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US-India Collaborative Research Supplemental Funding Requests is a program from the National Science Foundation that funds supplemental research activities connecting U.S. researchers with India's Technology Innovation Hubs (TIHs) supported by the Indian Department of Science and Technology.
Available through NSF's CISE and Engineering directorates, supplements of up to $100,000 (not exceeding 20% of the original award) support U.S.-India collaborations for up to one year. Partnering TIHs are located at IIT Delhi (cobotics), IIT Bombay (IoT), IIT Madras (sensor and control systems), IIT Jodhpur (computer vision and AR/VR), Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata (data science), and IIT Varanasi (predictive analytics).
Eligible applicants are current NSF award holders in CISE or Engineering directorates seeking to add an India-based collaborative component. Note: this solicitation has been archived.
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Supplemental Funding Requests to Conduct US-India Collaborative Research | NSF - U.S. National Science Foundation NSF's implementation of the revised 2 CFR NSF Financial Assistance awards (grants and cooperative agreements) made on or after October 1, 2024, will be subject to the applicable set of award conditions, dated October 1, 2024, available on the NSF website .
These terms and conditions are consistent with the revised guidance specified in the OMB Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance published in the Federal Register on April 22, 2024.
Important information for proposers All proposals must be submitted in accordance with the requirements specified in this funding opportunity and in the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) that is in effect for the relevant due date to which the proposal is being submitted. It is the responsibility of the proposer to ensure that the proposal meets these requirements.
Submitting a proposal prior to a specified deadline does not negate this requirement.
Updates to NSF Research Security Policies On July 10, 2025, NSF issued an Important Notice providing updates to the agency's research security policies, including a research security training requirement, Malign Foreign Talent Recruitment Program annual certification requirement, prohibition on Confucius institutes and an updated FFDR reporting and submission timeline. This document has been archived.
Supplemental Funding Requests to Conduct US-India Collaborative Research With this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and Directorate for Engineering (ENG) wish to notify the community of their intention to support supplemental funding requests for active research awards to conduct United States - India (US-India) Collaborative Research .
These supplemental funding requests are anticipated to be up to $100,000 but may not exceed 20% of the original award amount. Funded supplements will provide support for periods of up to one year, but may not exceed the existing award periods.
This collaborative research is coupled with the Technology Innovation Hubs (TIHs) supported by the Indian Department of Science and Technology under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems.
In particular, this DCL is coupled with the following hubs: I-Hub Foundation for Cobotics (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi) TIH Foundation for IoT and IoE (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay) Pravartak Technologies Foundation for Sensor, Networking, Actuators and Control Systems (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras) iHub Drishti Foundation for Computer Vision, Augmented and Virtual Reality (Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur) TIH on Data Science, Big Data Analytics and Data Curation (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata) IDAPT (Data Analytics and Predictive Technology) Hub Foundation (Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi) Each of the participating TIHs has a corresponding call for proposals to inform its respective research community of its intention to pursue US-India collaborative research, and these documents are posted at https://usiai.
iusstf. org/building-collaborations . Each of the Indian calls for proposals defines eligibility, proposal formats, topical areas, selection criteria and mechanisms for funding the joint work.
For additional guidance on the scope, please email the NSF-India program team at india-collaboration@nsf. gov . There will be a virtual workshop on March 15 and 22, 2022, with presentations from the participating TIHs and opportunities for networking.
NSF-funded researchers are encouraged to utilize the information provided at https://usiai. iusstf. org/building-collaborations to learn about specific topics, workshops, and networking opportunities.
Active NSF-funded researchers within NSF's Computer and Network Systems Core ; Human-Centered Computing (HCC) ; Information Integration and Informatics (III) ; Robust Intelligence (RI) ; Cyber-Physical Systems ; Foundational Research in Robotics ; Smart and Connected Communities ; Energy, Power, Control, and Networks ; and Communications, Circuits, and Sensing-Systems programs may propose, as part of their supplemental funding requests, collaborative projects with their Indian counterparts, where the Indian counterparts apply to one of the six TIH calls for proposals.
NSF-funded researchers can identify a potential Indian counterpart via information posted at https://usiai. iusstf. org/building-collaborations .
Supplemental funding awarded pursuant to this DCL may be used by the project team to support the time of the NSF principal investigator (PI), co-PIs, other senior personnel, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and/or undergraduate students or for their travel to conduct collaborative research with Indian researchers. Note that NSF funding can apply only to NSF researchers and their travel, not to Indian collaborators.
HOW TO APPLY All supplemental funding requests will be subject to NSF's merit review process, as described in the NSF Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG). There are two parts to the application: on the NSF side, the US PIs submit a request for supplemental funding to an existing project; on the Indian side, the PIs apply to a TIH for funding for a new project or a supplement to an existing TIH-funded project.
Each NSF supplemental funding request must follow the guidance specified in PAPPG Chapter VI. E. 5 which includes the following sections: 1) a summary of the proposed work, and 2) justification of the need for supplemental funds.
The proposed work must be in the same scope as the proposal submitted in response to a call from a participating TIH, and those sections should be the same for both the US and Indian submissions.
The content in the supplemental funding request should be organized by addressing the following items: Summary of the active research award, including original research vision, goals, activities, and accomplishments, spanning Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts and how this award is related to the proposed work (about a page); A summary of the proposed work (this should be the same as submitted to the collaborating TIH); Bio-sketch of the Indian lead partner (one page, uploaded as a Supplementary Document); and Justification of the need for the supplemental funds (as described in the PAPPG) PIs interested in submitting supplemental funding requests (or with other questions pertaining to this DCL) are strongly encouraged to email the NSF-India program team at india-collaboration@nsf.
gov with a one-paragraph summary of the request. In that email, please identity the award which this funding would supplement. The deadline for submission of supplemental funding requests for consideration is within a week of submission of a proposal to the collaborating TIH.
NSF-funded PIs are encouraged to submit by the target date of April 25, 2022, though supplemental funding requests will still be considered beyond that date. COGNIZANT PROGRAM OFFICERS To contact any of the program officers listed below on matters relating to this solicitation, it is highly preferable to send an email to the NSF-India program team at india-collaboration@nsf. gov .
This will ensure consistent and quick responses to your queries.
Alex Jones (CISE/CNS) (703) 292-8950 Erik Brunvand (CISE/CNS) (703) 292-2767 Balakrishnan Prabhakaran (CISE/IIS) (703) 292-4847 Erion Plaku (CISE/IIS) (703) 292-8695 Donald Wunsch (ENG/ECCS) (703) 292-7102 Zhengdao Wang (ENG/ECCS) (703) 292-7823 Irina Dolinskaya (ENG/CMMI) (703) 292-7078 PIs with questions on the workshop or general topics on international collaboration are encouraged to contact Bridget Turaga (OD/OISE) at (703) 292-7320 and india-collaboration@nsf.
gov .
Assistant Director, Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Assistant Director, Engineering (ENG) Head, Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (ENG/CMMI) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ENG/ECCS) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Computer and Network Systems (CISE/CNS) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (CISE/IIS) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Office of International Science and Engineering (OD/OISE)
Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: U. S. Principal Investigators (PIs) with active NSF awards. Indian partners apply to Technological Innovation Hubs (TIHs) in India. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
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