NSF funding opportunity! Accelerating Discovery: Educating the Future STEM Workforce (AD)

Accelerating Discovery: Educating the Future STEM Workforce (AD)

A well-prepared, innovative science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce is crucial to the nation’s prosperity and security. Specifically, NSF accepts proposals to support education research and development projects focused on re- or up-skilling the existing workforce; developing the skilled technical workforce; and/or preparing those at the undergraduate, graduate, or postdoctoral fellow/early career levels. We encourage projects to partner with industry, public, and private sectors to define the needs of tomorrow’s workforce and develop educational and learning strategies to meet those needs.

Proposals should address near-, mid-, and long-term challenges and opportunities facing the development of STEM professionals or anticipate new structures and functions of the STEM learning and teaching enterprise. Proposers are encouraged to include approaches that have the potential to increase and diversify participation in STEM. All proposals should contribute to one or more of the six research Big Ideas.

Researchers are encouraged to read more about this program using the link above. Contact the

Office of Research and Graduate Education

if you are interested in pursuing this funding.

Full proposal window

• April 2-Jan. 16, 2019
• July 2, 2018

Proposals received by the target date will be considered for FY 2018 funding.