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2026-07-07
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Research on the Science and Technology Enterprise: Indicators, Statistics, and Methods (NCSES S&T)

24-587 · U.S. National Science Foundation

ai data science education workforce economic development public health Science & Technology R&D

Closes
2027-01-19 · 196 d
Award ceiling
Award floor
Program funding
$1,500,000
Expected awards
10
Cost sharing
No
Posted
2024-07-01
Instrument
Grant
Characterization · gpt-5.4-mini · 2026-07-07

NSF NCSES funds research, methods, data, conferences, dissemination, and doctoral dissertation improvement projects that analyze or improve science and technology statistics, indicators, surveys, and related data use.

Funds
applied research
University
direct
social behavioral
substantial
physical sciences
minor
engineering
minor
life biomedical
minor
computational data
central

⚑ Limited to IHEs, certain nonprofit non-academic organizations, and federally recognized Tribal Nations for standard research proposals; doctoral dissertation research improvement proposals are also eligible under this program. · International branch campus performance requires explicit benefit and justification if funded activities occur there.

Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules

Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) 90 strong technical depth: central; funds applied research
IPPRA 84 strong portfolio topic: public_health; social/behavioral work is substantial; funds applied research
Tom Love Innovation Hub 30 weak funds applied research; deep-tech content

Description

The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) is one of the thirteen principal federal statistical agencies within the United States. It is responsible for the collection, acquisition, analysis, reporting and dissemination of objective, statistical data related to the science and technology (S&T) enterprise in the United States and other nations that is relevant and useful to practitioners, researchers, policymakers and the public. NCSES uses this information to prepare a number of statistical data reports including Women, Minorities and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering and the National Science Board's biennial report, Science and Engineering (S&E) Indicators.

The Center would like to enhance its efforts to support analytic and methodological research in support of its surveys as well as promote the education and training of researchers in the use of large-scale nationally representative datasets. NCSES welcomes efforts by the research community to use NCSES or other data to conduct research on the S&T enterprise, develop improved survey methodologies that could benefit NCSES surveys, explore alternate data sources that could supplement NCSES data, create and improve indicators of S&T activities and resources, strengthen methodologies to analyze S&T statistical data, and explore innovative ways to communicate S&T statistics. To that end, NCSES invites proposals for individual or multi-investigator research projects, doctoral dissertation improvement awards, conferences, experimental research, survey research and data collection, and dissemination projects under its program for Research on the Science and Technology Enterprise: Indicators, Statistics, and Methods (NCSES S&T).

Eligibility

*Who May Submit Proposals: Proposals may only be submitted by the following: - Standard research proposals:

<ul> <li class="pf0"><span class="cf0"><span class="cf0">Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs):</span>Two- and four-year IHEs (including community colleges) accredited in, and having a campus located in the US, acting on behalf of their faculty members. Special Instructions for International Branch Campuses of US IHEs: If the proposal includes funding to be provided to an international branch campus of a US institution of higher education (including through use of subawards and consultant arrangements), the proposer must explain the benefit(s) to the project of performance at the international branch campus, and justify why the project activities cannot be performed at the US campus.</span></li> <li class="pf0"><span class="cf0">Non-profit, non-academic organizations: Independent museums, observatories, research laboratories, professional societies and similar organizations located in the U.S. that are directly associated with educational or research activities.</span></li> <li class="pf0"><span class="cf0">Tribal Nations: An American Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, or community that the Secretary of the Interior acknowledges as a federally recognized tribe pursuant to the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994, 25 U.S.C. §§ 5130-5131.</span></li> </ul>

Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant proposals: Doctoral Degree granting IHEs accredited in, and having a campus located in, the US acting on behalf of their faculty members.

*Who May Serve as PI:

Standard research proposals: No special restrictions or limits.

Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant proposals: The dissertation advisor must be listed as the Principal Investigator and the student must be listed as the co-Principal Investigator.

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Proposal brief

ONE LLM CALL (~1¢) · CACHED · REQUIRES STAFF KEY

Proposal shell · National Science Foundation conventions

ONE LLM CALL (~2-3¢) · CACHED · SCAFFOLDING, NOT GHOSTWRITING