Nsf project summary

Information about principal investigators/project directors and co-principal investigators/co-project is committed to providing equal opportunities for participation in its programs and promoting the full use of the nation's research and engineering resources. Once the registration has been completed, the duns be available the next business day from d& the project be performed at a place other than where the award is to be made, that should be identified in the block entitled, "name of performing organization. Are as follows:Performing rn virginia rn virginia university health rn virginia rn virginia title of the project must be brief, scientifically or technically valid, intelligible to a scientifically or technically literate reader, and suitable for use in the public press. Nsf may edit the title of a project prior to making an proposed duration for which support is requested must be consistent with the nature and complexity of the proposed activity. Specification of a desired starting date for the project is important and helpful to nsf staff; however, requests for specific effective dates may not be met. A long lead time for procurement) create problems regarding the proposed effective date, the pi should consult his/her organization's sponsored projects nsf program solicitations require submission of both a preliminary and full proposal as part of the proposal process. Operate" in this context means being actively involved in the day-to-day proposal must contain a summary of the proposed activity suitable for publication, not more than one page in length. The summary should be written in the third person and include a statement of objectives and methods to be employed. It must clearly address in separate statements (within the one-page summary): (1) the intellectual merit of the proposed activity; and (2) the broader impacts resulting from the proposed activity. Proposals that do not separately address both merit review criteria within the one page project summary will be returned without review. Proposals to nsf will be reviewed utilizing the two merit review criteria described in greater length in chapter project description should provide a clear statement of the work to be undertaken and must include: objectives for the period of the proposed work and expected significance; relation to longer-term goals of the pi's project; and relation to the present state of knowledge in the field, to work in progress by the pi under other support and to work in progress project description should outline the general plan of work, including the broad design of activities to be undertaken, and, where appropriate, provide a clear description of experimental methods and procedures and plans for preservation, documentation, and sharing of data, samples, physical collections, curriculum materials and other related research and education products. It must describe as an integral part of the narrative, the broader impacts resulting from the proposed activities, addressing one or more of the following as appropriate for the project: how the project will integrate research and education by advancing discovery and understanding while at the same time promoting teaching, training, and learning; ways in which the proposed activity will broaden the participation of underrepresented groups (e. How the project will enhance the infrastructure for research and/or education, such as facilities, instrumentation, networks, and partnerships; how the results of the project will be disseminated broadly to enhance scientific and technological understanding; and potential benefits of the proposed activity to society at large. Ii) page limitations and inclusion of universal resource locators (urls) within the project y will assist reviewers and foundation staff in dealing effectively with proposals. Therefore, the project description (including results from prior nsf support, which is limited to five pages) may not exceed 15 pages. Pis are cautioned that the project description must be self-contained and that urls that provide information related to the proposal should not be used because 1) the information could circumvent page limitations, 2) the reviewers are under no obligation to view the sites, and 3) the sites could be altered or abolished between the time of submission and the time of mance to the 15-page limitation will be strictly enforced and may not be exceeded unless a deviation has been specifically authorized. Iii) results from prior nsf any pi or co-pi identified on the project has received nsf funding in the past five years, information on the award(s) is required. C) a summary of the results of the completed work, including, for a research project, any contribution to the development of human resources in science and engineering;. Results may be summarized in fewer than five pages, which would give the balance of the 15 pages for the project description. Collaborative activities that are identified in the budget should follow the instructions in chapter ii, section encourages submission of proposals by groups of investigators; often these are submitted to carry out interdisciplinary projects. Unless stipulated in a specific program solicitation, however, such proposals will be subject to the 15 page project description limitation established in section (ii) above. Pis who wish to exceed the established page limitations for the project description must request and receive a deviation in advance of proposal submission. Proposal for renewed support may be either a "traditional" proposal in which the proposed work is documented and described as fully as though the proposer were applying for the first time; or, an "accomplishment-based renewal" (abr) proposal, in which the project description is replaced by copies of no more than six reprints of publications resulting from the research supported by nsf during the preceding three to five year period, plus a brief summary of plans for the proposed support period. While there is no established page limitation for the references, this section must include bibliographic citations only and must not be used to provide parenthetical information outside of the 15-page project description. Biographical sketch (limited to two pages) is required for each individual identified as senior project personnel.

