Pan-American Advanced Studies Institutes Program  (PASI)

Deadline extended to March 19, 2010

Since the PASI solicitation was revised in late December 2009, the 2010 deadline has been extended from January 15 to March 19.  Be sure to address the revised requirements in your proposal.  Use the contacts below for any questions.

Unsolicited Proposals for other Regions

Proposals for Advanced Study Institutes in other geographic regions will be considered on a case-by-case basis.  Prior consultation with the region appropriate Program Manager is required as follows: for Africa, Near East & South Asia: Marjorie Lueck; for Europe & Eurasia: Bonnie Thompson; for East Asia & Pacific: Myra Mcauliffe.  Submit such proposals at least one year prior to the proposed event.   (Select Grant Proposal Guide (GPG) with OISE as NSF Unit/division and Other Global Learning & Training as program.)  Proposals will compete for funding by OISE and other NSF funds, which may differ by region.

PROGRAM GUIDELINES

Solicitation  10-517

Please be advised that the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) includes revised guidelines to implement the mentoring provisions of the America COMPETES Act (ACA) (Pub. L. No. 110-69, Aug. 9, 2007.) As specified in the ACA, each proposal that requests funding to support postdoctoral researchers must include a description of the mentoring activities that will be provided for such individuals. Proposals that do not comply with this requirement will be returned without review (see the PAPP Guide Part I: Grant Proposal Guide Chapter II for further information about the implementation of this new requirement).

DUE DATES

Full Proposal Deadline Date:  March 19, 2010

Annual Deadline

Full Proposal Deadline Date:  January 15, 2011

Recurring annual date after 2010

January 15, Annually Thereafter

SYNOPSIS

The Pan-American Advanced Studies Institutes (PASI) Program is a jointly supported initiative between the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Pan-American Advanced Studies Institutes are short courses ranging in length from ten days to one month, involving lectures, demonstrations, research seminars, and discussions at the advanced graduate, post-doctoral, and junior faculty level.

PASIs aim to disseminate advanced scientific and engineering knowledge and stimulate training and cooperation among researchers of the Americas in the mathematical, physical, and biological sciences, the geosciences, the computer and information sciences, and the engineering fields. Proposals in other areas funded by NSF may be considered on an ad hoc basis; in this case, lead investigators must consult with the PASI Program before proposal submission. Whenever feasible, an interdisciplinary approach is recommended.

EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY

This program provides educational opportunities for  Graduate Students, Postdoctoral Fellows . This program provides indirect funding for students at this level or focuses on educational developments for this group such as curricula development, training or retention. To inquire about possible funding opportunities not directly from NSF, please look at the active awards for this program.

RELATED URLS

PASI on Frontiers in Developmental Biology: Concepts, Technique & Model Organisms, Argentina, October 2008

PASI on Emerging Trends in Process Systems Engineering: Sustainability, Energy, Biosystems, Multi-scale Design & Enterprise-wide Optimization, Argentina, August 2008

PASI on Microscopy Techniques for Nanomaterials, Mexico, August 2008

PASI on Cyberinfrastructure for Int'l Collaborative Biodiversity & Ecological Informatics, Costa Rica, May/June 2008

PASI on Interdisciplinary Studies in the Chemical Ecology of the Tropics, Peru, May 2008

PASI on Human, Physical, & Natural Capital Investment in Patagonia: A Predictive Approach under Sustainability Criterion, Chile, May 2008

Websites for previous PASIs

THIS PROGRAM IS PART OF

OISE Managed Opportunities

What Has Been Funded (Recent Awards Made Through This Program, with Abstracts)

Discoveries