At 11am EST today (Nov 9, 2011), key officials from the National Science Foundation (NSF), led by NSF Director Subra Suresh, will present a live webcast about the Foundation’s new Creative Research Awards for Transformative Interdisciplinary Ventures (CREATIV) — a “pilot grant mechanism under the Integrated NSF Support Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and Education (INSPIRE) initiative, to support bold interdisciplinary projects in all NSF-supported areas of science, engineering, and education research.”
The goals of the CREATIV grant mechanism are to create new interdisciplinary opportunities that are not perceived to exist presently; attract unusually creative high-risk/high-reward interdisciplinary proposals; and provide substantial funding, not limited to the exploratory stage of the pursuit of novel ideas. Importantly, CREATIV is open to all NSF-supported areas of science, engineering, and education research, including computing.
From the NSF’s Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) issued ahead of today’s webcast:
The INSPIRE initiative was introduced … with the fiscal year 2012 NSF budget request to Congress. (At the time, Suresh said): “INSPIRE is aimed to encourage cross-disciplinary science. INSPIRE will help to break down any disciplinary barriers that may exist within NSF and encourage its program managers to use new tools, collaboration modes and techniques in the merit-review process to widen the pool of prospective discoveries that may be hidden from or circumvented by traditional means.”
To read the full, original article click on this link: NSF Presenting New “CREATIV” Grant Mechanism Today » CCC Blog
