NEW SOLICITATION NOW OPEN!
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The goal of the Phase-0 Program is to encourage and support South Carolina small businesses in their proposal development activities to compete effectively for SBIR/STTR Federal funding. The request can be either to support the Materials Assembly and Design Excellence in South Carolina ( MADE in SC) initiative (NSF EPSCoR RRII Track-1) and/or the SC Science and Technology Plan, or to be in support of other areas described in the SC Science and Technology Plan ( Vision 2025).
Additional funding of $3,000 is available for materials science projects to support undergraduate student internship(s). Internships must support one or more of the MADE in SC research clusters.
PLEASE NOTE: Funding for the Phase-0 Program is intended to support proposal development activities and
not intended to support small business infrastructure.
Full Proposal due Mon, Nov 18, 5 pm EST
Contact April Heyward for more info.
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At-A-Glance
Max Funding Amount Per Award: $6,000
Max Funding Amount for Undergraduate Student Internships: $3,000
Award Duration: 12 months
# of Awards: Depends on quality of proposals and availability of funds
Who May Apply
Eligibility is limited to South Carolina-based small businesses that are American-owned, for-profit, with <500 employees.
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These Deadlines are NEXT WEEK!
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The goal of the GEAR Program is to encourage faculty researchers at SC’s three comprehensive research universities to compete for research funding to support the MADE in SC research clusters.
Max Funding Amount Per Award: $60,000
Duration: 12 months
Full Proposal due on
MON, OCT 14, 5 pm EDT
Contact April Heyward for more info.
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The goal of GEAR CRP is to encourage faculty researchers to build collaborative CRU/PUI academic research teams that will enhance the network of scientists conducting research related to MADE in SC.
Max Funding Amount Per Award: $60,000
Duration: 12 months
Full Proposal due on
MON, OCT 14, 5 pm EDT
Contact April Heyward for more info.
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Time is almost up for you to register to attend the 26th biennial NSF EPSCoR National Conference in Columbia from October 27-30! If you have not already registered for the Conference, the deadline has been extended to TUES, OCT 15!
Contact Lauren Clark for more info.
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NSF leads federal partners in accelerating the development of transformational, AI-powered innovation
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NSF announced this week the creation of a new program that will significantly advance research in AI and accelerate the development of transformational, AI-powered innovation by allowing researchers to focus on larger-scale, longer-term research. The National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes program anticipates approximately $120 million in grants next year to fund planning grants and up to six research institutes in order to advance AI research and create national nexus points for universities, federal agencies, industries and nonprofits.
The program, led by NSF in partnership with the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), US Department of Homeland Security's Science & Technology Directorate, US Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration and US Department of Veterans Affairs, has both planning and institute tracks. The planning track will support planning grants for up to two years and $500,000 to enable teams to develop collaborative plans and capacity for full institute operations. The institute track will support cooperative agreements of $16 million to $20 million for four to five years (up to $4 million per year) for the creation of AI Research Institutes in an initial set of high-priority areas.
The AI Research Institutes program will support the advancement of multidisciplinary, multi-stakeholder research on larger-scale, longer-time-horizon challenges in AI research than are supported in typical research grants.
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Learn more
— NSF Press Release
— NSF Program Page
— NIFA Program Page
Proposals for the Institute track must have a principal focus in one or more of the following themes:
— Trustworthy AI
— Foundations of
Machine Learning
— AI-Driven Innovation in
Agriculture and the
Food System
— AI-Augmented Learning
— AI for Accelerating
Molecular Synthesis
and Manufacturing
— AI for Discovery in Physics
Grant proposals are due to NSF no later than Jan 28, 2020, for Institute proposals and Jan 30, 2020, for planning grant proposals.
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Congratulations to Erik Antonio, Clemson University, on receiving first place in the poster competition for his poster, Solving adhesive problems in 3D printed structures, at “Insight @ BMW,” an Automotive Circle Conference in Greenville, SC held on September 12. Erik, a doctoral student working for Dr. Igor Luzinov, is a part of MADE in SC Thrust 2 (Stimuli-Responsive Polymeric Materials).
Other poster winners were:
- Second place: Andrew Billings, ME senior, Understanding bearing defects through vibration analysis
- Third place: Breno Schwambach, AuE graduate student, Conceptualization and implementation of an alternative cooling system on the Deep Orange 7 concept vehicle
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The Department of Defense EPSCoR (DEPSCoR) recently hosted a webinar and regional meetings. The following contain links to presentation slides and FAQs from those events:
Webinar (August 15)
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Northeastern Regional Meeting
(September 26)
• DEPSCoR Presentation by Dr. Rushyannah
Killens-Cade
• Effective Engagement Strategies, US
Army Research Laboratory, Dr. Matthew
Munson, Program Manager, Fluid Dynamics
• Basic Research at the DOD, Dr. Bindu
Nair, Basic Research Deputy Director
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