Data / Federal grants / PD-24-7298

Multilateral Partnerships Leveraging Excellence

U.S. National Science Foundation is accepting applications. It lists $2.5 million in total.

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Key facts

Opportunity number

PD-24-7298

Status

Posted, open

Posted

September 14, 2024

Award floor

$200,000

Total funding

$2,500,000

Cost sharing

Not required

Funding instrument

Grant

Category

Science and Technology and other Research and Development

Assistance listing

47.079 Office of International Science and Engineering; None None

Contact

National Science Foundation · [email protected] · 703-292-4261

Who can apply

• Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"

What the agency says

Many of the most pressing challenges in research and innovation require collaboration across national and disciplinary boundaries to achieve important advances. A growing number of topics are best addressed on a multilateral basis, building partnerships that leverage diverse expertise, data, infrastructure, and perspectives to advance understanding on critical topics of regional or global importance. At the same time, funders, research organizations, and researchers alike typically have limited experience with multilateral partnerships.

The Office of International Science and Engineering’s MultiPLEx program seeks to support visionary, and ambitious international multilateral research partnerships that are required to hasten progress in addressing grand challenges by leveraging research excellence in the U.S. and around the globe. The program also seeks to advance understanding of effective multilateral collaboration.

MultiPLEx welcomes proposals that

Address urgent research and/or societal challenge of global importance (including but not limited to critical and emerging technology research) and require an inherently international multilateral approach to achieve impactful research results, partnering with at least two countries other than the U.S. Proposals that engage partners across distinct geographic regions are an area of interest.

Make clear how the proposed international collaboration will enable research advances and broader impacts that go beyond what can be accomplished by a narrower team.

Include a diverse group of U.S. institutions and/or individuals, leveraging the full range of talent that society has to offer

MultiPLEx funds support the U.S. research team. Research partners should seek funding from their own national funding agencies or from other sources. A typical MultiPLEx award will be up to three years in duration.

The MultiPLEX program is not intended to replace existing OISE or directorate programs. Proposals submitted to MultiPLEX must fall outside the scope of existing OISE or directorate programs. Any proposal submitted to MultiPLEx that is not responsive to this Program Description may be transferred to another OISE program or returned without review.

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