NSF Replaces SGER Grants With Two New Grant Mechanisms

Posted on November 28, 2008 by | 1 Comment

Of interest:

The updated NSF Grants Policy Guide (GPG) describes two new grant programs that will, collectively, replace the old Small Grants for Exploratory Research (SGER) funding mechanism. Effective January 5, 2009, grants for Rapid Response Research (RAPID) and Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) will take the place of the old SGERs. The RAPID funding mechanism is used for proposals having a severe urgency with regard to availability of, or access to data, facilities or specialized equipment, including quick-response research on natural or anthropogenic disasters and similar unanticipated events. The EAGER funding mechanism may be used to support exploratory work in its early stages on untested, but potentially transformative, research ideas or approaches.

Anybody hear anything about this? Implications for types of projects, distribution across SBE?

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One response to “NSF Replaces SGER Grants With Two New Grant Mechanisms”

  1. nearlynothingbutnovels | January 17, 2009 at 5:40 pm |

    I heard the head of the NSF Chemistry division discuss this last spring over a group lunch, but he didn’t add the details about the relationship to disasters stated above. Also, it seems that the bar has been set higher, or been defined in a more restrictive way than it used to be, for small, exploratory grants.