EPSCoR Track 2 Limited Submission Instructions
In your limited submission preproposal, please include the following:
- A cover sheet (docx)
- A one- to four-page project description, explaining your approach to the RFA’s focus area and include:
- A strong rationale for the planned inter-jurisdictional collaboration
- An explanation of why the collaboration is well positioned to produce outcomes that cannot be obtained through the efforts of a team in a single jurisdiction working alone.
- A description of the planned research and how it fits into the identified programmatic focus area
- An explanation of how the project will contribute significantly to the research capabilities of the participating jurisdictions in the RFA’s focus area
- A description of anticipated jurisdictional impacts (e.g., education capacity, economic development, work force development, research competitiveness)
- A strategy for long term sustainability of the proposed activities including how to generate subsequent, sustained non-EPSCoR funding from federal, jurisdictional or private sector sources
- A reference list
- A one page description of what your work force development plans are. Some things to consider—How are you going to:
- Integrate researchers into collaborative teams
- Attract and mentor a diverse, early-career faculty and enable their success as educators and researchers. Describe their specific contributions to achieving the project’s goals in the programmatic focus area
- Engage diverse populations in the research and education activities
- Train postdocs and students to develop skills that allow them to work easily across disciplinary and other perceived boundaries and to interface with stake holders (e.g., the public, industry, academia, government)
- Demonstrate that the participating jurisdictions’ research capacities will be positively impacted—including anticipated workforce development and educational outcomes
- A ½ page description of how you plan tointegrate project elements. Some questions to think about:
- How will the different aspects—research, education, innovation, workforce development, sustainability, project coordination and evaluation—be integrated in the project?
- What are some innovative ways you can address these elements in tandem?
- What are the benefits of integrating project elements?
- How do you plan to integrate shared facilities and research partners?
- A list of the project collaborators, their affiliation, and their roles in the project.
- A one-page draft budget in NSF format with justification
- Bios for the PI and co-PIs in NSF format
Please use Times New Roman 11 pt for the text and nothing smaller than 9 pt in tables. The above components should be combined and submitted as a single PDF file. Submissions are due by 5 p.m. central time, via ordlimitedsubs@ksu.edu, on the date specified on the Limited Submissions Table. Submissions not meeting these requirements will be returned without review.
