are evaluated by use of the 2 Nationwide Science Board authorised benefit evaluation standards. In some cases, nonetheless, NSF will make use of further standards as required to spotlight the precise aims of sure applications and actions.

The 2 benefit evaluation standards are listed beneath. Each standards are to be given full consideration in the course of the evaluation and decision-making processes; every criterion is important however neither, by itself, is ample. Due to this fact, proposers should totally deal with each standards. (PAPPG Chapter II.D.2.d(i). comprises further info to be used by proposers in improvement of the Undertaking Description part of the proposal). Reviewers are strongly inspired to evaluation the factors, together with PAPPG Chapter II.D.2.d(i), previous to the evaluation of a proposal.

When evaluating NSF proposals, reviewers might be requested to think about what the proposers wish to do, why they wish to do it, how they plan to do it, how they are going to know in the event that they succeed, and what advantages might accrue if the undertaking is profitable. These points apply each to the technical facets of the proposal and the way in which wherein the undertaking might make broader contributions. To that finish, reviewers might be requested to guage all proposals in opposition to two standards:

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

The next components must be thought-about within the evaluation for each standards:

What’s the potential for the proposed exercise to

Advance data and understanding inside its personal subject or throughout totally different fields (Mental Advantage); and
Profit society or advance desired societal outcomes (Broader Impacts)?

To what extent do the proposed actions recommend and discover inventive, authentic, 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 properly certified is the person, group, or group to conduct the proposed actions?
Are there sufficient sources obtainable to the PI (both on the residence group or by collaborations) to hold out the proposed actions?

Broader impacts could also be completed by the analysis itself, by the actions which are immediately associated to particular analysis initiatives, or by actions which are supported by, however are complementary to, the undertaking. NSF values the development of scientific data and actions that contribute to achievement of societally related outcomes. Such outcomes embrace, however are usually not restricted to: full participation of ladies, individuals with disabilities, and different underrepresented teams in science, expertise, engineering, and arithmetic (STEM); improved STEM schooling and educator improvement at any degree; elevated public scientific literacy and public engagement with science and expertise; improved well-being of people in society; improvement of a various, globally aggressive STEM workforce; elevated partnerships between academia, trade, and others; improved nationwide safety; elevated financial competitiveness of the US; and enhanced infrastructure for analysis and schooling.

Proposers are reminded that reviewers may also be requested to evaluation the Knowledge Administration Plan and the Postdoctoral Researcher Mentoring Plan, as applicable.

Further Solicitation Particular Evaluate Standards

Along with the usual NSF evaluation standards, reviewers might be requested to think about the next questions for PACSP proposals:

1. To what diploma does the proposal describe an overarching conservation related query and science-informed conservation motion geared toward advancing biodiversity conservation?

2. How properly built-in is the strategy and to what diploma will the outcomes of primary analysis immediately inform the design or implementation of science-focused conservation actions?

3. How properly will the proposed evaluation/analysis actions inform the efficacy of the conservation motion plan to fulfill conservation objectives and inform primary understanding?

Reviewers might be instructed to guage the Plan for Secure and Inclusive Fieldwork inside the Broader Impacts evaluation criterion, particularly:

Is there a compelling plan (together with the procedures, trainings, and communication processes) to ascertain, nurture, and keep inclusive off-campus or off-site working atmosphere(s)?
Does the proposed plan determine 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?

B. Evaluate and Choice Course of

NSF will handle the evaluation of proposals in session with the Paul G. Allen Household Basis. Copies of proposals and unattributed critiques might be shared with the accomplice funding group, as applicable.

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

Reviewers might be requested to guage proposals utilizing two Nationwide Science Board authorised benefit evaluation standards and, if relevant, further program particular standards. A abstract ranking and accompanying narrative will usually be accomplished and submitted by every reviewer and/or panel. The Program Officer assigned to handle the proposal’s evaluation will contemplate the recommendation of reviewers and can formulate a suggestion.

