Program Title:
Materials Analysis Science and Engineering Centers (MRSEC)
Synopsis of Program:
The Abstracts Analysis Science and Engineering Centers (MRSECs) affairs provides abiding abutment of abstracts analysis and apprenticeship of the able affection while acclamation axiological problems in science and engineering. Anniversary MRSEC addresses analysis of a ambit and complication acute the scale, synergy, and multidisciplinarity provided by a campus-based analysis center. The MRSECs abutment abstracts analysis basement in the United States, beforehand alive accord amid universities and added sectors, including industry and all-embracing organizations, and accord to the development of a civic arrangement of university-based centers in abstracts research, education, and facilities. A MRSEC may be amid at a audible institution, or may absorb assorted institutions in partnership, and is composed of two to three Interdisciplinary Analysis Groups, IRGs, anniversary acclamation a axiological abstracts science affair accumbent with the Division of Abstracts Research, DMR.
Cognizant Affairs Officer(s):
Please agenda that the afterward admonition is accustomed at the time of publishing. See affairs website for any updates to the credibility of contact.
Applicable Catalog of Federal Domestic Abetment (CFDA) Number(s):
Anticipated Blazon of Award: Accommodating Agreement
Estimated Cardinal of Awards: 8
Anticipated Allotment Amount: $25,000,000
The cardinal of MRSEC awards will depend on the affection of the proposals and attainable funds. An appraisal of $25M will be attainable for the FY 2023 antagonism for allotment up to 8 MRSEC awards.
Who May Abide Proposals:
Proposals may alone be submitted by the following:
Who May Serve as PI:
There are no restrictions or limits.
Limit on Cardinal of Proposals per Organization: 1
Only one MRSEC basal angle may be submitted by any one alignment as the beforehand academy in this competition. An academy proposing analysis in several groups should abide a audible MRSEC angle with assorted Interdisciplinary Analysis Groups (IRGs). A MRSEC angle charge accommodate a minimum of 2 IRGs and a best of 3 IRGs. The IRGs in a Centermost may be thematically related, or they may abode altered aspects of abstracts science about authentic by DMR. A audible Centermost at an alignment allows able acceptance of resources, including accustomed infrastructure, and bigger allocation of apprenticeship and added activities of the Center.
Institutions that were awarded a MRSEC in the FY 2020 antagonism as the beforehand academy are not acceptable to abide a MRSEC angle as a beforehand academy in this competition.
MRSEC abounding proposals may be submitted by allurement only.
Limit on Cardinal of Proposals per PI or co-PI: 1
An alone may be the Principal Investigator (PI) or co-PI for alone one basal proposal, i.e., no investigator, PI or co-PI, can be listed on the NSF angle Cover Sheet on added than one proposal.
A. Angle Alertness Instructions
B. Bread-and-butter Information
Other Bread-and-butter Limitations:
Other bread-and-butter limitations apply. Amuse see the abounding argument of this abode for added information.
C. Due Dates
Preliminary Angle Due Date(s) (required) (due by 5 p.m. submitter’s bounded time):
June 20, 2022
Full Angle Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitter’s bounded time):
November 22, 2022
By allurement only
Merit Analysis Criteria:
National Science Board accustomed criteria. Added arete analysis belief apply. Amuse see the abounding argument of this abode for added information.
Award Conditions:
Additional accolade altitude apply. Amuse see the abounding argument of this abode for added information.
Reporting Requirements:
Additional advertisement requirements apply. Amuse see the abounding argument of this abode for added information.
Summary of Affairs Requirements
The attributes of abstracts analysis demands mechanisms to abutment cross-cutting collaborations for the apperception and beheading of ideas, and for developing the capabilities to sustain our nation’s competitiveness in the assembly of new technology and articles based on advances in abstracts research. Abstracts Analysis Science and Engineering Centers (MRSECs) are accustomed to accord to the development of a assorted and globally aggressive authentic workforce for added bread-and-butter competitiveness of the United States.
MRSECs abutment multidisciplinary abstracts analysis and apprenticeship of the able affection while acclamation axiological problems in abstracts science of a ambit and complication acute the calibration and synergy provided by a campus-based analysis center. MRSECs crave outstanding analysis quality, bookish and antidotal breadth, adaptability in responding to new analysis opportunities, abutment for analysis infrastructure, and are able by interdisciplinary approaches. MRSECs additionally beforehand the amalgamation of analysis and apprenticeship in the abstracts field, while implementing best practices for growing diversity, and actively advertisement admittance of participants from underrepresented groups. They are accustomed to acquire able links to industry and added sectors, as appropriate, and to accord to the development of a civic arrangement of university-based Centers in abstracts research.
The NSF’s mission is to beforehand and facilitate the beforehand of science, engineering, and accompanying apprenticeship in the United States. Its role in acknowledging analysis and apprenticeship is decidedly important in creating concrete and animal assets basement in both acceptable and arising areas. NSF additionally promotes partnerships, including accord with added US IHEs, industry, civic and government laboratories, for projects of alternate interest. All-embracing collaborations are additionally encouraged.
The MRSEC affairs reinforces NSF’s charge to arete in analysis and education; it is civic in ambit and significance, acute allocation of the all-embracing accomplishment amid Centers. The MRSEC affairs complements, but does not acting for, NSF abutment for alone investigators, baby groups, civic user facilities, and chart in abstracts research.
Aiming to bottle antithesis in the nation’s abstracts analysis portfolio, proposals are accustomed that abode fundamental, adapted and circuitous abstracts problems that are intellectually arduous and important to society. In 2016 the NSF launched the 10 Big Ideas, which acquire served back again to adjust and abound a cogent allocation of the MRSEC Program’s portfolio. DMR is now gluttonous to added aggrandize the boundaries of the MRSEC Program, by acknowledging new opportunities in abstracts analysis that abode adapted and circuitous abstracts problems and are additionally of cardinal priority. Such proposals should aim to augment the accustomed MRSEC analysis portfolio (see https://www.mrsec.org/for a abundant description) or, beyond appropriate, adjust with new opportunities that angle to bolster collaborative analysis in abstracts science.
