UPDATE (July 16, 2009): Please note that the internal deadline has passed and the selected candidates have been notified.
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The Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program is announcing a call for proposals that is separate from the standard January submission deadline. Awards made in response to this solicitation will be funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) (Public Law 111-5), and have special award conditions. Unless otherwise specified, ARRA funding should be considered one-time funding.
Please note that eligible organizations may submit a maximum of
three (3) proposals, independent of the number of proposals that may have been submitted under the
NSF 09-502
MRI competition. However, proposals that wholly or substantially duplicate those that were accepted for review under
NSF 09-502
will not be accepted for this competition. A maximum of two submissions can be for instrument acquisition. If three proposals are submitted, at least one submission must be for instrument development.
The Office of the Vice President for Research will hold an internal competition to select UGA's applicants to go forward. Please send the following materials as a single PDF document via email to
jhawks@uga.edu
by noon on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 to be considered for UGA's submission to NSF for this program:
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(1 page maximum) Candidate statement explaining why the applicants are the best choice for submitting to NSF. Please address the intellectual merit and broader impacts as described in the NSF Merit Review Criteria section of the full announcement.
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(3 page maximum) Project summary that briefly describes how you will address the Project Description requirements for NSF in the V.A.3.a-d section of the full announcement. *Please indicate if your proposal is for acquisition or development.
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Brief estimate of budget.
Proposals that wholly or substantially duplicate MRI proposals that were submitted under
NSF 09-502
, and were accepted for review, will not be accepted for this MRI-R2 competition.
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An organization may be included as a funded subawardee/subcontractor in another organization's development proposal, at a level of 20% or less of that proposal's budget, without affecting the subawardee's/subcontractor's submission limit. Inclusion as a funded subawardee/subcontractor in a development proposal at a budgetary level in excess of 20%, or in any acquisition proposal, must be counted against proposal submission limits.
Proposal budgets may include requests from NSF in the range $100,000-$6 million from Ph.D.-granting institutions of higher education and non-degree granting organizations; up to $6 million (there is no minimum request) from non-Ph.D. granting institutions of higher education or the disciplines of mathematical sciences or social, behavioral, and economic sciences at any eligible organization.
Cost-sharing is required in the MRI/MRI-R
2
program, with non-Ph.D.-granting academic institutions of higher education exempt from the cost-share requirement. As authorized in section 7036(c)(2)(A) of the America COMPETES Act, for this MRI-R2 competition only, cost-sharing will be further waived for those institutions of higher education that are not ranked among the top 100 of those receiving Federal research and development funding (as documented by the statistical data published by the Foundation). The list of the top 100 institutions can be found at
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf09313/
. Each proposal for which this waiver is applicable must also include a certification from the institution's President or Provost stating that the project will 1) make a substantial improvement in the institution's capabilities to conduct leading-edge research; 2) provide research experiences for undergraduate students using leading-edge facilities; and 3) broaden the participation in science and engineering research by women, underrepresented minorities and persons with disabilities. This certification, with the specified format, must be submitted as a single copy document as described in Section V.
