Limited Submission Opportunity: NSF Science and Technology Centers (STC): Integrative Partnerships 2024

URL: https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/science-technology-centers-integrative-partnerships

OBJECTIVE:

The 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.

Each STC must:

  • Be focused on exceptionally innovative, complex research and education projects that require large-scale, long-term funding;
  • Be based at an institution of higher education which assumes responsibility for oversight of sub-awards to all other partner institutions;
  • Be directed by a faculty member with experience in leading research teams;
  • Demonstrate institutional commitment to achieving strategic goals that are shared by the lead and other partnering institutions;
  • Establish multi-institutional collaborations or linkages with other universities/colleges, national laboratories, research museums, private sector research laboratories, state and local government organizations, and international collaborations, as appropriate;
  • Develop a management plan that integrates the research, education, broadening participation, and knowledge transfer activities (e.g., technology transfer, providing key information to public policy-makers, or dissemination of knowledge from one field of science to another) across all partners and affiliates;
  • Incorporate teams at all organizational levels of the Center that represent the full spectrum of diverse talent that society has to offer and include members of groups underrepresented in STEM;
  • Provide research and education opportunities for U.S. graduate and undergraduate students, postdoctoral researchers and faculty that will result in outcomes consonant with the Center’s goals;
  • Facilitate knowledge transfer through significant intellectual exchange between the Center and various types of institutions and organizations (e.g., nonprofit organizations; national laboratories; industry; Federal, state, and local governments); and,
  • Establish and convene at least annually an External Advisory Committee to provide guidance, advice, and oversight.

FUNDING INFORMATION:

Up to $6 million annually for 5 years ($30 million total).

ELIGIBILITY RESTRICTIONS:

Up to 3 preliminary proposals will be selected and submitted by BU.

The PI must be a full-time faculty member at an institution of higher education and have an established record of leading research teams.

There is no limit on the number of proposals in which an organization participates as a partner institution. The STC program will not support more than one Center from any one lead institution in this competition.

INTERNAL SELECTION PROCESS:

There is an updated application and selection process for this LSO. Please read the information below carefully to ensure your application is complete.

Interested applicants should submit the following materials via InfoReady Review by: 9/20/2024 9/23/2024

  • Title of the STC
  • 1 paragraph describing the main 10-year research objective
  • 1 paragraph about workforce development and education plans
  • 1 paragraph about the prospective research team
  • Up-to-date CV or biosketch for all PIs

After submission of the above materials, the Vice President and Associate Provost of Research will arrange 30-minute interviews with prospective PIs.

Then 3 research teams will be selected to submit preliminary proposals by 11/20/2024.

DEADLINES:

Internal Materials Due: Friday, September 20, 2024 Monday, September 23, 2024 by 11:59 pm ET
Preliminary Proposal Deadline: Wednesday, November 20, 2024 by 5:00 pm ET

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