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 evaluation and consideration of applicable elements, the NSF Program Officer recommends to the cognizant Division Director whether or not the proposal must be declined or really useful for award. NSF strives to have the ability to inform candidates whether or not their proposals have been declined or really useful for funding inside six months. Giant or significantly advanced proposals or proposals from new awardees might require further evaluation and processing time. The time interval begins on the deadline or goal date, or receipt date, whichever is later. The interval ends when the Division Director acts upon the Program Officer’s suggestion.

After programmatic approval has been obtained, the proposals really useful for funding might be forwarded to the Division of Grants and Agreements or the Division of Acquisition and Cooperative Help for evaluation of enterprise, monetary, and coverage implications. After an administrative evaluation has occurred, Grants and Agreements Officers carry out the processing and issuance of a grant or different settlement. Proposers are cautioned that solely a Grants and Agreements Officer might make commitments, obligations or awards on behalf of NSF or authorize the expenditure of funds. No dedication on the a part of NSF must be inferred from technical or budgetary discussions with a NSF Program Officer. A Principal Investigator or group that makes monetary or personnel commitments within the absence of a grant or cooperative settlement signed by the NSF Grants and Agreements Officer does so at their very own danger.

As soon as an award or declination resolution has been made, Principal Investigators are supplied suggestions about their proposals. In all circumstances, critiques are handled as confidential paperwork. Verbatim copies of critiques, excluding the names of the reviewers or any reviewer-identifying info, are despatched to the Principal Investigator/Undertaking Director by the Program Officer. As well as, the proposer will obtain an evidence of the choice to award or decline funding.

Paul G. Allen Household Basis (the inspiration) Course of: The conservation part of the initiatives really useful for funding might be awarded by the inspiration in accordance with its insurance policies and phrases and situations. The supplementary doc detailing the conservation accomplice’s funds and funds justification might be transferred to the inspiration.

VII. AWARD ADMINISTRATION INFORMATION

A. Notification of the Award

Notification of the award is made to the submitting group by an NSF Grants and Agreements Officer. Organizations whose proposals are declined might be suggested as promptly as doable by the cognizant NSF Program administering this system. Verbatim copies of critiques, not together with the id of the reviewer, might be supplied robotically to the Principal Investigator. (See Part VI.B. for extra info on the evaluation course of.)

B. Award Circumstances

An NSF award consists of: (1) the award discover, which incorporates any particular provisions relevant to the award and any numbered amendments thereto; (2) the funds, which signifies the quantities, by classes of expense, on which NSF has primarily based its assist (or in any other case communicates any particular approvals or disapprovals of proposed expenditures); (3) the proposal referenced within the award discover; (4) the relevant award situations, comparable to Grant Basic Circumstances (GC-1)*; or Analysis Phrases and Circumstances* 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 Circumstances (CA-FATC) and the relevant Programmatic Phrases and Circumstances. 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 info on NSF Award Circumstances and different necessary info on the administration of NSF awards is contained within the NSF Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information (PAPPG) Chapter VII, obtainable 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 manager department to make use of phrases and situations of Federal monetary help awards to maximise, in line with regulation, using items, merchandise, and supplies produced in, and companies provided in, the US.

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 obtainable by this funding alternative could also be obligated for an award except all iron, metal, manufactured merchandise, and building supplies used within the undertaking are produced in the US. For extra info, go to NSF’s Construct America, Purchase America webpage.

C. Reporting Necessities

For all multi-year grants (together with each normal and persevering with grants), the Principal Investigator should submit an annual undertaking report back to the cognizant Program Officer no later than 90 days previous to the top of the present funds interval. (Some applications or awards require submission of extra frequent undertaking studies). No later than 120 days following expiration of a grant, the PI is also required to submit a closing undertaking report, and a undertaking outcomes report for most people.

Failure to offer the required annual or closing undertaking studies, or the undertaking outcomes report, will delay NSF evaluation and processing of any future funding increments in addition to any pending proposals for all recognized PIs and co-PIs on a given award. PIs ought to study the codecs of the required studies prematurely to guarantee availability of required knowledge.

