Sustainable Regional Systems Research Networks (SRS RNs)

Nationwide Science Basis

Directorate for Engineering

Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Financial Sciences

Directorate for Organic Sciences

Directorate for STEM Schooling

Directorate for Geosciences

Directorate for Mathematical and Bodily Sciences

Directorate for Expertise, Innovation and Partnerships

Workplace of Integrative Actions

Workplace of Worldwide Science and Engineering

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

     Might 15, 2024

Necessary Data And Revision Notes

There is no such thing as a longer an choice for Planning Grants. This solicitation will fund Analysis Community proposals for as much as $15 million and 5-year length.

Individually submitted collaborative proposals are actually an choice for this solicitation.

The Directorate for Expertise, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) is now collaborating within the SRS RNs solicitation.

The Directorate for Laptop and Data Science and Engineering (CISE) is now not collaborating within the SRS RNs solicitation. Subjects related to CISE are nonetheless inspired in proposals.

The “Variety and Tradition of Inclusion” part has been modified to the “Variety, Fairness, Inclusion, and Entry (DEIA)” part and clarification has been added that “elements of the DEIA part could also be a spotlight of the SRS analysis as a part of the Analysis Community actions”.

A “Social Sustainability” part has been added to handle “the historic context of the area” and to incorporate “communities most in danger or weak as lead individuals in sustainability and resilience analysis to scale back vulnerability to present and future social-environmental-technological points.”

The “Schooling and Schooling Analysis” part has been modified to the “Schooling and Schooling Analysis” part. Clarification on what schooling analysis is has been added.

The “improvement of latest instruments and methods to allow individuals with disabilities to carry out analysis on sustainable rural and concrete techniques” has been added to this system description.

An emphasis has been added to contemplate optimistic and damaging environmental analysis impacts.

An emphasis has been added on together with different methods of understanding, resembling Indigenous Data.

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 recurrently 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.

Abstract Of Program Necessities

Basic Data

Program Title:

Sustainable Regional Programs Analysis Networks (SRS RNs)

Synopsis of Program:

America is made up of regional techniques comprising interdependent city and rural techniques and each group class between city and rural. City techniques and rural techniques are interdependent for the provisioning of meals, vitality sources, water, different supplies and pure sources, markets, manufactured items, and medical sources. These techniques are additionally related by ecological processes that each affect and are influenced by human conduct. The very important interconnection of urban-rural techniques underscores the crucial want for the development of sustainable regional techniques (SRS). The purpose of this solicitation is to fund convergent analysis and schooling that can advance sustainable regional techniques science, engineering, and schooling to facilitate the transformation of present regional techniques to boost sustainability. To additional the development of SRS science, engineering, and schooling, NSF will help proposals for Sustainable Regional Programs Analysis Networks (SRS RNs).

Sustainable regional techniques are related city and rural techniques which might be reworking their constructions and processes collaboratively with the purpose of measurably and equitably advancing the well-being of individuals and the planet. The aim of the SRS RNs competitors is to develop and help interdisciplinary, multi-organizational groups working collaboratively to supply cutting-edge convergent analysis, schooling, and outreach that addresses grand challenges in sustainable regional techniques. SRS RNs will examine multi-scale regional techniques to additional SRS science, engineering, and schooling. Key parts will embrace new knowledge, strategies, and fashions to know interactions between pure, human-built, and social techniques; improved understanding of interdependencies, mutual advantages, and trade-offs of various wellbeing outcomes for people and the setting; new and generalizable theories of change related to SRS; the co-production of data; and exploration of ideas of social fairness in sustainable regional techniques throughout spatial and temporal scales. SRS RN outcomes may have the potential to tell societal actions for sustainability throughout city techniques and the related rural communities that make up regional techniques.

Topic to availability of funds and high quality of proposals, this SRS RN solicitation will help:

SRS RN Awards. These awards will help basic convergent analysis, schooling, and outreach that addresses engineering, chemistry, biology, geosciences, arithmetic, statistics, environmental, knowledge, computational, schooling, and social, behavioral, and financial sciences of sustainable regional techniques in partnerships which will embrace universities, schools, federal, state, and native governments, tribal communities, non-governmental and worldwide our bodies, non-profit organizations, business, practitioners, and different group teams. The award measurement is as much as $15 million complete with a length of 5 years.

SRS RNs will conduct revolutionary and pioneering basic analysis and schooling that’s of a scale and complexity that might not be potential inside a single group, heart, or by means of the conventional collaborative modes of NSF analysis help in core applications.

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.

Bruce Ok. Hamilton, Program Director, Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Programs, phone: (703) 292-7066, electronic mail: [email protected]
Thomas Evans, Program Director, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, phone: (703) 292-4891, electronic mail: [email protected]
Laura Lautz, Program Director, Division of Earth Sciences, phone: (703) 292-7775, electronic mail: [email protected]
Robyn Smyth, Program Director, Division of Environmental Biology, phone: (703) 292-2996, electronic mail: [email protected]
Anne-Marie Schmoltner, Program Director, Division of Chemistry, phone: (703) 292-4716, electronic mail: [email protected]
Fengfeng Ke, Program Director, Division of Analysis on Studying in Formal and Casual Settings, phone: (703) 292-2411, electronic mail: [email protected]
Rajesh V. Mehta, Program Director, Division of Translational Impacts, phone: (703) 292-2174, electronic mail: [email protected]
Keith Chanon, Program Director, Workplace of Worldwide Science and Engineering, phone: (703) 292-7305, electronic mail: [email protected]
Hongmei Luo, Program Director, Workplace of Integrative Actions, phone: (703) 292-8867, electronic mail: [email protected]

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

47.041 — Engineering
47.049 — Mathematical and Bodily Sciences
47.050 — Geosciences
47.074 — Organic Sciences
47.075 — Social Behavioral and Financial Sciences
47.076 — STEM Schooling
47.079 — Workplace of Worldwide Science and Engineering
47.083 — Workplace of Integrative Actions (OIA)
47.084 — NSF Expertise, Innovation and Partnerships

Award Data

Anticipated Sort of Award:Cooperative Settlement

Estimated Variety of Awards: 1 to 2

1 to 2 as cooperative agreements

The variety of awards depends upon the proposals acquired and the diploma to which proposals meet the solicitation objectives, NSF benefit assessment standards, and solicitation-specific assessment standards, in addition to availability of funds.

Anticipated Funding Quantity: $30,000,000

$30,000,000, relying upon availability of funds.

Eligibility Data

Who Might Submit Proposals:

Proposals might solely be submitted by the next:

Who Might Function PI:

People from the next forms of organizations can take part, together with as co-PIs or Senior Personnel (however not the PI), as follows:

Different Federal Businesses: Researchers or individuals from different Federal companies or Federally Funded Analysis and Improvement Facilities (FFRDCs) could also be supported by subawards or take part as unfunded collaborators. A letter of collaboration is required for non-NSF sponsored FFRDCs and different Federal companies.
State and Native Governments: People from state academic places of work or organizations and native college districts could also be supported by subawards or take part as unfunded collaborators. A letter of collaboration from their group is required.
Scientists, engineers or educators within the U.S. who’re U.S. residents could also be supported by subawards or take part as unfunded collaborators. A letter of collaboration is required.

Restrict on Variety of Proposals per Group:

There aren’t any restrictions or limits.

Restrict on Variety of Proposals per PI or co-PI: 1

No a couple of.

A person might seem as PI, co-PI, or Senior Personnel on no a couple of proposal.

If a person exceeds the one-proposal restrict, the primary proposal acquired inside the restrict will likely be accepted based mostly on earliest date and time of proposal submission, and the rest will likely be returned with out assessment. This limitation consists of proposals submitted by a lead group and any subawards involving a number of organizations. No exceptions will likely be made.

Proposal Preparation and Submission Directions

A. Proposal Preparation Directions

Letters of Intent: Not required

Preliminary Proposal Submission: Not required

Full Proposals:

B. Budgetary Data

C. Due Dates

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

     Might 15, 2024

Proposal Assessment Data Standards

Advantage Assessment Standards:

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

Award Administration Data

Award Situations:

Further award situations apply. Please see the complete textual content of this solicitation for additional info.

Reporting Necessities:

Normal NSF reporting necessities apply.

