Standards Coordination Office Curricula Development Cooperative Agreement Program
NIST will fund accredited U.S. institutions of higher education to develop undergraduate and/or graduate curricula and learning resources on documentary standards, standards development, and standardization.
⚑ Cooperative agreement with NIST involvement/coordination · Only accredited U.S. institutions of higher education (including territories) may apply · Foreign entities are ineligible
Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules
| Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) | 50 partial | technical depth: substantial; funds training education (capped) |
| IPPRA | 39 weak | outside portfolio topics; signature methods: community engaged; social/behavioral work is minor; funds training education, not research (capped) |
| Tom Love Innovation Hub | 10 none | deep-tech content; no commercialization signal |
Description
The NIST Standards Coordination Office Curricula Development Cooperative Agreement Program (SCOCD CAP) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for activities to develop undergraduate and/or graduate level curricula to incorporate documentary standards, standards development, and standardization of information and content into seminars, modules, courses, and learning resources. The recipients will work with NIST to strengthen education and learn about documentary standards, standards development, and standardizatio n.
Eligibility
Accredited institutions of higher education (IHEs), as defined at 20 U.S.C. 1001, located in the United States or its territories. Foreign entities are not eligible to apply under this NOFO. See Section III this NOFO for eligibility requirements.
Apply
View on Grants.gov → CONTACT: Misty L Roosa Management Analyst <michael.teske@nist.gov>
Proposal brief SEE AN EXAMPLE →
A one-page internal memo: fit assessment, submission requirements, document scaffold, and next steps dated back from the deadline — tailored to your project idea if you add one.
Proposal shell · NOAA / Department of Commerce conventions SEE A NOAA EXAMPLE →
Funder-faithful document skeletons — NOAA / Department of Commerce's document set with section headings, page limits, reviewer guidance, and writing prompts; add a project idea to get [DRAFT] starter bullets. Download as .md for Word or Overleaf.
Legacy IPPRA LLM assessment (v2.0, for comparison)
20/100 · gpt-5.4-mini · 2026-07-06
This is an education-and-curriculum cooperative agreement about standards, not a research funding opportunity, so it is only a weak fit for IPPRA. The topic could touch IPPRA’s portfolio areas indirectly through standards used in energy, national security, or environmental systems, but there is no named social, behavioral, policy, survey, or evaluation research component. U.S. accredited institutions of higher education are eligible, so a public university could apply, but the program still falls well outside IPPRA’s core research mission.
Legacy scoring history
| 2026-07-06 | 20 | gpt-5.4-mini | This is an education-and-curriculum cooperative agreement about standards, not a research funding opportunity, so it is only a weak fit for IPPRA. The topic could touch IPPRA’s portfolio areas indirectly through standards used in energy, national security, or environmental systems, but there is no named social, behavioral, policy, survey, or evaluation research component. U.S. accredited institutions of higher education are eligible, so a public university could apply, but the program still falls well outside IPPRA’s core research mission. |
| 2026-07-06 | 18 | gpt-5.4-mini | This is an education/curriculum development opportunity focused on documentary standards and standardization, not on a substantive IPPRA portfolio area such as weather, energy, national security, public health, or environmental policy. While a public university is eligible to apply, the fit is mainly institutional and methodological rather than topical, so it falls in the weak/no-fit range for IPPRA’s research mission. |