Colleagues:
The National Science Foundation is pleased to announce that applications for the ADVANCE Program Grant are being accepted.
BACKGROUND: THE ADVANCE GRANT PROGRAM
The ADVANCE program is designed to address gender equality through the identification and elimination of organizational barriers that impede the full participation and advancement of women in academic instritutions. Proposals should identify key barriers to gender equity, recognizing that these may exist in multiple forms (e.g., in policy, practice, culture, and climate) and design or adapt strategies, engineering and mathematics (STEM) academic careers may be influenced by many characteristics in addition to gender; all ADVANCE proposals are expected to take this into account in proposal design, research, evaluation, and data (see additional review criteria). These characterisitics might include race, ethnicity, secual orientation, disability status, foreign-born and foreign-trained status, and faculty appointment type, and/or other characteritistics relevant to the systematic gender equity issues to be addressed in the ADVANCE proposal.
The goals of the ADVANCE program are (1) to develop systemic approaches to increase the representation and advancement of women in academic STEM[1] careers; (2) to develop innovative and sustainable ways to promote gender equity that involve both men and women in the STEM academic workforce; and (3) to contribute to the research knowledge base on gender equity and the intersection of gender and other identities in STEM academic careers. The ADVANCE program contributes to the development of a more diverse science and engineering workforce because of the focus on equity for STEM academic faculty who are educating, training, and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.
AWARD INFORMATION
Anticipated Type of Award: Standard Grant or Continuing Grant or Cooperative Agreement
Estimated Number of Awards: 18 to 26
The total number of awards to be made under this solicitation is estimated to be between 18 and 26 over two fiscal years. NSF expects to make: approximately five Institutional Transformation five-year awards up to $3,000,000 for five years; approximately six Adaptation awards up to $1,000,000 for three years; and approximately six Partnership awards up to $1,000,000 for three to five years. In addition, one ADVANCE Resource and Coordination Network award may be made for $1M per year for five years, and up to four ADVANCE Longitudinal Evaluation awards may be made each year of this solicitation.
Anticipated Funding Amount: $22,200,000
Pending availability of funds, NSF anticipates having up to $22,200,000 available over a period of two fiscal years (FY 2017-FY2018) for support of the ADVANCE portfolio. Up to $12,100,000 will be available for the FY2017 competition and approximately $10,100,000 will be available for proposals due under the FY2018 competition.
APPLICANT TYPE
Public and private, non-profit, universities and two- and four-year colleges (including community colleges) accredited in, and having a campus located in, the US, referred to in this solicitation as non-profit academic institutions.
Here is the link to the Call and to Additional Information:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2016/nsf16594/nsf16594.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
Questions about this program should be directed to:
- Dana Britton, Program Officer, telephone: (703) 292-5178, email: ADVANCE@nsf.gov
- Jessie DeAro, Program Officer, telephone: (703) 292-5350, email: ADVANCE@nsf.gov