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The intent of the Community Instruments and Facilities (CIF) solicitation is to provide the NSF-sponsored atmospheric sciences research community with access to specialized instrumentation for field and laboratory-based studies. The CIF solicitation requests proposals from instrument and facility providers who...

Supports planning and implementation of community-university partnerships for significant near-term impacts in one of two focus areas: building climate-resilient communities and bridging the gap between essential resources and services and community needs.

Supports multi-organizational teams to collaboratively produce convergent research, education and outreach that addresses grand challenges in sustainable regional systems.

Supports consortia of eight or more institutions spanning a distinct geographic region that collaborate to provide entrepreneurial training to members of the research community.

Supports partnerships that conduct research on organismal biology, ecology and evolution to develop and implement action plans and technologies that advance biodiversity conservation.

Supports coordinated campus-level networking and cyberinfrastructure improvements for science applications and distributed research projects.

Supports research on innovative approaches to improve STEM graduate education and the effectiveness of interventions and policies.

Supports early- and mid-career investigators in eligible jurisdictions to develop collaborations at the nation’s private, government or academic research institutions. Investigators may be affiliated with institutions of higher education or nonprofits.

Supports research on new ways to use spatiotemporal data to model human dynamics, with an emphasis on identifying and forecasting unusual events and future threats.

Supports research and education to overcome barriers and enable new manufacturing capabilities. Focuses on cybermanufacturing, eco-manufacturing and biomanufacturing.

Supports research, implementation and education projects involving multi-sector teams that focus on the responsible design, development or deployment of technologies.

Supports research and education to increase research capacity and broaden participation in quantum information science and engineering.

Supports education, training and community infrastructure for end-to-end integrated micro/nano-electronic circuit semiconductor chip design.