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Supports participation in an Ideas Lab — an intense, facilitated workshop — to stimulate collaborative solutions to meet the requirements of specific low-latency verticals including rapid prototyping, testing, validation and at-scale pilot demonstrations.

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

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

Supports participation in an Ideas Lab — an intense, facilitated workshop — to stimulate the translation of novel approaches to protein design and enable new applications of importance to the U.S. bioeconomy.

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 participation in an intensive, facilitated workshop that brings together HBCU faculty, staff, research administrators and academic leadership focused on exploration of innovative approaches for addressing the research capacity needs of HBCUs.

Supports systemic change projects to enhance gender equity and inclusion for STEM faculty.

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 conferences focused on important current research topics in the mathematical sciences.

Supports the development of cohorts of postdoctoral fellows as they engage in ongoing research, to develop independent research and to implement an independent professional development plan under the guidance of an experienced sponsoring researcher.

Supports creating a network of professionals to implement evidence-based best practices and resources that improve diversity, equity and inclusion within the geosciences.

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.

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 research capacity, project planning and partnership building at minority-serving institutions to broaden participation in computer and information science and engineering.

Supports research that combines theory, modeling and observations from ground-based and space-based platforms to study changes in the atmosphere over short and long time scales.

Supports NSF-funded researchers from all disciplines of science and engineering to perform translational research and technology development, cultivate partnerships and accelerate the transition of their discoveries into innovative technology.

An Ideas Lab is an intensive meeting that brings together multiple diverse perspectives to focus on finding innovative cross-disciplinary solutions to a grand challenge problem (see below and PAPPG Chapter II.F.6. for more information about this type of proposal). The...

Supports research to advance the interoperability of studies using electromagnetic waves, high-energy particles including neutrinos and cosmic rays, and gravitational waves to realize integrated, multi-messenger astrophysical explorations of the universe.

In 2016, the National Science Foundation (NSF) unveiled a set of “Big Ideas,” 10 bold, long-term research and process ideas that identify areas for future investment at the frontiers of science and engineering (see https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/big_ideas/index.jsp). The Big Ideas represent unique...

Supports the development, deployment and operation of instruments in distributed arrays to conduct high spatial and temporal resolution measurements for solar and space physics research.

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

Supports doctoral research on the connection between social, biological, physical and geochemical components of the Arctic system and the changing connections between the Arctic and lower latitudes.

Supports research and education in the geosciences at non-R1 institutions and aims to mitigate barriers faced by faculty members in geosciences.