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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Helvetica;color:#0D0D0D">We would like to notify you
of the
availability of the National Science Foundation (NSF)
solicitation for the </span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Integrated
NSF
Support Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and Education
(INSPIRE)
funding opportunity (<a
href="http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?WT.z_pims_id=504852&ods_key=nsf13518"><span
style="color:blue">http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?WT.z_pims_id=504852&ods_key=nsf13518</span></a>
)<span style="color:#0D0D0D">, and to alert you and your
community to an <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">informational
webcast on INSPIRE to be held</i></b> <b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">on Tuesday, January 29,
2013 from 4:00 p.m.
– 5:30 p.m. EST.</i></b> During the webcast, the FY 2013
INSPIRE
solicitation (NSF 13-518) will be discussed, and INSPIRE
program officers will
interactively answer </span><span style="color:black">questions
</span><span style="color:#0D0D0D">submitted by the online
audience</span><span style="color:black">. (The current list
of INSPIRE Frequently Asked Questions
(FAQs) can be found at </span></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#1F497D"><a
href="http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf13040"><span
style="color:blue">http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf13040</span></a></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;
color:black">.)</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Helvetica"> <br>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="color:#1F497D"> </span></i></b> <br>
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
Helvetica;color:black">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.</span></i></b><span
style="font-size:
11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"> <br>
</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Helvetica;color:#0D0D0D"> </span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"> <br>
</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Helvetica;color:#0D0D0D">Information on accessing and
registering for the free
webcast will be available through the INSPIRE program website at
<a href="http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504852"><span
style="color:blue">http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504852</span></a>.
Participants must be registered to view the webcast.</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">
<br>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><br>
Summary of the INSPIRE funding
opportunity:</b> 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 <b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">not</i></b>
intended for proposals that are more appropriate for existing
award mechanisms.
INSPIRE is open to interdisciplinary proposals on any
NSF-supported topic,
submitted <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">by invitation only</i></b> 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: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-bottom:.1pt;mso-para-margin-top:
.01gd;mso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;mso-list:l0 level1
lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">INSPIRE
Track 1.</span></b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">
This is essentially a continuation of the pilot CREATIV
mechanism from FY 2012, which was detailed for 2012 in <a
href="http://nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12011/nsf12011.jsp"><span
style="color:blue">Dear Colleague Letter NSF 12-011</span></a>.
</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-bottom:.1pt;mso-para-margin-top:
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lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">INSPIRE
Track 2.</span></b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">
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. </span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-bottom:.1pt;mso-para-margin-top:
.01gd;mso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;mso-list:l0 level1
lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Director's
INSPIRE Awards.</span></b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Helvetica"> These are prestigious individual
awards to single-investigator proposals that present ideas for
interdisciplinary advances with unusually strong, exciting
transformative potential.</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Helvetica"><br>
All NSF directorates and programmatic offices
participated in INSPIRE in FY 2012 and are continuing their
participation in FY
2013. <br>
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><br>
LETTER OF INTENT
(LOI) </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:
11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">DUE
DATES</span></b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">
<br>
</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Helvetica;color:black">INSPIRE Track 2 Inquiries: Letter of
Intent Due Date
February 20, 2013 </span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Helvetica"><br>
</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Helvetica;color:black">INSPIRE Track 1 Inquiries </span><span
style="font-size:
11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">(also
for Director’s
INSPIRE Awards)<span style="color:black">: Letter of Intent Due
Date March 29,
2013 </span></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Helvetica"><br>
</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Helvetica">Full proposal submission is by invitation only, based
on evaluation
by NSF staff of the required Letter of Intent. </span><span
style="font-size:
11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"><br>
</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Helvetica"><br>
Regards,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"> </span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Helvetica"></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Helvetica"><br>
</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Helvetica">The NSF INSPIRE Working Group<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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