National Science Foundation Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) program
- WVU Internal Letter of Intent Due: November 11, 2024
- Full Proposal Due to NSF: March 25, 2025
Synopsis
The Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new, and potentially transformative approaches to STEM graduate education training. The program addresses both workforce development, emphasizing broad participation, and institutional capacity building needs in graduate education. Strategic collaborations with the private sector, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), government agencies, national laboratories, field stations, teaching and learning centers, informal science centers, and academic partners are encouraged.
With this solicitation, the IGE program will support proposals in two tracks: Track 1: Career Preparation and Student Success Pilots and Track 2: Systemic Interventions and Policies. Under Track 1, the IGE program will continue to invite proposals to pilot, test, and validate innovative approaches to graduate education with an emphasis on career preparation and student success. Track 2 is new with a primary goal to support research on how various systemic innovations in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduate education impact graduate student outcomes (such as graduation rates, retention, employment, etc.).
Leadership teams (PI/Co-PIs) for both tracks are encouraged to include experts in education research, the learning sciences, and/or evaluation, as appropriate, as well as in the principal science domain(s), as needed, to design and implement a robust and appropriate research plan.
NRT IGE Track Awards (6-10 anticipated) are expected to be up to three (3) years in duration with a total budget between $300,000 and $500,000 and Track 2 have a maximum budget of $1M over 5 years.
Institutions are limited to participation in only 2 IGE Track proposals per competition. Participation includes serving as a lead organization on a non-collaborative proposal or as a lead organization, non-lead organization, or subawardee on a collaborative proposal.
If you are interested in submitting for this solicitation or are part of a collaborative submission with partners beyond WVU, you must first submit an internal Letter of Intent (LOI). Depending on the response the Research Office may elect to run an internal selection process.
Internal LOI Instructions
Email WVU_Internal@mail.wvu.edu with subject line: “NRT Letter of Intent” (see internal deadline above)
Please include:
- PI(s) and Departmental and University/Industrial Affiliations
- Which Track you are pursuing
- One paragraph on what you are proposing
- Any reviews from previous submissions to the program.
Contact Sheena.Murphy@mail.wvu.edu with questions.