List of: (i) up to 5 publications most closely related to the proposed project; and (ii) up to 5 other significant publications, whether or not related to the proposed project. A list of all persons in alphabetical order (including their current organizational affiliations) who are currently, or who have been collaborators or co-authors with the individual on a project, book, article, report, abstract or paper during the 48 months preceding the submission of this proposal. A general policy, nsf recognizes that salaries of faculty members and other personnel associated directly with the project constitute appropriate direct costs and may be requested in proportion to the effort devoted to the regards research as one of the normal functions of faculty members at institutions of higher education. Salaries of administrative or clerical staff may be requested as direct costs, however, for a project requiring an extensive amount of administrative or clerical support and where these costs can be readily and specifically identified with the project with a high degree of accuracy. Salaries for administrative or clerical staff shall be budgeted as a direct cost only if this type of cost is consistently treated as a direct cost in like circumstances for all other projects and cost objectives. Whose time will be charged directly to the project, only the total number of persons and total amount of salaries per year in each category is required. The proposal must include relevant information, including countries to be visited (also enter names of countries on the proposal budget), dates of visit, if known, and justification for any foreign travel planned in connection with the support for dependents of key project personnel may be requested only when all of the following conditions apply:(i) the individual is a key person who is essential to the research on a full-time basis;. Ii) the individual's residence away from home and in a foreign country is for a continuous period of six months or more and is essential to the effective performance of the project; and. Reference books and periodicals may be charged to the grant only if they are specifically required for the project. An organization may obtain guidelines for submitting rate proposals from that branch, telephone (703) government guidelines, unless otherwise indicated in a specific program solicitation, it is nsf policy that grantees are entitled to reimbursement from grant funds for indirect costs (f&a) allocable to the nsf share of allowable direct costs of a project, except grants:Solely for the support of travel, equipment, facilities, or doctoral dissertations;. Grantees must provide a rationale for residual funds in excess of 20% as part of the annual project report. In accordance with congressional requirements (see gpm 330), nsf requires that each grantee share in the cost of research projects resulting from unsolicited proposals. And are subject to the statutory cost sharing grantee may meet the statutory cost sharing requirement by choosing either of two alternatives:By cost sharing a minimum of one percent on the project;. Cost sharing a minimum of one percent on the aggregate costs of -supported projects requiring cost statutory cost sharing is not required for grants that provide funds solely for the following purposes (not considered to be support of "research"), although such awards may be subject to other cost sharing requirements identified in a specific solicitation:International travel;. It should be noted that contributions derived from other federal funds or counted as cost sharing toward projects of another federal agency may not be counted towards meeting the specific cost sharing requirements of the nsf grant. Current and pending section of the proposal calls for required information on all current and pending support for ongoing projects and proposals, including subsequent funding in the case of continuing grants. The proposed project and all other projects or activities requiring a portion of time of the pi and other senior personnel must be included, even if they receive no salary support from the project(s). The total award amount for the entire award period covered (including indirect costs) must be shown as well as the number of person-months per year to be devoted to the project, regardless of source of support. Note the biological sciences directorate exception to this policy, however, delineated in chapter i, section the project now being submitted has been funded previously by a source other than nsf, the information requested in the paragraph above must be furnished for the last period of funding. Special information and supplementary as specified below, special information and supplementary documentation must be included as part of the project description (or part of the budget justification), if it is relevant to determining the quality of the proposed work. Information submitted in the following areas is not considered part of the 15-page project description limitation. Specific guidance on the need for additional documentation may be obtained from the organization's sponsored projects office or in the references cited ale for performance of all or part of the project away from organizational headquarters. The project description must be brief (no more than two to five pages) and include clear statements as to why the proposed research should be considered particularly exploratory and high risk, the nature and significance of its potential impact on the field, and why an sger grant would be a suitable means of supporting the biographical information is required for the pi and co-pi(s) only, and must list no more than five significant publications or other research products. The project's duration will normally be one year, but may be up to two the discretion of the program officer, and with the concurrence of the division director, a small fraction of especially promising sger awards may be extended for a period of six additional months and supplemented with up to $50,000 in additional funding. A project report and outline of proposed research, not to exceed five pages, must be included.

