WEBVTT 1 00:00:13.390 --> 00:00:15.490 Vishal Sharma: And does everyone see? 2 00:00:15.500 --> 00:00:16.189 Barbara Ransom: Yeah, 3 00:00:16.200 --> 00:00:16.990 Vishal Sharma: by location? 4 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:17.880 Barbara Ransom: Yeah, 5 00:00:19.080 --> 00:00:20.539 Barbara Ransom: it's a 6 00:00:42.840 --> 00:00:58.059 Vishal Sharma: Hi, everyone. Good morning or good afternoon. Depending on your time zone. Um, welcome to the civic innovation. Challenge, Webinar. We'll give folks another minute to join in, and then we will go ahead and get started. 7 00:01:32.310 --> 00:02:01.440 Vishal Sharma: Yes, folks are joining in. I think we can go ahead and get started with the Webinar today for the civic Innovation challenge program. Um, and just like you. Thank all of you for uh joining us for this Webinar today. Um! During this Webinar we will present some overview slides about the program and the new solicitation, and that will be followed by an open Q. A. Session. Um with the Nsf. Staff. Uh, that is on Call um If you have questions during the Webinar. 8 00:02:01.450 --> 00:02:30.680 Vishal Sharma: Uh, please use the q A. Function within zoom to go through questions. Um, and we will answer them either directly uh in the Q. A. Uh. Or answer them live uh during the moderated session. Uh. So with that said, before we start we'll do a background of introductions from a specific program team that is on call um. I'll go first. I'm uh Dr. Michelle Sharma and program Director um at an assess, 9 00:02:30.690 --> 00:02:39.279 Vishal Sharma: the Computer Information Science and Engineering Directorate. I'm: one of the Pvs on the program. And now i'll pass it on to David Corp: 10 00:02:40.370 --> 00:02:44.909 David Corman: Yeah. Good and good afternoon. I'm: David Corman, I'm. Uh: 11 00:02:44.920 --> 00:02:47.110 David Corman: program director from 12 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:59.700 David Corman: the computer Network Systems Division and the Size Directorate and I've been part of a civic program since its initiation, 13 00:02:59.940 --> 00:03:02.399 David Corman: probably three or four years ago. 14 00:03:02.760 --> 00:03:03.880 David Corman: It's you, 15 00:03:04.250 --> 00:03:06.370 Vishal Sharma: Thanks, Damien. Ah, Jacob, 16 00:03:07.430 --> 00:03:18.830 Jacob Kravetz: Hi! I'm. Jacob Kravitz. I'm. An American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science and Technology Policy Fellow and I'm. Working on the civic innovation challenge as well as smart and connected communities programs, 17 00:03:18.840 --> 00:03:23.140 Jacob Kravetz: and i'll be answering any Q. A. Uh. Today, so 18 00:03:23.560 --> 00:03:25.500 Jacob Kravetz: be sure to send you away my way. 19 00:03:26.220 --> 00:03:28.580 Vishal Sharma: Oh, is it here. 20 00:03:29.160 --> 00:03:43.630 Siqian Shen, ENG/CMMI: Ah, hello, everyone! My name is attention. I'm: a program director in a civil infrastructure system program, together with my colleague, Dan Leon. We are both program directors 21 00:03:43.640 --> 00:03:52.070 Siqian Shen, ENG/CMMI: working from engineering, directorate, Cmi Division for the Civic and also Sncc. Nice meeting everyone. 22 00:03:52.810 --> 00:03:53.870 Vishal Sharma: She's. 23 00:03:54.630 --> 00:04:09.710 Sara Kiesler: Hi, everybody. I'm. I've worked in the Social Behavioral and economic sciences Directorate and I've been working on this program since it started, and also smarten 24 00:04:09.720 --> 00:04:15.610 connected communities and saps in many other cross-directed programs. 25 00:04:17.010 --> 00:04:18.060 Vishal Sharma: Chris 26 00:04:20.149 --> 00:04:30.790 Chris Balakrishnan-BIO/DEB: Hi One Chris Paul Christian Here I'm. Representing the Biology Director, where I work in the systematics and Biodiversity Sciences Division. And so, 27 00:04:31.520 --> 00:04:38.930 Chris Balakrishnan-BIO/DEB: yeah, Bio was new to the program. And I'm really excited to be here, and I encourage some applications from biologists, 28 00:04:41.260 --> 00:04:46.450 Vishal Sharma: and I will have our metrolab colleagues and produce themselves. So Dave and then rose. 29 00:04:47.060 --> 00:04:58.680 David Rowe: Thanks to Shaw Day Brow, I I am chief safet metrolab network, and we have been working with Nsf. On the prior to cohorts so great to see everybody. 30 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:10.580 Rose Mische Commins (MetroLab Network): Hi, everyone! My name is Rose Michelle Cummins. I am the Civic engagement partnership coordinator at Metrolab Network and 31 00:05:10.700 --> 00:05:15.019 Rose Mische Commins (MetroLab Network): uh work to assist with program management for the civic program. 