DCL: Advancing education for the future of AI Workforce (EducateAI) - EAGER and Conference Proposals

Overview

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the ways in which citizens navigate their daily lives, researchers make discoveries, educators teach their students, students learn both individually and collaboratively, and manufacturers build products. As new AI-driven discoveries and capabilities emerge, it is critical to promote responsible innovation, competition, and collaboration to unlock the technology’s potential to solve some of society’s most difficult challenges and maintain U.S. leadership in applying AI to address critical global challenges.

To develop the next generation of talent for a diverse, well-trained AI workforce, the computing community must create new pathways and educational experiences that provide the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary for current and future AI careers.

To address this growing need, the Directorates for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and STEM Education (EDU) are launching the EducateAI initiative to support educators to make state-of-the-art, inclusive AI educational experiences available nationwide.

In addition, NSF is interested in supporting proposals for capacity-building projects related to the goals of the EducateAI Initiative through EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) and conferences and workshops.

EAGER proposals seek support for highly innovative, potentially transformative, high-risk/high-reward projects. These proposals should describe radically different approaches, apply new expertise, or engage novel disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspectives to advance the EducateAI initiative.

Conference or Workshop proposals should address bringing people together consistent with the goals of the EducateAI initiative and aligned with the program from which the proposer is seeking funding. Proposed activities should be innovative, focused on meeting clearly defined objectives with potentially broad implications for advancing AI education. They should go beyond what would be obtained through existing meetings such as professional societies or state or local education agency efforts.

Titles of EAGER and Conference proposals submitted in response to this DCL should include "EducateAI".

For EAGER and Conference proposals, proposals should select the current PAPPG as the funding opportunity and direct proposals to the Education and Workforce (EWF) program in the Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS) in the Directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE).

PIs must contact the NSF program officer(s) whose expertise is most germane to the proposal topic prior to submission of an EAGER proposal.