New Solicitation: NSF Research Traineeship Program (NRT)

Tue, 01 Apr 2014 15:44:25 -0400

National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Program (NRT) Program Important Information and Revision Notes: The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program is a new NSF graduate education initiative. This solicitation is active for one year, but future NRT solicitations are anticipated. The last competition for the Integrated Graduate Research Traineeship (IGERT) program was held in 2013; no future IGERT competitions are planned. NRT Deadlines for submission: Letter of Intent Due Date(s) (optional) (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time): May 20, 2014 NRT Letter of Intent Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time): June 24, 2014 NRT Full Proposal Synopsis of Program: The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program is designed to encourage the development of bold, new, potentially transformative, and scalable models for STEM graduate training that ensure that graduate students develop the skills, knowledge, and competencies needed to pursue a range of STEM careers. The NRT program initially has one priority research theme - Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (DESE); in addition, proposals are encouraged on any other crosscutting, interdisciplinary theme. In either case, proposals should identify the alignment of project research themes with national research priorities and the need for innovative approaches to train graduate students in those areas. NRT projects should develop evidence-based, sustainable approaches and practices that substantially improve STEM graduate education for NRT trainees and for STEM graduate students broadly at an institution. NRT emphasizes the development of competencies for both research and research-related careers. Strategic collaborations with the private sector, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), government agencies, museums, and academic partners that enhance research quality and impacts and that facilitate development of technical and transferrable professional skills are encouraged. Creation of sustainable programmatic capacity at institutions is an expected outcome. Proposals accordingly are expected to describe how institutions will support the continuation and institutional-level scaling of effective training elements after award closure. View the full NRT solicitation and the NRT NSF page on the NSF site.