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Find similar grantsNational Innovation Corps Teams (I-Corps™) is sponsored by U.S. National Science Foundation. The NSF I-Corps™ program aims to spur translation of foundational research to the marketplace, encourage collaboration between academia and industry, and train NSF-funded faculty, students, and other researchers in innovation and entrepreneurship skills.
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National Teams Applicants - NSF I-Corps™ | NSF - U.S. National Science Foundation National Teams Applicants National I-Corps Teams applicants A team accepted into the U.S. National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps™) National Teams training program is eligible to be awarded up to $50,000, which supports the team’s program participation including stipends and expenses for virtual and in-person customer discovery.
Awardees must pay a participation fee (as a direct cost) to a third party that manages the NSF National I-Corps Teams training and logistics. The current participation fee is $10,000 and is paid through award funds. NSF will provide awardees with instructions for payment at the time of the award.
Through the seven-week program, teams engage with prospective customers, partners, and others in the ecosystem—evaluating the commercial potential for turning their technologies into successful products, processes and services. Submit an executive summary If you are eligible for national training but have not started the application process yet, submit an executive summary using the NSF I-Corps Teams Executive Summary Form.
Respond to the solicitation If you have already completed your interview with the I-Corps staff and have been invited to respond to the solicitation, do so at the link below. Form a team. Teams consist of three to five members, with each member playing a distinct role.
Technical lead: Typically, a faculty member who is the technology inventor and serves as principal investigator, or a postdoctoral researcher who has deep expertise in the core technology area to be evaluated for market potential. Entrepreneurial lead: Typically, a graduate student or postdoctoral researcher who leads the team and is committed to commercialization.
Industry mentor: An industry expert with business/entrepreneurial experience who is independent from the technology development and team. Teams may include additional members; however, they may not exceed five members.
Teams may also identify a principal investigator, or PI, of record — someone who submits the proposal, manages the award and is connected with the technology development but does not wish to participate in the training program. Submit an executive summary. Complete the NSF I-Corps Teams Executive Summary Form.
Connect with NSF. Once NSF has received your executive summary, the I-Corps staff will schedule an interview with your team to review your information, provide feedback, and determine if you are ready for the national program. Select your cohort .
After completing a successful interview, you will be invited to select the cohort that your team would like to attend. Be sure all team members are available to attend all I-Corps session dates and times. Submit your I-Corps proposal.
After successfully completing your interview, you will also be invited to submit an I-Corps proposal to NSF . Applicants must have a technology development connection to an institution of higher education as well as submit their application from an institution of higher education.
Applicants who have had an active NSF research award in the last five years in a relevant research area –– from any field of science or engineering are eligible to apply to the national I-Corps program.
Researchers who have not received a research award from NSF may earn eligibility to the national I-Corps program by first participating in a regional I-Corps program and receiving a letter of recommendation following completion of the program. Mandatory team commitments 100 Customer Interviews. Complete a minimum of 100 potential customer interviews during the seven-week training program.
Session Attendance. Attend all I-Corps sessions including the kick-off and closing meetings, weekly web sessions and office hours. All team members, including the team mentor, must attend all I-Corps sessions.
Customer Discovery. Follow the customer discovery process and other guidance given by the instructors. Explore Commercialization.
Commit to exploring the commercialization potential of your technology. Learn about I-Corps' contributions to training the scientific workforce, creating use-based technologies, and boosting the economy. Learn about I-Corps' impact The I-Corps training program has helped launch more than 1,000 startups.
Read about the remarkable work performed by our funded researchers and their role in fostering technology commercialization.
Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs): Two- and four-year IHEs (including community colleges) accredited in, and having a campus located in the US, acting on behalf of their faculty members. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
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Environmental Engineering is sponsored by U.S. National Science Foundation. The Environmental Engineering program supports transformative research that applies scientific and engineering principles to minimize discharges from human activities and to remove or reduce contaminants from polluted air, water, and soils. This includes enhancing high-quality water supplies through innovative biological, chemical, and physical treatment processes. Nanobubble technology for water treatment would align with these objectives.
Engineering of Biomedical Systems (EBMS) Program is sponsored by U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). The EBMS program supports fundamental and transformative research at the interface of engineering and biomedical sciences to solve biomedical problems. Projects should focus on high-impact, transformative methods and technologies, including the development of validated models (living or computational) of normal and pathological tissues and organ systems, and advanced biomanufacturing of three-dimensional tissues and organs.
