EAR Education and Human Resources  (EH)

PROGRAM GUIDELINES

Apply to PD 04-1575 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

Please contact the program officer about submitting proposals to the following education-related programs:

For EAR Postdoctoral Fellowship proposals, see NSF EAR-PF web site for deadline dates.

For REU site proposals, see NSF REU web site for deadline dates.

For CAREER proposals, see the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program for deadlines.

For RET supplements, see Research Experiences for Teachers program guidelines.

SYNOPSIS

The Division of Earth Sciences' Education and Human Resources Program (EH) facilitates activities that engage a wide range of audiences in EAR research efforts. To this effect, the following types of activities are supported: 1) postdoctoral experiences outside the framework of normal NSF research grants; 2) research experiences for undergraduate (including NSF-wide REU program); and 3) education activities both inside and outside the classroom through CAREER proposals and supplements to existing research grants.

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NSF Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowships

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