32 00:05:17.220 --> 00:05:41.760 Vishal Sharma: Right? So I think that wraps up all the introductions. Um, So we'll go ahead and get started with our program presentation for today. So the civic innovation challenge is a multi-federal agency program. It is led by the National Science Foundation and done so in partnership with the Us. Department of Energy Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Agriculture so 33 00:05:42.060 --> 00:05:58.910 Vishal Sharma: very quickly i'll give an overview of our program Team Um. You have part from several of us on the Nsf side. We also have colleagues who work on this program with us from Dhs Doe and Agriculture, as well as our partners at Metro live network. 34 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:29.680 Vishal Sharma: So what is the civic innovation challenge, and what are the goals of the program? Um. The main goal of the program is to accelerate transition to practice of foundational research and emerging technologies into local government and community organizations. And the way the program facilitates that is, by supporting projects that rest local priorities and challenges through research based climate projects. And these projects must be co-created and co-executed as really true partnerships being 35 00:06:29.690 --> 00:06:47.529 Vishal Sharma: the researchers and a range of stakeholders who are on the front lines of their community challenge. And lastly, we are looking to support ideas whose outcomes have potential to be scaled and sustained within their pilot communities, but also have transferability across the Us. 36 00:06:49.140 --> 00:07:08.720 Vishal Sharma: In terms of the structure of the program. So each civic solicitation will have focused track beams that are developed both from the input of local government and the organizations based on the challenges that they're facing um and then also align with the priority areas of the co-funding Federal agencies that participate in this program. 37 00:07:08.730 --> 00:07:38.719 Vishal Sharma: Once we have a solicitation released uh we will do broad outreach to solicit proposals uh focusing on reaching out government community organizations as well as research institutions. Proposals that are submitted to the civic program. Um undergo the standard and a separate review process and a typical panel for the civic innovation challenge will involve academic reviewers. Um, but it will also involve. 38 00:07:38.730 --> 00:07:46.659 Vishal Sharma: So in that sense a civic panel is fairly unique. But then you know how Nsf: panels are typically done. 39 00:07:46.670 --> 00:08:15.200 Vishal Sharma: Um, in terms of the awards that the program makes. Uh: So the first stage of the program that everyone will apply to um stage. One is for planning grants. These are six months awards, for up to seventy-five thousand dollars that are meant to facilitate team capacity building and to refine pilot project ideas. Teams that make it into stage one are eligible to then apply for stage two pilot awards. There's a down selection from stage, one to stage two, 40 00:08:15.210 --> 00:08:25.889 Vishal Sharma: and these pilot awards are for up to one million dollars for twelve months to execute a fast-paced pilot project as part of the program. 41 00:08:25.900 --> 00:08:45.450 Vishal Sharma: We also encourage and enabled communities of practice to facilitate knowledge, sharing training, and networking between the civic teams, which is done through a cooperative agreement that Nsf. Has for the metrolive network, and i'll pass it on to my metrolive colleagues to briefly go over what the communities are practice for certificates. 42 00:08:46.310 --> 00:08:51.700 Rose Mische Commins (MetroLab Network): Thank you so much for shawl, for the introduction 43 00:08:51.800 --> 00:09:16.960 Rose Mische Commins (MetroLab Network): are in a cooperative agreement with Nsf. To help support the civic program. Um, and have been working with civic since the beginning of the program. Um, and our program management support focuses on building communities of practice between both teams and also the communities they work in. And what this looks like is that we work to help develop programming for teams to support their planning 44 00:09:16.970 --> 00:09:35.639 Rose Mische Commins (MetroLab Network): um and also project implementation efforts, most of which is developing communities of practice. Um. And helping to share the story of the work that they're doing, and a lot of this is done through workshops. Ah, P. I. Copies, which is something new. We started where Pis have an opportunity to engage directly of each other. 45 00:09:35.650 --> 00:09:51.670 Rose Mische Commins (MetroLab Network): Um, and we also provide support for deliverables and communication between Nsf. And the teams. We help support that effort as well, and i'm going to pass it over to the Dave to talk a little bit about some of the resources we work to develop. 