NSF 23-558: Accelerating Research Translation (ART) Internal Competition 2024

Summary

The Accelerating Research Translation (ART) program is an NSF-wide endeavor that welcomes proposals from all scientific, technological, and engineering fields. NSF ART Program is a limited submission program for W&M (including VIMS).

Full Description

Accelerating Research Translation (ART): This program is a limited submission program, due to NSF on September 18, 2024, by 4 pm.

NSF ART Program is a limited submission (one submission) program for W&M (including VIMS). Please notify Dennis Manos dmanos@wm.edu of your interest no later than 5 pm March 21st, 2024. After his email acknowledgement of your notification, he will ask you to submit a 3-page pre-proposal to the Faculty Research Committee (FRC) frcgrantapp@wm.edu no later than 5 pm Monday April 14th, 2024.

Synopsis of Program:

The National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks to increase the scale and pace of advancing discoveries made while conducting academic research into tangible solutions that benefit the public. This is the primary aim of the "Accelerating Research Translation" (ART) program. Specifically, the primary goals of this program are to build capacity and infrastructure for translational research at U.S. Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) and to enhance their role in regional innovation ecosystems. In addition, this program seeks to effectively train graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in translational research, benefiting them across a range of career options.

A particular intent of ART is to support IHEs that want to build the necessary infrastructure to boost the overall institutional capacity to accelerate the pace and scale of translation of fundamental research outcomes into practice by supporting the development of a range of activities essential for this activity. The ART program is not intended to support IHEs that already have high levels of translational research activity as part of their R&D enterprise (as noted by their number of invention disclosures, patents issued, start-ups, licenses/options, revenue from royalties, the overall volume of industry-funded research, broad adoption of research outputs by communities or constituents, etc.). Such institutions are encouraged to become part of the ART network as valuable collaborators, providing expertise in building the necessary infrastructure for translational research at other IHEs responding to this solicitation. The ART program is also not intended as a resource for conducting additional fundamental research. See sections II and VI of this solicitation for additional information.

This solicitation seeks proposals that enable IHE-based teams to propose a blend of: (1) activities that will help build and/or strengthen the institutional infrastructure to sustainably grow the institutional capacity for research translation in the short and long terms; (2) educational/training opportunities, especially for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, to become entrepreneurs and/or seek use-inspired and/or translational research-oriented careers in the public and/or private sectors; and (3) specific, translational research activities that offer immediate opportunities for transition to practice to create economic and/or societal impact. The funded teams will form a nationwide network of 'ART Ambassadors' who will champion the cause of translational research.

The FRC selected PI(s) should immediately contact their Sponsored Program Administrator so a review can be made.

NSF Agency Deadline for the approved ART Proposal: Submission due date September 18, 2024

Instructions and requirements: https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/accelerating-research-translation-art/nsf23-558/solicitation