NSF: Use-Inspired Research Addressing Global Challenges in Climate Change and Clean Energy

NSF has announced the launch of Global Centers, an ambitious new effort to fund international, interdisciplinary collaborative research centers that will apply best practices of broadening participation and community engagement to develop use-inspired research on climate change and clean energy.

Global Centers will prioritize research collaborations fostering team science, community-engaged research, and use knowledge-to-action frameworks. Awards will promote the creation of prominent, enduring, international centers of research excellence that advance knowledge, empower communities, and generate discovery and innovative solutions at the regional and/or global scale. Centers are also expected to create and promote opportunities for students and early career researchers to gain education and training in world class research while enhancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. This Global Centers competition program has two tracks.

• Track 1: Global Center Implementation will support the first Global Centers involving research partnerships with Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
• Track 2: Community-driven Global Center Design will provide seed funding for US-based researchers wishing to coordinate efforts to design a Global Center for the next competition.

Full proposals for both tracks are due by May 10.