Facilitation awards for scientists and engineers with part of its effort to promote full utilization of highly qualified scientists, mathematicians, and engineers, and to develop scientific and technical talent, the foundation has the following goals:To reduce or remove barriers to participation in training by physically disabled individuals by providing special assistance under awards made by nsf; encourage disabled pursue careers in science and engineering by stimulating the demonstration of special equipment that facilitates their work duals with disabilities eligible for facilitation awards include principal investigators, other senior project personnel, and graduate and undergraduate students. For example, funds may be requested to provide: prosthetic devices to manipulate a particular apparatus; equipment to convert sound to visual signals, or vice versa, for a particular experiment; access to a special site or to a mode of transportation (except as defined below); a reader or interpreter with special technical competence related to the project; or other special-purpose equipment or assistance needed to conduct a particular project. Items, however, such as standard wheel chairs, prosthetics, hearing aids, tdd/text-phones, or general readers for the blind would not be supported because the need for them is not specific to the proposed project. It is expected, however, that the cost (including equipment adaptation and installation) will not be a major component of the total proposed budget for the project. Requests for funds for special equipment or assistance to facilitate the participation of individuals with disabilities should be included in the proposed budget for the project and documented in the budget justification. The specific nature, purpose and need for such equipment or assistance should be described in sufficient detail in the project description to permit evaluation of the request by knowledgeable reviewers. Supplemental funding requests to existing nsf mental funds for special equipment or assistance to facilitate participation in nsf-supported projects by persons with disabilities may be provided under existing nsf grants. The grantee organization guarantees use of the equipment for the specific project during the period of work funded by the foundation, and assures its use in an appropriate manner after project completion. In such cases, the grantee organization may elect to transfer title to the individual to assure appropriate use after project mental requests should be submitted electronically by using the "supplemental funding request" function in fastlane and should include a brief description of the request, a budget and a budget justification. Collaborative proposal is one in which investigators from two or more organizations wish to collaborate on a unified research project. All collaborative proposals must clearly describe the roles to be played by the other organizations, specify the managerial arrangements, and explain the advantages of the multi-organizational effort within the project description. Submission of a single single proposal method allows investigators from two or more have developed an integrated research project to submit a single, al. Nsf may request a revised proposal,However, if it considers that the project is so complex that it will be ult to review or administer as presented. Simultaneous submission of proposals from different many instances, simultaneous submission of proposals that contain the same project description from each organization might be appropriate. For these proposals, the project title must begin with the words "collaborative research:" the lead organization's submission will include a proposal cover sheet, project summary, project description, references cited, biographical sketches, budgets and budget justification, current and pending support, and facilities, equipment and other resources for their organization. Non-lead organization submissions will include all of the above for their organization except the project summary, project description, and references cited which are the same for all collaborating organizations. Each potential major user must describe the project(s) for which the equipment will be used. A brief summary will suffice for auxiliary ent to be purchased, modified or constructed must be described in sufficient detail to allow comparison of its capabilities with the needs of the proposed activities. Of why the equipment is severable or non-severable from budget for operation and maintenance of the proposed equipment,Indicating source of funds, and particularly related equipment; other support services available and the annual budget for their operation,Maintenance and terms of a grant require that special-purpose equipment purchased or leased with grant funds be subject to reasonable inventory controls, maintenance procedures and organizational policies that enhance its multiple or shared use on other projects, if such use does not interfere with the work for which the equipment was the government retains title, those items must be included in the annual inventory submitted to the nsf property administrator. Sufficient information must be provided within the 15-page project description to enable reviewers to evaluate the choice of species, number of animals to be used, and any necessary exposure of animals to discomfort, pain, or tent with the requirements of the animal welfare act [7 u. Nsf requires that proposed projects involving use of any vertebrate animal for research or education be approved by the submitting organization's institutional animal care and use committee (iacuc) before an award can be made. The organization does not have such an assurance in place, then approval of the project by the iacuc of an organization with a current phs assurance will be acceptable, if the iacuc agrees to provide the required oversight of facilities and activities during the award. Alternatively, the submitting organization may create its own iacuc by establishing a single-project institutional animal welfare assurance with nsf. Conference, symposium or workshop proposal (that complies with the font size instructions in , section b, format of the proposal) must contain the following elements:A statement of the objectives of the project. Nsfs mission is particularly well-implemented through the integration of research and education and broadening participation in nsf programs, projects, and of the strategic objectives in support of nsfs mission is to foster integration of research and education through the programs, projects, and activities it supports at nsf awardee organizations.