46 00:09:51.680 --> 00:10:19.559 David Rowe: Sure, Thank you. Uh. So through the course of the first two civic cohorts. Um, We've taken kind of um some lessons learned on best practices, and also helped work with the Nsf team uh to develop resources. Um, that focus on the uh sustainability, transferability and scalability aspects of uh, the pilot projects Um, and we make those resources available to the teams as well. So 47 00:10:19.730 --> 00:10:23.730 David Rowe: i'm happy to answer any questions. But, bash! I'll pass it back to you. 48 00:10:24.390 --> 00:10:26.230 Vishal Sharma: Thanks for those thanks, Dave. 49 00:10:26.690 --> 00:10:28.650 Vishal Sharma: I'm a Kate. 50 00:10:30.250 --> 00:10:59.540 Vishal Sharma: So this for the new solicitation for setting that those release um earlier This month is the first solicitation for the program. There have been two prior certifications to this Um. So our first civic explication, which we're calling here is seventy-one uh! Ran through two thousand and twenty-two uh for this cohort of seventeen uh fifty-two stage one planning that awards were made across two different tracks uh the first solicitation tracks uh 51 00:10:59.550 --> 00:11:28.720 Vishal Sharma: where Katie was on communities and ability, looking at offering better mobility options to solve the spatial mismatch between housing and jobs. In fact, he was on resilience to natural disasters, to equip communities for greater preparedness. Um and resilience to natural disasters. Um! So from the fifty-two stage one team, Seventeen teams were down, selected for a stage. Two uh their pilots have been completed since then. Um! And you'll hear us say this throughout. I think 52 00:11:28.730 --> 00:11:58.379 Vishal Sharma: the presentation and our Q. And A. Today one of the best resources for teams who are considering applying to the civic program is to go on the civic website and A. And look at what has been funded previously under most the first and the second solicitation. Um on the website you will see many artificial resources that have been shared uh about what these projects get uh during both their sciences and the pilot phase, and that is one of the best ways that you can understand. 53 00:11:58.390 --> 00:12:19.920 Vishal Sharma: You know what makes an idea, a civic project, and what do civic teams typically do in both the planning phase and then in their pilot phase as well. So we strongly recommend that all of you spend some time working at what previous teams have done in the program to get a sense of of what uh the program today supports 54 00:12:21.620 --> 00:12:51.310 Vishal Sharma: for the second solicitation of civic, which was released in two thousand and twenty-two. There were two tracks for this one. Um Tracea was on living in a changing climate, looking at the bathroom, mitigation and resilience and community systems, services and economic virus that are vulnerable, based on the change in climate. And Crackdie was on briefing the gap between essential resources and services and community needs. So, looking at ways to enhance people's access to essential resources and services 55 00:12:51.320 --> 00:13:20.180 Vishal Sharma: where better access could significantly improve quality of life and community resilience. Um. So stage one teams that they're planning uh phase from October two thousand and twenty-two to March, two thousand and twenty-three and then stage two awards were made last year in October, so fifty-six planning awards 56 00:13:20.190 --> 00:13:35.030 Vishal Sharma: wealth and crack b. These pilots started on October the first, and are currently ongoing, and we again encourage you to visit thens of civic website, and and see what was funded in the previous core. 57 00:13:36.770 --> 00:13:44.949 Vishal Sharma: I will now pass it on to my colleague, Dr. David Corman, who will go over aspects of the new solicitation. 58 00:13:45.620 --> 00:13:48.410 David Corman: Okay, Thank you. Thank you very much, Michelle. 59 00:13:49.500 --> 00:13:54.389 David Corman: So a couple of things that are important on this slide. 60 00:13:54.400 --> 00:13:55.590 David Corman: Here's one 61 00:13:56.510 --> 00:14:00.540 David Corman: we're going. The the solicitation is out, you can see it. 62 00:14:00.560 --> 00:14:03.990 David Corman: Nsf. Twenty, four, over thirty, four. 63 00:14:04.190 --> 00:14:15.829 David Corman: There are some requirements that are elements that are important in all proposals, whether their civic proposal or anything else, 64 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:28.780 David Corman: and you should refer to the Pa. Ppg. Link to see exactly what some of those elements might be. For example, a data management plan 65 00:14:28.790 --> 00:14:31.120 David Corman: a post-stack mentoring plan. 66 00:14:32.030 --> 00:14:35.760 David Corman: Other requirements are listed there. Let's go to the next. 67 00:14:41.060 --> 00:14:45.630 David Corman: Okay, So what's different this year than previous years. 