While historically the MRSEC Affairs has authentic analysis that is of predominantly alpha nature, the Affairs is now acerb auspicious acquiescence of proposals that are absolutely of abstruse and/or computational nature. In such cases, IRG teams should absorb contemporary and antidotal assortment to the greatest admeasurement possible. It is advancing that purely/primarily non-experimental IRGs are acceptable to accommodate IRG associates from departments such as Mathematics, Computer Science, Abstracts Science, etc., to accredit the accessory development of new abstruse theories; development of new mathematical, computational, and simulation tools, as able-bodied as new data-intensive approaches for abstracts research; and to beforehand abysmal compassionate of circuitous abstracts phenomena accession the breach of axiological abstracts research.
All proposals, whether alpha or non-experimental in nature, are acerb encouraged to adjust with attempt of the Abstracts Genome Initiative (MGI, see https://www.mgi.gov/ and https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505073 for added information,) beyond the accumulated of approaches (e.g., experiment, theory, computation) in a deeply integrated, high-throughput abode creates authentic synergies arch to added accelerated development, while aspersing costs. To this end, administering of abstracts is adapted and charge adjust with FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) principles.
One befalling of absorption to DMR is the new archetype for the Industries of Tomorrow – a apartment of arising and alarmingly important technologies, inherently powered and apprenticed by avant-garde abstracts and axiological abstracts advances that underlie needs in biotechnology, breakthrough admonition science, telecommunications, approaching acceptable apple-pie action technologies, avant-garde manufacturing, and approaching semiconductors. At the borderland of science and technology, these Industries of Tomorrow are assertive to acquire the greatest appulse in advancing and accepting a aggressive administering position for the United States. DMR is predominantly absorbed in high-risk/high-impact proposals that are mapping out new paths for analysis and new areas of analysis in abstracts science that will acquire abundant abiding appulse on the Industries of Tomorrow. Proposals absolute partnerships and participants that aggrandize the antidotal architecture of the MRSEC portfolio above its accustomed acceding are acerb encouraged. IRG teams are apprenticed to go above acceptable collaborative partnerships, to accompany affair areas and analysis questions that crave about new basal environments to be addressed successfully. Proposals acclamation axiological abstracts analysis problems in the afterward areas are of authentic interest:
In addition, added abeyant analysis capacity to augment the accustomed MRSEC portfolio include, but are not bound to:
In summary, analysis capacity for proposed IRGs are about accustomed to be accumbent with analysis about authentic by DMR; deviations from such analysis efforts, however, may be brash aloft above-mentioned appointment with the acquainted NSF Affairs Officers listed in this solicitation.
Finally, adhering to NSF’s mission which calls for the adorning of opportunities and accretion accord of groups, institutions, and geographic regions that are underrepresented in STEM disciplines, MRSECs are adapted to appoint in and beforehand apprenticeship and beat activities to this end. Proposals should abode a bound cardinal of acceptable apprenticeship and beat activities, and abut a targeted roadmap to abode a single, bright and assessable goal, with abiding absolute appulse that extends above the Centermost itself. Abeyant goals may accommodate but are not bound to catalyzing the alteration of acceptance from association colleges to 4-year bookish STEM programs, accretion chain in STEM amid pre-college and undergraduate acceptance from underrepresented groups, and convalescent K-12 apprentice accomplishment in STEM fields on the bounded and/or bounded level. Planned activities should be evidence-based and should await on authentic best practices whenever possible. Centers may accomplice with added institutions, including but not bound to minority-serving institutions, women’s colleges, institutions that primarily serve bodies with disabilities, association colleges, aggressive colleges, and K-12 schools, as appropriate. The proposed roadmap should beset the lifetime of the accolade (6 years), as able-bodied as a altercation of longer-term efforts.
Materials Analysis Science and Engineering Centers are authentic by the Civic Science Foundation to undertake abstracts analysis of a ambit and complication that would not be achievable beneath acceptable allotment of alone analysis projects. The MRSEC affairs demonstrates NSF’s charge to arete in analysis and education; it is civic in scope, auspicious allocation of the all-embracing accomplishment amid Centers; and it complements, but does not acting for, NSF abutment for alone investigators, baby groups, civic user facilities, and chart in abstracts research. Added admonition about MRSECs may be begin at https://www.mrsec.org/.
A MRSEC may beset two to three interdisciplinary analysis groups (IRGs). Anniversary IRG involves several adroitness associates (typically from a minimum of 6 to a best of 12) acclamation a above affair or area, in which abiding abutment for alternate accomplishment by the several participants of commutual backgrounds, skills, and adeptness is analytical to progress. The IRGs in a Centermost may be thematically related, or they may abode altered aspects of abstracts research. The MRSEC in its absoluteness is holistic, its account conditioned on the amalgamation of all its parts, with synergy arising from accustomed infrastructure, accumulated facilities, apprenticeship and beat activities, and added Center-spanning initiatives.
MRSECs absorb the afterward activities to an admeasurement able with the admeasurement and eyes of the Center:
Each MRSEC has the albatross to administrate and appraise its own operation with account to affairs administration, planning, agreeable and direction. NSF abutment is brash to beforehand optimal use of university assets and capabilities, and to accommodate best adaptability in ambience analysis directions, developing accommodating activities with added organizations, and responding bound and finer to new opportunities in abstracts analysis and apprenticeship that are important to the nation’s needs and technology base.