Desk 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 Assessment Procedures
Advantage Assessment Rules and Standards
Assessment and Choice Course of

Award Administration Data
Notification of the Award
Award Situations
Reporting Necessities

Company Contacts
Different Data

I. Introduction

Sustainable Regional Programs (SRS) are related city and rural techniques, together with all techniques in between, designed with the purpose of measurably advancing the equitable well-being of individuals and the planet. Greater than half the world’s inhabitants lives in city facilities, within the U.S., over 70% of the inhabitants lives in city facilities. Inhabitants progress is predicted so as to add 100 million new inhabitants to U.S. cities by 2050 1. The rise of city inhabitants is prone to change and probably pressure the networks of related communities that exist throughout the U.S. and the world. As city techniques and their connections to rural areas develop, it’s crucial that present and future social, engineered, and pure techniques and infrastructure are maintained, deliberate, and carried out to adapt to this improve in inhabitants.

NSF’s Advisory Committee for Environmental Analysis and Schooling (AC-ERE) accomplished the report entitled “Sustainable City Programs: Articulating a Lengthy-Time period Convergence Analysis Agenda” in January 2018 (see https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/2022-12/Sustainable-urban-systems-508c.pdf?VersionId=M0OsHkQd7DX2Il8lBgKKYKJcx7p8Ldxt), in recognition of the growing inhabitants pattern in city techniques. The AC-ERE report outlined city techniques as geographical areas with a excessive focus of human exercise and interactions, embedded inside multi-scale interdependent social, engineered, and pure techniques. These techniques have an effect on human and planetary well-being throughout spatial (native to international) and temporal scales. As inhabitants progress continues, the dependence of city techniques on related rural techniques additionally continues to extend together with interdependencies of regional techniques on different techniques throughout the globe, resembling international provide chains and communication networks. Rural techniques, in distinction to city techniques, are any settlements with inhabitants, housing, financial exercise, or areas NOT in an city geographical space. City techniques are embedded in and interdependent on surrounding rural techniques. Likewise, rural communities are interdependent upon related city facilities. Networks of city, rural, and all techniques in between, make up a dynamic, symbiotic system with complicated social and bodily interactions. To help a affluent, sustainable, economically aggressive, and resilient regional system, the complicated variables and smaller techniques which might be working inside and throughout these communities should be thought-about.

In response to the AC-ERE report (2018), NSF issued a name for convention proposals that resulted in 27 convention awards. The convention award abstracts and reviews will be discovered at: https://new.nsf.gov/oia/advisory-committee-environmental-research/communities-in-the-Twenty first-century/sus-conference-and-workshop-awards These reviews state that the examine of multi-scale regional techniques within the context of a number of sustainability objectives is crucial to creating the science of sustainable regional techniques.

To additional develop SRS science, engineering, and schooling, NSF issued a solicitation in January 2021 calling for Full Scale proposals and Planning Grant Proposals for Sustainable Regional Programs Analysis Networks (SRS RN). Because of that solicitation, two Full Scale initiatives and 21 Planning Grants had been awarded. Data on these awards is out there at https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/advancedSearchResult?ProgEleCode=159Y&BooleanElement=Any&BooleanRef=Any&ActiveAwards=true&#outcomes (publicly posted award abstracts).

The aim of this second SRS RN competitors is to help extra interdisciplinary, multi-organizational groups. Groups will work collaboratively to supply cutting-edge convergent analysis and schooling that can inform societal actions for future environmental, financial, and social sustainability, addressing grand challenges in sustainable regional techniques.

1 Cutter, S. L., W. Solecki, N. Bragado, J. Carmin, M. Fragkias, M. Ruth, and T. J. Wilbanks, 2014: Ch. 11: City Programs, Infrastructure, and Vulnerability. Local weather Change Impacts in america: The Third Nationwide Local weather Evaluation, J. M. Melillo, Terese (T.C.) Richmond, and G. W. Yohe, Eds., U.S. International Change Analysis Program, 282-296. https://nca2014.globalchange.gov/downloads.

II. Program Description

The purpose of this solicitation is to fund convergent research2 and schooling that can advance sustainable regional techniques science, engineering, and schooling to facilitate the transformation of present regional techniques to boost sustainability. Advancing SRS science, engineering, and schooling requires intentional integration throughout three scales from regional to international:

i. The examine of single city system/metropolitan area and its related rural techniques the place a number of sustainability outcomes are addressed from a multi-scale techniques perspective that connects houses, companies, and communities to regional and international techniques.

ii. The examine of a number of city techniques and their related rural techniques, exploring inter-relationships amongst networks of city and rural techniques, and figuring out urban-rural typologies for the examine of cohort teams and comparability teams.

iii. The examine of supra-aggregations of related urban-rural techniques, e.g., all urban-rural techniques in {an electrical} grid area, trans-boundary watershed, a nation, a world area, or the world, to evaluate the collective affect of urban-rural transformation on individuals and the planet.

Whereas all 3 of those scales (i-iii) embrace each city and rural techniques, it is very important be aware {that a} analysis undertaking doesn’t should have an equal emphasis on the city and rural techniques of examine, however moderately, a consideration of each that’s related to the analysis questions. A profitable analysis community doesn’t essentially should span all three (i-iii) scales. Inside every of those scales (i-iii), integration of the next seven key parts (A-G) might considerably advance SRS science:

A. Information and Strategies: New knowledge and strategies are wanted to know the present drivers and interactions amongst pure, engineered, and social and behavioral techniques in urban-rural areas as they affect a number of sustainability outcomes throughout scales.

B. Fairness:Experience and knowledge on finest practices when it comes to implementing methods that equitably maximize human well-being inside a regional system, with consideration of the historic context, are very important for creating sustainable regional techniques.

C. Generalizable Theories: Comparative, typology, and scalability research are wanted to develop generalizable theories throughout various urban-rural area sorts.

D. Modeling: The science to mannequin the way forward for SRS throughout scales must be superior.

E. Outcomes: New science is required to know the co-benefits and trade-offs amongst a number of outcomes for human and planetary wellbeing throughout spatial and temporal scales.

F. Accomplice engagement: Efficient participation by tribal and different communities, business teams, practitioner teams, and governments at a number of ranges must be established to leverage real-world experimentation that could be ongoing in lots of communities.

G. Theories of Change: New science is required to know the drivers of and levers for change in various urban-rural techniques, with a deal with integrative design, know-how innovation, sociotechnical transitions, schooling, workforce affect, and/or multi-level actors and governance.

The three scales (i-iii) famous above are envisioned to allow a holistic examine of regional to international SRS at totally different scales the place acceptable for a undertaking, whereas the seven key parts (A-G) might fill crucial analysis gaps and work to supply a strategic pathway to advance SRS, ranging from understanding the system, to designing change from a social-ecological-infrastructural perspective, and at last, to informing motion to positively change forecasts.

SRS RNs will conduct revolutionary and transformative basic analysis in sustainable regional techniques science, engineering, and schooling that could be conceptual, empirical, artificial, and/or computational in nature, and of a scale and complexity that might not be potential inside a single group, heart, and even by means of the conventional collaborative modes of NSF analysis help. The SRS RNs solicitation affords an avenue for collaborations inside the educational analysis and schooling establishments in live performance with non-profit, tribal, group, business, municipal, practitioner, and worldwide companions. Collaborations by means of SRS RNs will cross conventional disciplinary boundaries of engineering, chemistry, biology, geosciences, arithmetic, statistics, environmental, knowledge, computational, schooling, and social, behavioral, and financial sciences. SRS RNs might hyperlink present applications and create others to advance basic understanding that enhance predictions, applied sciences, insurance policies, and practices obligatory for reaching sustainability. Proposers might body their networks round points or subjects essential to the sustainability of regional techniques, e.g., clear vitality, sustainable chemistry, the way forward for work, wildland fires, city warmth islands, meals techniques, biodiversity, important ecosystem companies, public well being, transportation, or governance. Analysis should deal with recognized city and rural techniques that embrace carefully coupled areas past their boundaries.

