[OOD-users] NSF CyberTraining Solicitation (NSF 19-524)

[Chalker, Alan]

Open OnDemand Community:

Just wanted to bring to your attention this new NSF funding opportunity related to CyberTraining.  OSC is not in a position to lead a proposal, but if anyone is thinking of submitting a proposal that involves Open OnDemand, we’d be happy to collaborate on it.


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Alan Chalker, Ph.D.
alanc at osc.edu<mailto:alanc at osc.edu>
614-247-8672

Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CyberTraining) – NSF 19-524

This program seeks to prepare, nurture, and grow the national scientific research workforce for creating, utilizing, and supporting advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) to enable and potentially transform fundamental science and engineering research and contribute to the Nation's overall economic competitiveness and security. The goals of this solicitation are to (i) ensure broad adoption of CI tools, methods, and resources by the research community in order to catalyze major research advances and to enhance researchers’ abilities to lead the development of new CI; and (ii) integrate core literacy and discipline-appropriate advanced skills in advanced CI as well as computational and data-driven science and engineering into the Nation’s educational curriculum/instructional material fabric spanning undergraduate and graduate courses for advancing fundamental research.

This solicitation calls for innovative, scalable training, education, and curriculum/instructional materials—targeting one or both of the solicitation goals—to address the emerging needs and unresolved bottlenecks in scientific and engineering research workforce development, from the postsecondary level to active researchers. The funded activities, spanning targeted, multidisciplinary communities, will lead to transformative changes in the state of research workforce preparedness for advanced CI-enabled research in the short- and long-terms.

All projects are expected to clearly articulate how they address important community needs and will provide resources that will be widely available to and usable by the research community. Prospective principal investigators (PIs) are strongly encouraged to contact the Cognizant Program Officers in CISE/OAC and in the participating directorate/division relevant to the proposal to ascertain whether the focus and budget of their proposed activities are appropriate for this solicitation. Such consultations should be completed at least one month in advance of the submission deadline.

The revisions are as follows:

  *   Three project classes have been defined: Pilot, Implementation (Small or Medium), and Large-scale Project Conceptualization.
  *   The two solicitation goals have been clarified, and Pilot and Implementation projects may target one or both of the solicitation goals. Large-scale Project Conceptualization projects must address both goals.
  *   Separate submission tracks for Cyberinfrastructure Contributors, Users, and Professionals have been eliminated. However, there remains a focus on these scientific communities, and projects should target one or more of these communities.
  *   The limit on number or proposals per PI or co-PI has been updated to indicate an individual may serve as PI or co-PI on only one Pilot or Implementation proposal to the CyberTraining program per competition. The Large-scale Project Conceptualization projects are not included in this limit.
  *   The programmatic areas of interest have been updated with the current priorities of the participating directorates and divisions, with one additional directorate participating: the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE).
  *   The list of additional solicitation specific review criteria has been updated. Proposals should address a subset of these criteria according to the project class and one or both chosen goal(s) of the solicitation.

There are three project classes as defined below:

  *   Pilot Projects: up to $300,000 total budget with durations up to two years;
  *   Implementation Projects: Small (with total budgets of up to $500,000) or Medium (with total budgets of up to $1,000,000) for durations of up to four years; and
  *   Large-scale Project Conceptualization Projects: up to $500,000 total budgets with durations up to 2 years.

Full Proposal Deadline: February 6, 2019
Solicitation Website:  https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2019/nsf19524/nsf19524.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_179
Contact: sprasad at nsf.gov<mailto:sprasad at nsf.gov>




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