68 00:14:45.860 --> 00:14:48.939 David Corman: So one as 69 00:14:49.050 --> 00:14:51.409 David Corman: was mentioned earlier. 70 00:14:51.430 --> 00:15:09.759 David Corman: We have expanded the overall civic program, and we're very happy to have been able to brought in to bring in the Directorate for biological sciences, and there are 71 00:15:09.820 --> 00:15:14.360 David Corman: clear elements that, uh of the program that 72 00:15:14.370 --> 00:15:18.110 David Corman: they may have great interest in 73 00:15:19.070 --> 00:15:25.370 David Corman: solicitation has some updated language for track A and track. B. 74 00:15:25.550 --> 00:15:30.230 David Corman: So the track A, and try to be a little different than before. 75 00:15:30.560 --> 00:15:35.660 David Corman: One of the things in we actually sometimes listen to our uh, 76 00:15:35.820 --> 00:15:37.820 David Corman: our performers 77 00:15:37.900 --> 00:15:40.190 David Corman: and ask Jokey about that. 78 00:15:40.200 --> 00:15:45.919 David Corman: We do listen to our performers and our performers, especially in track 79 00:15:45.990 --> 00:15:47.840 David Corman: in stage. One 80 00:15:48.370 --> 00:15:55.560 David Corman: really mentioned fifty thousand dollars, which was our planning grant before we. 81 00:15:55.730 --> 00:15:57.450 David Corman: It's not enough, 82 00:15:58.030 --> 00:16:07.960 David Corman: and we raise that amount to seventy five thousand, which is to some degree a compromise between 83 00:16:07.970 --> 00:16:19.409 David Corman: able to do more extensive planning, and the number of planning grant awards that we can make in. As for all indicated in his 84 00:16:19.610 --> 00:16:23.060 David Corman: uh previous slides, we have given out a lot of 85 00:16:23.480 --> 00:16:25.310 grants in the past. 86 00:16:25.330 --> 00:16:31.169 David Corman: There's also some update to solicitation, specific review criteria 87 00:16:32.160 --> 00:16:38.280 there is. We want you to understand how you will be judged, 88 00:16:38.440 --> 00:16:45.509 David Corman: and we want our panelists to have very clear information 89 00:16:45.600 --> 00:16:48.590 David Corman: in terms of how to review the proposals 90 00:16:49.580 --> 00:16:53.920 David Corman: we have. Uh, let's mention that 91 00:16:53.930 --> 00:17:03.620 David Corman: we have interest from the agriculture side. Uh well, we have a dear colleague, letter or nifa participation 92 00:17:03.630 --> 00:17:11.500 David Corman: in civic, too. We are That does not necessarily apply to this Sylla station, 93 00:17:11.609 --> 00:17:14.659 David Corman: but we are still very interested. 94 00:17:14.670 --> 00:17:15.670 David Corman: He's 95 00:17:16.040 --> 00:17:26.349 David Corman: participate in proposals that address uh food security, and we're in discussions with, 96 00:17:26.859 --> 00:17:28.030 there's a 97 00:17:28.490 --> 00:17:30.909 David Corman: or their participation. 98 00:17:31.540 --> 00:17:33.280 David Corman: Let's go to the next slide. 99 00:17:34.030 --> 00:17:36.930 David Corman: Okay, the tracks that you see 100 00:17:37.030 --> 00:17:39.130 David Corman: you're not a civic 101 00:17:39.170 --> 00:17:43.880 David Corman: three. We're not very different than uh 102 00:17:44.670 --> 00:17:46.799 David Corman: what we had in the 103 00:17:46.810 --> 00:17:49.910 David Corman: in civic to last year. 104 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:54.359 David Corman: So track a climate, environmental instability 105 00:17:54.900 --> 00:18:12.219 David Corman: really looks at resilience of communities in many different aspects to climate and other associated environmental instabilities, including things like heat, atmospheric rivers, 106 00:18:12.230 --> 00:18:17.540 David Corman: flooding wildfires. Many of the things that you hear about in the news. 107 00:18:18.140 --> 00:18:28.989 David Corman: Those impacts may occur across a wide variety of community aspects, and many of those are listed here. 108 00:18:29.030 --> 00:18:33.849 David Corman: One of the point is that some of those may be a typical 109 00:18:33.980 --> 00:18:39.040 David Corman: Ah, obviously there's health transportation, mobility, 110 00:18:39.050 --> 00:18:44.089 David Corman: financial services, the financial elements of resilience 111 00:18:44.100 --> 00:18:47.310 David Corman: are also a potential interest 112 00:18:47.460 --> 00:18:54.640 David Corman: track. Be bridging the gap between the central resources, services and community needs? 113 00:18:54.790 --> 00:19:01.459 David Corman: Essentially, how do people access basic resources and services, 114 00:19:01.470 --> 00:19:09.370 David Corman: including things like housing, food technologies, or that they may improve their quality of life. 115 00:19:09.710 --> 00:19:12.970 David Corman: Again, they include things like 116 00:19:13.200 --> 00:19:14.889 David Corman: Ah, a kettle. 