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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#C00000">~~ Please disseminate this information with those researchers and research administrators in your department who
 may find it noteworthy ~~<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="color:#20558A">TWO NEW NSF FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES</span></u></b><u><span style="color:#20558A"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Begin forwarded message:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">From: Henry Warchall <<a href="mailto:hwarchal@NSF.GOV">hwarchal@NSF.GOV</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Subject: <b>New NSF funding opportunity: Use-Inspired Research Challenges on Climate Change and Clean Energy -- Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE)</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Date: January 4, 2022 at 6:40:30 AM PST<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">To: <a href="mailto:DMSNEWS@LISTSERV.NSF.GOV">
DMSNEWS@LISTSERV.NSF.GOV</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Dear Colleagues,<br>
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A new NSF program solicitation (<a href="https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf22546" target="_blank">NSF 22-546</a>) is now available:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
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     Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE): <br>
     Use-Inspired Research Challenges on <b>Climate Change and Clean Energy</b><br>
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This PIRE competition invites visionary, ambitious, interdisciplinary, use-inspired research proposals that address scientific challenges related to climate change and/or clean energy.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Supported projects will utilize multi-stakeholder and international partnerships that are essential to address challenges related to climate change and/or clean energy at a regional or global scale. The research areas may include any
 combination of the natural and physical sciences, engineering, and the social sciences. Proposals that advance understanding of the human and behavioral aspects of climate change and/or clean energy challenges are encouraged. Educational activities should
 be integral to the project. Only high caliber research proposals that require international collaborations and show a clear potential for rapid scale-up and growth will be considered.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Details about this program solicitation, as well as the instructions for proposal preparation and submission, can be found at:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
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     <a href="https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/partnerships-international-research-and-education-pire-0">
https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/partnerships-international-research-and-education-pire-0</a><br>
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<b>Deadline Dates:</b><span class="apple-converted-space">  </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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February 8, 2022 for required Letter of Intent<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
March 25, 2022 for Full Proposal <o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The PIRE program is managed by the NSF Office of International Science & Engineering (OISE). Please refer to the OISE web page (<a href="https://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=OISE">https://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=OISE</a>) for updates
 and announcements, and direct questions about the PIRE program to <a href="mailto:PIRE-info@nsf.gov">
PIRE-info@nsf.gov</a><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">The U.S. National Science Foundation and the William T. Grant Foundation are launching a collaborative partnership supporting research that can improve the lives of youth. “Increasing the Use, Usefulness, and Impact of Research
 About Youth” aims to increase the effectiveness of youth-centered research and its capacity to foster widespread societal benefits.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">The partnership invites research proposals that can provide decision-makers and other leaders with new discoveries and evidence that are timely and relevant to local and national challenges faced by youth. Multiple types of fundamental
 research will be supported, including those that can increase the uptake and public value of interventions for youth-related issues.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#20558A">NIH Grants Policy Statement Released December 2021:
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<p class="MsoNormal">The revised NIH Grants Policy Statement (NIHGPS, rev. 12/17/2021) represents an update to the April 2021 version and is applicable to all NIH grants and cooperative agreements beginning on or after October 1, 2021. 
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<p class="MsoNormal">While the update does not introduce any new material for the first time, it incorporates new and modified requirements, clarifies certain policies, and implements changes in statutes, regulations, and policies that have been implemented
 through appropriate legal and/or policy processes since the previous version of the NIHGPS dated April 2021. The 12/17/2021 revision supersedes, in its entirety, the NIH Grants Policy Statement (April 2021) as a standard term and condition of the award.<b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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https://grants.nih.gov/policy/nihgps/index.htm</a> for further information (including the table identifying significant changes at
<a href="https://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/nihgps/Significant%20Changes%20Table_NIHNPS_2021_FINAL.pdf">
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/nihgps/Significant%20Changes%20Table_NIHNPS_2021_FINAL.pdf</a>).<o:p></o:p></p>
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