NSF Convergence Accelerator
National Science Foundation
Description
The NSF Convergence Accelerator program aims to speed up impactful research in areas of national importance by supporting multidisciplinary teams. These teams are encouraged to take on high-risk projects and work together on grand challenges with societal benefits. The program fosters partnerships among industry, academia, non-profits, and government to accelerate discovery and innovation. Inspired by models from leading companies and universities, the program provides opportunities for fund…
With the NSF Convergence Accelerator, NSF's goals are: (i) to pilot a new NSF capability to accelerate use-inspired convergence research in areas of national importance, and (ii) to initiate convergence team-building capacity around exploratory, potentially high-risk proposals in specific conver…
Source
Grant ID
PD-19-095Y
Funding Source
National Science Foundation
Eligibility
The following categories of applicants are invited to apply:
- Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"
Similar opportunities
- GROWING CONVERGENCE RESEARCH
- Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for Highly Integrated Research Teams
- Multilateral Partnerships Leveraging Excellence
- Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations
- NSF's Eddie Bernice Johnson Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (INCLUDES) Initiative