Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES)
Funding Agency:
- National Science Foundation
NSF INCLUDES is a comprehensive, national initiative to enhance U.S. leadership in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) discovery and innovation, focused on NSF's commitment to ensuring accessibility and inclusivity in STEM fields, as communicated in the NSF Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years (FY) 2022 - 2026. The vision of NSF INCLUDES is to catalyze the STEM enterprise to work collaboratively for inclusive change, resulting in a STEM workforce that reflects the diversity of the Nation's population. More specifically, NSF INCLUDES seeks to motivate and accelerate collaborative infrastructure building to advance equity and sustain systemic change to broaden participation in STEM fields at scale. Significant advancement in the inclusion of groups that have historically been excluded from or under-served in STEM will result in a new generation of STEM talent and leadership to secure the Nation's future and long-term economic competitiveness.
With this solicitation, NSF offers support for five types of projects that connect and contribute to the National Network: (1) Design and Development Launch Pilots, (2) Collaborative Change Consortia, (3) Alliances, (4) Network Connectors, and (5) Conferences. The NSF INCLUDES National Network is a multifaceted collaboration of agencies, organizations, and individuals working collectively to broaden participation in STEM. The NSF INCLUDES National Network serves as a testbed for designing, implementing, studying, refining, and scaling collaborative change models and is composed of:
- NSF INCLUDES funded projects
- Other NSF funded projects
- Subcommittee on Federal Coordination in STEM Education (FC-STEM) agencies
- Scholars engaged in broadening participation research and evaluation, and
- Organizations that support the development of talent from all sectors of society to build an inclusive STEM workforce.
All NSF INCLUDES funded projects must operationalize five design elements of collaborative infrastructure - (1) shared vision, (2) partnerships, (3) goals and metrics, (4) leadership and communication, and (5) expansion, sustainability, and scale - to create systemic change that will lead to the substantially broadened participation of individuals from historically excluded and undeserved groups in STEM.
Standard Grant or Continuing Grant or Cooperative Agreement
$5,500,000
October 25, 2022; Fourth Tuesday in October, Annually Thereafter: Network Connectors
October 25, 2022, Fourth Tuesday in October, Every Other Year Thereafter: Design and Development Launch Pilots and Collaborative Change Consortia
October 24, 2023, Fourth Tuesday in October, Every Other Year Thereafter: Alliances
General inquiries may be addressed to: telephone: (703) 292-2315, email: nsfincludes@nsf.gov