A
reminder that the revised NSF Grant Proposal Guide (NSF 13-1) is effective for proposals submitted, or
due, on or after January
14, 2013. Note the
following clarification from
NSF:
Important
Information for Programs with Deadline Dates of January 14, 2013 or Later:
If
the program you are submitting to has a deadline date of January 14, 2013 or
later, and you submit your proposal prior to this date, you must prepare
your proposal in accordance with the Proposal & Award Policies &
Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 13-1), which requires that the
one-page Project Summary include 1) an overview; 2) a statement on intellectual
merit of the proposed activity; and 3) a statement on the broader impacts of
the proposed activity. (See GPG, Chapter II.C.2b)
If
you prepare your proposal prior to January 14, 2013, with the intention
of submitting it on or after January 14, 2013, the information that you
included in the Project Summary in FastLane will be inserted into the overview
text box of the Project Summary. Per PAPPG guidelines, you
will need to include this information in the three text boxes (overview;
statement on intellectual merit; statement on broader impacts) or FastLane will
not accept your proposal. (See GPG, Chapter II.C.2b)
If
you are unsure which version of the Grant Proposal Guide applies to your
upcoming submission, please contact me or your
OSPA Senior Grants and Contracts Administrator.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has
issued a new version of the Proposal
& Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG), (NSF 13-1). The PAPPG consists of the
(1) Grant Proposal Guide (GPG) for guidance on the preparation and
submission of proposals to NSF and (2) Award & Administration Guide
(AAG) to guide, manage, and monitor the award and administration of grants and
cooperative agreements made by NSF.
This new version of the PAPPG will be effective for proposals submitted, or due, on or after January 14, 2013. In the interim, the guidelines contained in the current PAPPG (NSF 11-1) continue to apply.
This new version of the PAPPG will be effective for proposals submitted, or due, on or after January 14, 2013. In the interim, the guidelines contained in the current PAPPG (NSF 11-1) continue to apply.
Sheryl Koenig, Grant Writing Consultant for
the Bond Life Sciences Center, provided a summary (below) of the changes in
the GPG.*
Additionally, please note a change in the
AAG stating that “project reports must contain information on all
activities of the project, including any activities to address the broader
impacts criterion that are not intrinsic to the research.”
For additional
information about the revisions to the merit review criteria, NSF has
created a resource
website for the proposer community containing presentations,
fact sheets, and other important links.
*NSF has issued a new Grant Proposal Guide (GPG) that will
be effective January 14, 2013. In
coordination with the changes to the GPG, there will be a few changes made to
FastLane. Many of the changes clarify
areas that have caused confusion in the past, but there are a few changes that
are more notable.
·
Project Summary -
FastLane has been modified to display three separate text boxes in which
proposers must provide an Overview, a statement on the Intellectual Merit of
the proposed activity, and a statement on the Broader Impacts on the proposed
activity. Therefore, proposers will no
longer need to include separate headings.
·
Project Description -
Content instructions were updated to
provide contextual information about proposal preparation and to include
revised language related to broader impacts.
·
Results from Prior NSF Support instructions were updated to indicate
that this section should include current funding and that Intellectual Merit
and Broader Impact activities must be described in two separate sections in the
summary of Results from Prior NSF Support.
·
Biosketches - Revised to rename the “Publications”
section to “Products” and amend terminology and instructions accordingly. This change makes clear that products may
include, but are not limited to, publications, data sets, software, patents,
and copyrights.
·
Budget – Senior Project Personnel Salaries and Wages
·
This
section has been updated to describe a new functionality in FastLane regarding
senior personnel and the budget. If no
person months and no salary are being released for senior personnel, they
should be removed from Section A of the budget.
This change was made for consistency with NSF’s cost sharing policy.
·
Facilities, Equipment and Other
Resources - A new format for submission of the
Facilities, Equipment and Other Resources information will be available in
FastLane effective in January 2013. The
new format will assist proposers in complying with the NSF cost sharing policy.
·
Postdoctoral Researcher Mentoring
Plan - Mentoring activities will be evaluated
under the Broader Impacts review criterion.
·
Review Criteria - This section has been renamed Merit
Review Principles and Criteria and revised to incorporate recommendations from
the NSB. New language has been added on
merit review principles, and revised merit review criteria language was inserted.
The attached document contains more details on these and
other changes made to the GPG. I’ve
copied and pasted sections of the new guidelines with yellow highlighting on
the revised language.
<< File:
Changes to NSF January 2013.docx >>
This document is not a complete description of all changes
made. You can see the entire GPG at http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf13001/gpgprint.pdf?WT.mc_id=USNSF_109