Nsf is committed to this principle of diversity and deems it central to the programs, projects, and activities it considers and supports. Collaborators & other affiliations following information regarding collaborators and other affiliations must be separately provided for each individual identified as senior project personnel:Collaborators and co-editors. A list of all persons in alphabetical order (including their current organizational affiliations) who are currently, or who have been collaborators or co-authors with the individual on a project, book, article, report, abstract or paper during the 48 months preceding the submission of the proposal. Preparation instructions for rapid, eager, ideas lab, collaborative, equipment, conference, international travel, center, and major research equipment and facility projects may deviate from the above content requirements. The information requested on the cover sheet is as follows:(1) awardee & project/performance site primary information on the awardee organization is pre-filled on the cover sheet based on the login information entered. A) title of proposed title of the project must be brief, scientifically or technically valid, and suitable for use in the public press. Specification of a desired start date for the project is important and helpful to nsf staff; however, requests for specific start dates may not be met. G) project/performance site primary the project will be performed at the awardee organization, check the designated box. If the project, however, will be performed at a location other than the awardee, provide the following information (where applicable):Organization name (identify the organization name of the primary site where the work will be performed, if different than the awardee);. Projects that support research infrastructure and tools, such as vessels, facilities, and telescopes, the project/performance site should correspond to the physical location of the research asset. For research assets or projects that are geographically distributed, the proposer should report information for the primary site, as defined by the proposer. For example, proposals for the operations and maintenance of research vessels may list the project/performance site as the vessels home port. Proposers also should enter the country/countries with which project participants will engage and/or travel to attend international conferences. Proposal must contain a summary of the proposed project not more than one page in length. The project summary consists of an overview, a statement on the intellectual merit of the proposed activity, and a statement on the broader impacts of the proposed overview includes a description of the activity that would result if the proposal were funded and a statement of objectives and methods to be employed. The statement on broader impacts should describe the potential of the proposed activity to benefit society and contribute to the achievement of specific, desired societal project summary should be written in the third person, informative to other persons working in the same or related fields, and, insofar as possible, understandable to a scientifically or technically literate lay reader. It should not be an abstract of the project summary may only be uploaded as a supplementary document if use of special characters is necessary. Such project summaries must be formatted with separate headings for overview, intellectual merit and broader impacts. Project description should provide a clear statement of the work to be undertaken and must include the objectives for the period of the proposed work and expected significance; the relationship of this work to the present state of knowledge in the field, as well as to work in progress by the pi under other project description should outline the general plan of work, including the broad design of activities to be undertaken, and, where appropriate, provide a clear description of experimental methods and procedures. Proposers should address what they want to do, why they want to do it, how they plan to do it, how they will know if they succeed, and what benefits could accrue if the project is successful. The project activities may be based on previously established and/or innovative methods and approaches, but in either case must be well justified. These issues apply to both the technical aspects of the proposal and the way in which the project may make broader project description must contain, as a separate section within the narrative, a section labeled "broader impacts". Broader impacts may be accomplished through the research itself, through the activities that are directly related to specific research projects, or through activities that are supported by, but are complementary to the project. Ii) page limitations and inclusion of uniform resource locators (urls) within the project y will assist reviewers and foundation staff in dealing effectively with proposals. Pis are cautioned that the project description must be self-contained and that urls must not be used because: 1) the information could circumvent page limitations; 2) the reviewers are under no obligation to view the sites; and 3) the sites could be altered or deleted between the time of submission and the time of mance to the 15-page limit will be strictly enforced and may not be exceeded unless a deviation has been specifically authorized.

