(FOA)-Environmental
Convergence Opportunities in Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and
Transport Systems (ECO-CBET); February 12, 2020
Agency
National
Science Foundation
Description
The
Environmental Convergence Opportunities in Chemical, Bioengineering,
Environmental, and Transport Systems (ECO-CBET) solicitation will support
activities that confront vexing environmental engineering and sustainability
problems by uncovering and incorporating fundamental knowledge to design new
processes, materials, and devices from a systems-level perspective. Projects
should be compelling and reflect sustained, coordinated efforts from
interdisciplinary research teams. A key objective of the solicitation is to
encourage conversations and robust collaborations amongst the chemical process,
transport phenomena, bioengineering, and environmental and sustainability
research communities such that unanticipated solutions may arise. Furthermore,
training the future workforce to actively engage and be successful in
interdisciplinary research will be necessary to continually innovate given the
scope of the environmental problems faced by our global
community
While
this solicitation is not restricted to a specific environmental engineering and
sustainability research topic, the 2020 fiscal year solicitation emphasizes
research topics related to: 1) greenhouse gas mitigation and 2) managing the
nitrogen cycle. Assuming sufficient funding is provided in the NSF budget, it
is anticipated this competition will continue annually. Research topic
priorities are subject to change in subsequent years. Awards are expected to
range from $1,500,000 to $1,700,000 over four years. Budgets should be
commensurate with the scope of the proposed research. Pending the availability
of funds, awards have the potential to be renewed once for a total of eight
years of support. Renewal of awards will be subject to a competitive merit
review process.
Announcement
Number:
NSF
20-517
Closing
Date:
Required
Preliminary Proposal Due: February 12, 2020
Full
Proposals Due: April 30, 2020
Link
to Full Announcement
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20517/nsf20517.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
Contact
Information
Christina
Payne
(703)
292-2895