Extramural Coordinated Funding

UM Submission Instructions: NSF 23-521: Strengthening the Cyberinfrastructure Professionals Ecosystem (SCIPE) 2025

Sponsor:	National Science Foundation (NSF)
Award Title:	NSF 23-521: Strengthening the Cyberinfrastructure Professionals Ecosystem (SCIPE)
Amount:	A SCIPE award is limited to five years in duration. The yearly budget for a project may support up to 4 full-time equivalent (FTEs) CI professionals. Projects may also budget for additional expenses involved in the project. This solicitation does not specify a limit. However, such expenses should be clearly justified, and it is expected that the support for the CIP professional trainees would be the major component of the budget.
UM Deadline:	10/01/2025
Sponsor Deadline:	01/15/2026
Description:	Advanced computing and data analytics are increasingly central to S&E innovation and economic prosperity. S&E researchers use advanced CI systems and tools in close collaboration with the expert CIP workforce as an interdependent ecosystem. Efficient and effective use of the advanced CI ecosystem by NSF programs can sometimes be limited by lack of availability of appropriate CIP expertise, gaps in specialty skills, organizational distance, or even simple unawareness of needs. For testbeds and novel CI paradigms, CIPs are often the only link between newly developed computing capabilities and the research community. The SCIPE program addresses the growing need for CIP expertise, the need to address emerging CI requirements, and the need for organizational recognition and to establish career pathways for the CIP workforce that supports innovation, development, maintenance, and utilization of NSF’s advanced CI ecosystem by researchers and educators. NSF invites proposals that identify the emerging and outstanding community needs in training, education, and career development that require significant innovations and will result in transformative changes. NSF seeks proposals that will also pioneer innovative solutions to the challenge of broadening CI access and adoption of best practices by those disciplines and institutions with low CI adoption as well as increasing participation from underrepresented groups. NSF expects proposals to describe methods to closely integrate with the Computation Science Support Network (CSSN) of the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem of Services and Support (ACCESS) program. Proposals should engage the relevant set of partners required as investigators, collaborators, expert advisors, resource providers, or early adopters, and include plans for effective outreach to, and recruiting with, stakeholder communities.
Number of Applicants University is Allowed to submit:	1
Additional Requirements:	None
Sponsor Guidelines:	https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/strengthening-cyberinfrastructure-professionals-ecosystem/nsf23-521/solicitation#pgm_intr_txt
UM Nominations Process:	Those interested in applying should submit the following as a single pdf document to collabor@umn.edu no later than 4pm on: 10/1/2025 1. Cover page including PI name, department, contact information, project title, any co-PI's name and department, and one paragraph project abstract. 2. Project summary - to include solicitation specific information. (not more than three pages) - 3. Biosketch of PI and any co-PI's (2 - 5 pages, NSF, NIH, or other relevant format). 4. 2-3 names of possible UMN reviewers (NOT References) (with no Conflicts of Interest) plus 5 keywords to be used as search terms for possible reviewers (can be added to Cover Page) Any questions can be submitted to collabor@umn.edu
Peer Review Coordination:	Research and Innovation Office contact email
Status:	Open
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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