Purpose: The
National Science Foundation (NSF) Science and Technology Centers (STC):
Integrative Partnerships program supports exceptionally innovative, complex
research and education projects that require large-scale, long-term awards.
STCs focus on creating new scientific paradigms, establishing entirely new
scientific disciplines and developing transformative technologies which have
the potential for broad scientific or societal impact. STCs conduct world-class
research through partnerships among institutions of higher education, national
laboratories, industrial organizations, other public or private entities, and
via international collaborations, as appropriate. They provide a means to
undertake potentially groundbreaking investigations at the interfaces of
disciplines and/or highly innovative approaches within disciplines. STCs may
involve any area of science and engineering that NSF supports. STC investments
support the NSF vision of creating and exploiting new concepts in science and
engineering and providing global leadership in research and
education.
Centers
provide a rich environment for encouraging future scientists, engineers, and
educators to take risks in pursuing discoveries and new knowledge. STCs foster
excellence in education by integrating education and research, and by creating
bonds between learning and inquiry so that discovery and creativity fully
support the learning process. NSF expects STCs to demonstrate leadership in the
involvement of groups traditionally underrepresented in science and engineering
at all levels (faculty, students, and postdoctoral researchers) within the
Center.
Centers
must undertake activities that facilitate knowledge transfer, i.e., the exchange
of scientific and technical information with the objective of disseminating and
utilizing knowledge broadly in multiple sectors. Examples of knowledge transfer
include technology transfer, providing key information to public policy-makers,
or dissemination of knowledge from one field of science to
another.
Eligibility: The
PI must be a full-time faculty member at an institution of higher education and
have an established record of leading research teams. A PI or co-PI on one
proposal in this competition may not be a participant in another STC proposal
under review in the same competition.
Funding Amount/ Project
Period: up to$5M per year for 5
years
Link
to Funding Opportunity Announcement
Institutional Limit:
3 preliminary proposals as the lead
institution; no limit on the number of proposals in which an organization
participates as a partner institution.
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 April 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: Preliminary
Proposal (required) - June 25, 2019; Full Proposal Deadline (invited)- January 27, 2020