117 00:19:14.900 --> 00:19:21.359 David Corman: Issues centered on access to services due to various 118 00:19:21.370 --> 00:19:34.550 David Corman: ah systemic issues, economic disparities and disruptions in particular disruptions by shock or disaster is a very important element. 119 00:19:35.380 --> 00:19:37.159 David Corman: Let's go the next slide. 120 00:19:37.870 --> 00:19:40.620 David Corman: Okay, what does everyone need to know here? 121 00:19:40.970 --> 00:19:47.609 David Corman: So one proposals are for stage one are: Doom may first 122 00:19:48.940 --> 00:19:53.189 David Corman: we anticipate between thirty-five and forty awards. 123 00:19:53.200 --> 00:20:00.790 David Corman: That number is always subject to the quality of the proposals that we receive. 124 00:20:01.090 --> 00:20:15.049 David Corman: One point. Here is stage one for your planning purposes will begin October two thousand and twenty-four, and last through roughly march two thousand and twenty-five. 125 00:20:15.750 --> 00:20:24.720 David Corman: The important thing to think about is when we talk about planning grants, planning grants are not a green field, 126 00:20:24.730 --> 00:20:38.420 David Corman: and what I mean by that is, there is an expectation that you have your basic concept and an understanding of your basic civic partners. 127 00:20:39.240 --> 00:20:41.689 David Corman: You won't do? Well if you come in. 128 00:20:41.700 --> 00:20:42.789 David Corman: I've got it 129 00:20:42.800 --> 00:20:45.830 David Corman: an idea, but I don't have any partners yet. 130 00:20:45.840 --> 00:20:48.110 David Corman: The idea of a planning brand 131 00:20:48.120 --> 00:20:56.579 David Corman: is really to refine those ideas. Refine those partnerships, make them more inclusive. 132 00:20:56.710 --> 00:21:02.260 David Corman: Stage. Two award full of words are the million dollar type. 133 00:21:02.360 --> 00:21:09.240 David Corman: We anticipate roughly fifteen to twenty awards. Let me say one thing which I 134 00:21:09.940 --> 00:21:13.299 David Corman: we skipped over during the civic One 135 00:21:13.370 --> 00:21:17.509 David Corman: civic, if you're familiar with Nsl. 136 00:21:17.520 --> 00:21:19.950 David Corman: Ms. App is a tough customer. 137 00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:21.310 David Corman: And 138 00:21:21.450 --> 00:21:24.750 David Corman: in the case of Civic Ii. 139 00:21:24.990 --> 00:21:38.319 David Corman: We awarded well, more than thirty-three, I think, as close to forty of the stage one awards graduated to stage two. 140 00:21:38.520 --> 00:21:42.730 David Corman: That's to some degree almost unprecedented 141 00:21:42.740 --> 00:21:47.059 David Corman: in the at National Science Foundation. 142 00:21:47.120 --> 00:21:48.160 David Corman: So 143 00:21:49.560 --> 00:21:54.339 David Corman: when we look at Stage two, we really do want you to 144 00:21:54.440 --> 00:22:01.990 David Corman: tell us what your great capabilities are. Execute research-centered pilot 145 00:22:02.340 --> 00:22:08.910 David Corman: pathways for scaling and sustaining the outcomes beyond parity of the the award 146 00:22:09.280 --> 00:22:12.629 David Corman: one point, even if we do 147 00:22:13.310 --> 00:22:14.820 David Corman: forty percent, 148 00:22:15.030 --> 00:22:17.729 David Corman: and maybe it'll be thirty percent. 149 00:22:18.820 --> 00:22:21.920 David Corman: That still is a very large number. 150 00:22:23.210 --> 00:22:25.610 David Corman: It still means roughly, 151 00:22:25.970 --> 00:22:33.239 David Corman: maybe one out of two or two out of three project proposals submitted, the 152 00:22:33.250 --> 00:22:34.349 David Corman: we'll get 153 00:22:35.020 --> 00:22:37.469 David Corman: so it is very competitive. 154 00:22:37.960 --> 00:22:41.149 David Corman: We really want to hear great stories. 155 00:22:41.450 --> 00:22:43.920 David Corman: Let's look at the next slide. 156 00:22:47.330 --> 00:22:50.689 David Corman: What are we doing in our planning bread proposals, 157 00:22:50.700 --> 00:22:53.800 David Corman: and this is the element that's most relevant 158 00:22:54.120 --> 00:22:58.200 David Corman: to you with the uh uh made deadline. 159 00:22:58.810 --> 00:23:01.090 David Corman: Any Nsf proposal 160 00:23:01.100 --> 00:23:03.719 David Corman: has to include a project summary 161 00:23:03.730 --> 00:23:11.470 David Corman: one page, and if you look at the path, G, there are some clear elements that you need, 162 00:23:11.950 --> 00:23:15.270 David Corman: make sure that when you put that together 163 00:23:15.280 --> 00:23:24.949 David Corman: you really do include the elements that are listed. So it includes things like, what is the brief description, 164 00:23:25.910 --> 00:23:29.749 David Corman: the intellectual merit, and the broader impact 165 00:23:29.760 --> 00:23:33.490 David Corman: all on one page follow that format. 