Cross-Directorate Activities  (CDA)  

PROGRAM GUIDELINES

Apply to PD 04-1397 as follows:

For full proposals submitted via FastLane: standard Grant Proposal Guidelines apply.
For full proposals submitted via Grants.gov: NSF Grants.gov Application Guide; A Guide for the Preparation and Submission of NSF Applications via Grants.gov Guidelines apply (Note: The NSF Grants.gov Application Guide is available on the Grants.gov website and on the NSF website at: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=grantsgovguide)

Please be advised that the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) includes revised guidelines to implement the mentoring provisions of the America COMPETES Act (ACA) (Pub. L. No. 110-69, Aug. 9, 2007.) As specified in the ACA, each proposal that requests funding to support postdoctoral researchers must include a description of the mentoring activities that will be provided for such individuals. Proposals that do not comply with this requirement will be returned without review (see the PAPP Guide Part I: Grant Proposal Guide Chapter II for further information about the implementation of this new requirement).

DUE DATES

Full Proposal Accepted Anytime

Due Date Clarification

• Unsolicited CDA proposals: accepted any time.
• Other Programs: deadlines according to relevant solicitations.

SYNOPSIS

The Cross-Directorate Activities (CDA) program encompasses a collection of SBE and Foundation-wide activities that provide support for human resource development and infrastructrue improvement in the SBE sciences.  The CDA program office directly administers the Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowships and Supporting Activities (MPRF) and the SBE Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites competitions.  In addition to the traditional disciplinary areas, the SBE CDA Program is interested in receiving REU SIte proposals and MPRF applications that focus on the following emerging and/or multidisciplinary themes as they involve human behavior and social and economic systems:  renewable energy, climate change, extreme weather events, water resources, dynamics and quality, cyberinfrastructure, computer simulation and algorithms, virtual organizations, cyber-enabled learning and discovery, complex adaptive systems,  learning theories, computation and cognition, computational social science, etc.  The CDA Program Director also acts as the SBE representative to a number of NSF-wide, crosscutting programs such as CAREER, GK-12, ADVANCE, and EPSCoR.

The CDA Program may fund unsolicited proposals for special studies, analyses, and workshops on topics affecting social,  behavioral, and economic sciences, particularly issues that span divisional boundaries.  Interested persons should discuss their ideas with the program director prior to submitting proposals.  These proposals may be submitted any time.

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