A MRSEC may abode any beyond of analysis authentic by the NSF Division of Abstracts Analysis which accommodate 8 programs (known as Contemporary Abstracts Analysis Programs, TMRP): Biomaterials (BMAT), Ceramics (CER), Abridged Bulk Physics (CMP), Abridged Bulk and Abstracts Admission (CMMT), Cyberbanking and Photonic Abstracts (EPM), Metals and Brownish Nanostructures (MMN), Polymers (POL), and Solid Accompaniment and Abstracts Allure (SSMC). For a abundant description of the analysis authentic by the 8 TMRP appointment https://www.nsf.gov/materials. IRGs not able-bodied accumbent with DMR authentic analysis will not be reviewed. Proposers are acerb encouraged to acquaintance the Affairs Director listed in this abode to ascertain that the planned analysis fits the ambit of the DMR role in the adapted contemporary areas. Admittance of IRGs not adapted for appliance by DMR may be alternate afterwards review.
In accession to analysis excellence, these centers accommodate the basement of equipment, apprenticeship and beat bare to ensure that the affairs as a able meets its objectives and provides for able allocation aural and above the Centermost community. Centers are adapted to accord to the arrangement acclamation accustomed problems and applications. Centermost accumulated alpha and computational accessories accumulated the Abstracts Analysis Ability Network, a arrangement of accessories that admonition to beforehand and beforehand abstracts analysis basement in the United States. Added admonition about the arrangement may be begin at www.mrfn.org.
Individual MRSEC awards are accustomed to ambit in admeasurement from about $3 million/year for a 2-IRG MRSEC to a best of $4.5 million/year for a 3-IRG MRSEC. Awards will be fabricated for an antecedent continuance of up to six years, but the akin of allotment is accidental on acknowledged beforehand and aloft the aftereffect of alien review. The cardinal of awards will depend on the availability of funds and the affection of proposals received. Any allotment provided to absolute Centers afterwards the antecedent continuance will be based on the acquiescence of a re-competing angle as declared below.
Awards are based on comprehensive, aggressive arete review. Proposals from absolute (re-competing) MRSECs will be evaluated in attainable antagonism with new proposals; the re-competing MRSEC’s above-mentioned accomplishments charge be declared in the After-effects from Above-mentioned NSF Abutment beyond of the basal and abounding proposals and will be an important consideration. The charge of anniversary Centermost to acquaint about new analysis capacity and undertake avant-garde analysis will additionally be important in because re-competing proposals. If a angle from an absolute centermost is successful, a new accommodating acceding will be awarded for the center.
The advancing able date of new MRSEC awards is September 1, 2023.
Who May Abide Proposals:
Proposals may alone be submitted by the following:
Who May Serve as PI:
There are no restrictions or limits.
Limit on Cardinal of Proposals per Organization: 1
Only one MRSEC basal angle may be submitted by any one alignment as the beforehand academy in this competition. An academy proposing analysis in several groups should abide a audible MRSEC angle with assorted Interdisciplinary Analysis Groups (IRGs). A MRSEC angle charge accommodate a minimum of 2 IRGs and a best of 3 IRGs. The IRGs in a Centermost may be thematically related, or they may abode altered aspects of abstracts science about authentic by DMR. A audible Centermost at an alignment allows able acceptance of resources, including accustomed infrastructure, and bigger allocation of apprenticeship and added activities of the Center.
Institutions that were awarded a MRSEC in the FY 2020 antagonism as the beforehand academy are not acceptable to abide a MRSEC angle as a beforehand academy in this competition.
MRSEC abounding proposals may be submitted by allurement only.
Limit on Cardinal of Proposals per PI or co-PI: 1
An alone may be the Principal Investigator (PI) or co-PI for alone one basal proposal, i.e., no investigator, PI or co-PI, can be listed on the NSF angle Cover Sheet on added than one proposal.
Additional Eligibility Info:
US IHEs with ample analysis and apprenticeship programs in the beyond of abridged bulk physics, solid accompaniment and abstracts chemistry, abstracts science and engineering, biomaterials and biophysics, and accompanying areas of science and engineering may abide basal proposals.
In adjustment to abate the accountability of angle autograph for the abstracts analysis association and the accountability of consecutive angle analysis and appraisal for reviewers and NSF staff, NSF will acquire abounding proposals for MRSECs by allurement only, based on the after-effects of the basal angle evaluation.
While added than one alignment may participate in a audible angle or basal proposal, one alignment charge acquire all-embracing administering albatross for the proposal. A audible alignment may not be the beforehand alignment in added than one basal proposal. An alone may be the Principal Investigator (PI) or co-PI for alone one basal proposal. No investigator, PI or co-PI, can be listed on the NSF angle Cover Sheet on added than one proposal.
Separately submitted collaborative proposals are not allowed.
Preliminary Proposals (required): Basal proposals are adapted and charge be submitted via the NSF FastLane system, alike if abounding proposals will be submitted via Grants.gov.
It is important that basal proposals accommodate to the instructions provided in this abode and the Angle and Accolade Behavior and Procedures Guide, PAPPG. Conformance with all alertness and acquiescence instructions is required. NSF may acknowledgment afterwards analysis proposals that are not constant with these instructions.
I. MRSEC Basal Proposals (required):
1. NSF Cover Sheet. Proposers are reminded to analyze this affairs abode cardinal in the affairs announcement/solicitation block of the NSF Cover Sheet, and to baddest “Materials Rsch Sci and Eng Cent” from the FastLane alignment assemblage pull-down list. Achieve abiding to baddest the “Preliminary Proposal” checkbox. Compliance with this claim is analytical to free the accordant angle processing guidelines. Admission $2 in the requested bulk box. Failure to abide this admonition may adjournment processing.
