Purpose: The
National Science Foundation Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) program is
designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new, and
potentially transformative approaches to STEM graduate education training. The
program seeks proposals that explore ways for graduate students
in research-based master’s and doctoral degree programs to develop the
skills, knowledge, and competencies needed to pursue a range of STEM careers. The primary
target population for IGE projects must be master’s
and/or doctoral STEM students in a research-based degree program that requires a
thesis or dissertation.
IGE
focuses on projects aimed at piloting, testing, and validating innovative and
potentially transformative approaches to graduate education. IGE projects are
intended to generate the knowledge required for their customization,
implementation, and broader adoption. The program supports testing of novel
models or activities with high potential to enrich and extend the knowledge base
on effective graduate education approaches.
The
program addresses both workforce development, emphasizing broad participation,
and institutional capacity building needs in graduate education. Strategic
collaborations with the private sector, non-governmental organizations (NGOs),
government agencies, national laboratories, field stations, teaching and
learning centers, informal science centers, and academic partners are
encouraged.
Note:
The institutional limit of two
proposals includes any application as
a lead organization on a non-collaborative proposal or as a lead organization,
non-lead organization, or subawardee on a
collaborative proposal. Organizations participating solely as evaluators on
projects are excluded from this limitation.
Eligibility:
An
individual may serve as Lead Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-PI on only one
proposal submitted to the IGE program.
Funding Amount/ Project
Period: $300,000 to $500,000 for up
to 3 years
Link
to Funding Opportunity Announcement
Institutional Limit:
2
Internal
Competition: To
participate in the university’s selection process,please upload the
following,assembled
into a single PDF file, to the Office of the Vice President for Research via
this
portal
with a copy to your Associate Dean for Research by July 23,
2019:
A committee will be
convened to review the material and make a recommendation.
For questions or issues
with submission through the portal, email the limited submission mailbox
(limitedsubmissions@uky.edu), or call 257-2861.
Agency Deadline: September
27, 2019