The objectives of an SRS RN might embrace, however will not be restricted to the next concepts from the workshops held in 2019 (for workshop awards see https://new.nsf.gov/oia/advisory-committee-environmental-research/communities-in-the-Twenty first-century/sus-conference-and-workshop-awards:

Deeper improvement of linked social, ecological, and technological techniques (SETS)3 principle for sustainable regional techniques.
Improvement of latest methods to make use of pure setting linkages with the constructed setting to advertise and preserve sustainable regional techniques.
Improvement of latest theories about sustainable regional techniques that embody the urban-rural connection, for instance, theories in regards to the round financial system, human-technology interfaces, or social justice in such techniques.
Concepts for eradicating infrastructure boundaries to social fairness in sustainable rural and concrete techniques.
Improvement of latest instruments and methods to allow individuals with disabilities to carry out analysis on sustainable regional techniques.
Improvement of people-centric analysis and implementation practices to advertise sustainable regional techniques.
Improvement of latest theoretical and mechanistic understandings of organic techniques and their interactions inside regional system environments and the way these interactions can impart sustainability.
Improvement of generalizable empirical insights from analysis that spans massive temporal and spatial areas and generates basic data about how regional techniques perform and the way this functioning will be positively and sustainably altered.
Implementation of a nation-wide knowledge system for regional sustainability analysis.
Formation of a nationwide community centered on improvement of regional sustainability curricula that essentially incorporates the results on individuals, households, and workforce in these techniques, together with the social fairness and consideration of teams which were traditionally deprived.
Improvement of adaptation methods that, if carried out, might assist guarantee steady operation of companies, safety of human and environmental well being, and financial robustness in occasions of nationwide emergencies/crises that disrupt the common stream of individuals, items, and companies in addition to disruptions in bodily, technological, and social techniques.

Some examples embrace, however will not be restricted to, environmental and social impacts of unpolluted vitality sourcing and era in rural areas with main consumption in city areas, addressing the affect of the migration to distant work on the way forward for work, simply transitions, and regional sustainability, bettering sensing and chemical analytics, creating recyclable/upcyclable plastics, lowering vulnerabilities of chemical and materials provide chains whereas supporting wholesome environments, conserving biodiversity, or addressing the social and environmental components impacting wildland fireplace and exacerbated by housing improvement in rural areas and enlargement of city areas into the agricultural fringe.

Proposals should current compelling plans for implementing robust collaborations to advance use-inspired convergent analysis that has excessive potential for vital societal and sustainability impacts. Proposals should additionally describe plans for creating a deeper understanding of regional techniques as built-in social-environmental-technological techniques and to enhance schooling associated to SRS themes.

Proposals have to be interdisciplinary and multi-organizational and, subsequently, should establish partnerships drawn from a number of disciplines and organizations. Proposers are inspired to contemplate geographical range when acceptable for the subject when itemizing companions.

Topic to the supply of funds and high quality of proposals, this SRS RN solicitation will help SRS RN Awards:

SRS RN Awards. These awards will help convergent analysis and schooling that advances basic understanding of sustainable regional techniques. Importantly, initiatives ought to take into account the potential optimistic and damaging impacts of deliberate analysis outcomes in addition to impacts past the lifetime of the undertaking, together with the scalability and transferability of the proposed science, dissemination of analysis outcomes to resolution makers, and/or consideration of how analysis will likely be transitioned to full-scale implementation, if profitable. Funds requests should not be better than $15,000,000 complete and 5 years in length and should embrace funds for group members to attend an annual awardees convention.

SRS proposals should clearly outline the regional system(s) of examine, the assorted elements that make up the regional system(s) to be studied, the most important subjects that can body the networks, and the objectives of the undertaking that can result in a extra sustainable regional system or techniques. Vital anticipated outcomes must also be included within the proposal.

2 Convergent Analysis is outlined as analysis that could be a) pushed by a selected and compelling downside and b) requires deep integration throughout disciplines.

3 Markolf, S.A.; Chester, M. V.; Eisenberg, D.A.; Iwaniec, D.M.; Davidson, C.I.; Zimmerman, R.; Miller, T.R.; Ruddell, B.L.; Chang, H.; “Interdependent Infrastructure as Linked Social, Ecological, and Technological Programs (SETSs) to Deal with Lock-in and Improve Resilience”, Earth’s Future, 2018, 6, 1638-1659. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018EF000926.

III. Award Data

Anticipated Sort of Award: Cooperative Settlement

Estimated Variety of Awards: 1 to 2

The variety of awards depends upon the proposals acquired and the diploma to which proposals meet the solicitation objectives, NSF benefit assessment standards, and solicitation-specific assessment standards, in addition to availability of funds.

Anticipated Funding Quantity: $30,000,000, relying upon availability of funds.

Estimated program finances, variety of awards and common award measurement/length are topic to the supply of funds.

IV. Eligibility Data

Who Might Submit Proposals:

Proposals might solely be submitted by the next:

Who Might Function PI:

People from the next forms of organizations can take part, together with as co-PIs or Senior Personnel (however not the PI), as follows:

Different Federal Businesses: Researchers or individuals from different Federal companies or Federally Funded Analysis and Improvement Facilities (FFRDCs) could also be supported by subawards or take part as unfunded collaborators. A letter of collaboration is required for non-NSF sponsored FFRDCs and different Federal companies.
State and Native Governments: People from state academic places of work or organizations and native college districts could also be supported by subawards or take part as unfunded collaborators. A letter of collaboration from their group is required.
Scientists, engineers or educators within the U.S. who’re U.S. residents could also be supported by subawards or take part as unfunded collaborators. A letter of collaboration is required.

Restrict on Variety of Proposals per Group:

There aren’t any restrictions or limits.

Restrict on Variety of Proposals per PI or co-PI: 1

No a couple of.

A person might seem as PI, co-PI, or Senior Personnel on no a couple of proposal.

If a person exceeds the one-proposal restrict, the primary proposal acquired inside the restrict will likely be accepted based mostly on earliest date and time of proposal submission, and the rest will likely be returned with out assessment. This limitation consists of proposals submitted by a lead group and any subawards involving a number of organizations. No exceptions will likely be made.

Further Eligibility Data:

Proposals from minority-serving establishments, rising analysis establishments, and establishments in EPSCoR-eligible jurisdictions, together with collaborations between these establishments and people in non-EPSCoR jurisdictions, are inspired.

For cooperative initiatives involving U.S. and overseas organizations, help will solely be supplied for the U.S. portion. Researchers from a overseas group have to be listed within the Overview part of the Mission Abstract as “non-NSF funded collaborators”. A letter of collaboration from their group is required. As well as, if one of many personnel is a overseas collaborator(s) who does (do) not have already got funding, a letter of collaboration is required during which the overseas collaborator(s) should establish a degree of contact within the overseas funding company or companies that’s or are contemplating their proposal.

V. Proposal Preparation And Submission Directions

A. Proposal Preparation Directions

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

Full Proposals submitted by way of Analysis.gov: Proposals submitted in response to this program solicitation must be ready and submitted in accordance with the overall pointers contained within the NSF Proposal and Award Insurance policies and Procedures Information (PAPPG). The entire textual content of the PAPPG is out there electronically on the NSF web site at: https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pappg. Paper copies of the PAPPG could also be obtained from the NSF Publications Clearinghouse, phone (703) 292-8134 or by e-mail from [email protected]. The Put together New Proposal setup will immediate you for this system solicitation quantity.
Full proposals submitted by way of Grants.gov: Proposals submitted in response to this program solicitation by way of Grants.gov must be ready and submitted in accordance with the NSF Grants.gov Software Information: A Information for the Preparation and Submission of NSF Functions by way of Grants.gov. The entire textual content of the NSF Grants.gov Software Information is out there 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 Kinds Package deal, click on on the Apply tab on the Grants.gov web site, then click on on the Apply Step 1: Obtain a Grant Software Package deal and Software Directions hyperlink and enter the funding alternative quantity, (this system solicitation quantity with out the NSF prefix) and press the Obtain Package deal 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 methodology 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 by way of Analysis.gov. PAPPG Chapter II.E.3 supplies extra 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 next info SUPPLEMENTS (be aware that it does NOT exchange) the rules supplied within the PAPPG and NSF Grants.gov Software Information. See additionally Part II, Program Description, on this solicitation for extra steering.