C) a summary of the results of the completed work, including accomplishments, supported by the award. Collaborative activities that are identified in the budget should follow the instructions in gpg chapter encourages submission of proposals by groups of investigators; often these are submitted to carry out interdisciplinary projects. Unless stipulated in a specific program solicitation, however, such proposals will be subject to the 15-page project description limitation established in section (ii) above. List of: (i) up to five products most closely related to the proposed project; and (ii) up to five other significant products, whether or not related to the proposed project. Under normal rebudgeting authority, as described in aag chapters ii and v, an awardee can internally approve an increase or decrease in person months devoted to the project after an award is made, even if doing so results in salary support for senior personnel exceeding the two month salary policy. No prior approval from nsf is necessary as long as that change would not cause the objectives or scope of the project to change. Nsf prior approval is necessary if the objectives or scope of the project same general principles apply to other types of non-academic organizations. Direct charging of these costs may be appropriate only if all the conditions identified below are met:(i) administrative or clerical services are integral to a project or activity;. Their name(s) will remain on the cover sheet and the individual(s) role on the project should be described in the facilities, equipment and other resources section of the postdoctoral associates and other professionals, the total number of persons for each position must be listed, with the number of full-time-equivalent person-months and total amount of salaries requested per year. Whose time will be charged directly to the project, only the total number of persons and total amount of salaries requested per year in each category is required. Special purpose or scientific use computers or associated hardware and software, however, may be requested as items of equipment when necessary to accomplish the project objectives and not otherwise reasonably available. Travel support for dependents of key project personnel may be requested only when the travel is for a duration of six months or more either by inclusion in the approved budget or with the prior written approval of the cognizant nsf grants and agreements officer. Budget category refers to direct costs for items such as stipends or subsistence allowances, travel allowances, and registration fees paid to or on behalf of participants or trainees (but not employees) in connection with nsf-sponsored conferences or training projects. For some educational projects conducted at local school districts, however, the participants being trained are employees. Reference books and periodicals may be charged to the grant only if they are specifically allocable to the project being supported by nsf. While not required by nsf, awardee organizations may, at their own discretion, continue to contribute voluntary uncommitted cost sharing to nsf-sponsored projects. These resources are not auditable by nsf and should not be included in the proposal budget or budget order for nsf, and its reviewers, to assess the scope of a proposed project, all organizational resources necessary for, and available to, a project must be described in the facilities, equipment and other resources section of the proposal (see gpg chapter ii. It should be noted that contributions derived from other federal funds or counted as cost sharing toward projects of another federal agency must not be counted towards meeting the specific cost sharing requirements of the nsf e to provide the level of cost sharing required by the nsf solicitation and reflected in the nsf award budget may result in termination of the nsf award, disallowance of award costs and/or refund of award funds to nsf by the awardee. Current and pending section of the proposal calls for required information on all current and pending support for ongoing projects and proposals, including this project, and any subsequent funding in the case of continuing grants. Federal, state, local or foreign government agencies, public or private foundations, industrial or other commercial organizations, or internal funds allocated toward specific projects) must be listed. The biological sciences directorate exception to this policy is delineated in gpg chapter the project now being submitted has been funded previously by a source other than nsf, the information requested in the paragraph above must be furnished for the last period of fastlane, current and pending support for all senior personnel may no longer be grouped together and uploaded in a single pdf file associated with the pi. Proposers should include an aggregated description of the internal and external resources (both physical and personnel) that the organization and its collaborators will provide to the project, should it be funded. Specific guidance on the need for additional documentation may be obtained from the organizations sponsored projects office or in the references cited ctoral researcher mentoring plan. In no more than one page, the mentoring plan must describe the mentoring that will be provided to all postdoctoral researchers supported by the project, regardless of whether they reside at the submitting organization, any subrecipient organization, or at any organization participating in a simultaneously submitted collaborative project. Proposers are advised that the mentoring plan must not be used to circumvent the 15-page project description limitation.

