07/12/2024 Edition 133

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NIH Strategies for Assessing Efforts in Preparing NIH Institutional Training Grants: Insights from FPD, NIH Biomedical Research Workforce, and NTGCOP, will bring together experts from the Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP), the NIH Biomedical Research Workforce, and the National Training Grant Community of Practice (NTGCOP).

• Date: Wednesday, July 31^st
• Time: 3:00pm – 4:00pm Eastern Time
• Register via Zoom: https://nas-sec.zoomgov.com/meeting/register/vJItdu2vrjkrHOVFn4RmbaAWUKXByem-HRU#/registration

Join NIH for an informative panel discussion featuring representatives from the FDP, the NIH Biomedical Research Workforce, and the NTGCOP. This session will shed light on the FDP’s role in reducing the administrative burden of federally sponsored research and the NTGCOP’s role in discussing best practices, sharing resources, and making recommendations to NIH on behalf of the training grant community.

This session will specifically address the NIH’s upcoming modifications to institutional training grant applications, effective for proposals due on or after January 25, 2025. These changes include updates to the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Data Tables aimed at minimizing the administrative burden on researchers, as well as other updates.

Participants will explore potential collaborative opportunities among the three entities to evaluate burden reduction and incorporate faculty feedback for ongoing enhancements.

USDA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative - Education and Workforce Development, USDA-NIFA-AFRI-010693. CFDA # 10.310. Range of Awards: $22,000 - $750,000. Matching is required. Applications Due: 12/5/2024.

The Agriculture and Food Research Initiative - Education and Workforce Development (EWD) focuses on developing the next generation of research, education, and extension professionals in the food and agricultural sciences. The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) requests applications for the AFRI’s Education and Workforce Development program areas to support:

1. professional development opportunities for K-14 educational professionals;
2. non-formal education that cultivates food and agricultural interest in youth;
3. workforce training at community, junior, and technical colleges;
4. training of undergraduate students in research and extension;
5. fellowships for predoctoral candidates and postdoctoral scholars.

USDA-FFAR Innovation Challenge: "Nourishing Next Generation Agrifood Breakthroughs". Range of Awards: $350,000 - $500,000. Applications Due: 07/29/2024.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) announce a challenge to drive innovations at the Intersection of Nutrition, Health, and Climate-Smart Agriculture to Advance Justice, Equity, and Opportunity to address the societal challenge of Nutrition Security. The challenge will fund early-career scientists to lead interdisciplinary teams to conduct innovative high-risk, high-reward projects. The challenge seeks to identify and support teams who demonstrate strong potential to be sources of disruptive ideas and energy in agricultural science. This opportunity will foster the development of transdisciplinary teams to pursue unconventional ideas that have the potential to produce major breakthroughs for nutrition security as it relates to human health, climate change, and social equity. Successful applicants will propose a compelling vision of the significant breakthroughs in real-world nutrition security their project will enable and will convincingly articulate why their team is poised to bring about these major leaps forward.

This Innovation Challenge seeks to fund research projects and teams that will, in accordance with USDA’s S&RS, drive U.S. agricultural science successfully and cooperatively forward into the next generation of sustainable, resilient, and healthy food systems. With a focus on the next generation of research, this opportunity emphasizes providing resources to support highly creative and highly promising early-career researchers.

NEH Public Humanities Projects, 20240814-BP-BR-GE-GG-GI. Maximum Award: Planning $60,000, Implementation $400,000 (+$100,000 for Positions in the Public Humanities, Chairs Special Awards $1,000,000. Period of performance is Planning up to 24 months and Implementation 12 to 48 months. Application Deadline: 08/14/2024

The Public Humanities Projects program supports projects that bring the ideas of the humanities to life for general audiences through public programming. Projects must engage humanities scholarship to analyze significant themes in disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art history. Awards support projects that are intended to reach broad and diverse public audiences in non-classroom settings in the United States. Projects should engage with ideas that are accessible to the general public and employ appealing interpretive formats.

Public Humanities Projects supports projects in three categories (Exhibitions, Historic Places, and Humanities Discussions), and at two funding levels (Planning and Implementation). Proposed projects may include complementary components: for example, a museum exhibition might be accompanied by a website or mobile app.

Projects may be international, national, regional, or local in focus and should reach a broad public audience. We welcome projects tailored to particular groups, such as families, youth (including K-12 students in informal educational settings), underserved communities, and veterans.