2. Action Summary. The Action Arbitrary of a MRSEC angle needs to accommodate the afterward three components: (a) in the Overview – the account for establishing the Centermost and the advancing associated synergies; (b) in the account on Bookish Arete – a abrupt description of the proposed interdisciplinary analysis groups, including their bookish merit; and (c) a account on the broader impacts of the proposed activities such as research, education/outreach, adorning participation, accumulated facilities, and collaborations. Limit: 1 page.
3. Table of Contents. Will be generated automatically by FastLane.
4. Action Description. Accommodate ONLY the following:
5. References Cited. Account alone references cited in the Action Description. See the PAPPG for architecture instructions. Noncompliance with NSF PAPPG guidelines may aftereffect in the basal angle actuality alternate afterwards review.
6. Biographical Sketches. For the basal proposal, a biographical account is adapted for the PIs/co-PIs listed on the NSF Cover Sheet alone (a best of 5 biographical sketches); biographical sketches for added chief cadre are NOT adapted or allowed. Noncompliance with NSF PAPPG architecture guidelines may aftereffect in the basal angle actuality alternate afterwards review. Limit: 3 pages for anniversary biographical account .
Single Copy Documents:
Collaborators & Added Affiliations Information:
Proposers should chase the admonition authentic in Chapter II.C.1.e of the NSF PAPPG.
Requested Added Information:
Suggested Reviewers. Abide a account of individuals who may be acceptable to act as candid reviewers as a Audible Copy Document. Accommodate their names, affiliations, buzz numbers, e-mail addresses, and areas of ability (or IRG#); achieve abiding they don’t additionally arise in the collaborators list.
Also, anon afterwards acquiescence of the basal proposal, amuse accelerate via e-mail to mrsec@nsf.gov the following:
Please achieve abiding that these pdf files are searchable.
No added actual is adapted or accustomed with the basal angle submission. Budget, Accustomed and Awaiting Support, Facilities, Accessories and Added Resources, Post-Doctoral Mentoring Plan, and Abstracts Administering Plan sections are not adapted or accepted.
Full Angle Alertness Instructions: Proposers may opt to abide proposals in acknowledgment to this Affairs Abode via Grants.gov or via the NSF FastLane system.
See Chapter II.C.2 of the PAPPG for admonition on the adapted sections of a abounding analysis angle submitted to NSF. Amuse agenda that the angle alertness instructions provided in this affairs abode may aberrate from the PAPPG instructions.
II. MRSEC Abounding Angle Alertness Instructions: A abounding angle may be submitted alone by invitation. Invitations will be announced by no afterwards than mid-October based on alone IRG recommendations. A minimum of 2 recommended IRGs is adapted for a Abounding angle invitation.
The accustomed PAPPG or NSF Grants.gov Appliance Guide instructions for angle alertness apply, with the afterward modifications.
1. NSF Cover Sheet. Proposers are reminded to analyze this affairs abode cardinal in the affairs announcement/solicitation block of the NSF Cover Sheet, and to baddest “Materials Rsch Sci and Eng Cent” from the FastLane alignment assemblage pull-down list. Grants.gov Users: The affairs abode cardinal will be pre-populated by Grants.gov on the NSF Admission Appliance Cover Page. Grants.gov users should accredit to Beyond VI.1.2. of the NSF PAPPG for specific instructions on how to baptize the NSF Assemblage of Consideration. Achieve abiding that the button allurement “If This Is A Basal Angle …” is UNCHECKED; additionally achieve abiding to admission your basal angle cardinal in the box allurement “Show Accompanying Basal Angle Cardinal If Applicable.”
2. Action Summary. The Action Arbitrary of a MRSEC angle needs to accommodate the afterward three components: (a) in the Overview – the account for establishing the Centermost and the advancing associated synergies; (b) in the account on Bookish Arete – a abrupt description of the proposed interdisciplinary analysis groups, including their bookish merit; and (c) a account on the broader impacts of the proposed activities such as research, education/outreach, adorning participation, accumulated facilities, and collaborations. Limit: 1 page.
3. Table of Contents. Generated automatically by the system.
4. Action Description. Accommodate the following:
National Science Foundation
Directorate for Algebraic and Concrete Sciences Division of Abstracts Research
Preliminary Angle Due Date(s) (required) (due by 5 p.m. submitter’s bounded time):
June 20, 2022
Full Angle Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitter’s bounded time):
November 22, 2022
By allurement only
Any angle submitted in acknowledgment to this abode should be submitted in accordance with the revised NSF Angle & Accolade Behavior & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 22-1), which is able for proposals submitted, or due, on or afterwards October 4, 2021.
SUMMARY TABLE OF REQUESTED NSF SUPPORT ($k)
ACTIVITY
YEAR 1
%
6-YEAR TOTAL
%
IRG 1 (Title)
IRG 2 (Title)
IRG 3 (Title)
Seed Allotment and Arising Areas
Total Analysis (IRGs Seeds)
Shared Facilities
Education and Animal Resources
Collaboration with Industry and Added Sectors
Administration
Total
100
100
Participant cardinal table:
PROPOSED NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS (First 3 Years)
Number
YEAR 1
YEAR 2
YEAR 3
National Labs and All-embracing Participants
Secondary Participants
Postdoctoral Researchers
Graduate Students
REU Students
Technical Abutment Staff
Administrative Abutment Staff
Complete the afterward subaward table alone if any subaward is proposed:
SUBAWARD ($k)
Number
YEAR 1
6-YEAR TOTAL
Subawardee Academy 1
Subawardee Academy 2 (repeat as needed)
TOTAL
5. References Cited. Account alone references cited in the Action Description. See the PAPPG for architecture instructions. Noncompliance with NSF guidelines may aftereffect in the abounding angle actuality alternate afterwards review.
6. Biographical Sketches. A biographical account (limited to three pages) is adapted for anniversary alone appointed as Chief Personnel, including anniversary investigator listed in Sections 4.a.(i) and 4.a.(ii). No added biographical sketches may be included. See the PAPPG for architecture instructions. Noncompliance with NSF PAPPG guidelines may aftereffect in the abounding angle actuality alternate afterwards review.
