An intriguing message from my NSF program officer, regarding a grant opportunity probably relevant to many on the FRIAM list:
---------------- Forwarded Message ---------------- From: "Tuller, Betty K." <btul...@nsf.gov> Date: Thu, Feb 23, 2012 09:41 AM Subject: New "Data-Intensive Research" competition To: "Tuller, Betty K." <btul...@nsf.gov> Colleagues: I would like to call your attention to the “Data-Intensive Research” <http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504747&org=SBE&from=home> which has just been published on the NSF web site. $5,000,000 has been set aside for this FY12 competition and the deadline for receipt of proposals is May 22, 2012. Thus the potential benefit for many of our areas of research is great and the timing tight. Hopefully you will consider spreading the word within your respective communities and encouraging relevant individuals/groups to submit. You should direct potential questions to either Bill Badecker (<#>) or John Yellen (<#>). The details of the competition are provided in <http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12538/nsf12538.pdf>. However, in a nutshell: What underlies this competition is the realization that large interdisciplinary databases will play an increasingly important research role and their development should be fostered. The underlying purpose of the competition is to move Social, Behavioral and Economic (SBE) sciences towards this goal. A second premise is that different research communities currently stand in different positions along this developmental path. In some areas sufficient groundwork currently exists to actually proceed and develop prototype systems and relevant analytic techniques. In others, relevant communities have yet to be developed and a necessary first step involves establishing linkages and communication. The announcement is worded to extend across this entire range of possibilities. The announcement purposely does not specify a maximum award size and it is expected that these amounts will vary significantly. It is also important to realize that this FY12 competition is designed as a first step in a multistage process. Tentatively SBE (together with the Directorate for Education and Human Resources and the Office of Cyberinfrastructure as contributors) envision a second competition at roughly the same scale in FY13 followed by a third with awards of significantly larger scale. Likely these “larger scale” applications will develop from awards from the prior two years. If you have questions, please contact John or Bill. This could be a real opportunity. Betty Tuller, Ph.D. Director, Program in Perception, Action, and Cognition National Science Foundation 4201 Wilson Blvd Arlington, VA 22230 Tel: 703.292.7238 Fax: 703.292.9068 * A new Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide is now available at http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=papp. This includes a new requirement for submission of a data management plan (DMP). Proposals that do not include a DMP will not be able to be submitted. For more information about this new requirement, please see the <http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf11001/gpg_2.jsp#dmp> and the <http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/dmpfaqs.jsp>. Please note: the SBE Directorate has additional guidance for proposals submitted to SBE programs, please see <http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/SBE_DataMgmtPlanPolicy.pdf>. In addition to the Intellectual Merit criterion, all proposals are evaluated on the Broader Impacts criterion. Eric Charles Professional Student and Assistant Professor of Psychology Penn State University Altoona, PA 16601
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