UM Submission Instructions: Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) 2024
Sponsor: |
National Science Foundation (NSF),National Science Foundation (NSF) |
Award Title: |
Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) |
Amount: |
Each NSF Engine can receive funding for up to 10 years. The initial two years of funding will support a ramp-up period. Continued support for an NSF Engine will be contingent upon its overall performance, including meeting its annual performance goals. During the ramp-up period, an NSF Engine can be funded for a total of $15,000,000 over two years. The total amount of an NSF Engine award will not exceed $160,000,000 from NSF (over a period not exceeding ten years). |
UM Deadline: |
05/15/2024 |
Sponsor Deadline: |
06/18/2024 |
Description: |
The NSF Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) program creates regional-scale, technology-driven, inclusive innovation ecosystems throughout the United States by accelerating key technologies, addressing regional, national, societal, and/or geostrategic challenges, driving economic growth, creating and retaining quality jobs, expanding equitable pathways into careers, and strengthening national competitiveness and security. Each NSF Engine represents a formal coalition of regional partners, led by a full-time Chief Executive Officer (CEO), tasked to carry out an integrated and comprehensive set of activities spanning use-inspired research, translation of innovation to practice, entrepreneurship, workforce development, community engagement, and ecosystem building, to nurture and accelerate the growth of regional innovation ecosystems grounded in technological innovation and regional, national, societal, and/or geostrategic challenges. The mission of an NSF Engine must be clearly rooted in regional interests and reflect the aspiration that a regional innovation ecosystem can help build strong communities where all residents can thrive. This includes the equitable development of regional talent, intentional community engagement, and attention to impacts on a region’s identities and cultures. The NSF Engines program is a placed-based innovation funding initiative, where the emphasis on “regions” expresses NSF’s aim to stimulate innovation-driven economic growth within a particular place or region of service. The emphasis of the NSF Engines program further includes creating new business and economic growth in sectors that are critical to American competitiveness and in those regions of America that have not fully participated in the technology boom of the past several decades. |
Number of Applicants University is Allowed to submit: |
1 |
Additional Requirements: |
None |
Sponsor Guidelines: |
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/nsf-regional-innovation-engines-nsf-engines-0 |
UM Nominations Process: |
Those interested in submitting a project for this limited submission review should follow the instructions below carefully. Faculty and research staff at UMD should skip to the bottom of this section and review the footnote (*).
1) Inform our RIO office by 4PM Friday, May 3, 2024, if you believe you will be participating in this limited submission by emailing collabor@umn.edu and sharing:
a. the topic area, and
b. the region of service for your innovation engine.
This will help us ensure we can be prepared with sufficient review panel members.
2) Download a copy and complete an application using the template provided at this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cIayEf85wqzZlwcjjeA8A01-5eE_pLHq/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=100207803516514002310&rtpof=true&sd=true
3) Provide an abbreviated CV for the lead PI.
4) Submit the completed application (step 2) + abbreviated CV (step 3) materials as a single pdf document to collabor@umn.edu no later than 4PM Wednesday, May 15, 2024.
We understand this is a high-stakes competition for which only one application can be selected. If your proposal is not picked during our limited submission review process, we encourage you to consider other partnership opportunities with external collaborators and explore all avenues to advance your project.
RIO's target date for selecting an application: by May 31, 2024.
Any questions can be submitted to collabor@umn.edu.
(*) For UMD Faculty and Research Staff only: NSF treats UMD as a separate institution for solicitations with limited submissions. Faculty and research staff at UMD interested in submitting to the ENGINES program should notify UMD Research Administration (umdspa@d.umn.edu) by 12:00 noon on 8 May 2024. At that time, they will be provided with an internal pre-proposal template, due by 5:00 pm on 15 May 2024, that will be reviewed in consultation with an ad hoc expert panel. PIs will be notified of results before 31 May 2024. |
Peer Review Coordination: |
Research and Innovation Office contact email |
Status: |
No longer accepting applications. |
Please note: |
To be considered for peer review and internal selection, faculty must follow the above submission guidelines and meet the UM deadline as set by the office coordinating the peer review for this opportunity. |
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