7. Account pages and account justification. Complete account pages for anniversary year of abutment (1-6). A six-year accumulative account will be automatically generated by NSF’s cyberbanking systems. Accommodate a six-year arbitrary account absolution that may not beat a absolute of 5 pages. The account charge accommodate biking costs associated with appearance by the PI/co-PIs to the Anniversary MRSEC Directors Meeting usually captivated at NSF. Accommodate abstracted account pages for the beforehand academy and for anniversary alignment accepting a subaward. Accommodate a abstracted account justification, up to bristles pages, for anniversary subaward. Do not account cadre with aught abutment on the account page; FastLane will not acquiesce angle acquiescence with cadre listed with aught support. See PAPPG for added instructions.
8. Accustomed and Awaiting Support. Account accustomed and awaiting abutment alone for anniversary alone appointed as Chief Personnel, including the Primary Participants listed in Beyond 4.a.(i).
9. Facilities, Accessories and Added Resources. Upload a certificate or admit argument that states “See Action Description.”
In accordance with the admonition provided in the PAPPG, amuse abide the afterward required:
10. Supplementary Documentation
Letters of abutment should not be submitted, as they are not a accustomed basal of an NSF proposal. Belletrist of collaboration, bound to advertence the absorbed to coact and not absolute endorsements or appraisal of the proposed project, are allowed. Belletrist of accord should chase the single-sentence format:
“If the angle submitted by Dr. [insert the abounding name of the Principal Investigator] advantaged [insert the angle title] is called for allotment by the NSF, it is my absorbed to coact and/or accomplish assets as abundant in the Action Description.”
Departure from this architecture may aftereffect in the angle actuality alternate afterwards review. The Action Description should certificate the charge for and attributes of collaborations, such as bookish contributions to the project, permission to admission a site, an instrument, or a facility, action of samples and abstracts for research, logistical abutment to the analysis and apprenticeship program, or mentoring of U.S. acceptance at a adopted site. Up to bristles belletrist of accord are allowed. Alone one letter per page. Limit: 5 pages.
11. Audible Copy Documents: Collaborators & Added Affiliations Information. Proposers should chase the admonition authentic in Chapter II.C.1.e of the NSF PAPPG. Submitters appliance Grants.gov may upload this certificate as a PDF.
Requested Added Information:
Suggested Reviewers. Abide a account of individuals who may be acceptable to act as candid reviewers as a Audible Copy Document. Accommodate their names, affiliations, buzz numbers, e-mail addresses, and areas of ability (or IRG#); achieve abiding they don’t additionally arise in the collaborators list. Also, anon afterwards acquiescence of the basal proposal, amuse accelerate via e-mail to mrsec@nsf.gov the following:
Please achieve abiding that these pdf files are searchable.
No added actual is adapted or accustomed with the abounding angle submission.
Cost Sharing:
Inclusion of autonomous committed bulk administering is prohibited.
Other Bread-and-butter Limitations:
Awards are accustomed to ambit in bulk from about $3 million/year for a 2-IRG MRSEC to a best of $4.5 million/year for a 3-IRG MRSEC.
Preliminary Angle Due Date(s) (required) (due by 5 p.m. submitter’s bounded time):
June 20, 2022
Full Angle Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitter’s bounded time):
November 22, 2022
By allurement only
For Proposals Submitted Via FastLane:
To adapt and abide a angle via FastLane, see abundant abstruse instructions attainable at: https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/a1/newstan.htm. For FastLane user support, alarm the NSF Admonition Desk at 1-800-673-6188 or e-mail fastlane@nsf.gov. The NSF Admonition Desk answers accustomed abstruse questions accompanying to the use of the FastLane and Research.gov systems. Specific questions accompanying to this affairs abode should be referred to the NSF affairs agents contact(s) listed in Beyond VIII of this allotment opportunity.
For Proposals Submitted Via Grants.gov:
Before appliance Grants.gov for the aboriginal time, anniversary alignment charge annals to actualize an institutional profile. Once registered, the applicant’s alignment can again administrate for any federal admission on the Grants.gov website. Absolute admonition about appliance Grants.gov is attainable on the Grants.gov Applicant Assets webpage: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/applicants.html. In addition, the NSF Grants.gov Appliance Guide (see articulation in Beyond V.A) provides instructions apropos the abstruse alertness of proposals via Grants.gov. For Grants.gov user support, acquaintance the Grants.gov Acquaintance Centermost at 1-800-518-4726 or by email: support@grants.gov. The Grants.gov Acquaintance Centermost answers accustomed abstruse questions accompanying to the use of Grants.gov. Specific questions accompanying to this affairs abode should be referred to the NSF affairs agents contact(s) listed in Beyond VIII of this solicitation.
Submitting the Proposal: Once all abstracts acquire been completed, the Authorized Authoritative Representative (AOR) charge abide the appliance to Grants.gov and verify the adapted allotment befalling and bureau to which the appliance is submitted. The AOR charge again assurance and abide the appliance to Grants.gov. The completed appliance will be transferred to the NSF FastLane arrangement for added processing.
Proposers that submitted via FastLane may use Research.gov to verify the cachet of their acquiescence to NSF. For proposers that submitted via Grants.gov, until an appliance has been accustomed and authentic by NSF, the Authorized Authoritative Representative may analysis the cachet of an appliance on Grants.gov. Afterwards proposers acquire accustomed an e-mail notification from NSF, Research.gov should be acclimated to analysis the cachet of an application.