A. Proposal Titles: All proposal titles ought to begin with “SRS RN:…”

B. Mission Description:

Along with the required elements within the PAPPG, together with the Mental Advantage and Broader Impacts narrative that can comprise the majority of the proposal:

The Mission Description is to not exceed 25 pages together with tables and figures.
The Outcomes from Prior NSF Help part shouldn’t be included as a part of the Mission Description. As a substitute, this info must be supplied within the Different Supplementary Paperwork part of the proposal. The doc must be labeled “Outcomes from Prior NSF Help” and shouldn’t exceed 5 pages in size.
The Mental Advantage (IM) and Broader Impacts (BI) for the proposed undertaking have to be addressed and described as an integral a part of the narrative.

Required elements of SRS RNs proposals within the Mission Description:

A profitable SRS proposal will clearly outline the regional system(s) of examine, the assorted elements that make up the regional system(s) to be studied, the most important subjects that can body the networks, and the objectives of the undertaking that can result in extra sustainable regional system or techniques. Vital anticipated optimistic and damaging outcomes must also be included within the proposal in addition to impacts past the lifetime of the undertaking, together with the scalability and transferability of the proposed options.

Every of the next subjects is to be lined in a piece labeled with the indicated element title.

1. Scope and Scale

SRS RNs will conduct revolutionary and pioneering basic analysis in sustainable regional system science, engineering, and schooling that’s of a substantial scale and complexity that might not be potential inside a single group, heart, or by means of the conventional collaborative modes of NSF analysis help. This part ought to current a compelling case for why an award as massive as $15 million with a length of 5 years is required to efficiently obtain the goals said within the proposal.

2. Convergent Analysis

The NSF identifies convergent analysis as analysis that could be a) pushed by a selected and compelling downside and b) requires deep integration throughout disciplines. The AC-ERE report already cited discusses extensively SRS convergent analysis gaps and wishes. Collectively, an SRS convergent analysis community group will develop new data and instruments that considerably advance community integration, coordination, innovation, and the convergent science of SRS. Collaborations by means of SRS RNs ought to cross conventional disciplinary boundaries to foster new data, knowledge, and instruments. The SRS RNs solicitation additionally affords an avenue for collaboration inside educational analysis and schooling establishments in live performance with non-profit, tribal, business, municipal, practitioner, worldwide, and different group companions. SRS RNs may hyperlink present applications and create others to advance basic understanding and allow actionable outcomes resembling bettering predictions, applied sciences, insurance policies, and practices obligatory for reaching sustainability.

Beneath the labeled heading “Convergent Analysis,” a plan for convergent analysis have to be introduced. If elements of the proposed analysis themselves will be anticipated to have potential damaging impacts on the setting or social techniques, these potential impacts must be recognized, and mitigation plans introduced. For instance, if sensors are to be put in within the setting (e.g., in soil) to carry out the proposed analysis, a plan must be introduced to take care of the put in sensors as soon as the analysis is accomplished. Different examples would possibly embrace new materials or applied sciences which require vitality or use pure sources or generate contaminants in soil, air, or water.

For extra info on convergent analysis approaches, see “Convergence Analysis at NSF” – https://www.nsf.gov/od/oia/convergence/index.jsp, and the Pricey Colleague Letter: Rising Convergence Analysis at NSF March 2018 – https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf18058.

3. Partnerships and Accomplice Engagement for Impression

This part ought to make a compelling case for a way the proposed actions within the analysis community will end in era of latest data that might advance sustainable regional techniques by means of potential implementation.

The inclusion of non-academic companions within the undertaking (business, authorities, non-governmental organizations, practitioner, tribal and different group companions, and so on.), together with early engagement within the conception of SRS RN proposals, can improve the possibilities for the data produced by SRS RNs to tell the sustainability of regional techniques. An SRS RN proposal is predicted to current a compelling case on how what’s proposed will be anticipated to end in new SRS data. Proposals ought to clearly establish and outline these non-academic companions, and likewise describe actions that replicate significant engagement of those companions. This engagement ought to take into account these companions as integral to the analysis. Investigators and these companions are inspired to work carefully to develop, pilot, and consider artistic approaches to perform the objectives of the proposed analysis. Non-academic companions may have management roles inside the proposing group, together with as a PI, co-PI (see limitations on “Who might function PI or co-PI”), or Senior Personnel if acceptable for the undertaking, and are inspired to be energetic individuals within the undertaking and proposal formulation.

Most of the 27 workshops funded by NSF in summer time 2019 (https://new.nsf.gov/oia/advisory-committee-environmental-research/communities-in-the-Twenty first-century/sus-conference-and-workshop-awards) emphasised the significance of companion engagement, together with early engagement of companions within the conception of SRS RN proposals. These workshops made the case that companion engagement is an strategy that enhances the possibilities for an SRS RN to affect considerably and beneficially sustainable regional communities. Accomplice engagement can take a number of varieties, resembling co-production, advisory councils and boards, citizen science, and so on., and inclusion of group or group member leaders which might be a part of the regional system of examine on the undertaking and proposal formation is inspired the place acceptable for the analysis matter(s).

For these initiatives that embrace collaboration between scientist and non-scientist actors, see the AC-ERE report on Engaged Analysis https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/2022-12/Engaged-research-for-environmental-grand-challenges-508c.pdf?VersionId=QwBICw1M0eQa6rawrjW7H4OmzWZhuImR.

4. Variety, Fairness, Inclusion, and Entry (DEIA)

Describe the imaginative and prescient and plan for nurturing a tradition of inclusion to help various participation within the SRS RN. A tradition of inclusion has many essential elements which might be important for deep collaboration, together with the complete spectrum of various expertise together with members of teams traditionally underrepresented in STEM, and a range of companion organizations (together with practitioners and different co-production companions) that can convey totally different views to bear on the objectives of the SRS RN.

Variety, Fairness, Inclusion, and Entry concerns have to be addressed by means of actions inside the multidisciplinary groups. As well as, elements of the DEIA part could also be a spotlight of the SRS analysis as a part of the Analysis Community actions.

Along with this imaginative and prescient and plan(s), proposals should embrace both/or:

If the group of core organizations embrace educational organizations, then at the least one have to be a college or school that serves populations of scholars traditionally underrepresented in STEM. To qualify as a core companion group, there have to be monetary help for at least three school members collaborating within the SRS RN together with monetary help for at least three college students.
A core companion, resembling a group group, a non-profit, or different group/group that helps an underrepresented group inside the scope of the proposed analysis undertaking. To qualify as a core companion group, they have to be allotted a minimal of 10% of the entire finances request for the complete SRS RN.

These companions have to be absolutely built-in into the SRS RN. The imaginative and prescient for the range, fairness, inclusion, and entry actions ought to go effectively past numbers and embrace an outline of the combination and roles of various individuals within the SRS RN.

Appropriate metrics to evaluate the SRS RN’s DEIA part objectives must be described, and suggestions loops must be in place for impartial evaluation and enchancment of DEIA in any respect ranges of the SRS RN, together with collaborating school members, management, practitioners, college students, and different companions. The Variety, Fairness, Inclusion, and Entry part ought to embrace a timetable and strategies for evaluation.

This part should describe how the management group will successfully create an inclusive tradition for the SRS RN during which all members will likely be valued and welcomed, creatively contribute, and achieve mutual profit from collaborating.

To advertise broadening participation in SRS science, engineering, and schooling, proposals that discover revolutionary approaches to broadening participation and the incorporation of Indigenous Data or the ideas and elements of NSF Inclusion throughout the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science initiative (INCLUDES) are desired. Data on NSF INCLUDES and the goals of this initiative are accessible on the following hyperlink: https://www.nsf.gov/information/special_reports/big_ideas/consists of.jsp.

5. Social Sustainability

For regional techniques to be absolutely sustainable, they have to embrace social sustainability. Proposals ought to suggest community-driven analysis that advances sustainable regional science and engineering by addressing the historic context of the area and consists of communities most prone to weak as lead individuals in sustainability and resilience analysis to scale back vulnerability to present and future social-environmental-technological points.

This part of the proposal ought to describe actions within the analysis community that deal with simply therapy and significant involvement of all individuals who could also be impacted by points particular to the area of examine.

