[Flex] New NSF Grant Proposal Guide

[Sheila Clifford]

Hi Flexers -

You probably have seen this already - sorry to be late!  A new NSF Grant 
Proposal Guide is out, and will come into effect in January.

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf13001/index.jsp

I don't see any MAJOR changes, but there are some tweaks.  Please read 
the GPG Summary of Changes.

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf13001/gpg_sigchanges.jsp

Things I noticed are:
1) Proj Summary -
has been revised to omit language regarding the inclusion of separate 
headings to address the two merit review criteria. In lieu of this 
approach, FastLane has been modified to display three separate text 
boxes in which proposers must provide an Overview and address the 
"Intellectual Merit' and "Broader Impacts" of the proposed activity. 
Because FastLane will enable the criteria to be separately addressed 
(still within one page), proposers will no longer need to include 
separate headings. Proposals that do not separately address the overview 
and both merit review criteria within the one-page Project Summary will 
be not be accepted or will be returned without review.

I would hope that we will still be able to upload a Word doc into the 
Project Summary area and not be forced to plop text into 3 boxes.  If we 
can upload a Word doc, we will have to make sure that all 3 items are 
addressed - Overview, Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts.

2) Result from Prior NSF support:
The Project Description must now contain, *as a separate section* within 
the narrative, a discussion of the broader impacts of the proposed 
activities. This section also was updated to indicate that Intellectual 
Merit and Broader Impact activities *must be described in two separate 
sections in the summary of Results from Prior NSF Support.*

Also:
in the Results from Prior NSF Support section, "prior" NSF support 
includes current NSF funding. This section also was updated to indicate 
that information should be included irrespective of whether or not the 
support was directly related to the proposal, or whether or not salary 
support was provided.

3)Biosketches:
"Publications" have been renamed "Products". This change makes clear 
that products may include, but are not limited to, publications, data 
sets, software, patents, and copyrights.

4)References
has been updated to specify that if there are no references cited, a 
statement to that effect should be included in this section of the 
proposal and uploaded into FastLane.

5)Budgets
has been updated to describe a new functionality in FastLane regarding 
senior personnel and the budget.*If no person months and no salary *are 
being requested for senior personnel, *they should be removed from 
Section A* of the budget. This change was made for consistency with 
NSF's cost sharing policy.

also:
some higher-level changes to Indirect cost info
Some info re: participant support
Some info re: subawards

6) Facilities:
has been supplemented to indicate that an aggregated description of the 
internal and external resources that are, or will be available to the 
project (both physical and personnel)*should be provided*. A *new 
format* for submission of the Facilities, Equipment and Other Resources 
information *will be available in FastLane* when the PAPPG becomes 
effective in January 2013. The new format will assist proposers in 
complying with the NSF cost sharing policy.

Here again, I hope that we will be able still to upload a Word doc. We 
shall see.

also:
if there is no facilities, equipment and other resources information, a 
statement to that effect should be included in this section of the 
proposal and uploaded into FastLane

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PLEASE don't rely on this summary.  Please have a look at the whole 
GPG.  If you have any questions or comments, chime away.

Cheers,
Sheila








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