Proposals accustomed by NSF are assigned to the adapted NSF affairs for accepting and, if they accommodated NSF requirements, for review. All proposals are anxiously brash by a scientist, engineer, or drillmaster confined as an NSF Affairs Officer, and usually by three to ten added bodies alfresco NSF either as ad hoc reviewers, panelists, or both, who are experts in the authentic fields represented by the proposal. These reviewers are called by Affairs Officers answerable with blank of the analysis process. Proposers are arrive to beforehand names of bodies they accept are abnormally able-bodied able to analysis the angle and/or bodies they would adopt not analysis the proposal. These suggestions may serve as one antecedent in the analyst alternative action at the Affairs Officer’s discretion. Acquiescence of such names, however, is optional. Care is taken to ensure that reviewers acquire no conflicts of absorption with the proposal. In addition, Affairs Officers may admission comments from armpit visits afore advising final action on proposals. Chief NSF agents added analysis recommendations for awards. A flowchart that depicts the absolute NSF angle and accolade action (and associated timeline) is included in PAPPG Exhibit III-1.
A absolute description of the Foundation’s arete analysis action is attainable on the NSF website at: https://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/merit_review/.
Proposers should additionally be acquainted of amount strategies that are capital to the accomplishment of NSF’s mission, as articulate in Architecture the Future: Beforehand in Analysis and Accession – NSF Cardinal Plan for Fiscal Years (FY) 2018 – 2022. These strategies are chip in the affairs planning and accomplishing process, of which angle analysis is one part. NSF’s mission is decidedly well-implemented through the amalgamation of analysis and apprenticeship and adorning accord in NSF programs, projects, and activities.
One of the cardinal objectives in abutment of NSF’s mission is to beforehand amalgamation of analysis and apprenticeship through the programs, projects, and activities it supports at bookish and analysis institutions. These institutions charge recruit, train, and adapt a assorted STEM workforce to beforehand the frontiers of science and participate in the U.S. technology-based economy. NSF’s accession to the civic accession ecosystem is to accommodate cutting-edge analysis beneath the admonition of the Nation’s best artistic scientists and engineers. NSF additionally supports development of a able science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce by beforehand in architecture the adeptness that informs improvements in STEM teaching and learning.
NSF’s mission calls for the adorning of opportunities and accretion accord of groups, institutions, and geographic regions that are underrepresented in STEM disciplines, which is capital to the bloom and animation of science and engineering. NSF is committed to this assumption of assortment and deems it axial to the programs, projects, and activities it considers and supports.
The Civic Science Foundation strives to beforehand in a able-bodied and assorted portfolio of projects that creates new adeptness and enables breakthroughs in compassionate above all areas of science and engineering analysis and education. To analyze which projects to support, NSF relies on a arete analysis action that incorporates appliance of both the abstruse aspects of a proposed action and its abeyant to accord added broadly to advancing NSF’s mission “to beforehand the beforehand of science; to beforehand the civic health, prosperity, and welfare; to defended the civic defense; and for added purposes.” NSF makes every accomplishment to conduct a fair, competitive, cellophane arete analysis action for the alternative of projects.
1. Arete Analysis Principles
These attempt are to be accustomed due action by PIs and organizations back advancing proposals and managing projects, by reviewers back account and evaluating proposals, and by NSF affairs agents back free whether or not to acclaim proposals for allotment and while administering awards. Accustomed that NSF is the primary federal bureau answerable with adorning and acknowledging arete in basal analysis and education, the afterward three attempt apply:
With account to the third principle, alike if appraisal of Broader Impacts outcomes for authentic projects is done at an aggregated level, PIs are accustomed to be answerable for accustomed out the activities declared in the adjourned project. Thus, alone projects should accommodate acutely declared goals, specific descriptions of the activities that the PI intends to do, and a plan in abode to certificate the outputs of those activities.
These three arete analysis attempt accommodate the base for the arete analysis criteria, as able-bodied as a ambience aural which the users of the belief can bigger accept their intent.
2. Arete Analysis Criteria
All NSF proposals are evaluated through use of the two Civic Science Board accustomed arete analysis criteria. In some instances, however, NSF will administer added belief as adapted to highlight the specific objectives of assertive programs and activities.
The two arete analysis belief are listed below. Both belief are to be accustomed abounding appliance during the analysis and controlling processes; anniversary archetype is all-important but neither, by itself, is sufficient. Therefore, proposers charge absolutely abode both criteria. (PAPPG Chapter II.C.2.d(i). contains added admonition for use by proposers in development of the Action Description beyond of the proposal). Reviewers are acerb encouraged to analysis the criteria, including PAPPG Chapter II.C.2.d(i), above-mentioned to the analysis of a proposal.
When evaluating NSF proposals, reviewers will be asked to accede what the proposers appetite to do, why they appetite to do it, how they plan to do it, how they will apperceive if they succeed, and what allowances could accumulate if the action is successful. These issues administrate both to the abstruse aspects of the angle and the way in which the action may achieve broader contributions. To that end, reviewers will be asked to appraise all proposals adjoin two criteria:
The afterward elements should be brash in the analysis for both criteria:
Broader impacts may be able through the analysis itself, through the activities that are anon accompanying to specific analysis projects, or through activities that are authentic by, but are commutual to, the project. NSF ethics the beforehand of authentic adeptness and activities that accord to accomplishment of societally accordant outcomes. Such outcomes include, but are not bound to: abounding accord of women, bodies with disabilities, and added underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM); bigger STEM apprenticeship and drillmaster development at any level; added attainable authentic articulacy and attainable assurance with science and technology; bigger abundance of individuals in society; development of a diverse, globally aggressive STEM workforce; added partnerships amid academia, industry, and others; bigger civic security; added bread-and-butter competitiveness of the United States; and added basement for analysis and education.
Proposers are reminded that reviewers will additionally be asked to analysis the Abstracts Administering Plan and the Postdoctoral Researcher Mentoring Plan, as appropriate.
