Opportunity Information: Apply for 22 603
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Mid-Career Advancement (MCA) program is a cross-directorate grant opportunity designed to help established scientists and engineers at the mid-career stage make a meaningful step-change in their research program and overall career trajectory. It is aimed at a common bottleneck in academic and research careers: mid-career faculty and researchers often reach a point where they need time and space to push their work in new directions, build new collaborations, or gain new technical or conceptual skills, but heavy teaching, service, administration, and other professional demands reduce the time available to do that. MCA funding is intended to create protected time and provide resources that allow a mid-career investigator to re-accelerate their research creativity and productivity in ways that would be difficult to achieve under normal workload conditions.
A central feature of MCA is support for a synergistic and mutually beneficial partnership, typically with a collaborator or host at an institution other than the PI's home institution. The partnership is meant to be more than a routine collaboration: it should enable the PI to gain new skills, access different expertise, adopt cutting-edge methods, or reposition their research agenda toward new questions or approaches. NSF encourages, but does not require, partnerships that extend beyond the PI's own subdiscipline or discipline, with the goal of strengthening interdisciplinary networks and promoting convergence across fields. Projects are especially welcomed when they offer new perspectives on existing problems or identify new problems that become tractable because of methods, tools, or expertise drawn from another area.
Competitiveness in MCA hinges on clearly demonstrating why this particular moment in the PI's career and research program calls for targeted support, and why the combination of protected time, mentorship and partnership structure, and resources will lead to a substantial enhancement in research and career direction. In practical terms, a strong proposal needs to make a convincing case that the expected advancement is not simply incremental and is unlikely to happen without MCA support. The program is also positioned as a mechanism to reduce workload inequities that can disproportionately affect certain groups, with an explicit goal of enabling a more diverse scientific workforce at senior academic ranks, including more women, persons with disabilities, and individuals from groups that have been underrepresented in STEM.
MCA is described as the only NSF cross-directorate program specifically focused on providing protected time and resources to mid-career scientists and engineers. Participating NSF units span multiple directorates, including Biological Sciences (BIO), Geosciences (GEO), Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE), and Education and Human Resources (EHR). Because proposals are reviewed within appropriate disciplinary programs, applicants are encouraged to identify the best-fit NSF program for their topic and to discuss the proposed idea with a relevant NSF Program Officer in advance, using the MCA contact information NSF provides. Investigators from EPSCoR jurisdictions are especially encouraged to apply, reflecting NSF's interest in broadening participation geographically and institutionally as well as demographically.
From the opportunity record, the funding instrument is a grant and the activity category is science and technology and other research and development. The opportunity number is NSF 22-603, with CFDA numbers listed as 47.050, 47.074, 47.075, 47.076, 47.083, and 47.084. The original closing date shown is March 1, 2023, and NSF anticipated making about 45 awards. An award ceiling is not specified in the provided listing. Eligibility is summarized as "Others" with additional restrictions referenced in the opportunity's additional eligibility information, which is where the program defines what qualifies as mid-career and any institutional or applicant-type constraints.Apply for 22 603
- The National Science Foundation in the science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Mid-Career Advancement" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 47.050, 47.074, 47.075, 47.076, 47.083, 47.084.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jun 11, 2022.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Mar 01, 2023. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 45 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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