6. Schooling and Schooling Analysis

Based mostly on the AC-ERE report and SUS convention reviews, there’s an pressing want in addition to a historic time sensitivity to develop a brand new academic paradigm in SRS. An schooling and schooling analysis plan are required within the Mission Description with the label “Schooling and Schooling Analysis”. This plan ought to embody convergence science and engineering during which a fancy compelling downside drives the deep integration of various disciplines that transcend conventional disciplinary siloes. The schooling and schooling analysis plan ought to describe how the proposed SRS RN will combine schooling, analysis, and observe as a totally built-in mannequin of environmental, social, and financial sustainability. Schooling analysis, to higher perceive or enhance formal and casual schooling techniques, applications, practices, instruments, and insurance policies and the impacts on future workforce preparation or improvement, scholar cognition and social emotional improvement, studying, success in bettering range, fairness, inclusion, and entry, and different outcomes is inspired. The schooling and schooling analysis plan ought to deal with the interdependence of SRS with native, regional, and/or international communities.

The plan ought to articulate clear objectives and goals. SRS RNs should:

Incorporate techniques pondering and develop convergent academic practices that stability the trade-off between depth of data versus breadth of data;
Implement studying environments or experiences, instruments, and pedagogies that emphasize energetic, experiential, inquiry-based studying and real-world downside fixing;
Add to the physique of data about what works in SRS schooling and the situations that result in improved SRS instructing, studying, and analysis;
Measure progress and achievement of SRS RN schooling objectives;
Clearly point out the tutorial sector or sectors concerned, e.g., Ok-12, casual, group schools, MSIs, undergraduate, graduate, and so on.

All SRS RNs are anticipated to extend data about efficient SRS schooling. The schooling and schooling analysis plan introduced ought to draw on analysis literature about evidence-based practices. Schooling broadly consists of each formal and casual studying, the instructing of Indigenous Data, and alternative ways of understanding and studying. Data era must be based mostly on well-formulated analysis questions that information convergence schooling, and state how the questions will likely be answered or ought to have a analysis plan that’s aligned with the said objectives and goals.

The schooling analysis plan ought to state particular methods for empirical knowledge assortment and evaluation past summative and formative evaluation. The schooling analysis plan ought to describe how totally different disciplines are coming collectively to look at and clear up complicated issues in convergence schooling and during which academic sector. The analysis plan ought to look at each SRS schooling implementation and outcomes; the particular knowledge sources, knowledge assortment devices, and strategies that will likely be employed to handle analysis questions, and the way knowledge will likely be analyzed and interpreted to reply analysis questions and attain conclusions in regards to the nature, the design or implementation principle or protocol, situations, and impacts of SRS schooling improvement, implementation, and outcomes. The analysis plan is predicted to handle each the impacts of particular person studying in addition to the precise improvement and implementation actions of the undertaking together with communication and dissemination. A timeline for the analysis must be supplied that identifies when knowledge will likely be collected and analyzed, when reviews will likely be submitted, and the frequency of communication between schooling researchers (together with an exterior evaluator, see beneath) and different SRS RN personnel.

Funds to help an evaluator impartial of the SRS RN have to be requested. The requested funds should match the scope of the proposed evaluative actions. The evaluator could also be employed by an SRS RN’s member group, so long as this particular person works in a separate organizational unit (e.g., a special division) that has a special reporting line than that of the SRS RN member. An SRS RN ought to interact workers, individuals, or an inner evaluator to work with the exterior evaluator to enhance the standard of knowledge collected and feasibility of conducting the schooling analysis.

It is suggested that the evaluator be named within the proposal. If the evaluator is known as, a biographical sketch have to be included within the proposal following the format specified within the PAPPG. If the proposer’s group requires analysis consultants to be chosen by means of a aggressive bid course of after an award is made, the proposer ought to be aware the organizational coverage that prohibits noncompetitive choice and describe the procedures that will likely be used to pick an evaluator after the award is made.

Moreover, graduate schooling will be enormously enhanced by internships in business, nationwide laboratories, authorities places of work, non-profits, and NGOs. Submissions that embrace these alternatives are inspired.

Proposals that embrace a powerful workforce improvement element, together with undergraduates, K12 STEM lecturers, and/or group school school are inspired. Moreover, proposals might embrace Analysis Experiences for Undergraduates (REU), Analysis Experiences for Academics (RET), or Veteran Analysis complement (VRS) mechanisms when acceptable. Data on NSF REU is accessible on the following hyperlink: https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5517.

Data on NSF RET is accessible on the following hyperlink: https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505170.

Data on the DCL for Veterans Analysis Complement (VRS) Program is accessible on the following hyperlink: https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf20111.

7. Broader Impacts

Per the steering within the PAPPG, the proposal should include a separate part labeled Broader Impacts. The heading have to be by itself line with no different textual content on that line. This solicitation requires the Mental Advantage (IM) and Broader Impacts (BI) for the proposed undertaking to be addressed and described as an integral a part of the narrative of every portion of the Mission Description (see required sections 1-5 above). Subsequently, the required Broader Impacts part ought to embrace solely the next assertion: “See Sections 1-5 of the Mission Description.”

Further Issues and Cross Chopping Themes

SRS-RNs are anticipated to supply pathways for translating analysis into observe. An SRS-RN will hyperlink scientists, engineers, and educators or studying scientists in a number of organizations and be geographically dispersed. Humanities researchers could also be included within the group if acceptable to the undertaking scope. The SRS RN might construct upon, however not duplicate, present actions. Funding and different sources will likely be shared among the many community companions. The community might promote collaboration, when acceptable, with useful resource managers, policymakers, end-users, and different companions. within the personal and public sectors by means of the direct involvement – from the outset – of individuals from federal, state, and native companies, tribal communities, non-governmental and worldwide our bodies, non-profit organizations, practitioners, and business. The RN must be designed to adapt and develop as new alternatives come up.

Proposals that deal with clear vitality or local weather options, and NSF INCLUDES are inspired.

NSF welcomes proposals that embrace efforts to broaden geographic and demographic participation. Proposals from minority-serving establishments, rising analysis establishments, and establishments in EPSCoR-eligible jurisdictions, together with collaborations between these establishments and people in non-EPSCoR jurisdictions, are inspired.

As well as, NSF promotes worldwide cooperation that hyperlinks scientists and engineers from a variety of disciplines and organizations to resolve the numerous international challenges of SRS. Proposals together with worldwide collaboration are inspired when these efforts improve the benefit of the proposed work. Such proposals ought to deal with how the proposed worldwide collaboration enhances mental benefit and broader impacts within the following methods:

Mutual good thing about the collaboration for all companions
True mental collaboration with the worldwide companion(s)
Advantages to be realized from the experience and specialised abilities, services, websites and/or sources of the worldwide counterpart
Lively analysis engagement of U.S. college students and early-career researchers

Analysis might contain any nation/nations, however the U.S. group’s worldwide counterparts typically ought to have help or receive funding by means of non-NSF sources. Proposals that select to contain worldwide collaboration ought to clearly describe the work that will likely be achieved by the complete group, together with the worldwide companions, and the way the worldwide companions’ efforts will likely be or are already supported. Moreover, for initiatives that can examine SRS in worldwide settings, a case have to be made for why this analysis advantages america, even when there aren’t any worldwide collaborators. For info on overseas analysis alternatives and funding see: Counterpart Science Funding Businesses.

C. Senior Personnel Paperwork

All members of the undertaking management group must be listed as PI, a co-PI, or as Different Senior Personnel. All members of the management group ought to have a biographical sketch within the acceptable part.

D. Funds

As much as $15,000,000, with an anticipated undertaking size of 5 years.