Mentoring activities provided to postdoctoral researchers supported on the project will be evaluated under the broader impacts review es of mentoring activities include, but are not limited to: career counseling; training in preparation of grant proposals, publications and presentations; guidance on ways to improve teaching and mentoring skills; guidance on how to effectively collaborate with researchers from diverse backgrounds and disciplinary areas; and training in responsible professional for data management and sharing of the products of research. 4), and may include:The types of data, samples, physical collections, software, curriculum materials, and other materials to be produced in the course of the project;. And provisions for re-use, re-distribution, and the production of derivatives; for archiving data, samples, and other research products, and for preservation of access to aneously submitted collaborative proposals and proposals that include subawards are a single unified project and should include only one supplemental combined data management plan, regardless of the number of non-lead collaborative proposals or subawards included. Proposers who feel that the plan cannot fit within the limit of two pages may use part of the 15-page project description for additional data management information. Proposers are advised that the data management plan must not be used to circumvent the 15-page project description limitation. The data management plan will be reviewed as an integral part of the proposal, considered under intellectual merit or broader impacts or both, as appropriate for the scientific community of ale for performance of all or part of the project off-campus or away from organizational ntation of collaborative arrangements of significance to the proposal through letters of collaboration. Letters of collaboration should be limited to stating the intent to collaborate and should not contain endorsements or evaluation of the proposed project. Insert the full name of the principal investigator] entitled [insert the proposal title] is selected for funding by nsf, it is my intent to collaborate and/or commit resources as detailed in the project description or the facilities, equipment or other resources section of the proposal. Letters of support are typically from a key stakeholder such as an organization, collaborator or congressional representative, and are used to convey a sense of enthusiasm for the project and/or to highlight the qualifications of the pi or co-pi. Proposers also should enter on the cover sheet the country/countries with which project participants will engage and/or travel to attend international conferences. This will facilitate determining whether the proposed work is appropriate for rapid project description is expected to be brief and must be no more than five pages. The award size, however, will be consistent with the project scope and of a size comparable to grants in similar -cost extensions and requests for supplemental funding will be processed in accordance with standard nsf policies and d funding of rapid awards may be requested only through submission of a proposal that will be subject to full external merit review. These exploratory proposals also may be submitted directly to an nsf program, but the eager mechanism should not be used for projects that are appropriate for submission as "regular" (i. This will aid in determining the appropriateness of the work for consideration under the eager mechanism; this suitability must be assessed early in the project description is expected to be brief and must be no more than eight pages. It must include clear statements as to why this project is appropriate for eager funding, including why it does not fit into existing programs and why it is a good fit for eager. The award size, however, will be consistent with the project scope and of a size comparable to grants in similar -cost extensions and requests for supplemental funding will be processed in accordance with standard nsf policies and d funding of eager awards may be requested only through submission of a proposal that will be subject to full external merit review. Ideas lab" is a funding mechanism designed to support the development and implementation of creative and innovative project ideas that have the potential to transform research paradigms and/or solve intractable problems. These project ideas typically will be high-risk/high-impact, as they represent new and unproven ideas, approaches and/or technologies. The role of the ideas lab panel is to provide an assessment of the project ideas developed there. The solicitation will specify the content and submission instructions for such project description is limited to two pages and should include information regarding the applicants specific expertise and interest in the topic area, as well as about certain personal attributes that enhance the success of the ideas lab workshop mechanism (e. Applicants will be informed about the context of the review and the criteria that were used to assess the applications in the form of a panel summary, but will not receive individual reviews or other review-related feedback. Anonymous real-time peer review involving the participants and the ideas lab panel is incorporated into the workshop format, providing iterative constructive feedback during the development of project ideas. At the end of the ideas lab, the ideas lab panel will provide a consensus report summarizing their evaluation of each project idea. Within seven to fourteen days following the ideas lab, the nsf program officers will determine which project ideas are meritorious and should be invited as full proposals. At the nsf program officers discretion (subject to division director concurrence), they may invite none, some, or all of the project ideas as full proposals, with the final funding decision to occur after the full proposals have been received and reviewed.

