Purpose: The
National Science Foundation (NSF) Research
Traineeship (NRT) program is designed to encourage the development and
implementation of bold, new, and potentially transformative models for science,
technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduate education training. The
NRT 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 program is dedicated
to effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority
interdisciplinary research areas, through the use of a comprehensive traineeship
model that is innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce
and research needs. For FY2019 and FY2020, the NRT Program requests proposals in
any interdisciplinary research theme of national priority, with special emphasis
on the six NSF
Research Big Ideas:
·
Harnessing the
Data Revolution (HDR),
·
The Future of
Work at the Human-Technology Frontier (HTF),
·
Navigating the
New Arctic (NNA),
·
Windows on the
Universe: The Era of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (WOU),
·
The Quantum
Leap: Leading the Next Quantum Revolution (QL), and
·
Understanding
the Rules of Life: Predicting Phenotype (ROL).
The NRT program addresses
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. NRT especially welcomes
proposals that will pair well with the efforts of NSF INCLUDES to develop STEM
talent from all sectors and groups in our society (https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/nsfincludes/index.jsp). Collaborations are encouraged between NRT proposals
and existing NSF INCLUDES projects, provided the collaboration strengthens both
projects.
The
NRT Program is dedicated to supporting highly effective training of STEM
graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary or convergent research
areas through the use of comprehensive traineeship models that are innovative,
evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs. Goals of
the program are to:
Creation
of sustainable programmatic capacity at institutions is an expected outcome.
Proposals should describe mechanisms to institutionalize effective training
elements after award expiration.
Note: An individual may serve as
Lead Principal Investigator (PI) or co-PI on only one proposal submitted to the
NRT program per annual competition.
Funding Amount/ Project
Period: $3,000,000 total over 5
years
Link
to
Funding Opportunity Announcement
Institutional Limit:
2 as a lead
organization, non-lead organization, or subawardee
on any proposal. Organizations participating solely as evaluators on
projects are excluded from this limitation.
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 September 24,
2019:
·
Names
and departments of UK PI, Senior Project Personnel, and collaborating
researchers at participating institutions (including their roles and the names
of their institutions)
·
Title
of the program and/or funding opportunity announcement
number
·
Type
of proposal submission: lead organization, non-lead organization, subawardee
·
Brief
project description (2 pages maximum)
·
Brief
biographical sketch
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: Required
Letter of Intent - December 6, 2019; Full Proposal - February 6,
2020