Cross-Directorate Activities  (CDA)  

PROGRAM GUIDELINES

Apply to PD 04-1397 in FastLane. (standard Grant Proposal Guidelines) apply.)

As announced on May 21st, proposers must prepare and submit proposals to the National Science Foundation (NSF) using the NSF FastLane system at http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/. This approach is being taken to support efficient Grants.gov operations during this busy workload period and in response to OMB direction guidance issued March 9, 2009. NSF will continue to post information about available funding opportunities to Grants.gov FIND and will continue to collaborate with institutions who have invested in system-to-system submission functionality as their preferred proposal submission method. NSF remains committed to the long-standing goal of streamlined grants processing and plans to provide a web services interface for those institutions that want to use their existing grants management systems to directly submit proposals to NSF.

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 SBE Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowships and Follow-up Research Starter Grants(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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