In accordance with the applicable grant terms and conditions, the grantee organization guarantees use of the equipment for the specific project during the period of work funded by the foundation, and assures its use in an appropriate manner after project completion. In such cases, the grantee organization may elect to transfer title to the individual to assure appropriate use after project mental funding requests should be submitted by using the supplemental funding request function in fastlane and should include a brief description of the request, a budget and a budget justification. All collaborative proposals must clearly describe the roles to be played by the other organizations, specify the managerial arrangements, and explain the advantages of the multi-organizational effort within the project description. Submission of a collaborative proposal from one single proposal method allows investigators from two or more organizations who have developed an integrated research project to submit a single, focused proposal. For these proposals, the project title must begin with the words "collaborative research: if funded, each organization bears responsibility for a separate ed sections of the proposal differ based on the organizations role. Iv) if funded, both lead and non-lead organizations are required to submit separate annual and final project reports. Investigators may be working in closely related areas or their research may be equipment proposal must contain all of the following proposal sections:Project summary: gpg chapter ii. A description, from each potential major user, of the project(s) for which the equipment will be used. Should be consulted to prepare this portion of the proposals normally compete with proposals for research or education projects. Any project proposing use of vertebrate animals for research or education shall comply with the animal welfare act [7 u. In accordance with these requirements, proposed projects involving use of any vertebrate animal for research or education must be approved by the submitting organization's institutional animal care and use committee (iacuc) before an award can be made. Sufficient information must be provided within the 15-page project description to enable reviewers to evaluate the:(i) rationale for involving animals;. Projects involving the care or use of vertebrate animals at a foreign organization or foreign field site also require approval of research protocols by the us grantees iacuc. If the project is to be funded through an award to a foreign organization or through an individual fellowship award that will support activities at a foreign organization, nsf will require a statement explicitly listing the proposers name and referencing the title of the award to confirm that the activities will be conducted in accordance with all applicable laws in the foreign country and that the international guiding principles for biomedical research involving animals (see http:///) will be followed. The following information regarding the organizations intention to utilize vertebrate animals as part of the project should be provided on the cover sheet:(i) the box for "vertebrate animals" must be checked on the cover sheet if use of vertebrate animals is envisioned. Projects involving research with human subjects must ensure that subjects are protected from research risks in conformance with the relevant federal policy known as the common rule (federal policy for the protection of human subjects, 45 cfr 690). All projects involving human subjects must either (1) have approval from the organization's institutional review board (irb) before issuance of an nsf award or, (2) must affirm that the irb has declared the research exempt from irb review, in accordance with the applicable subsection, as established in section 101(b) of the common rule. In such a case, nsf may add conditions to the award that prevent any research involving human subjects from being carried out, and otherwise restrict the drawing down of funds, until irb approval has been the project involves human subjects and is to be performed outside of the us, evidence of irb approval also is required. The following information regarding the organizations intention to use human subjects as part of the project should be provided on the cover sheet:(i) the box for "human subjects" must be checked on the cover sheet if use of human subjects is envisioned. Nsf depends on the research communities to provide the justification, planning, development, and implementation of facility projects. This normally occurs through national academies studies, workshop reports, professional society activities, and other community-based mechanisms, including engineering studies and research projects related to the development of new technologies. Projects requiring high-performance computing resources, large amounts of data storage, or advanced visualization research projects require access to computational, data storage or visualization resources in order to complete the work proposed. For those projects that require such resources at a scale that is beyond that typically available locally, nsf supports a number of resources. For the most computationally intensive projects, the blue waters system at university of illinois, urbana/champaign, is the most suitable. Blue waters is designed to support a small number (~50) of research teams involved with projects requiring the most advanced computational and data resources.

