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New NSF Solicitation 13-519
Explained
Edith Gummer, Program Director EHR/DRL
January 9, 2013
Edith Gummer
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New NSF Solicitation 13-519
Explained
Edith Gummer, Program Director EHR/DRL
January 9, 2013
Edith Gummer
Webinar: Building Community and Capacity
for Data-Intensive Research in the Social,
Behavioral and Economic Sciences and in
Education and Human Resources (BCCSBE/EHR) NSF 13-519
A Cross-Directorate Program in collaboration
with the Office of Cyberinfrastructure
National Science Foundation
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13519/nsf
13519.pdf
Due Date via FastLane: February 27, 2013
Agenda for Webinar
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Introductions
Rationale
Overview of BCC-SBE/EHR program
Significant changes to the NSF merit criteria
for proposals
• Recommendations for proposers
• Q & A about solicitation
Rationale
• Part of NSF’s Cyberinfrastructure Framework
for 21st Century Science and Engineering
(CIF21).
• Influenced by the SBE 2020 efforts as reported
in Rebuilding the Mosaic.
• EHR‘s Cyberinfrastructure for Education and
Learning for the Future: A Vision and a
Research Agenda.
BCC-SBE/EHR
• Enable communities to develop visions for
data intensive research.
• Expands the use of existing large scale
databases or includes the design of new
databases that collect data at scale.
• Encourages the development of new analytic
tools and processes.
Overarching Program Goal
The primary goal of the BCC-SBE/EHR
announcement is to organize a new or existing
research community to design (and perhaps
prototype) data-intensive research
infrastructure.
This competition intends the building of broad and
large scale infrastructures that extend well
beyond a single discipline and will be used by a
large number and wide range of researchers.
Data-Intensive Research
• Data-intensive research - research involving
data resources that are well beyond the
storage requirements, computational
intensiveness or complexity that is currently
typical of the SBE or EHR areas of research.
• Infrastructure - data, data structures,
metadata, analytics and those tools needed
to facilitate research.
Why “Perhaps Prototype”?
• The current year of this BCC competition will
not support implementation of the dataintensive infrastructure, though such funding
is anticipated for subsequent years.
• Focus of 2013 proposals should not be on
implementation of a data resource, but rather
on the building of a broader community and
capacity to design and eventually use a
resource.
Intended Focus
1. The development of communities.
2. Plans for database design or utilization.
3. Infrastructure - including analytic tools.
Note – NSF’s Research Coordination Network
(RCN) solicitation and past awards may
provide examples of ways to structure
community building networks
BCC-SBE/EHR- a Multiyear Initiative
1. 2013 is the 2nd of two rounds of funding to
establish the groundwork for larger scale
(approximately $1,000,000) projects
2. Final products of the effort are developed
databases, research tools, or implementation
of research agendas
Key Issues to Address
• Activities should have significant impacts across
multiple fields.
• Investigators should think broadly and create a vision
that extends intellectually across multiple disciplines.
• Describe the bodies of data and other resources that
will make up the infrastructure.
• Investigators should think creatively about data and
consider new data collections repurposed existing data
and new approaches to data.
• Proposals should have a well defined work plan with
steps sufficiently detailed.
Key Questions to Address
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What broad, important, fundamental research questions
are to be addressed? What research communities would
be interested in exploring these questions?
2. What kinds of data are to be involved, including the
metadata and the broader infrastructure in which the
data are embedded? The data involved may be newly
gathered, newly aggregated, and/or newly created.
3. How will the databases/assets be constructed? What new
analytic or statistical approaches are needed to analyze
the data?
4. What infrastructure is required to ensure access to and
long-term maintenance of these large-scale data?
Long Term Questions to Consider
1. What types of infrastructure and data
acquisition approaches are required to
support wide scale deployment and use?
2. How will these new research communities
address governance and sustainability
issues?
Relevant SBE and EHR Fields
Consult the SBE and EHR research division home pages
SBE
• Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences – BCS
• Social and Economic Sciences – SES
EHR
• Graduate Education – DGE
• Human Resource Development – HRD
• Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings
– DRL
• Undergraduate Education - DUE
Award Information
• Standard or Continuing Grant
• Estimated 20 to 25 awards
• Total funding, pending availability of funds in
FY 2013 is $5,000,000
• Average grant around $250,000 – larger
awards require justification of scope of work
Proposal and Award Policies and
Procedures Guide
• http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappgui
de/nsf13001/nsf13_1.pdf
• Note, this is a new version of the Proposal and
Award Policies and Procedures Guide and has
some substantive changes
Sections of Proposal
(Significant changes to the NSF Grant Proposal Guide)
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Cover Sheet
Project Summary
Table of Contents
Project Description
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Management Plan
Results from Prior NSF Support
Project Evaluation
Dissemination Plan
• References Cited
• Biographical Sketch (es)
Sections of Proposal
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Budget / Budget Justification
Current and Pending Support
Facilities, Equipment and Other Resources
Supplemental Documents
– Letters of Commitment
– Post-doc Mentoring Plan
– Data Management Plan
– IRB Documentation or Status
Two Review Criteria from NSB
• Intellectual Merit: the potential to
advance knowledge
• Broader Impacts: the potential to benefit
society and to contribute to the
achievement of specific, desired societal
outcomes
• http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pap
pguide/nsf13001/gpg_sigchanges.jsp
Additional Considerations
To what extent does the proposed
activity suggest and explore creative,
original or potentially transformative
concepts?
Is the plan for carrying out the proposed
activities well-reasoned, well-organized,
and based on a sound rationale? Does
the plan incorporate a mechanism to
assess success?
Additional Considerations
How well qualified is the proposer (individual
or team) to conduct the project? (If
appropriate, provide outcomes from the prior
work.)
Are there adequate resources available to the
PI (either at the home institution or through
collaborations) to carry out the proposed
activities?
Broader Impacts Considerations
 How well does the activity advance discovery and understanding while
promoting teaching, training, and learning?
 How well does the proposed activity broaden the participation of
underrepresented groups (e.g., gender, ethnicity, disability, geographic
location, etc.)?
 To what extent will the proposed activity enhance the infrastructure for
research and education, such as facilities, instrumentation, networks, and
partnerships?
 Will the results be disseminated broadly to enhance scientific and
technological understanding?
 What may be the benefits of the proposed activity to society?
Helpful Suggestions
• Read solicitation carefully.
• Review information about currently-funded projects on NSF
website (www.nsf.gov).
• Adhere the Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide
(PAPPG) available on the NSF website (note: new guidelines as of
Jan, 2012)check dates and url
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=papp
• Follow the proposal preparation guidelines, especially for budgets,
budget justifications, bios, fonts, etc.
• Ask a colleague to read it as a “reviewer”.
Helpful Suggestions
• Clearly articulate the STEM connection.
• Cite appropriate literature.
• Provide a strong argument for the importance of the effort (e.g.,
national issues in STEM social, behavioral and economic sciences,
new and enduring issues in education research using large scale
data).
• Describe the appropriateness of the research design, data, analytic
tools, and strategies to address limitations
Contact a Relevant
NSF Program Director
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Saylor Breckenridge, SBE/SES, [email protected]
Peter Muhlberger, SBE/SES, [email protected]
John E. Yellen, SBE/BCS, [email protected]
William Badecker, SBE/BCS, [email protected]
Edith Gummer, EHR/DRL, [email protected]
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