166 00:23:33.500 --> 00:23:37.330 David Corman: We don't like returning proposals without review, 167 00:23:37.420 --> 00:23:43.149 David Corman: but we do it if you can't follow what's in the uh? In the guidelines, 168 00:23:43.540 --> 00:23:48.460 David Corman: the major element of the proposal 169 00:23:48.570 --> 00:23:51.480 David Corman: is the project description. 170 00:23:52.510 --> 00:23:58.910 David Corman: We give you seven pages to describe the following information, 171 00:23:58.920 --> 00:24:01.690 David Corman: and we have specific call outs 172 00:24:01.700 --> 00:24:07.960 David Corman: in our Solar station on How we want you to put that proposal together? 173 00:24:07.970 --> 00:24:13.280 David Corman: We want you to tell us what is your vision for the research-centered pilot? 174 00:24:14.160 --> 00:24:16.519 David Corman: It's a critical critical element. 175 00:24:17.180 --> 00:24:22.080 David Corman: What are your specific partnerships, and how are you going to engage with them? 176 00:24:22.750 --> 00:24:27.940 David Corman: These all Don't need to be final ideas? 177 00:24:27.990 --> 00:24:32.170 David Corman: You're going to refine these if you advance to stage two, 178 00:24:32.470 --> 00:24:35.240 David Corman: but we want your best shot, 179 00:24:35.590 --> 00:24:42.529 David Corman: your idea, your partnerships, and we frequent. We really want a year 180 00:24:42.540 --> 00:24:47.739 David Corman: in your proposal, either through letters of collaboration. 181 00:24:49.920 --> 00:24:51.070 David Corman: Ooh! 182 00:24:51.200 --> 00:24:56.900 David Corman: You're working with, and that they are committed to working with you. 183 00:24:57.880 --> 00:25:06.630 David Corman: The six-month project can go quickly, and if you don't have relationships most to cemented. 184 00:25:06.840 --> 00:25:08.609 David Corman: I will escape. 185 00:25:08.920 --> 00:25:20.649 David Corman: We ask you to include broader impacts, which is a section required in the papp, and proposals need to tell us 186 00:25:20.910 --> 00:25:23.889 David Corman: results from Prior Andosa's support. 187 00:25:23.940 --> 00:25:28.019 David Corman: You may simply be able to say, I don't have any, 188 00:25:28.350 --> 00:25:45.419 David Corman: and which is cool. But you need a subset. You need a section that identifies results from prior support facilities. Facilities is a section that's much unused by proposers, one hundred and fifty 189 00:25:45.430 --> 00:25:50.680 David Corman: in it You can describe provide further information, 190 00:25:50.690 --> 00:26:01.820 David Corman: one of our facilities and resources to the team, including more description of activities or unfunded partnerships. 191 00:26:02.200 --> 00:26:06.489 David Corman: How you're, If you have unfunded civic partners, 192 00:26:06.500 --> 00:26:09.030 David Corman: how they may work together with you. 193 00:26:09.670 --> 00:26:20.349 David Corman: We have a section project, personnel and partner institutions, bio sketches. There's a format that's described in the Pa. Pg. 194 00:26:20.420 --> 00:26:22.630 David Corman: Letters of collaboration. 195 00:26:22.830 --> 00:26:24.960 David Corman: I mentioned it briefly 196 00:26:24.970 --> 00:26:31.619 David Corman: One of the points that's somewhat different than some of the other uh Nsf. Programs 197 00:26:32.460 --> 00:26:35.830 David Corman: we in, we suggest 198 00:26:35.860 --> 00:26:38.780 David Corman: we enable you to say, 199 00:26:39.170 --> 00:26:44.140 David Corman: go beyond what is become more of a standard. Msf: 200 00:26:44.150 --> 00:26:47.370 David Corman: We'll do everything that the proposal says. 201 00:26:47.650 --> 00:26:51.550 David Corman: We would not object to letters 202 00:26:51.670 --> 00:27:04.429 David Corman: that are short from your collaborators, but give a description of what they are planning to do as part of the planning Grant 203 00:27:04.760 --> 00:27:11.810 David Corman: data management plan. That's us. What are you doing with the data host that mentoring plan 204 00:27:11.820 --> 00:27:14.500 David Corman: and current in pandemic. 205 00:27:15.360 --> 00:27:17.090 David Corman: Hence support. 206 00:27:17.100 --> 00:27:18.669 David Corman: Let's go to the next slide. 207 00:27:21.440 --> 00:27:32.339 David Corman: This is a little further discussion on on this. The main thing is, Tell us, what is your idea for? The pilot 208 00:27:32.720 --> 00:27:45.590 David Corman: gotta have that idea. So we said it can be refined. But we want to hear how you are going to one have impact. Have partnerships 209 00:27:45.600 --> 00:27:55.520 David Corman: that will uh enable you to execute a stage two very rapidly after uh stage one is over. 210 00:27:56.960 --> 00:28:01.400 David Corman: Let's go the next, Allen. Let me other other point. Here 211 00:28:01.410 --> 00:28:02.530 David Corman: it is 212 00:28:03.560 --> 00:28:06.130 David Corman: when we talk about State 213 00:28:06.270 --> 00:28:07.919 David Corman: stage one 214 00:28:08.830 --> 00:28:10.989 what we want you to tell us. 215 00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:16.850 David Corman: It's not that you are sensing something. Not that you are monitoring something. 