Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations (AccelNet)
Solicitation Title: Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations (AccelNet)
Funding Amount: Catalytic (up to 3 years; total budget up to $750,000)
Full-Scale Implementation (up to 5 years; total budget up to $2 million)
Sponsor Deadline: Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Solicitation Link: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2019/nsf19501/nsf19501.pdf
Solicitation Number: NSF 19-501
Overview
<p>AccelNet seeks to advance research discoveries through international network-to-network collaborations that align with either one of the NSF 10 Big Ideas or a community-identified grand challenge in areas supported by NSF. The program will support development of new and strengthen existing collaborations among networks of researchers in the U.S. and networks of researchers abroad to share information and ideas, coordinate ongoing or planned research activities, foster synthesis and new collaborations, and in other ways advance science, engineering, and STEM education through interactions across scientific and geographic boundaries, for the purposes of: <br>• accelerating the process of scientific discovery; and <br>• preparing students, postdoctoral scholars, and early-career researchers for success in conducting and leading multiteam international collaborations.</p> <p>Through AccelNet, NSF is also interested in promoting innovative ideas for effective international collaboration in general, including but not limited to, novel networking strategies, scholar exchange, collaborative technologies, development or implementation of community standards for data and metadata, or the collaborative use of equipment, instrumentation, infrastructure, and other resources. AccelNet is aimed at fostering connections needed among research networks to address pressing scientific challenges, thereby fostering discovery, rather than supporting primarily research or research infrastructure. Examples of supported activities to foster such connections include, but are not limited to, conferences, meetings, personnel exchanges, interdisciplinary training, data exchanges, synthesis efforts, and the adoption of existing cyber tools to enable linkages between the U.S. network and counterpart networks in other countries or regions.</p>
Solicitation Limitations: <p>An individual may appear as PI or co-PI in no more than one proposal submitted in response to this solicitation, whether Catalytic or Full-Scale Implementation.</p> Other Information:<p>LOI due October 30, 2019<br>Full Proposal Deadline - January 31, 2020<br>Types of Projects Supported:<br>The scientific readiness of fields and/or domains covered by research networks will vary, as will the level of maturity of the networks themselves. Both new and emerging areas, as well as long standing areas of science and engineering are expected to benefit from AccelNet support. Because the number, size, and strength of existing networks among different areas of science and engineering will vary, as will the networks’ goals, proposals will be accepted at two distinct levels: <br>• Catalytic (up to 3 years; total budget up to $750,000) – Networks of networks at the catalytic level may either be nascent in nature or be more established but have a limited-term goal.<br>• Full-Scale Implementation (up to 5 years; total budget up to $2 million) – Full-Scale Implementation networks of networks are envisioned as consisting of a core of networks in the U.S. and abroad that are operational, have established an understanding of the status of the research and researchers across their fields, and are well-positioned to engage each other to advance research. Examples of the types of activities that projects at the Full-Scale Implementation level could undertake include, but are not limited to, coordinating goals among networks, developing and disseminating products and practices, engaging in synthesis efforts to integrate and transfer knowledge, and expanding effective professional development activities for students and postdoctoral scholars in international networks.</p>Last Updated:
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