Funding-Limited Submission – NSF Climate Change Education Partnership (CCEP) Program, January 17, 2012

Description: The Climate Change Education Partnership (CCEP) program seeks to establish a coordinated national network of regionally- or thematically-based partnerships devoted to increasing the adoption of effective, high quality educational programs and resources related to the science of climate change and its impacts. Each CCEP is required to be of a large enough scale that it will have catalytic or transformative impact that cannot be achieved through other core NSF program awards.

The CCEP program is a two-phase program. CCEP Phase I (CCEP-I) projects funded in FY 2010 and FY 2011 and a sub-set of CCE projects funded in FY 2009 have focused on Partnership initiation and strategic planning for Phase II.

The current solicitation seeks proposals for Phase II Partnerships (CCEP-II) only. CCEP-II awardees will receive up to 5 years of funding to support full-scale implementation of mature and robust strategic plans already developed by regional or thematic partnerships to improve climate change education activities at a significant scale and meet the goals of the CCE program. Strategic plans must include well-integrated formative and summative evaluation activities conducted by an external evaluator. Prior CCEP-I funding is not an eligibility requirement, but all proposed Phase II Partnerships that did not have CCEP-I funding must demonstrate that they meet the required criteria and have undertaken activities that address the goals and objectives described in the CCEP-I program solicitation.

Program solicitation: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12523/nsf12523.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click

Limit on Number of Proposals per Organization:

• Collaborative Proposals submitted as separate submissions from multiple organizations are NOT allowed for this competition. Instead, any proposal to the CCEP program should be a single submission that includes sub-award support for all other partner organizations that are requesting funding from NSF.
• An institution may submit only one CCEP-II proposal as Lead institution. Institutions may be a non-Lead partner on more than one proposal.
• A central organization that acts as fiscal agent for multiple institutions in a university system is not considered to be the same as the individual colleges and universities that are part of the system, and may act as fiscal agent for one or more proposals submitted in response to this solicitation.

Because NSF limits the number of proposals to one per institution as the lead organization, the University of Kentucky has established an internal selection process.  Prospective applicants interested in responding to this program are asked to send a pre-proposal with the following information to the Office of the Vice President for Research at vpr@email.uky.edu and a copy to their Associate Dean for Research by Tuesday, January 17, 2012:

1. Names and departments of the PI, project team, and partner organization(s)
2. Description of project goals and activities, including the role of UK participants and partnership organizations (1 – 2 pages maximum)

The Vice President for Research will appoint a committee to review the material and make recommendations as to the University’s applicant. Questions about the submission process may be sent to Ms. Annette Evans in the Office of the Vice President for Research (alevan4@email.uky.edu or 257-1663).

Deadlines:

Letter of Intent (required): January 24, 2012

Full Proposal: March 21, 2012