Limited Submission Opportunity: DOE Energy Frontier Research Centers
DOE Energy Frontier Research Centers
URL: https://science.osti.gov/-/media/grants/pdf/foas/2020/SC_FOA_0002204.pdf
OBJECTIVES:
The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES) announces the call for Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) proposals and encourages both new and renewal applications. Applications will be required to address priority research directions and opportunities identified in recent BES workshop and roundtable reports, the scientific grand challenges identified in the report Directing Matter and Energy: Five Challenges for Science and the Imagination, and the opportunities described in the report Challenges at the Frontiers of Matter and Energy: Transformative Opportunities for Discovery Science. All of these reports are described below. BES is soliciting proposals in four (4) topical areas:
1) Environmental Management (new and renewal proposals);
2) Quantum Information Science (new proposals only);
3) Microelectronics (new proposals only);
4) Polymer Upcycling (new proposals only).
Funding will be competitively awarded to the successful Energy Frontier Research Center applications selected by Federal officials, based on a rigorous merit review process as detailed in Section V of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA).
FUNDING INFORMATION: $2,000,000 to $4,000,000 per year for 4 years
ELIGIBILITY RESTRICTIONS:
Unincorporated consortia (team arrangements), which may include domestic and foreign entities, must designate one member of the consortium to serve as the prime recipient/consortium representative (lead organization). The prime recipient/consortium representative must be incorporated (or otherwise formed) under the laws of a State or territory of the United States.
Cost sharing is not required.
INTERNAL SELECTION PROCESS:
Interested investigators should submit the following materials via InfoReady Review by DATE: 12/9/19
- Questions outlined in InfoReady Review application;
- A letter of support from the appropriate department chair or dean
- A brief statement (up to 2 pages) by the candidate describing their scientific achievements and proposed project including
- Project goals
- Proposed methods
- Potential impact
- A list of potential collaborators (key individuals and/or organizations)
- A brief budget outline for the proposed research
- Up-to-date CV or biosketch.
A faculty committee will review internal proposals and select nominees.
DEADLINES:
Internal Materials Due: Monday, December 9, 2019
Sponsor Deadline: Thursday, January 16, 2020 5:00pm EST