(CLOSED) NSF 19-552 ADVANCE: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions - Adaptation, Partnership, and Catalyst

Sponsor Name:

NSF

Sponsor/Solicitation URL:

https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2019/nsf19552/nsf19552.htm

Amount:

$30,000,000.00

Description of the Award:

ADVANCE Solicitation proposal preparation webinar February 26^th 2pm to 3:30 PM EST –https://www.nsf.gov/events/event_summ.jsp?cntn_id=297681&org=NSF.

NSF ADVANCE Track	Must include all STEM disciplines at the institution?	Multiple Organizations?	Budget	Preliminary Proposal or Letter of Intent (LOI) and NSF due dates
Penn State is allowed to be lead on only ONE Partnership Program; no limit on participation as a non-lead
Partnership	No (One or more STEM discipline, National/ Regional reach)	Required -two or more in the partnership	Up to $1M for 3 to 5 years + up to $250K more for partnering with NSF INCLUDES National Network	Penn State Downselect NOI (required) due March 15, 2019 NSF Required LOI due May 15, 2019 NSF Full proposal due May 22, 2019
Penn State is allowed to submit only ONE proposal from the following 3 tracks
Catalyst	Yes	Not allowed (systems & multi-campus IHEs are permitted)	Up to $300K for 2 years	Penn State Downselect NOI (required) due March 15, 2019 No NSF LOI *NSF Full Proposals target date is June 3, 2019**
Institutional Transformation (IT)	Yes	Not allowed (systems & multi-campus IHEs are permitted)	Up to $3M for five years	Penn State Downselect NOI (required) due March 15, 2019 NSF Required IT-Preliminary Proposal due October 1, 2019 NSF Full proposal by invitation only and is due March 2, 2020
Adaptation	Yes	Not allowed (systems & multi-campus IHEs are permitted)	Up to $1M for 3 years + up to $100K more for partnering w/ NSF STEM grad. ed. project	Penn State Downselect NOI (required) due March 15, 2019 NSF Required LOI due May 15, 2019 NSF Full proposal due May 22, 2019

*There is a target date for Catalyst proposals. ADVANCE will accept Catalyst proposals before and after the target date. Please contact the program office before submitting a Catalyst proposal to determine if funding is available.

FYI: For FY 2020 competition, Letter of Intent for January 2020 Adaptation and Partnership competitions is due November 1, 2020 and the full proposals are due January 15, 2020

Limit (Number of applicants permitted per institution):

Sponsor LOI Deadline:

May 15, 2019

Sponsor Final Deadline:

May 22, 2019

OSVPR Application or NOI Instructions:

Interested applicants should send the following documents in sequence in one PDF file (File name: Last name_NSF 19-552_2019 no later than 4:00 p.m. on the internal submission deadline:

Proposal Title
NSF Advance Track
Description of the proposed project (2500-character maximum)
List key project personnel with a brief description of their proposed roles.
For the Partnership track; list partner organizations with a brief description of the organization's role in the project.

Please contact Michelle Hutnik (mzh17@psu.edu) in the Limited Submissions Office if you have any questions.

To be considered as a Penn State institutional nominee, please submit a notice of intent by the date provided directly below.

Penn State OSVPR NOI Deadline:

Friday, March 15, 2019 - 4:00pm

This limited submission is in downselect:

Penn State may only submit a specific number of proposals to this funding opportunity. The number of NOIs received require that an internal competition take place, thus, a downselect process has commenced. No Penn State researchers may apply to this opportunity outside of this downselect process. To apply for this limited submission, please use this link:

OSVPR Downselect Deadline:

Friday, March 15, 2019 - 4:00pm

Notes:

Pritchett, Amy (Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering) 3/22/19