Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Directorate for STEM Education (IUSE: EDU)
U.S. National Science Foundation · STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) (47.076)
Posted 20 Oct 2022 · About 4 months left
In plain terms
The US National Science Foundation funds institutions and organisations working on innovative approaches to undergraduate science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. Grants range from 200,000 to 2,000,000 US dollars, applications are unrestricted by entity type but must be US-based, and the deadline is 20 January 2027.
A generated summary of the donor's text; the original wording is below.
Summary
Synopsis of Program:
The fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) hold much promise as sectors of the economy where we can expect to see continuous vigorous growth in the coming decades. STEM job creation is expected to outpace non-STEM job creation significantly, according to the Commerce Department, reflecting the importance of STEM knowledge to the US economy.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) plays a leadership role in developing and implementing efforts to enhance and improve STEM education in the United States. Through the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) initiative, the agency continues to make a substantial commitment to the highest caliber undergraduate STEM education through a Foundation-wide framework of investments. The IUSE: EDU is a core NSF STEM education program that seeks to promote novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for undergraduate students. The program is open to application from all institutions of higher education and associated organizations. NSF places high value on educating students to be leaders and…
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Who can apply
- academia_research
- ngo_cso
- government
- private_company
- individual
- other
Eligibility and conditions
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Applicant types: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"