GEO i-Hub Office Hours for new NSF CIVIC Innovation Challenge (CIVIC) Funding Opportunity
March 5, 2024
The new Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC), a research and action competition driven by community priorities, solicitation is now available. Join an upcoming virtual office hour on Zoom!
The Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC) is designed to build a more cohesive research-to-innovation pipeline and to foster a collaborative spirit between communities and researchers.
A CIVIC project should address community-challenges identified via a tight collaboration between civic and academic partners, with the goal of achieving concrete impacts in communities.
Get up to $1M to bring together a science team and a U.S. community impacted by climate change for one year to co-design and implement of a pilot solution that has the potential to be sustainable after the end of NSF funding as well as the potential to be scalable to other communities with a similar problem.
The CIVIC program comprises two stages: Stage 1 Planning Grants and Stage 2 Full Awards.
- Stage 1. Planning Grants (PGs). Projects funded in this design stage will provide support for a period of six months with a budget not to exceed $75,000.
- Stage 2. Full Awards (FAs). Projects funded in this stage will provide support for a period of 12 months with a budget not to exceed $1,000,000.
NSF program experts invite you to virtual office hours to answer questions about the solicitation and to learn more about what successful proposals look like. Have your questions ready.
Join Upcoming GEO Innovation Hub (iHub) Virtual Office Hours on the CIVIC Solicitation
Meeting Dates and Times
Thursday, Feb 8, 2024, at 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join ZoomGov Meeting:
https://nsf.zoomgov.com/j/1606656714?pwd=NTF6MkVnVnhZLzFyb0xibzU2ZUxwdz09
Meeting ID: 160 665 6714
Passcode: 052934
Thursday, Feb 8, 2024, at 3:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join ZoomGov Meeting
https://nsf.zoomgov.com/j/1607002584?pwd=amhmcU9XOGJyUWZ6SkRhZVpRM2VEdz09
Meeting ID: 160 700 2584
Passcode: 339085
Thursday, February 15, 2024, at 3:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join ZoomGov Meeting
https://nsf.zoomgov.com/j/1600187846?pwd=dHE5K04rSUNyN0ZVcHdGc0JBU2ZPdz09
Meeting ID: 160 018 7846
Passcode: 028637
Questions? Contact GEO iHub Program Manager Barbara Ransom at bransom@nsf.gov about potential GEO projects for CIVIC.
The U.S. National Science Foundation propels the nation forward by advancing fundamental research in all fields of science and engineering. NSF supports research and people by providing facilities, instruments and funding to support their ingenuity and sustain the U.S. as a global leader in research and innovation. With a fiscal year 2023 budget of $9.5 billion, NSF funds reach all 50 states through grants to nearly 2,000 colleges, universities and institutions. Each year, NSF receives more than 40,000 competitive proposals and makes about 11,000 new awards. Those awards include support for cooperative research with industry, Arctic and Antarctic research and operations, and U.S. participation in international scientific efforts.
Connect with us online
NSF website: nsf.gov
NSF News: nsf.gov/news
For News Media: nsf.gov/news/newsroom
Statistics: nsf.gov/statistics/
Awards database: nsf.gov/awardsearch/
Follow us on social
Twitter: twitter.com/NSF
Facebook: facebook.com/US.NSF
Instagram: instagram.com/nsfgov