Collaborators and other affiliation information has been provided for each individual identified as senior project personnel. Project summary:[ ] the project summary may only be uploaded as a supplementary document if use of special characters is necessary. Project description:[ ] project description does not exceed the page limitations specified in the gpg or solicitation. Project description contains, as a separate section within the narrative, a section labeled "broader impacts". References cited:[ ] this section includes bibliographic citations only and does not provide parenthetical information outside of the 15-page project description. While not required by nsf, proposing organizations may, at their own discretion, continue to contribute voluntary uncommitted cost sharing to nsf-sponsored projects. Facilities, equipment and other resources:[ ] an aggregated description of the internal and external resources (both physical and personnel) that the organization and its collaborators will provide to the project, should it be funded, has been included. Co) principal investigator/project director (pi/pd) means the individual(s) designated by the proposer, and approved by nsf, who will be responsible for the scientific or technical direction of the project. If more than one, the first one listed will serve as the contact pi, with whom all communications between nsf program officials and the project relating to the scientific, technical, and budgetary aspects of the project should take place. The pi and any identified co-pis, however, will be jointly responsible for submission of the requisite project reports. The term "principal investigator" generally is used in research projects, while the term "project director" generally is used in centers, large facilities, and other projects. 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For purposes of meeting the mentoring requirement, simultaneously submitted collaborative proposals, and collaborative proposals that include subawards, constitute a single unified project. Responsible for the scientific or technical direction of the project), a mentoring plan is not required. This week’s focus will be on the summary page for national science foundation (nsf) proposals. Each nsf summary page, which cannot be over one page in length (or 4,600 characters with spaces), will contain an overview, a statement on the intellectual merit of the research, and a statement of broader impacts. Written in the third person and publication-ready, your project summary describes the activities that would result if your proposal got funded. It is the introduction that will illustrate the importance of the project in terms of its effect and impact. As seen in the following example provided by the university of wisconsin at whitewater, the author begins with the objectives, followed by the aims and the long-term objective of this project is to understand the development of the ability of organs peripheral to the suprachiasmatic nucleus (scn) to synchronize with the external environment. Not only does it expand the synthetic methodologies available to organic chemists, but biophysicists, glycobiologists, spectrosc opists, and pharmacologists will also benefit from the improved accessibility of pure, homogeneous glycoproteins in large broader impacts statement is an important part of the summary page and will heavily affect your chances of being funded. This proposal builds on these programs and provides support for students that have been trained in the laboratory in the fall and spring semesters to continue their research full time for 10 weeks of the summer and become immersed in their excellent summary page is critical for leaving reviewers with a good first impression. Imaginaries work at other institutionsabout this summary and echnical imaginaries and science and technology policy:a cross-national ted by nsf award no. Two-year, interdisciplinary, comparative project, grounded in the field of science and technology studies (sts), aims to develop a new theoretical framework for understanding of the global politics of science and technology (s&t).

Sociotechnical imaginaries are defined, for purposes of this project, as “imagined forms of social life and social order that center on the development or fulfillment of innovative scientific and/or technological projects. Through systematic cross-national comparison, the project hopes to illuminate how three different democratic political cultures are framing the goals, risks, and benefits of technological innovation, and how they are meeting the associated political challenges of democratic inclusion, ethics, and echnical imaginaries are at once descriptive of attainable futures and prescriptive of the kinds of futures that ought to be attained. Given the globalization of s&t, the political salience of such imaginaries, and the risks and instabilities that inevitably accompany their realization, understanding how they are formed and implemented is necessary to any serious exploration of what the sociologist ulrich beck has called a “cosmopolitan” vision of intercultural i of the project will develop nine national case studies, focusing on three specific technologies: nuclear power, stem cells and cloning, and nanotechnology. By shaping concepts of citizenship, participation, public good, and public factors influence the perceived successes and failures of s&t policy, and what new conceptual tools are needed to assist governments and publics in a globalizing world in making better informed, better reasoned, and more democratic policy analyzing s&t policymaking in three nations as sites of democratic as well as technical experimentation, the project promises to have two kinds of broader impacts.