NSF Program: CREATIV

Summary

CREATIV (Creative Research Awards for Transformative Interdisciplinary Ventures)

Full Description

Per NSF Director Subra Suresh, the "INSPIRE program is aimed to encourage cross disciplinary science.  INSPIRE will help to break down any disciplinary barriers that may exist within NSF and encourage its program managers to use new tools, collaboration modes and techiniques in the merit-review process to  widen the pool of prospective discoveries that may be hidden from or circumvented by traditional means." 

CREATIV is the first grant award mechanism under INSPIRE.  The Goals of the CREATIV grant mechanism are as follows:

• Create new interdisciplinary opportunities that are not perceived to exist presently.
• Attract unusually creative high-risk/high reward interdisciplinary proposals.
• Provide substanital funding, not limited to the exploratory stage of the pursuit of novel ideas.
• Designate no favored topics: be open to all NSF-supported areas of science, engineering, and education research.

Submission window:  Proposals may be submitted at any time between December 1, 2011 and June 15, 2012.