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Planning Grants for Engineering Research Centers

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Facilitates the formation and enhancement of convergent research collaborations in the engineering community, resulting in center-scale high-risk, high-payoff research.

Facilitates the formation and enhancement of convergent research collaborations in the engineering community, resulting in center-scale high-risk, high-payoff research.

Synopsis

The ERC program is placing greater emphasis on high-risk/high-payoff research, larger societal impact, convergent research approaches, engagement of stakeholder communities, and adoption of team science in team formation, in response to the 2017 NASEM study recommendation. The ERC program intends to support planning activities leading to convergent research team formation and capacity-building within the engineering community. This planning grant solicitation is designed to foster and facilitate the engineering community’s thinking about how to form convergent research collaborations. To participate in a forthcoming ERC competition, one is not required to submit a planning grant proposal nor to receive a planning grant.  

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Program contacts

Name Email Phone Organization
Sarit B. Bhaduri
nsferc@nsf.gov (703) 292-2975
Sandra Cruz-Pol
nsferc@nsf.gov (703) 292-2928 ENG/EEC
Dana L. Denick
nsferc@nsf.gov (703) 292-8866 ENG/EEC
Nadia A. El-Masry
nsferc@nsf.gov (703) 292-4975 ENG/EEC
Mehdi Ferdowsi
nsferc@nsf.gov 703) 292-9051
Deborah J. Jackson
nsferc@nsf.gov (703) 292-7499 ENG/EEC
Randy Duran
nsferc@nsf.gov (703) 292-5326 ENG/EEC

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