Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (NSF)

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31318
• Date: 08 October 2020
• Published date: 08 October 2020

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Grants alert (cont.)

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; for-prot

organizations, including small businesses; and nonprot

organizations.

Areas: NSF said the purpose of the SRS RNs

competition is to develop and support interdisciplinary,

multiorganizational teams of investigators and

stakeholders working collaboratively to produce cutting-

edge convergent research, education and outreach that

addresses grand challenges in sustainable regional

systems. SRS RNs will study multiscale regional systems

to further SRS science, engineering and education. Key

elements will include new data, methods and models

to understand interactions between natural, human-

built and social systems; improved understanding of

interdependencies, mutual benets and trade-offs

of different well-being outcomes for humans and the

environment; new and generalizable theories of change

relevant to SRS; the co-production of knowledge; and

exploration of concepts of social equity in sustainable

regional systems across spatial and temporal scales.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 20-611

CISE Community Research Infrastructure (NSF)

Scope: The National Science Foundation seeks

applications for the computer and information science

and engineering (CISE) Community Research

Infrastructure announcement to support diverse CISE

researchers pursuing focused research agendas in

CISE.

Deadline: Letters of Intent, Dec. 15, 2020; proposals,

Jan. 28, 2021.

Funds: $25 million total for up to 25 awards ranging

from $50,000 to $5 million.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities and nonprot

organizations.

Areas: NSF said this research infrastructure will specically

support diverse communities of CISE researchers pursuing

focused research agendas in computer and information

science and engineering. This support involves developing

the accompanying user services and engagement

needed to attract, nurture and grow a robust research

community that is actively involved in determining

directions for the infrastructure as well as management of

the infrastructure. It is hoped this will lead to infrastructure

that can be sustained through community involvement

and community leadership, and that will enable advances

not possible with existing research infrastructure.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 20-610

Collaborative Research in Computational

Neuroscience (NSF)

Scope: The National Science Foundation and its

partners seek applications for the Collaborative Research

in Computational Neuroscience announcement to

support collaborative activities that will advance the

understanding of nervous system structure and function,

mechanisms underlying nervous system disorders and

computational strategies used by the nervous system.

Deadline: Dec. 10, 2020, for the FY2021 announcement.

Funds: $5 million total per year.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: NSF said two classes of proposals will be

considered in response to this announcement: research

proposals describing collaborative research projects, and

data-sharing proposals to enable sharing of data and

other resources. A broad range of topics and approaches

is welcome under this solicitation: explanatory, predictive,

and informative models and simulations of normal and

abnormal structures and functions of the nervous system

and related disorders; mathematical, statistical and other

quantitative analyses of research related to genetic,

epigenetic, molecular, subcellular, cellular, network,

systems, behavioral and/or cognitive neuroscience;

theoretical and computational approaches to delineate

and understand the structures and functions of neural

circuits and networks; and high-performance computing–

enabled modeling and simulation approaches for

extreme-scale research and understanding.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 20-609

Adapting to the rapid evolution of science

and engineering research (NSF)

Scope: The National Science Foundation and its

partners seek applications for the Advanced Computing

Systems & Services: Adapting to the Rapid Evolution of

Science and Engineering Research announcement to

provide advanced cyberinfrastructure capabilities and/

or services in production operations to support the full

range of computational and data-intensive research

across all of science and engineering (S&E).

Deadline: Dec. 3, 2020.

Funds: $5 million total.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities and other federal

agencies and organizations.

Areas: NSF said the Advanced Computing Systems and

Services program is intended to complement previous NSF

investments in advanced computational infrastructure by

provisioning resources, broadly dened to include systems

and/or services, in one of two categories: Category I—

Capacity Systems: production computational resources

maximizing the capacity provided to support the broad

range of computation and data analytics needs in

S&E research and Category II—Innovative Prototypes/

Testbeds: innovative forward-looking capabilities

deploying novel technologies, architectures, usage

modes, etc., and exploring new target applications,

methods and paradigms for S&E discoveries.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 20-606

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