216 00:28:18.070 --> 00:28:23.669 David Corman: You're going to be able to close the loop from observations 217 00:28:23.680 --> 00:28:25.010 David Corman: into impact 218 00:28:25.690 --> 00:28:29.019 David Corman: that impact may be building something, 219 00:28:29.150 --> 00:28:31.430 David Corman: it may be. Ah 220 00:28:31.490 --> 00:28:39.209 David Corman: activities working with us, a local community, cities, region, state, 221 00:28:39.900 --> 00:28:43.380 David Corman: but it will result in some action 222 00:28:43.770 --> 00:28:47.860 David Corman: and tell us how you're going to collaborate across those 223 00:28:48.310 --> 00:28:50.030 David Corman: let's go the next slide. 224 00:28:54.290 --> 00:28:58.460 David Corman: This just basically says, Well, further in 225 00:28:58.470 --> 00:29:00.480 David Corman: again, Lessava. 226 00:29:01.340 --> 00:29:03.949 David Corman: Tell us your capabilities 227 00:29:04.710 --> 00:29:08.190 David Corman: like to see strong letters of collaboration. 228 00:29:08.200 --> 00:29:15.140 David Corman: Letters of collaboration should not be letters of support. They should not say simply, 229 00:29:15.150 --> 00:29:19.800 David Corman: Hey, we love working with these people. They're a great institution. 230 00:29:20.490 --> 00:29:26.489 David Corman: How we are going to contribute to the execution of this idea. 231 00:29:27.220 --> 00:29:29.109 David Corman: Let's go to the next slide, 232 00:29:31.830 --> 00:29:34.380 David Corman: Merit Review Criteria. 233 00:29:35.820 --> 00:29:39.489 David Corman: We Nsf. Reviews proposals based on 234 00:29:39.500 --> 00:29:42.589 intellectual merit and broader impacts, 235 00:29:42.600 --> 00:29:51.759 David Corman: and one has to think about those specifically in the context of the civic solicitation. 236 00:29:52.040 --> 00:29:53.290 David Corman: Remember, 237 00:29:53.300 --> 00:30:01.199 David Corman: civic is not about developing transformative research over the next 238 00:30:01.570 --> 00:30:06.700 David Corman: three or five years that will have a twenty year horizon. 239 00:30:06.710 --> 00:30:12.649 David Corman: It's about the here and now transitioning research ideas 240 00:30:12.660 --> 00:30:17.080 David Corman: into impactful pilots. And so 241 00:30:18.210 --> 00:30:19.970 David Corman: temper your 242 00:30:19.980 --> 00:30:22.039 David Corman: you're youra 243 00:30:23.700 --> 00:30:29.920 David Corman: vision By what? What is original? What could be impactful? 244 00:30:29.990 --> 00:30:37.829 David Corman: Is there a good research plan? A good plan for execution that you're carrying out in your planning, Grant. You 245 00:30:37.910 --> 00:30:41.949 David Corman: tell us what you're gonna do. How often you're gonna meet? 246 00:30:42.300 --> 00:30:45.060 David Corman: Who's responsible for doing what 247 00:30:45.400 --> 00:30:47.819 David Corman: we also look at? Ah, 248 00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:59.989 David Corman: do you have the resources available to carry out both your planning, Grant, and is your pilot idea. Can it be done with a million dollars? 249 00:31:01.720 --> 00:31:10.450 David Corman: Don't want a pilot that's going to be a hundred million dollars. They'd be a great vision, but it has to be executable. 250 00:31:10.670 --> 00:31:12.490 David Corman: Let's go to the next slide. 251 00:31:16.590 --> 00:31:18.290 David Corman: Other points. 252 00:31:18.690 --> 00:31:33.600 David Corman: What are they? What we look at? Projects and critical elements impact with communities, and we want to see that the item, the pilot idea 253 00:31:34.360 --> 00:31:38.969 David Corman: is a priority is a priority within a community 254 00:31:40.850 --> 00:31:43.590 David Corman: strip and by partnerships, 255 00:31:43.600 --> 00:31:48.120 David Corman: and you've got a necessary set of organizations 256 00:31:48.330 --> 00:31:54.280 David Corman: within the community. The academic partners to be able to execute it. 257 00:31:55.640 --> 00:32:00.279 David Corman: Can you execute this idea on the twelve month, Timeline, 258 00:32:01.220 --> 00:32:02.850 David Corman: Aunta? 259 00:32:03.080 --> 00:32:11.029 David Corman: Clearly, what are the are you able to state for us? What are the impacts of the idea 260 00:32:11.040 --> 00:32:14.920 David Corman: and the planning activities that you're going to be doing, 261 00:32:15.410 --> 00:32:29.850 David Corman: and we want you to tell us what your, what what do you really mean by success. What a little successful I would do! And how will you evaluate progress along the way 262 00:32:30.630 --> 00:32:32.040 David Corman: next slide? 