ERI Funding Opportunities

NSF

Solicitation: 23-160

https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/stem-access-persons-disabilities-stem-apwd

Posted Date: September 28, 2023

Proposal Due Date: December 07,  2023

Each second Thursday in November thereafter

Dear Colleague:

With this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), the National Science Foundation (NSF) wishes to notify the research community of a new initiative called STEM Access for Persons with Disabilities (STEM-APWD) that seeks to increase the engagement of persons with disabilities (PWD) in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields across seven directorates at NSF:

• Biological Sciences (BIO)
• Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)
• Engineering (ENG)
• Geosciences (GEO)
• Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)
• Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE)
• Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP)

NSF

Solicitation: 23-627

https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?WT.z_pims_id=506230&ods_key=nsf23627

Posted Date: September 28, 2023

Preliminary Proposal Due Date: November 29, 2023 by 5:00 p.m. submitter’s local time

Proposal Due Date: May 08, 2024 by 5:00 p.m. submitter’s local time

An Ideas Lab is an intensive meeting that brings together multiple diverse perspectives to focus on finding innovative crossdisciplinary solutions to a grand challenge problem (see below and PAPPG Chapter II.F.6. for more information about this type of proposal). The goal of the Personalized Engineering Learning Ideas Lab is to extend engineering education research to enable advanced personalization in pedagogy and assessment in a K-12 or higher education context. The following broad areas have been identified as possible avenues to advance knowledge: personalized engineering education, multimodal sensing for personalized learning systems and team-based personalized learning. This Ideas Lab aims to bring together experts from diverse scientific, engineering and education backgrounds to develop innovative technologies and solutions to achieve personalized learning for engineering education.

This Ideas Lab is organized by the Office of Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities (EFMA), the Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC), and the Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation in the Directorate for Engineering (ENG); the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) in the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE); the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE); the Division of Graduate Education, the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings, and the Division of Undergraduate Education in the Directorate for STEM Education (EDU); and the Division of Translational Impacts in the Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP). INFORMATIONAL WEBINAR: The Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities (EFMA) Office will host an informational webinar in October 2023 to discuss the Ideas Lab: Personalized Engineering Learning solicitation and to answer questions. Details on how to join this webinar will be posted on the EFMA Website.

NSF

Solicitation: 23-626

https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?WT.z_pims_id=506216&ods_key=nsf23626

Posted Date: September 27, 2023

Preliminary Proposal Due Date: December 19, 2023 by 5:00 pm Local Time

Proposal Due Date: April 24, 2024 by 5:00 pm Local Time

This solicitation invites participation in an Ideas Lab, which is an intensive, facilitated workshop that brings together multiple diverse perspectives to find innovative solutions to a grand challenge. This Ideas Lab will focus on exploration of innovative approaches for addressing the research capacity needs of the Nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and development of collaborative networks among HBCUs that enable research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The overarching aim of this Ideas Lab is to bring together HBCU faculty, staff, research administrators, and academic leadership to stimulate the generation and execution of innovative and transformative approaches for enhancing opportunities for HBCUs to finance and conduct STEM research. In alignment with recommendations from Preuss, Eck, Fechner, and Walker (2020), outcomes from this Ideas Lab should lead to new models and practices that sustainably increase research capacity by enabling inter-institutional and intra-institutional collaborations, sustainable institutional practices for facilitating project planning and development, increased and enhanced research infrastructure (human, cyber, and physical) through shared resourcing, and access to information, tools and resources that facilitate basic research in NSF-supported STEM fields.

This Ideas Lab is responsive to the National Science Board’s (NSB) Vision 2030, which highlighted the importance of diversity in the STEM workforce. HBCUs account for 3% of four-year colleges in the United States, while conferring approximately 15% all STEM related bachelor’s degrees to Black/African American students. Approximately ~24% of Black/African American students who earned STEM doctoral degrees between 2015 and 2019 received their baccalaureate degree from an HBCU. Thus, HBCUs contribute significantly to training and developing the STEM workforce.

NSF

Solicitation: 23-156

https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/exploring-task-based-interactions-between-human

Posted Date: September 25, 2023

Proposal Due Date: May 01, 2024

Dear Colleagues:

With this Dear Colleague letter (DCL), the Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) of the Directorate for Engineering (ENG) invites the submission of EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) proposals, as well as supplemental funding requests to existing NSF awards, in support of research on the performance of novel and important tasks that require sensorimotor interaction between human and synthetic actors: that is, physical interaction that also involves sensing through one or more modalities.

The overarching goal of this effort is to diversify research in this area through the exploration of new ways in which humans can interact with synthetic agents to achieve important societal aims. EAGER proposals are expected to involve radically different approaches, to apply new expertise, or to engage novel disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspectives. Supplemental funding requests may be related to current awards associated with any of the CMMI programs listed below.

For the purposes of this DCL, a task is considered to be a collection of goals, constraints, and methods. Task performance refers to the use of the methods to satisfy one or more of the goals without violating any of the constraints. The precise definition of these terms is left intentionally open-ended but should be explicated in any submission under this DCL.

For the purpose of this DCL, synthetic actors may be physical or virtual agents. Sensorimotor interactions may unfold within a real or virtual physical environment, and include responses to perceived forces, movements, or other evocative sensory stimuli.

A responsive submission will define the task of interest and analyze and explore the implications for task performance by human and synthetic actors linked by sensorimotor interactions.

Example topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Tasks that require competition rather than collaboration in the interaction between human and synthetic actors;
• Tasks that require production of creative or novel outcomes of such interactions;
• Tasks that require human-machine co-learning or co-adaptation;
• Formal mathematical frameworks to inform task performance during sensorimotor interaction;
• Physical or virtual task environments that can accommodate sensorimotor interaction between human and synthetic actors;
• Tasks focusing on the validation of task design and the assessment of task performance; and
• Tasks that can support the development of unified theories of perceptual-motor co-adaptation, tailored to different cognitive ability profiles.

NSF

Solicitation: 23-624

https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/research-innovative-technologies-enhanced-learning

Posted Date: September 27, 2023

Proposal Due Date(s):  due by 5 p.m. submitter’s local time

January 24, 2024

November 05, 2024

November 04, 2025

The purpose of the Research on Innovative Technologies for Enhanced Learning (RITEL) program is to support early-stage research in emerging technologies for teaching and learning that respond to pressing needs in authentic (real-world) educational environments. RITEL supports future-oriented exploratory and synergistic research in emerging technologies (including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and immersive or augmenting technologies) for teaching and learning. The program accepts proposals that focus on learning, teaching, or a combination of both. The scope of the program is broad and includes teaching and learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and in foundational areas that enable STEM (e.g., self-regulation, literacy, communication, collaboration, creativity, and socio-emotional skills). RITEL supports research in all learning contexts (e.g., formal, informal, workplace) and for all learner populations. RITEL has a special interest in diverse learner/educator populations and in developing new educational technologies that are cost-effective for budget-limited school districts, colleges and universities. Research in this program should be informed by the convergence (synthesis) of multiple disciplines: e.g., learning sciences; discipline-based education research; computer and information science and engineering; design; and cognitive, behavioral, and social sciences. RITEL is unique in its requirement that projects must advance research in both learning (and/or teaching) and technology.