FUNDING-NSF
- Dear Colleague Letter: Implementation of "No-Deadline," Full-proposal
Submission Process for Most Programs in the Directorate for Biological Sciences
(18-011); November 20, 2017
Description
The
Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) is notifying members of the research
communities of important changes to the core program solicitations as noted
below, effective in calendar year 2018. BIO will implement a "no-deadline,"
full-proposal mechanism for receiving and reviewing proposals submitted to core
programs in the Division of Environmental Biology (DEB), the Division of
Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS), the Division of Molecular and Cellular
Biosciences (MCB), and to the programs in the Research Resources Cluster of the
Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI).
For
these changes to take effect, the core programs in DEB and IOS are
discontinuing use of the preliminary proposal mechanism in 2018. There will be
no call for preliminary proposals in January 2018. Awards will be made, with FY
2018 funds, for full proposals that were invited for submission based on the
review of preliminary proposals submitted in January, 2017 to DEB
(solicitations NSF 17-512 and NSF 17-513) and to IOS (NSF 17-508). FY 2018
funds will also be used to make awards for full proposals submitted to MCB for
the November 20, 2017 deadline (NSF 17-589) and to DBI for the August 14, 2017,
September 8, 2017, and December 8, 2017 deadlines (NSF 15-577, NSF 15-582, and
NSF 16-506 respectively). Thereafter, these solicitations will be archived and
will no longer accept proposals. All four divisions will release new
solicitations to replace these in the middle of calendar year 2018, inviting
proposals to be funded with FY 2019 funds. There will be no deadlines for
submissions to any of the new solicitations.
Additional
information will be available in the near future in the form of Frequently
Asked Questions, webinars, and presentations. You are strongly encouraged to
register at https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_list.jsp?org=BIO
to receive alerts of these documents and activities. Please direct your
comments and questions about these changes to BIOnodeadline@nsf.gov.
Announcement
Number:
NSF
18-011
Link
to Full Announcement