(FOA)-Limited Submission – NSF – EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Track-2 Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (RII Track-2 FEC) (NSF 18-589); November 26, 2018

 

Purpose:  The NSF Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) promotes scientific progress nationwide. The Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Track-2 Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (RII Track-2 FEC) builds interjurisdictional collaborative teams of EPSCoR investigators in scientific focus areas consistent with NSF priorities. Projects are investigator-driven and must include researchers from at least two RII-eligible jurisdictions (i.e., Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, US Virgin Islands, West Virginia, and Wyoming.). The Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) research and education activities should seek to broaden participation through the strategic inclusion and integration of different types of individuals, institutions, and sectors throughout the project. Proposals must describe a comprehensive and integrated vision to drive discovery and build sustainable STEM capacity that exemplifies diversity of all types (individual, institutional, geographic, and disciplinary). The development of diverse early-career faculty is a critical component of this sustainable STEM capacity.

 

Note: For FY 2019, RII Track-2 FEC, all proposals must promote collaborations among researchers in EPSCoR jurisdictions and emphasize the recruitment/development of diverse early career faculty and STEM education and workforce development on the single topic: "Harnessing Big Data to solve problems of national importance."

 

Funding Amount / Project Period: $1 million to $1.5 million per year for up to four years

• If institutions from two RII-eligible EPSCoR jurisdictions collaborate on a proposal, the award amount may not exceed $1 million per year.
• If institutions from three or more RII-eligible EPSCoR jurisdictions collaborate on a proposal, the award amount may not exceed $1.5 million per year.

 

Link to Funding Announcement

 

Institutional Limit:  1

 

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 October 16, 2018:

·         Names and departments of UK PI, Senior Project Personnel, and collaborating researchers at RII-eligible institutions/jurisdictions (including the names of all institutions involved in the project)

·         Title of the program and/or funding opportunity announcement number

·         Brief project description (2 pages maximum).

 

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 Deadlines:  Letter of Intent (required) – November 26, 2018; Full Proposal – January 25, 2019