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NSF Financial Assistance awards (grants and cooperative agreements) made on or after October 1, 2024, will be subject to the applicable set of award conditions, dated October 1, 2024, available on the NSF website. These terms and conditions are consistent with the revised guidance specified in the OMB Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance published in the Federal Register on April 22, 2024.

Important information for proposers

All proposals must be submitted in accordance with the requirements specified in this funding opportunity and in the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) that is in effect for the relevant due date to which the proposal is being submitted. It is the responsibility of the proposer to ensure that the proposal meets these requirements. Submitting a proposal prior to a specified deadline does not negate this requirement.

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Dear Colleague Letter

to Polar Research Community concerning the "Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI)" solicitation

Preliminary proposal deadlines:

  • Type I:         December 8, 2008
  • Type II:        December 9, 2008

Dear Colleagues:

I would like to call your particular attention to the new "Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI)" proposal solicitation, which has just been announced. 

It is available at:
https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf08604

CDI seeks ambitious, transformative, multidisciplinary research proposals that utilize computational thinking within or across the following three thematic areas:

  1. From Data to Knowledge: enhancing human cognition and generating new knowledge from a wealth of heterogeneous digital data;
  2. Understanding Complexity in Natural, Built, and Social Systems: deriving fundamental insights on systems comprising multiple interacting elements; and
  3. Building Virtual Organizations: enhancing discovery and innovation by bringing people and resources together across institutional, geographical and cultural boundaries.

Some highlights of the changes since last year's solicitation are:

  • Letter of Intent is no longer required or accepted
  • Preliminary and full proposal deadlines were revised:

Preliminary Proposal deadlines:
Type I: December 8, 2008
Type II: December 9, 2008

Full Proposal Deadline (by invitation only): May 20, 2009

  • The description of the theme “Designing, Building, and Understanding Virtual Organizations” has been revised.
  • Changes in preliminary and full proposal preparation instructions, under single copy documents:

PIs are required to send by e-mail two Excel files: one file with list of PIs, Co-PIs, and other senior personnel and their conflicts of interest (CoI), and another file indicating primary and other relevant CDI themes, and keywords relevant to the proposal; both Excel files are to use templates made available through NSF CDI web site; keywords should be selected from the CDI keyword list provided on https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/cdi/ or of the PI's own choosing; the Excel files are to be e-mailed to cdi@nsf.gov.  PIs are to include a PDF file of the CoI information as a single-copy document in the preliminary or full proposal itself.

If you have any questions, you can reach us at dlubin@nsf.gov (703-292-8030) or cdi@nsf.gov (703-292-8080).

Karl A. Erb
Director

Office of Polar Programs

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