Along with customary finances necessities within the PAPPG, every proposal should include:

Funds to Help Broader Impacts Actions: Funds for actions described which might be supposed to boost the broader impacts of the undertaking have to be included the place acceptable.
Funds for attendance at an annual SRS RN Awardee Convention: To be able to (a) speed up the speed of dissemination of concepts amongst researchers and companions; (b) construct mental collaborations to handle the challenges of SRS, and (c) allow enhanced analysis collaborations, the SRS RNs program plans to host awardee conferences yearly with participation from all funded initiatives and different representatives from academia, business, authorities, and tribal and different group organizations. PIs or their designees should take part within the entirety of every awardee convention all through the length of their awards. Lead investigators from every subaward group are anticipated to take part. A substitute undertaking consultant could also be designated to attend a PI assembly, however solely with prior approval from a cognizant NSF Program Officer. Budgets for all initiatives should embrace funding for a number of designated SRS RN undertaking representatives (PI/co-PI/Senior Personnel or NSF-approved substitute) to attend every SRS RNs awardee convention in the course of the proposed lifetime of the award. It is usually strongly inspired for at the least one group companion to attend the awardee convention and for the finances to incorporate funding to help the participation of the attending companion.
For the schooling plan: Funds to help an evaluator impartial of the SRS RN have to be requested. The requested funds should match the scope of the proposed evaluative actions. The evaluator could also be employed by an SRS RN’s member group, so long as they work in a separate organizational unit (e.g., a special division) that has a special reporting line than that of the SRS RN member. An SRS RN ought to interact workers, individuals, or an inner evaluator to work with the exterior evaluator to enhance the standard of knowledge collected and feasibility of conducting the schooling analysis.
Worldwide Collaborations: As NSF funding predominantly helps U.S. individuals, community individuals from organizations exterior the U.S. are inspired to hunt help from their respective funding organizations. NSF funds might not be used to help the bills of the worldwide scientists and college students at their dwelling group. Please see PAPPG Chapter II.E.8 for extra steering on how NSF funds can be utilized for SRS RN-related worldwide bills.

E. Postdoctoral Mentoring Plan, 1 web page:

Proposals involving funding for postdoctoral researchers should supply an revolutionary and forward-thinking plan for postdoctoral coaching that extends past the mentoring that might usually happen as a part of a analysis undertaking at a single web site or in a single lab. The SRS program desires to see actions that put together the post-doc for conducting interdisciplinary and convergent science; main and managing interdisciplinary science groups; and supply publicity throughout the environmental, engineering, and human sciences represented within the undertaking. Coaching alternatives might embrace quick programs, workshops, collaborations, lab exchanges, or different associated actions (nationwide or worldwide). Pattern subjects would possibly embrace management, massive undertaking administration, group science, utility of statistical strategies for integrating knowledge throughout disciplines, analytical strategies helpful for sustainable city research, or computational methods for coping with massive, complicated, or interdisciplinary datasets.

F. Different Supplementary Paperwork

Ideally on this order:

1. An inventory of Accomplice organizations and Mission Personnel as described beneath is required. This info supplies NSF and reviewers with a complete checklist of personnel and organizations concerned within the RN.

Listing all undertaking personnel who’ve a task within the administration, analysis, schooling, broadening participation, and data switch elements of the Middle. Use the next format: final title, first title, establishment/group.
Listing of all establishments and organizations with which undertaking personnel are affiliated. Designate for every an acceptable class: Establishment of Increased Schooling, Nationwide Laboratory, Federal/State/Native Authorities, Trade, Non-Governmental Group, or Worldwide Group.

2. Mission Administration Plan (as much as 5 pages): All SRS RNs proposals should present an outline of the administration plan for coordinating actions. This supplementary doc have to be labeled “Mission Administration Plan”. This description ought to embrace a company chart, plans for inner communication, coordination of knowledge and data administration, analysis, and evaluation of progress, allocation of funds and personnel (particularly for every main activity), and different particular points related to the proposed actions.

A desk summarizing the roles and tasks of every investigator is required together with PI, co-PIs, different senior personnel, and paid consultants in any respect organizations concerned.

The plan ought to describe governance of the undertaking, any advisory our bodies, and contours of authority. Coordination and the way the undertaking will likely be managed inside and throughout organizations and disciplines must be clearly outlined, together with identification of the particular coordination mechanisms that can allow cross-organization and/or cross-discipline scientific integration (e.g., common conferences or teleconferencing, yearly workshops, graduate scholar alternate, undertaking conferences at conferences, video conferences, and so on.).

A timetable with yearly objectives must be supplied that features benchmarks for the most important anticipated undertaking milestones and deliverables and anticipated dates for his or her launch.

3. Outcomes from Prior NSF Help (5-page restrict):This part is moved from the Mission Description part and must be submitted as a Supplementary Doc. The opposite necessities for the content material of the Outcomes from Prior NSF Help Part are the identical as discovered within the PAPPG.

4. Letters of Collaboration: This part ought to embrace any letters of collaboration from people or organizations which might be integral components of the proposed community, resembling collaborating organizations, organizations granting permission to entry websites, supplies, or knowledge for analysis. The aim of letters of collaboration is solely to affirm the willingness of the person or group to collaborate within the community as specified within the undertaking description of the proposal. It’s not to supply an endorsement of the deserves of the proposal, to hunt to affect reviewers, or to supply info that ought to correctly have been included inside the 25-page restrict of the undertaking description.

If researchers or individuals from Federal companies or federally funded analysis and improvement facilities (FFRDCs) are supported by subawards or take part as unfunded collaborators, a letter of collaboration from non-NSF sponsored FFRDCs or different Federal companies is required.

If people from state academic places of work or organizations and native college districts are supported by subawards or take part as unfunded collaborators, a letter of collaboration from their group is required.

If a scientist, engineer, or educator within the U.S., who’s a U.S. citizen, is supported by a subaward or participates as an unfunded collaborator, a letter of collaboration from that particular person is required.

If researchers from a overseas group are included within the proposal (unfunded), a letter of collaboration from their group is required. As well as, if one of many senior personnel is a overseas collaborator(s) who does (do) not have already got funding, a letter of collaboration is required during which the overseas collaborator(s) should establish a degree of contact within the overseas funding company or companies that’s or are contemplating their proposal.

5. Different Personnel Biographical Data: If an schooling evaluator is known as within the proposal, and isn’t within the function of PI, co-PI, or different senior personnel, a biographical sketch have to be included following the format specified within the PAPPG.

B. Budgetary Data

Value Sharing:

Inclusion of voluntary dedicated value sharing is prohibited.

C. Due Dates

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

     Might 15, 2024

D. Analysis.gov/Grants.gov Necessities

For Proposals Submitted Through Analysis.gov:

To organize and submit a proposal by way of Analysis.gov, see detailed technical directions 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 consumer help, name the Analysis.gov Assist Desk at 1-800-381-1532 or e-mail [email protected]. The Analysis.gov Assist Desk solutions common technical questions associated to using the Analysis.gov system. Particular questions associated to this program solicitation must be referred to the NSF program workers 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 out there on the Grants.gov Applicant Assets webpage: https://www.grants.gov/internet/grants/candidates.html. As well as, the NSF Grants.gov Software Information (see hyperlink in Part V.A) supplies directions relating to the technical preparation of proposals by way of Grants.gov. For Grants.gov consumer help, 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 must be referred to the NSF program workers contact(s) listed in Part VIII of this solicitation.

Submitting the Proposal: As soon as all paperwork have been accomplished, the Approved Organizational Consultant (AOR) should submit the 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 utility will likely 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 Continuously Requested Questions. Grants.gov proposals should go all NSF pre-check and post-check validations with the intention to be accepted by Analysis.gov at NSF.

When submitting by way of Grants.gov, NSF strongly recommends candidates provoke proposal submission at the least 5 enterprise days prematurely of a deadline to permit enough time to handle 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 by way of Analysis.gov might use Analysis.gov to confirm the standing of their submission to NSF. For proposers that submitted by way of Grants.gov, till an utility has been acquired and validated by NSF, the Approved Organizational Consultant might test the standing of an utility on Grants.gov. After proposers have acquired an e-mail notification from NSF, Analysis.gov must be used to test the standing of an utility.

VI. NSF Proposal Processing And Assessment Procedures

Proposals acquired by NSF are assigned to the suitable NSF program for acknowledgement and, in the event that they meet NSF necessities, for assessment. 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 specialists within the explicit fields represented by the proposal. These reviewers are chosen by Program Officers charged with oversight of the assessment course of. Proposers are invited to recommend names of individuals they imagine are particularly effectively certified to assessment the proposal and/or individuals they would favor not assessment the proposal. These solutions might function one supply within the reviewer choice course of on the Program Officer’s discretion. Submission of such names, nevertheless, 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 receive feedback from web site visits earlier than recommending last motion on proposals. Senior NSF workers additional assessment suggestions for awards. A flowchart that depicts the complete NSF proposal and award course of (and related timeline) is included in PAPPG Exhibit III-1.