263 00:32:36.390 --> 00:32:38.180 David Corman: This is 264 00:32:38.440 --> 00:32:45.419 David Corman: one where this slide is one that you really need to pay particular attention to, 265 00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:53.099 David Corman: and we we're in February. Proposals are to in May. 266 00:32:53.740 --> 00:32:55.090 David Corman: He? 267 00:32:55.410 --> 00:33:02.230 David Corman: What we don't want you to do is have problems submitting a proposal 268 00:33:02.490 --> 00:33:10.399 David Corman: because you don't have the necessary registration or other information 269 00:33:10.500 --> 00:33:12.399 David Corman: in particular. 270 00:33:12.410 --> 00:33:16.230 David Corman: Look at the path. G. The A. Ppg. 271 00:33:16.290 --> 00:33:22.390 David Corman: Which includes information on what you need to do to submit proposals. 272 00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:35.250 David Corman: Part of it includes some registration with Nsf. As with other as well as registration within an external agency or a same number. 273 00:33:36.110 --> 00:33:38.930 David Corman: We're not going to be very forgiving. 274 00:33:39.210 --> 00:33:40.220 David Corman: Yes, 275 00:33:40.460 --> 00:33:47.720 David Corman: at the end May first comes. Oh, we forgotten We We don't have that registration, 276 00:33:48.500 --> 00:33:51.960 David Corman: as You've got three months to have done it. 277 00:33:53.330 --> 00:33:58.610 David Corman: There is a frequently asked question, webpage, and 278 00:33:59.640 --> 00:34:04.710 David Corman: specifically question. Eleven tells more information about this. 279 00:34:14.750 --> 00:34:22.620 Vishal Sharma: So in closing for the Webinar. There are additional resources that are available to you civic teams. 280 00:34:22.630 --> 00:34:51.719 Vishal Sharma: Um. The first that I like to talk about is serving on an in a review panel. Um, One of the best ways you can understand What makes a proposal competitive for Nsf funding is to actually serve as a viewer for some of our programs. Um, my colleague Jacob, will share a link in chat. Um that allows you to express your interest in serving on review panels for some of our programs specifically specific program or smart like 281 00:34:51.730 --> 00:35:07.020 Vishal Sharma: communities. So we do strongly encourage you to consider service on an Nsf. Panel. And even if you're applying to civic. You can serve as a reviewer as long as it's not for the crack 282 00:35:07.030 --> 00:35:15.870 Vishal Sharma: that you are potentially applying to. So if you're applying to tracking, you may serve as a reviewer for Crack B, and vice versa. 283 00:35:16.050 --> 00:35:44.649 Vishal Sharma: The recording of this Webinar will become available at the Nsf program page for a civic a few days after this Webinar um, and we will share that once it's made available. Um, civic program. Directors are also available for one on one calls, but prospective proposers to answer their questions regarding the program and your proposal ideas, and Jacob will also share a link for you to book. Ah, what about 284 00:35:44.660 --> 00:36:14.650 Vishal Sharma: but any of the certain meetings on the program. You can also share one-page summaries of your proposals with us. Um and we'd be happy to provide you uh feedback uh over email as well. Um: additional resources that are available to you. If you haven't signed a specific mailing list uh please do so at Ns. Of civic innovation, dot org, which is where you can also learn more about the program. And I will say this again, including our previous awards. Please use that as a valuable resource 285 00:36:14.660 --> 00:36:44.549 Vishal Sharma: to yourself. Look at what previous teams have have proposed to us, and been funded to do um and and watch their project videos. The one pager is the bad website. So visit them to see what they did, both in the planning phase and and their pirates, and that should give you an idea for how projects can be scope Ah! And executed. Uh for this program. And lastly, for any questions about the program, you can email us directly, or 286 00:36:44.560 --> 00:36:55.990 Vishal Sharma: our program team is, you can see who's on the program team on the Nsf. Website for civic, or you can also reach out to our general mailbox, which is semic at nsf Gov. 287 00:36:56.000 --> 00:37:13.460 Vishal Sharma: With that our presentation is concluded, and the Webinar will go on until two thirty P. M e-care, time, and until then we will do A. Q. And A. Now, and Jacob will moderate the Q. And A. And we'll try our best to answer the questions that have.