L0100
NSF
Ethics Education in Science and Engineering (EESE)
NSF 08-530
URL for complete guidelines: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13338
Brief Description:
Ethics education in science and engineering encompasses many issues and many constituencies, including: pre-college; undergraduate; graduate and postdoctoral students; junior and tenured faculty; technicians and administrators; and practicing scientists and engineers outside academe. Ethics education has implications for the institutions in which all of these individuals and groups study and work, as well as for other organizations and associations. Ethics issues arise in the practice of science and engineering as well as in the complex relationships among science, engineering, technology and society. To address this variety of issues and constituencies, educational practice needs to draw from relevant research, including work in practical and professional ethics and theory of action, pedagogical theory, and appropriate theory and knowledge from social and behavioral sciences.
The Ethics Education in Science and Engineering (EESE) program accepts proposals for research and educational projects to improve ethics education in all of the fields of science and engineering that NSF supports, including within interdisciplinary or inter-institutional contexts. Proposals must focus on improving ethics education for graduate students in those fields or on developing summer post-baccalaureate ethics-education activities or other activities that transition students from undergraduate to graduate education. The program will entertain proposals in graduate ethics education in science and engineering generally. However, the program is particularly interested in proposals addressing issues of cultural relativity in research that is conducted in an international context and those addressing intellectual property issues, including scientific publishing. In these contexts, faculty and graduate students may find that they lack applicable standards or that the standards they are accustomed to do not match those of others with whom they interact (perhaps more so when international projects are interdisciplinary). Public concerns or challenges may also raise questions that need careful consideration (for example, with respect to real or perceived conflicts of interest or where human subjects are involved). The program also encourages proposals addressing intellectual property rights including scientific publishing, appropriate attribution, access to scientific data, and university-industry collaborations.
Note: NSF does not consider proposals for medical research. The EESE program will not consider proposals focused on ethics for medical students or in medical education. EESE will not consider proposals that will start or provide incremental improvements to formal or informal educational activities responsive to Federal mandates for research integrity or human-subjects training requirements.
Award Amount:
The maximum award amount is expected to be $300,000. Collaborative proposals for the purpose of disseminating best practices in graduate ethics education will be eligible for a maximum award amount of $400,000 (for example, projects that include partnerships between universities and scientific or engineering societies). Anticipated funding amount is $2.4 million for an estimated 6 to 12 Standard Grants. The maximum award duration is expected to be 36 months.
Cost Sharing is not required under this solicitation.
Eligibility:
NSF expects project teams to include persons with appropriate expertise. This might include expertise in the domain or domains of science or engineering on which the project focuses, in ethics, in educational research, and in pedagogy.
Only accredited U.S. colleges and universities or U.S. professional associations are eligible to apply to this program. Other types of organizations can be included only as non-lead collaborators or sub-awardees. In addition, U.S. colleges and universities and U.S. professional associations can be non-lead collaborators or sub-awardees.
Limitation:
One per campus
An eligible organization (campus) may submit only one proposal as the lead organization. There is no limit on the number of proposals under which an organization may be included as a non-lead collaborator or sub-awardee.
Internal deadline: 1/15/2010
Internal deadline Indy: 1/15/2010
Preliminary Proposal Deadline:
Agency deadline: 3/1/2010
*Status of Internal Competition:
Bloomington - Open
Indianapolis - Open
East - Open
Fort Wayne - Open
Kokomo - Open
Northwest - Open
South Bend - Open
Southeast - Open
To apply for IU Internal competition:
For consideration as a campus nominee, submit the following electronically to your campus representative listed below by January 15, 2010:
Contact Information for Inquiries and applications:
| Limited Submission | Donna Carter | (812) 856-1368 | |
| Bloomington | Donna Carter | (812) 856-1368 | |
| East | Mary Blakefield | (765) 973-8522 | |
| Fort Wayne | Carl Drummond | (260) 481-5750 | |
| Indianapolis | Etta Ward | (317) 278-8427 | |
| Kokomo | Linda Bielewicz | (765) 455-9227 | |
| Northwest | Marie Czach | (219) 981-4262 | |
| South Bend | Erika Zynda | (574) 520-4181 | |
| Southeast | Walter Ryan | (812) 941-2539 |
*If you are interested in a program with an expired internal deadline which shows a status of "Open", send an e-mail to the appropriate contact above to inquire about submitting an internal proposal for consideration. A program showing a status of "Closed" is not accepting any additional internal applications.
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