NSF funding opportunities in education and human resources
In 2016, NSF unveiled a set of “big ideas”—10 bold, long-term research and process ideas that identify areas for future investment at the frontiers of science and engineering. NSF’s Big Ideas represent unique opportunities to position our nation at the cutting edge of global science and engineering.
There are many opportunities for educational researchers and educators to engage in all 10 of the NSF’s Big Ideas, bringing your innovative and exciting concepts to these competitions. Please reach out to EHR program officers to talk further about how your projects might fit within the NSF Big Ideas. We want your bold thinking!
Funding opportunities now available with NSF’s Big Ideas include:
Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier: Core Research (FW-HTF)
Understanding how constantly evolving technologies are shaping the lives of workers and how people in turn can shape those technologies, especially in the world of work.
- Funding opportunity: FW-HTF
- Full proposal deadline: March 6
- Program guidelines: NSF 19-541
Harnessing the Data Revolution
Engaging NSF’s research community in the pursuit of fundamental research in data science and engineering, the development of a cohesive, federated, national-scale approach to research data infrastructure, and the development of a 21st-century data-capable workforce.
- Preliminary proposal deadline: March 4
- Solicitation: 19-543
Mid-scale Research Infrastructure
Developing an agile process for funding experimental research capabilities in the mid-scale range.
Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 (Mid-scale RI-1)
- Preliminary poroposal deadline: Feb. 19
- Program guidelines: NSF 19-537
More details are expected soon.
Two additional NSF Big Ideas do not have open funding opportunities but could be a source of new solicitations in the future.
- NSF INCLUDES: Transforming education and career pathways to help broaden participation in science and engineering.
- Understanding the Rules of Life: Elucidating the sets of rules that predict an organism’s observable characteristics, its phenotype.
For more information on these funding opportunities, please contact the cognizant program officer listed on the specific webpage.
Contact the Office of Research and Graduate Education
if you are interested in pursuing any of these opportunities.