The National Science Foundation (NSF) is offering the Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) grant to advance scientific discovery and productivity. This grant is for transforming innovations in research and education into sustained software resources, integral to the cyberinfrastructure framework. Specifically, it targets grand challenges in the chemical sciences by providing enabling and sustainable software. This software should allow researchers to rapidly prototype new algorithms, leverage heterogeneous architectures, and explore data-enabled scenarios. The NSF seeks to encourage international collaborative software activities with foreign investigators, such as those with the EPSRC in the United Kingdom, to enhance software innovation, capabilities, support, and sustainability in the chemical sciences.
Opportunity ID: 180954
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | 12-576 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Grant |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Science and Technology and other Research and Development |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 9 |
| Assistance Listings: | 47.049 — Mathematical and Physical Sciences |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Jun 29, 2012 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Sep 27, 2012 Preliminary Proposal Due Date(s) (required) (due by 5 p.m. proposer’s local time): August 27, 2012 Full Proposal Deadline(s): September 27, 2012 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Sep 27, 2012 Preliminary Proposal Due Date(s) (required) (due by 5 p.m. proposer’s local time): August 27, 2012 Full Proposal Deadline(s): September 27, 2012 |
| Archive Date: | Oct 27, 2012 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $4,500,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | – |
| Award Floor: | $1,500,000 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | *Organization Limit: Proposals may only be submitted by the following: -Non-profit, non-academic organizations: Independent museums, observatories, research labs, professional societies and similar organizations in the U.S. associated with educational or research activities. -Universities and Colleges – Universities and two- and four-year colleges (including community colleges) accredited in, and having a campus located in the US, acting on behalf of their faculty members. Such organizations also are referred to as academic institutions. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | U.S. National Science Foundation |
| Description: | Software is an integral enabler of computation, experiment and theory and a primary modality for realizing the NSF’s vision for a Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21) (http://www.nsf.gov/cif21). Scientific discovery and innovation are advancing along fundamentally new pathways opened by the development of increasingly sophisticated software. Software is also directly responsible for increased scientific productivity and significant enhancement of researchers’ capabilities. In order to nurture, accelerate and sustain this critical mode of scientific progress, NSF established the multi-tiered Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) program, with the overarching goal of transforming innovations in research and education into sustained software resources that are an integral part of the cyberinfrastructure.Grand challenges in the chemical sciences will be advanced through the provision of enabling and sustainable software that allows researchers to flexibly and rapidly prototype and test new algorithms or methods; leverage new heterogeneous architectures; and explore new data-enabled scenarios. The NSF seeks to encourage collaborative software activities with foreign investigators which advance software innovation, capabilities, support and sustainability. This SI2 solicitation is for international software collaborations addressing grand challenges in the chemical sciences, in partnership with the EPSRC in the United Kingdom. |
| Link to Additional Information: | NSF Publication 12-576 |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
NSF grants.gov support
grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov Email:grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov |
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