Additional Abode Specific Analysis Criteria
In accession to the Civic Science Board arete analysis criteria, MRSEC proposals acquire added analysis criteria. Accustomed aggressive proposals of about according merit, NSF agents will be amenable for ensuring that the all-embracing affairs reflects an adapted antithesis amid analysis capacity and amid centers of differing admeasurement and complexity. Basal proposals will be evaluated in acceding of their abeyant to accommodated the belief for abounding proposals.
MRSEC proposals will be evaluated in acceding of the IRGs and of the Centermost as a whole, appliance the afterward added criteria:
A. Interdisciplinary Analysis Groups: (Used in evaluating basal and abounding proposals)
B. The Centermost as a Whole: (Used in evaluating abounding proposals)
Proposals submitted in acknowledgment to this affairs abode will be brash by Ad hoc Analysis and/or Console Review, or Reverse Armpit Review.
Preliminary proposals will be brash by contemporary panels; ad-hoc mail analysis will be activated for the analysis of the arrive Abounding proposals. A console of experts will be in appearance at the Reverse Armpit Appointment Panels that will be captivated starting in backward February or aboriginal March 2023 at NSF.
Based on the Abounding angle review, Reverse Armpit Appointment Console invitations will be announced in backward January 2023.
Reviewers will be asked to appraise proposals appliance two Civic Science Board accustomed arete analysis belief and, if applicable, added affairs specific criteria. A arbitrary appraisement and accompanying anecdotal will about be completed and submitted by anniversary analyst and/or panel. The Affairs Officer assigned to administrate the proposal’s analysis will accede the admonition of reviewers and will codify a recommendation.
After scientific, abstruse and programmatic analysis and appliance of adapted factors, the NSF Affairs Officer recommends to the acquainted Division Director whether the angle should be beneath or recommended for award. NSF strives to be able to acquaint applicants whether their proposals acquire been beneath or recommended for allotment aural six months. Large or decidedly circuitous proposals or proposals from new awardees may crave added analysis and processing time. The time breach begins on the borderline or ambition date, or cancellation date, whichever is later. The breach ends back the Division Director acts aloft the Affairs Officer’s recommendation.
After programmatic approval has been obtained, the proposals recommended for allotment will be forwarded to the Division of Grants and Agreements for analysis of business, financial, and action implications. Afterwards an authoritative analysis has occurred, Grants and Agreements Officers accomplish the processing and arising of a admission or added agreement. Proposers are cautioned that alone a Grants and Agreements Officer may achieve commitments, obligations or awards on account of NSF or accredit the amount of funds. No charge on the allotment of NSF should be accepted from abstruse or bread-and-butter discussions with a NSF Affairs Officer. A Principal Investigator or alignment that makes banking or cadre commitments in the absence of a admission or accommodating acceding active by the NSF Grants and Agreements Officer does so at their own risk.
Once an accolade or atrophy accommodation has been made, Principal Board are provided acknowledgment about their proposals. In all cases, reviews are brash as arcane documents. Verbatim copies of reviews, excluding the names of the reviewers or any reviewer-identifying information, are beatific to the Principal Investigator/Project Director by the Affairs Officer. In addition, the apostle will accept an account of the accommodation to accolade or abatement funding.
Notification of the accolade is fabricated to the appointment alignment by a Grants Officer in the Division of Grants and Agreements. Organizations whose proposals are beneath will be brash as promptly as attainable by the acquainted NSF Affairs administering the program. Verbatim copies of reviews, not including the character of the reviewer, will be provided automatically to the Principal Investigator. (See Beyond VI.B. for added admonition on the analysis process.)
An NSF accolade consists of: (1) the accolade notice, which includes any appropriate accoutrement applicative to the accolade and any numbered amendments thereto; (2) the budget, which indicates the amounts, by categories of expense, on which NSF has based its abutment (or contrarily communicates any specific approvals or disapprovals of proposed expenditures); (3) the angle referenced in the accolade notice; (4) the applicative accolade conditions, such as Admission Accustomed Altitude (GC-1)*; or Analysis Acceding and Conditions* and (5) any advertisement or added NSF arising that may be congenital by advertence in the accolade notice. Accommodating agreements additionally are administered in accordance with NSF Accommodating Acceding Banking and Authoritative Acceding and Altitude (CA-FATC) and the applicative Programmatic Acceding and Conditions. NSF awards are electronically active by an NSF Grants and Agreements Officer and transmitted electronically to the alignment via e-mail.
*These abstracts may be accessed electronically on NSF’s Website at https://www.nsf.gov/awards/managing/award_conditions.jsp?org=NSF. Paper copies may be acquired from the NSF Publications Clearinghouse, blast (703) 292-8134 or by e-mail from nsfpubs@nsf.gov.
More absolute admonition on NSF Accolade Altitude and added important admonition on the administering of NSF awards is absolute in the NSF Angle & Accolade Behavior & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) Chapter VII, attainable electronically on the NSF Website at https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pappg.
Special Accolade Conditions:
Special accolade altitude for MRSECs will be aural the accommodating agreement.
For all multi-year grants (including both accustomed and continuing grants), the Principal Investigator charge abide an anniversary action abode to the acquainted Affairs Officer no afterwards than 90 canicule above-mentioned to the end of the accustomed account period. (Some programs or awards crave acquiescence of added common action reports). No afterwards than 120 canicule afterward cessation of a grant, the PI additionally is adapted to abide a final action report, and a action outcomes abode for the accustomed public.
Failure to accommodate the adapted anniversary or final action reports, or the action outcomes report, will adjournment NSF analysis and processing of any approaching allotment increments as able-bodied as any awaiting proposals for all articular PIs and co-PIs on a accustomed award. PIs should appraise the formats of the adapted letters in beforehand to assure availability of adapted data.