A complete description of the Basis’s benefit assessment course of is out there on the NSF web site at: https://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/coverage/merit_review/.

Proposers must also concentrate on core methods which might be important to the success of NSF’s mission, as articulated in Main the World in Discovery and Innovation, STEM Expertise 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 assessment is one half. NSF’s mission is especially well-implemented by means of the combination of analysis and schooling and broadening participation in NSF applications, initiatives, and actions.

One of many strategic goals in help of NSF’s mission is to foster integration of analysis and schooling by means of 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 supply cutting-edge analysis underneath the steering of the Nation’s most artistic scientists and engineers. NSF additionally helps improvement of a powerful science, know-how, engineering, and arithmetic (STEM) workforce by investing in constructing the data that informs enhancements in STEM instructing and studying.

NSF’s mission requires the broadening of alternatives and increasing participation of teams, establishments, and geographic areas which might be underrepresented in STEM disciplines, which is crucial to the well being and vitality of science and engineering. NSF is dedicated to this precept of range and deems it central to the applications, initiatives, and actions it considers and helps.

A. Advantage Assessment Rules and Standards

The Nationwide Science Basis strives to put money into a strong 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 establish which initiatives to help, NSF depends on a benefit assessment course of that includes consideration of each the technical elements 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 assessment course of for the number of initiatives.

1. Advantage Assessment Rules

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 workers 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 fundamental 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 remodel, the frontiers of data.
NSF initiatives, within the combination, ought to contribute extra broadly to reaching societal objectives. These “Broader Impacts” could also be achieved by means of the analysis itself, by means of actions which might be instantly associated to particular analysis initiatives, or by means of actions which might be supported by, however are complementary to, the undertaking. The undertaking actions could also be based mostly on beforehand established and/or revolutionary strategies and approaches, however in both case have to be effectively justified.
Significant evaluation and analysis of NSF funded initiatives must be based mostly on acceptable metrics, conserving in thoughts the probably correlation between the impact of broader impacts and the sources supplied to implement initiatives. If the dimensions of the exercise is proscribed, analysis of that exercise in isolation will not be prone to be significant. Thus, assessing the effectiveness of those actions might finest be carried out at a better, extra aggregated, degree than the person undertaking.

With respect to the third precept, even when evaluation of Broader Impacts outcomes for explicit 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 assessment rules present the premise for the benefit assessment standards, in addition to a context inside which the customers of the standards can higher perceive their intent.

2. Advantage Assessment Standards

All NSF proposals are evaluated by means of use of the 2 Nationwide Science Board authorised benefit assessment standards. In some situations, nevertheless, NSF will make use of extra standards as required to focus on the particular goals of sure applications and actions.

The 2 benefit assessment standards are listed beneath. Each standards are to be given full consideration in the course of the assessment and decision-making processes; every criterion is important however neither, by itself, is adequate. Subsequently, proposers should absolutely deal with each standards. (PAPPG Chapter II.D.2.d(i). accommodates extra info to be used by proposers in improvement of the Mission Description part of the proposal). Reviewers are strongly inspired to assessment the standards, together with PAPPG Chapter II.D.2.d(i), previous to the assessment of a proposal.

When evaluating NSF proposals, reviewers will likely be requested to contemplate what the proposers wish to do, why they wish to do it, how they plan to do it, how they’ll know in the event that they succeed, and what advantages might accrue if the undertaking is profitable. These points apply each to the technical elements of the proposal and the best way during which the undertaking might make broader contributions. To that finish, reviewers will likely be requested to judge all proposals towards two standards:

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

The next parts must be thought-about within the assessment for each standards:

What’s the potential for the proposed exercise to
Advance data and understanding inside its personal area 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 artistic, unique, or probably transformative ideas?
Is the plan for finishing up the proposed actions well-reasoned, well-organized, and based mostly on a sound rationale? Does the plan incorporate a mechanism to evaluate success?
How effectively certified is the person, group, or group to conduct the proposed actions?
Are there enough sources obtainable to the PI (both on the dwelling group or by means of collaborations) to hold out the proposed actions?

Broader impacts could also be achieved by means of the analysis itself, by means of the actions which might be instantly associated to particular analysis initiatives, or by means of actions which might be 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 will not be restricted to: full participation of girls, individuals with disabilities, and different underrepresented teams in science, know-how, engineering, and arithmetic (STEM); improved STEM schooling and educator improvement at any degree; elevated public scientific literacy and public engagement with science and know-how; improved well-being of people in society; improvement of a various, globally aggressive STEM workforce; elevated partnerships between academia, business, and others; improved nationwide safety; elevated financial competitiveness of america; and enhanced infrastructure for analysis and schooling.

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

Further Solicitation Particular Assessment Standards

Along with the Nationwide Science Board benefit assessment standards, reviewers will likely be requested to use the next program-specific standards when reviewing SRS RN proposals:

Are the area(s) for examine in addition to the sustainability matter(s) clearly recognized within the proposal?
To what extent do the collaborations proposed for an SRS RN cross conventional disciplinary boundaries to foster new sustainability data, techniques pondering, knowledge, instruments, and a workforce expert within the interdisciplinary scholarship wanted to know and deal with the complicated problems with sustainability?
How probably is it that the proposed SRS RN will efficiently hyperlink scientists, engineers, and educators in a number of organizations, be geographically dispersed, and, from the outset, interact individuals from a wide range of totally different sectors and views? Does the proposal clarify clearly how every of the community companions will contribute to the objectives and goals of the community?
Are the construction, roles and tasks, and administration for the proposed SRS RN acceptable and clear?
Are the plans for Convergent Analysis, Variety, Fairness, Inclusion, and Entry, Social Sustainability, and the Schooling and Schooling Analysis adequately effectively thought out and clear?
How probably is the proposed strategy to reach constructing a basis for translating analysis into observe by means of, for instance, coverage, administration, and public outreach?
Are the proposed mechanisms prone to enable the community to adapt and develop as new alternatives come up?
How probably is it that the proposed SRS RN will advance basic scientific and engineering data, in addition to deal with the overarching objectives of overcoming boundaries to sustainable human well-being and forging reasoned pathways to a sustainable future?
Have potential damaging impacts on the setting or social techniques of the proposed analysis been adequately recognized and have enough mitigation plans been introduced?

B. Assessment and Choice Course of

Proposals submitted in response to this program solicitation will likely be reviewed by Advert hoc Assessment and/or Panel Assessment, or Reverse Website Assessment.

Proposals will likely be evaluated by two or extra multidisciplinary panels, with the variety of panels to be decided by the variety of proposals acquired. Panelists with acceptable area experience in science, engineering, and schooling will likely be chosen by the SRS Working Group with enter from different Program Officers. Not less than three panel members will likely be requested to organize written critiques of every proposal, and all non-conflicted panel members will likely be inspired to take part within the dialogue of every proposal. Exterior advert hoc assessment by related specialists could also be sought if deemed obligatory by the SRS Working Group.

The panel suggestions for the SRS RNs will likely be thought-about by NSF in deciding on essentially the most promising proposals for digital reverse web site go to assessment. This assessment will deal with the administration and finances of the proposed SRS RN, and any excellent points that had been raised in the course of the assessment course of. Reverse web site visits will likely be carried out by the SRS Working Group and different NSF program workers with acceptable experience. The PIs will likely be given copies of the written critiques and panel abstract earlier than the reverse web site go to. The PIs of the collaborating SRS RN groups will likely be knowledgeable prematurely of the RSV format and necessities, together with preparation of a response to the critiques on the web site go to. The reviewers on the RSV may also obtain copies of those critiques and panel summaries earlier than the RSV.

Following the positioning visits, the SRS Working Group will develop a prioritized beneficial funding checklist. This prioritized funding checklist will likely be used to develop award suggestions.

Reviewers will likely be requested to judge proposals utilizing two Nationwide Science Board authorised benefit assessment standards and, if relevant, extra program particular standards. A abstract ranking and accompanying narrative will typically be accomplished and submitted by every reviewer and/or panel. The Program Officer assigned to handle the proposal’s assessment will take into account the recommendation of reviewers and can formulate a advice.