Build and Broaden (B2) supports fundamental research and research capacity across disciplines at minority-serving institutions (MSIs) and encourages research collaborations with scholars at MSIs. Growing the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce is a national priority. National forecasts of the impending shortage of workers with science and engineering skills and essential research workers underscore a need to expand opportunities to participate in STEM research (President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, 2012). MSIs make considerable contributions to educating and training science leaders for U.S. economic growth and competitiveness. Yet NSF has received comparatively few grant submissions from, or involving, scholars at MSIs. Targeted outreach activities reveal that MSIs have varying degrees of familiarity with funding opportunities within NSF and particularly within the Social, Behavioral and Economic (SBE) Sciences Directorate. As a result, NSF is limited in its ability to support research and training opportunities in the SBE sciences at these institutions. With its emphasis on broadening participation , Build and Broaden is designed to address this problem. SBE offers Build and Broaden in order to increase proposal submissions, advance research collaborations and networks involving MSI scholars, and support research activities in the SBE sciences at MSIs. Proposals that outline research projects in the SBE sciences that increase students' pursuit of graduate training, enhance PI productivity build research capacity, or cultivate partnerships are especially encouraged to apply. Proposals are invited from single principal investigators based at MSIs and from multiple co-investigators from groups of MSIs. Principal investigators who are not affiliated with MSIs may submit proposals, but must collaborate with PIs, co-PIs, or senior personnel from MSIs and describe how their project will foster research partnerships or capacity-building with at least one MSI as a primary goal of the proposed work. Proposals may address any scientific and cross-disciplinary areas supported by SBE. These areas include anthropology, archaeology, cognitive neuroscience, decision science, ecological research, economics, geography, linguistics, law and science, organizational behavior, political science, public policy, security and preparedness, psychology, and sociology. To find research areas supported by SBE please visit the SBE programs page or visit the NSF funding and awards page. Funding Opportunity Number: 22-638. Assistance Listing: 47.075. Funding Instrument: G. Category: ST. Award Amount: $8M total program funding.
Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education & Human Resources (IUSE: EHR) Program is sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF). This program promotes novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for undergraduate students. It supports projects that bring recent advances in STEM knowledge into undergraduate education, adapt, improve, and incorporate evidence-based practices, and lay the groundwork for institutional improvement in STEM education. Professional development for instructors to ensure adoption of new and effective pedagogical techniques is a potential topic of interest.
The National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program (NLG-L) supports projects that address critical needs of the library and archives fields and have the potential to advance practice and strengthen library and archival services for the American public. Successful proposals will generate results such as new models, tools, research findings, services, practices, and/or alliances that can be widely used, adapted, scaled, or replicated to extend and leverage the benefits of federal investment. Applications to IMLS should both advance knowledge and understanding and ensure that the federal investment made generates benefits to society. Specifically, the goals for this program are to generate projects of far-reaching impact that: • Build the workforce and institutional capacity for managing the national information infrastructure and serving the information and education needs of the public. • Build the capacity of libraries and archives to lead and contribute to efforts that improve community well-being and strengthen civic engagement. • Improve the ability of libraries and archives to provide broad access to and use of information and collections with emphasis on collaboration to avoid duplication and maximize reach. • Strengthen the ability of libraries to provide services to affected communities in the event of an emergency or disaster. • Strengthen the ability of libraries, archives, and museums to work collaboratively for the benefit of the communities they serve. Throughout its work, IMLS places importance on diversity, equity, and inclusion. This may be reflected in an IMLS-funded project in a wide range of ways, including efforts to serve individuals of diverse geographic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds; individuals with disabilities; individuals with limited functional literacy or information skills; individuals having difficulty using a library or museum; and underserved urban and rural communities, including children from families with incomes below the poverty line. Application Process: The application process for the NLG-L program has two phases; applicants must begin by applying for Phase I. For Phase I, all applicants must submit Preliminary Proposals by the September 20th deadline listed for this Notice of Funding Opportunity. For Phase II, only selected applicants will be invited to submit Full Proposals, and only those Invited Full Proposals will be considered for funding. Invited Full Proposals will be due March 20, 2024. Funding Opportunity Number: NLG-LIBRARIES-FY24. Assistance Listing: 45.312. Funding Instrument: G. Category: AR,HU. Award Amount: $50K – $1M per award.