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Smart & Connected Communities Webinar

October 20, 2:30-3:30 PM Eastern This webinar will provide an overview of the Smart & Connected Communities (S&CC) program solicitation and help answer questions of prospective principal investigators (PIs). The goal of the S&CC program solicitation is to support strongly interdisciplinary, integrative research and research capacity-building activities that will improve understanding of smart and connected […]

Expanded White House Smart Cities Initiative

The White House just announced that it is expanding its Smart Cities Initiative with over $80 million in new Federal investments and a doubling of the number of participating cities and communities. These new investments and collaborations will help cities of all sizes in key areas including climate, transportation, public safety, and transforming city services. […]

NSF Smart and Connected Communities Solicitation

Preliminary Proposal Deadline Date: November 30, 2016 Full Proposal Deadline Date: February 16, 2017 NSF’s Smart & Connected Communities (S&CC) solicitation invites strongly interdisciplinary, integrative research and research capacity-building activities that will improve understanding of smart and connected communities and lead to discoveries that enable sustainable change to enhance community functioning. Note that this is […]

NSF PFI:BIC Smart Service Systems

The newest Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI:BIC) solicitation is out, this year again with a focus on partnerships with industry to perform research that advance out-of-the-box smart technologies, testing them in service systems. See the PFI:BIC solicitation Service systems are socio-technical configurations of people, technologies, organizations, and information [1] designed to create value […]

NSF DRK-12 Webinars

If you are interested in applying for NSF Discovery Research PreK-12 funding (NSF DR K-12), you are invited to attend one of three upcoming informational webinars: September 19, 2016, 4:00-5:00pm ET September 23, 2016, 2:00-3:00pm ET September 26, 2016, 1:00-2:00pm ET REGISTER TO ATTEND Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. The webinars, led by […]

NSF DCL: Societal Challenges

Through the a new NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Exploring Mechanisms to Enhance the Economic and Societal Impacts of Fundamental Advances in Information and Communications Technologies, CISE and SBE invite principal investigators to submit proposals for community workshops and EArlyConcept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) that will explore one of the different approaches outlined above to […]

NSF DUE Division Director Search

NSF announces a nationwide search for Division Director for the Division of Undergraduate Education in the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR). View the Dear Colleague Letter that describes the requirements and how to apply. The mission of EHR is to provide the research foundation to develop a diverse science, technology, engineering, and mathematics […]

Interviewees for NSF I-CORPS-L Teams Needed

CIRCL community members are needed to serve as interviewees for NSF I-CORPS-L Teams developing new educational technologies. Interviewees who represent different populations (K-12 teachers, university faculty, administrators, education industry representatives, etc.). If you are willing to participate, it offers excellent grounding for the teams and an opportunity to hear about and contribute to new ideas. […]

NSF CAREER Proposals

NSF CAREER proposals due July 20, 21, or 22, depending on program. NSF encourages submission of proposals from junior faculty members at all CAREER-eligible organizations.