Upcoming Deadlines
Federal
NSF-Partnerships for Innovation: AIR: March 13, 2013
NSF- Dear Colleague Letter – Workshop for Engaging Social, Behavioral, and Economic Scientists through Social and Policy entrepreneurship: March 29, 2013
NOAA/Sea Grant California- Regional Social Science and Human Dimension Research
Pre-proposals: April 1, 2013
UC
UC ACCORD: April 10, 2013
Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California: March 25, 2013
Students
James D. Kline Fellowship: March 13, 2013
Federal
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Partnerships for Innovation: Accelerating Innovation Research (PFI: AIR)
Program: To continue to strengthen the innovation ecosystem, NSF is revising NSF 12-511 to promote two choices under the Partnerships for Innovation (PFI): Accelerating Innovation Research (AIR) subprogram. The first choice, Technology Translation, encourages the translation of technologically-promising research discoveries made by prior and/or current NSF-funded investigators toward a path of commercialization; while the second choice, Research Alliance, promotes synergistic collaborations between an existing NSF-funded research alliance (including consortia such as Engineering Research Centers, Industry University Cooperative Research Centers, Science and Technology Centers, Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers, Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers, Centers for Chemical Innovation, and Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation grantees) and other public and private entities to motivate the translation and transfer of research discoveries into innovative technologies and commercial reality. Both of these choices are designed to accelerate innovation that results in the creation of new wealth and the building of strong local, regional, and national economies.
Deadline: Letter of Intent (required): March 13, 2013
Full Proposal: May 15, 2013
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12571/nsf12571.htm
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Dear Colleague Letter – Workshop for Engaging Social, Behavioral, and Economic Scientists through Social and Policy entrepreneurship
Program: Building on the National Science Foundation's commitment to increasing the broader impacts of its science, the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) seeks to explore possible avenues for guiding scientific discoveries closer to the development of public policy and social ventures. To this end, SBE would like to invite proposals for organizing interdisciplinary, multi-sector workshops that focus on (but are not limited to) the following topics and issues:
What is the nature of the system within which scientific knowledge is transformed into public policy or social action? What interactions characterize this system? What system failures or barriers impede the utilization of non-commercial science by governments, non-profit organizations, community groups, and other social ventures? How can universities and scholars best serve this system?
What non-commercial pathways best connect academic science to public policy and management and to social ventures designed to meet public needs? What types of interactions with scientists are most fruitful in these contexts?
How should scholars, social entrepreneurs, policy-makers, and administrators engage each other to facilitate better application of SBE science?
What skill sets and partnerships do scientists need to develop in order to optimize the transformation of their science into actionable and useful knowledge in the non-commercial contexts of public policy, management, and social need?
What types of curricula or educational activities should be developed to advance knowledge in the area of social and policy entrepreneurship?
Ideally, the reports generated by these workshops could be used by a variety of audiences as starting points for the development of a curriculum or a specific set of activities designed to facilitate the transformation of fundamental SBE science into actionable knowledge.
Deadline: March 29, 2013
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13046/nsf13046.jsp
Funding Source: NOAA/Sea Grant California
Title: Regional Social Science and Human Dimension Research
Program: The California, University of Southern California, Oregon, and Washington Sea Grant programs are jointly interested in coordinated research efforts that bring together researchers from across the West Coast region to address specific social science and human-dimension issues of regional importance that align with the goals of the National Sea Grant College Program. Subject to the availability of funding, the four West Coast Sea Grant programs will make a total of $700,000 available collectively at the regional level over two years to fund projects. In addition, the National Sea Grant Office may augment available state program funds. Given these funding limits, we anticipate being able to fund between two and four regional projects for the 2014-2016 biennium. Individual projects should not request more than $100,000 per year (including indirect costs) from any relevant state Sea Grant program (total project costs can exceed $100K per year if more than one state Sea Grant program is involved). Projects will be selected through an open, competitive, peer-review process.
Deadline: Preproposals: April 1, 2013
Full Proposals: June 16 2013
Link: http://www.csgc.ucsd.edu/FUNDING/APPLYING/WestCoastRegionalSocialScience2014-16.html
UC
Funding Source: UC ACCORD
Title: Dissertation and Faculty Seed Grant Competition
Program: UC/ACCORD All Campus Consortium on Research for Diversity announces a call for proposals in two categories—Dissertation and Faculty Seed Grant Competition. UC/ACCORD was established to engage University of California scholars in research that will support and inform Californians’ efforts to replace prevailing patterns of schooling inequality and disparities in access to higher education with equitable conditions and outcomes for children from all sectors of our diverse state. UC/ACCORD is interested in increasing the number of graduate students and faculty within the UC system who are working in areas that inform its goals.
Deadline: April 10, 2013
Link: http://ucaccord.gseis.ucla.edu/fellowships-grants
Funding Source: Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California
Title: Planning and Development Grants
Program: The UC Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California (CCREC-a UC MRPI) is accepting proposals for Planning and Development Grants of up to $15,000 to support the crucial early stages of collaborative research projects that show significant promise of securing extramural funding for their implementation phase.
Deadline: March 25, 2013
Link: http://ccrec.ucsc.edu/grants-projects/planning-and-development-grants
Students
Funding Source: UCSB
Title: James D. Kline Fellowship
Program: Fund awarded in support of students who are interested and committed to international relations. This grant recognize excellence of a project or program of study which promotes international understanding and world peace.
Deadline: March 13, 2013
Link: http://www.graddiv.ucsb.edu/