PIs are required to make use of NSF’s digital project-reporting system, obtainable by Analysis.gov, for preparation and submission of annual and closing undertaking studies. Such studies present info on accomplishments, undertaking individuals (particular person and organizational), publications, and different particular merchandise and impacts of the undertaking. Submission of the report through Analysis.gov constitutes certification by the PI that the contents of the report are correct and full. The undertaking outcomes report additionally have to be ready and submitted utilizing Analysis.gov. This report serves as a short abstract, ready particularly for the general public, of the character and outcomes of the undertaking. This report might be posted on the NSF web site precisely as it’s submitted by the PI.

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

VIII. AGENCY CONTACTS

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

Basic inquiries concerning this program must be made to:

For questions associated to using NSF programs 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 Heart: 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 supplies essentially the most complete supply of data on NSF Directorates (together with contact info), applications and funding alternatives. Use of this web site by potential proposers is strongly inspired. As well as, “NSF Replace” is an information-delivery system designed to maintain potential proposers and different events apprised of 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 person’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 supplies an extra digital functionality to seek for Federal government-wide grant alternatives. NSF funding alternatives could also be accessed through this mechanism. Additional info on Grants.gov could also be obtained at https://www.grants.gov.

ABOUT THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

The Nationwide Science Basis (NSF) is an impartial Federal company created by the Nationwide Science Basis Act of 1950, as amended (42 USC 1861-75). The Act states the aim of the NSF is “to advertise the progress of science; [and] to advance the nationwide well being, prosperity, and welfare by supporting analysis and 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, Okay-12 college programs, 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 primary analysis.

NSF receives roughly 55,000 proposals every year for analysis, schooling and coaching initiatives, of which roughly 11,000 are funded. As well as, the Basis receives a number of thousand purposes for graduate and postdoctoral fellowships. The company operates no laboratories itself however does assist Nationwide Analysis Facilities, person 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 gear to allow individuals with disabilities to work on NSF-supported initiatives. See the NSF Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information Chapter II.F.7 for directions concerning preparation of these kinds of proposals.

The Nationwide Science Basis has Telephonic Gadget for the Deaf (TDD) and Federal Info Relay Service (FIRS) capabilities that allow people with listening to impairments to speak with the Basis about NSF applications, employment or normal info. TDD could also be accessed at (703) 292-5090 and (800) 281-8749, FIRS at (800) 877-8339.

The Nationwide Science Basis Info Heart could also be reached at (703) 292-5111.

The Nationwide Science Basis promotes and advances scientific progress in the US by competitively awarding grants and cooperative agreements for analysis and schooling within the sciences, arithmetic, and engineering.

To get the newest 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 Info(NSF Info Heart):

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(703) 292-5090

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 kinds and undertaking studies is solicited underneath the authority of the Nationwide Science Basis Act of 1950, as amended. The data on proposal kinds might be utilized in reference to the choice of certified proposals; and undertaking studies submitted by proposers 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 evaluation course of; to proposer establishments/grantees to offer or get hold of knowledge concerning the proposal evaluation course of, award selections, or the administration of awards; to authorities contractors, consultants, volunteers and researchers and educators as essential to finish assigned work; to different authorities businesses or different entities needing info concerning proposers or nominees as a part of a joint software evaluation course of, or with a purpose to coordinate applications or coverage; and to a different Federal company, courtroom, or social gathering 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 Document 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 offer full and full info, nonetheless, might scale back the opportunity of receiving an award.

An company might not conduct or sponsor, and an individual just isn’t required to reply to, an info assortment except it shows a sound Workplace of Administration and Price range (OMB) management quantity. The OMB management quantity for this assortment is 3145-0058. Public reporting burden for this assortment of data is estimated to common 120 hours per response, together with the time for reviewing directions. Ship feedback concerning the burden estimate and every other side of this assortment of data, together with solutions for lowering this burden, to:

Suzanne H. Plimpton
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