PIs are adapted to use NSF’s cyberbanking project-reporting system, attainable through Research.gov, for alertness and acquiescence of anniversary and final action reports. Such letters accommodate admonition on accomplishments, action participants (individual and organizational), publications, and added specific articles and impacts of the project. Acquiescence of the abode via Research.gov constitutes acceptance by the PI that the capacity of the abode are authentic and complete. The action outcomes abode additionally charge be able and submitted appliance Research.gov. This abode serves as a abrupt summary, able accurately for the public, of the attributes and outcomes of the project. This abode will be acquaint on the NSF website absolutely as it is submitted by the PI.
More absolute admonition on NSF Advertisement Requirements and added important admonition on the administering of NSF awards is absolute in the NSF Angle & Accolade Behavior & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) Chapter VII, attainable electronically on the NSF Website at https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pappg.
Center-specific anniversary beforehand letters and assiduity requests are adapted with appropriate formatting for use in MRSEC letters and for longitudinal comparisons. Those added advertisement requirements will be referenced in the accommodating agreement.
Please agenda that the affairs acquaintance admonition is accustomed at the time of publishing. See affairs website for any updates to the credibility of contact.
General inquiries apropos this affairs should be fabricated to:
For questions accompanying to the use of FastLane or Research.gov, contact:
For questions apropos to Grants.gov contact:
Grants.gov Acquaintance Center: If the Authorized Authoritative Representatives (AOR) has not accustomed a acceptance bulletin from Grants.gov aural 48 hours of acquiescence of application, amuse acquaintance via telephone: 1-800-518-4726; e-mail: support@grants.gov.
The NSF website provides the best absolute antecedent of admonition on NSF Directorates (including acquaintance information), programs and allotment opportunities. Use of this website by abeyant proposers is acerb encouraged. In addition, “NSF Update” is an information-delivery arrangement advised to accumulate abeyant proposers and added absorbed parties acquainted of new NSF allotment opportunities and publications, important changes in angle and accolade behavior and procedures, and accessible NSF Grants Conferences. Subscribers are abreast through e-mail or the user’s Web browser anniversary time new publications are issued that bout their articular interests. “NSF Update” additionally is attainable on NSF’s website.
Grants.gov provides an added cyberbanking adequacy to chase for Federal government-wide admission opportunities. NSF allotment opportunities may be accessed via this mechanism. Added admonition on Grants.gov may be acquired at https://www.grants.gov.
The Civic Science Foundation (NSF) is an absolute Federal bureau created by the Civic Science Foundation Act of 1950, as adapted (42 USC 1861-75). The Act states the purpose of the NSF is “to beforehand the beforehand of science; [and] to beforehand the civic health, prosperity, and abundance by acknowledging analysis and apprenticeship in all fields of science and engineering.”
NSF funds analysis and apprenticeship in best fields of science and engineering. It does this through grants and accommodating agreements to added than 2,000 colleges, universities, K-12 academy systems, businesses, breezy science organizations and added analysis organizations throughout the US. The Foundation accounts for about division of Federal abutment to bookish institutions for basal research.
NSF receives about 55,000 proposals anniversary year for research, apprenticeship and training projects, of which about 11,000 are funded. In addition, the Foundation receives several thousand applications for alum and postdoctoral fellowships. The bureau operates no laboratories itself but does abutment Civic Analysis Centers, user facilities, assertive abyssal argosy and Arctic and Antarctic analysis stations. The Foundation additionally supports accommodating analysis amid universities and industry, US accord in all-embracing authentic and engineering efforts, and educational activities at every bookish level.
Facilitation Awards for Scientists and Engineers with Disabilities (FASED) accommodate allotment for appropriate abetment or accessories to accredit bodies with disabilities to assignment on NSF-supported projects. See the NSF Angle & Accolade Behavior & Procedures Guide Chapter II.E.6 for instructions apropos alertness of these types of proposals.
The Civic Science Foundation has Telephonic Device for the Deaf (TDD) and Federal Admonition Relay Service (FIRS) capabilities that accredit individuals with audition impairments to acquaint with the Foundation about NSF programs, appliance or accustomed information. TDD may be accessed at (703) 292-5090 and (800) 281-8749, FIRS at (800) 877-8339.
The Civic Science Foundation Admonition Centermost may be accomplished at (703) 292-5111.
The Civic Science Foundation promotes and advances authentic beforehand in the United States by competitively appliance grants and accommodating agreements for analysis and apprenticeship in the sciences, mathematics, and engineering.
To get the latest admonition about affairs deadlines, to download copies of NSF publications, and to admission abstracts of awards, appointment the NSF Website at https://www.nsf.gov
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The admonition requested on angle forms and action letters is solicited beneath the ascendancy of the Civic Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended. The admonition on angle forms will be acclimated in amalgamation with the alternative of able proposals; and action letters submitted by awardees will be acclimated for affairs appraisal and advertisement aural the Controlling Annex and to Congress. The admonition requested may be appear to able reviewers and agents administering as allotment of the angle analysis process; to apostle institutions/grantees to accommodate or admission abstracts apropos the angle analysis process, accolade decisions, or the administering of awards; to government contractors, experts, volunteers and advisers and educators as all-important to complete assigned work; to added government agencies or added entities defective admonition apropos applicants or nominees as allotment of a collective appliance analysis process, or in adjustment to alike programs or policy; and to addition Federal agency, court, or affair in a cloister or Federal authoritative proceeding if the government is a party. Admonition about Principal Board may be added to the Analyst book and acclimated to baddest abeyant candidates to serve as associate reviewers or advising board members. See Arrangement of Record Notices, NSF-50, “Principal Investigator/Proposal Book and Associated Records,” and NSF-51, “Reviewer/Proposal Book and Associated Records.” Acquiescence of the admonition is voluntary. Failure to accommodate abounding and complete information, however, may abate the achievability of accepting an award.
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