Fostering Interdisciplinary Research on Education

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	Federal Grant Title:	Fostering Interdisciplinary Research on Education
	CFDA Number:	47.076
	CFDA Description:	Education and Human Resources
	Federal Agency Name:	National Science Foundation
	Category of Funding Activity:	Science and Technology
	Category Explanation:	Information not provided
	Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
	Funding Opportunity Number:	11-526
	Document Type:	Grants Notice
	Funding Instrument Type:	Grant
	Posted Date:	Jan 26, 2011
	Creation Date:	Jan 26, 2011
	Original Closing Date for Applications:	Apr 29, 2011 Full Proposal Deadline(s): April 29, 2011
	Current Closing Date for Applications:	Apr 29, 2011 Full Proposal Deadline(s): April 29, 2011
	Archive Date:	Information not provided
	Expected Number of Awards:	10
	Estimated Total Program Funding:	$4,000,000
	Federal Grant Award Ceiling:	Information not provided
	Federal Grant Award Floor:	$400,000
	Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	Yes

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility: *PI Limit:Each proposal must consist of one individual who will serve as the mentor and one individual who will be mentored. FIRE is open as to whether the mentor is designated as the PI and the mentee as the co-PI, or vice versa, as allowed by their institutions. Other personnel and co-PIs are allowed, but the role of the mentor should be clearly described. Investigators may receive an award at any point in their post-graduate careers, whether at a more junior (e.g., immediately after earning a doctorate) or senior level (e.g., mid-career or later). Both the individual who will act as mentor and the individual who will be mentored must have obtained their respective doctoral degrees by date of award.
Grant Description: FIRE is a strand of the Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE) program (NSF 10-586) and it is anticipated that FIRE will eventually be incorporated into the REESE solicitation. The FIRE program seeks to facilitate the process by which scholars can cross disciplinary boundaries to acquire the skills and knowledge that would improve their abilities to conduct rigorous research on STEM learning and education. The primary goal of the strand is to facilitate the development of innovative theoretical, methodological, and analytic approaches to understanding complex STEM education issues of national importance and, by so doing, make progress toward solving them. A secondary goal of the strand is to broaden and deepen the pool of investigators engaged in STEM educational research. In order to address this goal, investigators must pair with a mentoring scholar in??a to-be-learned field of interest. Proposals therefore have both a research and a professional development component. Investigators may receive a FIRE award at any point in their post-graduate careers.
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