Greetings,

 

The NSF has announced the Trailblazer Engineering Impact Award (TRAILBLAZER) program, which will support engineers and scientists with excellent records of innovation and creativity to pursue new research directions. More information on the award can be found in the synopsis below:

 

NSF Trailblazer Engineering Impact Award (TRAILBLAZER) 

Sponsor Concept Outline Deadline (required): November 9, 2023

OSP Deadline: February 8, 2024. Departments or areas may require additional time for proposal review and submission. Please discuss a timeline with your grants administrator.

Sponsor Full Proposal Deadline: February 15, 2024

Eligibility: PI must hold a tenured or tenure-eligible faculty appointment at the Associate or Full Professor rank at an Engineering School or College and/or have earned an Engineering Doctorate degree.

Award Amount: Up to $3,000,000 over three years

 

The NSF TRAILBLAZER program supports individual innovative and creative engineers to conduct research in emerging engineering frontiers, especially those with the potential to address major societal challenges, advance US global leadership, and catalyze the convergence of engineering and science domains. The TRAILBLAZER program emphasizes the qualities of the investigator that illustrate they can conceive of and support transformative research projects and make major contributions toward solving significant research problems. The TRAILBLAZER proposal does not require a detailed experimental plan or preliminary data. Instead, review of the proposal will focus on the investigator’s history of being a creative and innovative researcher and the suitability of the proposed project for the TRAILBLAZER program. All funded TRAILBLAZER projects will form an NSF TRAILBLAZER cohort and investigators will attend an annual PI meeting and may be invited to other activities.

 

The Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities (EFMA) Office will host an informational webinar in October 2023 to discuss the TRAILBLAZER program and answer questions about the FY 2024 solicitation. Details on timing and how to join this webinar will be posted on the Directorate for Engineering and EFMA Websites.

 

Prospective PIs interested in submitting a TRAILBLAZER proposal must contact EFMA via the Program Suitability and Proposal Concept Tool (ProSPCT) webform at https://suitability.nsf.gov/s/ by November 9th, 2023.

 

Questions from FAS or SEAS faculty about this opportunity may be directed to research_development@fas.harvard.edu. 
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