After scientific, technical and programmatic assessment and consideration of acceptable components, the SRS RN Working Group recommends to the cognizant Division Director whether or not the proposal must be declined or beneficial for award. NSF strives to have the ability to inform proposers whether or not their proposals have been declined or beneficial for funding inside six months. Giant or notably complicated proposals or proposals from new recipients might require extra assessment 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 SRS RN Working Group’s advice.

After programmatic approval has been obtained, the proposals beneficial for funding will likely be forwarded to the Division of Grants and Agreements or the Division of Acquisition and Cooperative Help for assessment of enterprise, monetary, and coverage implications. After an administrative assessment 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/Mission Director by the Program Officer. As well as, the proposer will obtain a proof of the choice to award or decline funding.

VII. Award Administration Data

A. Notification of the Award

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

B. Award Situations

An NSF award consists of: (1) the award discover, which incorporates any particular provisions relevant to the award and any numbered amendments thereto; (2) the finances, which signifies the quantities, by classes of expense, on which NSF has based mostly its help (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, resembling Grant Basic Situations (GC-1)*; or Analysis Phrases and Situations* and (5) any announcement or different NSF issuance that could be included by reference within the award discover. Cooperative agreements are also administered in accordance with NSF Cooperative Settlement Monetary and Administrative Phrases and Situations (CA-FATC) and the relevant Programmatic Phrases and Situations. NSF awards are electronically signed by an NSF Grants and Agreements Officer and transmitted electronically to the group by way of e-mail.

*These paperwork could also be accessed electronically on NSF’s Web site at https://www.nsf.gov/awards/managing/award_conditions.jsp?org=NSF. Paper copies could also be obtained from the NSF Publications Clearinghouse, phone (703) 292-8134 or by e-mail from [email protected].

Extra complete info on NSF Award Situations and different essential 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, Making certain 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 keeping with legislation, using items, merchandise, and supplies produced in, and companies provided in, america.

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

Particular Award Situations:

Attendance at an annual SRS RN Awardee Convention: To be able to (a) speed up the speed of dissemination of concepts amongst researchers and companions; (b) construct an mental analysis core to handle the challenges of SRS, and (c) allow enhanced analysis collaborations, the SRS RNs program plans to host awardee conferences yearly with participation from all funded initiatives and different representatives from academia, business, authorities, tribal and different group organizations. PIs or their designees should take part within the entirety of every awardee convention all through the length of their awards. Lead investigators from every subaward group are anticipated to take part. A substitute undertaking consultant could also be designated to attend a PI assembly, however solely with prior approval from a cognizant NSF Program Officer. As famous in Part V.D. Funds Preparation Directions, budgets for all initiatives should embrace funding for a number of designated SRS RN undertaking representatives (PI/co-PI/Senior Personnel or NSF-approved substitute) to attend every SRS RNs awardee convention in the course of the proposed lifetime of the award. It is usually strongly inspired for at the least one group companion to attend the awardee convention and for the finances to incorporate funding to help the participation of the attending companion.

C. Reporting Necessities

For all multi-year grants (together with each customary 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 finances interval. (Some applications or awards require submission of extra frequent undertaking reviews). No later than 120 days following expiration of a grant, the PI is also required to submit a last undertaking report, and a undertaking outcomes report for most people.

Failure to supply the required annual or last undertaking reviews, or the undertaking outcomes report, will delay NSF assessment 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 reviews prematurely to guarantee availability of required knowledge.

PIs are required to make use of NSF’s digital project-reporting system, obtainable by means of Analysis.gov, for preparation and submission of annual and last undertaking reviews. Such reviews present info on accomplishments, undertaking individuals (particular person and organizational), publications, and different particular merchandise and impacts of the undertaking. Submission of the report by way of Analysis.gov constitutes certification by the PI that the contents of the report are correct and full. The 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 will likely be posted on the NSF web site precisely as it’s submitted by the PI.

Extra complete info on NSF Reporting Necessities and different essential 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. Company 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 relating to this program must be made to:

Bruce Ok. Hamilton, Program Director, Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Programs, phone: (703) 292-7066, electronic mail: [email protected]
Thomas Evans, Program Director, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, phone: (703) 292-4891, electronic mail: [email protected]
Laura Lautz, Program Director, Division of Earth Sciences, phone: (703) 292-7775, electronic mail: [email protected]
Robyn Smyth, Program Director, Division of Environmental Biology, phone: (703) 292-2996, electronic mail: [email protected]
Anne-Marie Schmoltner, Program Director, Division of Chemistry, phone: (703) 292-4716, electronic mail: [email protected]
Fengfeng Ke, Program Director, Division of Analysis on Studying in Formal and Casual Settings, phone: (703) 292-2411, electronic mail: [email protected]
Rajesh V. Mehta, Program Director, Division of Translational Impacts, phone: (703) 292-2174, electronic mail: [email protected]
Keith Chanon, Program Director, Workplace of Worldwide Science and Engineering, phone: (703) 292-7305, electronic mail: [email protected]
Hongmei Luo, Program Director, Workplace of Integrative Actions, phone: (703) 292-8867, 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 Approved Organizational Representatives (AOR) has not acquired a affirmation message from Grants.gov inside 48 hours of submission of utility, please contact by way of phone: 1-800-518-4726; e-mail: [email protected].

IX. Different Data

The NSF web site supplies essentially the most complete supply of knowledge 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 latest NSF funding alternatives and publications, essential adjustments in proposal and award insurance policies and procedures, and upcoming NSF Grants Conferences. Subscribers are knowledgeable by means of e-mail or the consumer’s Internet browser every time new publications are issued that match their recognized pursuits. “NSF Replace” additionally is out there 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 by way of this mechanism. Additional info on Grants.gov could also be obtained at https://www.grants.gov.

About The Nationwide Science Basis

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 means of grants and cooperative agreements to greater than 2,000 schools, universities, Ok-12 college techniques, companies, casual science organizations and different analysis organizations all through the US. The Basis accounts for about one-fourth of Federal help to educational establishments for fundamental analysis.

NSF receives roughly 55,000 proposals annually for analysis, schooling and coaching initiatives, 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 help Nationwide Analysis Facilities, consumer services, sure oceanographic vessels and Arctic and Antarctic analysis stations. The Basis additionally helps cooperative analysis between universities and business, 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 initiatives. See the NSF Proposal & Award Insurance policies & Procedures Information Chapter II.F.7 for directions relating to preparation of a lot of these proposals.

The Nationwide Science Basis has Telephonic Gadget for the Deaf (TDD) and Federal Data Relay Service (FIRS) capabilities that allow people with listening to impairments to speak with the Basis about NSF applications, employment or common info. 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 america 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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Privateness Act And Public Burden Statements

The knowledge requested on proposal varieties and undertaking reviews is solicited underneath the authority of the Nationwide Science Basis Act of 1950, as amended. The knowledge on proposal varieties will likely be utilized in reference to the number of certified proposals; and undertaking reviews submitted by proposers will likely be used for program analysis and reporting inside the Government Department and to Congress. The knowledge requested could also be disclosed to certified reviewers and workers assistants as a part of the proposal assessment course of; to proposer establishments/grantees to supply or receive knowledge relating to the proposal assessment course of, award choices, or the administration of awards; to authorities contractors, specialists, volunteers and researchers and educators as obligatory to finish assigned work; to different authorities companies or different entities needing info relating to proposers or nominees as a part of a joint utility assessment course of, or with the intention to coordinate applications or coverage; and to a different Federal company, court docket, or social gathering in a court docket or Federal administrative continuing if the federal government is a celebration. Details about Principal Investigators could also be added to the Reviewer file and used to pick potential candidates to function peer reviewers or advisory committee members. See System of Report Notices, NSF-50, “Principal Investigator/Proposal File and Related Data,” and NSF-51, “Reviewer/Proposal File and Related Data.” Submission of the knowledge is voluntary. Failure to supply full and full info, nevertheless, might cut back the potential for receiving an award.

An company might not conduct or sponsor, and an individual will not be required to reply to, an info assortment except it shows a sound 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 some other facet of this assortment of knowledge, together with solutions for lowering this burden, to:

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