[Oppslist] Please inform your communities: Integrated NSF Support Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and Education (INSPIRE) funding opportunity informational webinar

[Michelle Flores]

We would like to notify you of the availability of the National Science 
Foundation (NSF) solicitation for the Integrated NSF Support Promoting 
Interdisciplinary Research and Education (INSPIRE) funding opportunity 
(http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?WT.z_pims_id=504852&ods_key=nsf13518 
), and to alert you and your community to an */informational webcast on 
INSPIRE to be held/* */on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 from 4:00 p.m. -- 
5:30 p.m. EST./*  During the webcast, the FY 2013 INSPIRE solicitation 
(NSF 13-518) will be discussed, and INSPIRE program officers will 
interactively answer questions submitted by the online audience. (The 
current list of INSPIRE Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) can be found 
at http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf13040.)
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*/Please spread the word to your community by means of distribution to 
your professional societies, an e-mail exploder, or any other means you 
may find to be appropriate./*

Information on accessing and registering for the free webcast will be 
available through the INSPIRE program website at 
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504852. Participants 
must be registered to view the webcast.
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Summary of the INSPIRE funding opportunity:* The INSPIRE awards program 
was established to address some of the most complicated and pressing 
scientific problems that lie at the intersection of traditional 
disciplines. It is intended to encourage investigators to submit bold, 
exceptional proposals that some may consider to be at a disadvantage in 
a standard NSF review process; it is */not/* intended for proposals that 
are more appropriate for existing award mechanisms. INSPIRE is open to 
interdisciplinary proposals on any NSF-supported topic, submitted */by 
invitation only/* after a preliminary inquiry process initiated by 
submission of a required Letter of Intent (LOI). In fiscal year 2013, 
INSPIRE provides support through the following three pilot grant 
mechanisms:

  * *INSPIRE Track 1.*This is essentially a continuation of the pilot
    CREATIV mechanism from FY 2012, which was detailed for 2012 in Dear
    Colleague Letter NSF 12-011
    <http://nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12011/nsf12011.jsp>.
  * *INSPIRE Track 2.*These are "mid-scale" research awards at a larger
    scale than Track 1, allowing for requests of up to $3,000,000 over a
    duration of up to five years. Expectations for cross-cutting
    advances and for broader impacts are greater than in Track 1, and
    the review process includes external review.
  * *Director's INSPIRE Awards.*These are prestigious individual awards
    to single-investigator proposals that present ideas for
    interdisciplinary advances with unusually strong, exciting
    transformative potential.


All NSF directorates and programmatic offices participated in INSPIRE in 
FY 2012 and are continuing their participation in FY 2013.
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LETTER OF INTENT (LOI) **DUE DATES*
INSPIRE Track 2 Inquiries: Letter of Intent Due Date February 20, 2013
INSPIRE Track 1 Inquiries (also for Director's INSPIRE Awards): Letter 
of Intent Due Date March 29, 2013
Full proposal submission is by invitation only, based on evaluation by 
NSF staff of the required Letter of Intent.

Regards,
The NSF INSPIRE Working Group

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