NEA Art Works

Internal Limited Submission Deadline to the Office of Research Administration: Friday, June 21, 2019 at 5pm.

NEA Deadline: July 11, 2019

Synopsis of the Program:

Art Works is the National Endowment for the Arts’ principal grants program. Through project-based funding, we support public engagement with, and access to, various forms of excellent art across the nation, the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence, learning in the arts at all stages of life, and the integration of the arts into the fabric of community life. Projects may be large or small, existing or new, and may take place in any part of the nation’s 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories.

We encourage applications for artistically excellent projects that address any of the following activities below:

• Honor the 2020 centennial of women’s voting rights in the United States (aka the Women’s Suffrage Centennial).
• Engage with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs); Hispanic or Latino organizations; or the Native American, Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiian arts.
• Celebrate America’s creativity and cultural heritage.
• Invite a dialogue that fosters a mutual respect for the diverse beliefs and values of all persons and groups.
• Enrich our humanity by broadening our understanding of ourselves as individuals and as a society.

Matching grants generally will range from $10,000 to $100,000. No grants will be made below $10,000. Grants of $100,000 or more will be made only in rare instances, and only for projects that we determine demonstrate exceptional national or regional significance and impact. In the past few years, well over half of the agency’s grants have been for amounts less than $25,000.

Limit on Number of Proposals per Organization: Institutions are restricted to submitting only one proposal for this solicitation.

For full program details visit NEA’s ART WORKS webpage.

For details regarding The University of Akron’s limited submission process, visit the ORA Limited Submission webpage.

Please be advised that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has designated the National Institutes of Health’s SciENcv (Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae) as an NSF-approved format for submission of biographical sketch(es) and is encouraging its use to prepare a biographical sketch for inclusion in proposals to NSF.

In accordance with the current Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 19-1), a biographical sketch (limited to two pages) is required for each individual identified as senior personnel on a proposal, and a separate biographical sketch PDF file, or other NSF-approved format, must be uploaded in FastLane for each designated individual (see PAPPG Chapter II.C.2.f.). The biographical sketch and file format requirements also apply to NSF proposals submitted through Research.gov and Grants.gov.

Use of an NSF-approved format aims to reduce administrative burden and improve efficiencies by providing proposers with a compliant and reusable way to maintain this information for subsequent proposal submissions to NSF, while also ensuring that the information is submitted in a searchable composition.

Beginning with the next iteration of the PAPPG (anticipated effective date, January 2020), NSF will only accept PDFs for biographical sketches that are generated through use of an NSF-approved format. A description of NSF-approved format(s) will be posted on the NSF website when the PAPPG is issued. A draft version of the PAPPG was published in the Federal Register for public comment. The deadline for submission of comments is COB July 29, 2019.

Multiple training resources are available on the SciENcv website. The following website resources may be of assistance to proposers preparing a biographical sketch using the SciENcv format:

• SciENcv Background
• YouTube Video: SciENcv Tutorial
• YouTube Video: Integrating with ORCID
• SciENcv Help

We encourage you to share this information with your colleagues. If you have IT system-related questions, please contact the NSF Help Desk at 1-800-381-1532 or rgov@nsf.gov. Policy-related questions should be directed to policy@nsf.gov.

Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-ES-19-010

Funding Opportunity Purpose: The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The over-arching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, to pursue further studies or careers in research. To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this FOA will support creative educational activities with a primary focus on: Research Experiences

Application Due Dates: August 30, 2019, apply by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization.

Funding Opportunity Description:

The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research educational activities that complement other formal training programs in the mission areas of the NIH Institutes and Centers. The over-arching goals of the NIH R25 program are to: (1) complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs; (2) encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, to pursue further studies or careers in research; (3) help recruit individuals with specific specialty or disciplinary backgrounds to research careers in biomedical, behavioral and clinical sciences; and (4) foster a better understanding of biomedical, behavioral and clinical research and its implications.

The over-arching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, to pursue further studies or careers in research.

To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) will support creative educational activities with a primary focus on:

• Research Experiences for undergraduate students: to provide hands-on exposure to research, to reinforce their intent to graduate with a science degree, and/or to prepare them for graduate school admissions and/or careers in research.

Award Budget: Application budgets may not exceed $100,000 in direct costs annually and need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.

Food sustains and nourishes us; it is the glue that binds families and whole nations together at mealtimes – each time we gather around the table, we honor the past, experience the present and prepare for the future. Beyond the kitchen, food also increasingly connects us to a global food network where the worlds of politics, economics, the environment, culture, and science come together. A web that is shaping and reshaping itself every day – demanding that we make the most of the planet’s resources so as to guarantee adequate nutrition for all.

See our full article here, co-authored by Valerio Nannini, CEO and founder of Nannini & Partners and Patrick Ferran, Co-President and Chief Sales Officer of NineSigma.

Key Challenges:

1. Healthy & Delicious Food: By leveraging the collective power of retailers, restaurants, schools and other providers, it should be possible to positively influence how food is produced and marketed, to make the processes of food production healthier as well as the food itself. Consider, for example, plant-based proteins that require far fewer natural resources in their production than their animal counterparts. Smart, creative food design can help protect the bio-economy.

2. Circular Economy – Upcycle Food and Its By-Products: Cities play a crucial role in designing-out food waste. Food supply and demand can be better synced, spoilage reduced due to improved storage, and products that are coming up to their best-before date, discounted. Meanwhile, food by-products can be converted into a wide array of valuable products.

3. Smart Packaging & Sustainability: Recycling packaging is not an option anymore, all players engaged in the value chain are completely reinventing how consumers will handle ingredients, pre-cooked food, or interact with the brand differently… And consumers will adopt brands who are taking care of sustainability while offering a true opportunity to enable “smart behaviors”.

While the challenge may seem overwhelming as a whole, focusing on one key piece could bring disproportionate benefits: the world’s great cities. The Ellen MacArthur Foundation estimates that by 2050, around 80% of all food will be consumed in urban conurbations. Today these metropoles tend to represent much of what is negative about the current food system, ultimate examples of the take-make-waste approach we have adopted over time. But by the same token, cities can and should be beacons of change, leading the way in a shift to a circular economy for food, where food ‘waste’ is upcycled and the production of food is centered around regeneration versus degradation of natural systems.

Open Food and Beverage Challenges on NineSights

HEALTH: Leveraging Pea Protein Properties in Beverages

PepsiCo seeks to incorporate pea protein concentrate into low pH beverages. Consumers are looking to peas as a promising protein source – they are rich in proteins which can be isolated to make pea protein concentrates (PPC). The goal of this project is to identify pea protein concentrates that are suitable for usage in low pH systems or to find technologies capable of processing PPC so that they may be used in low pH environments.

INNOVATION JOURNEY: Ohio Soybean Council Innovation Gallery

OSC was founded in 1991 to manage the Soybean Promotion and Research Program—more commonly known as the soybean checkoff—which collects funds from Ohio soybean farmers and invests those funds in ways that benefit the industry. Key activities include investing in soy-based product development and working to bring new soy-based products to market.

PACKAGING: Sustainable Packaging Materials for Fresh or Frozen Ready Meals

Fazer is releasing a new brand of plant-based ready meals by 2020. In an effort to support a circular economy, Fazer would like to use recyclable sustainable materials. They are seeking packaging alternatives using material that is plastic free or a fully recyclable plastic, able to work with low/high moisture content products and provide shelf life stability over a range of 1 week to 3 months.