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Opportunity Summary:

The Catalyzing New International Collaborations program (NSF Publication 11-508) was a National Science Foundation (NSF) discretionary grant opportunity designed to help U.S. researchers and students take part in targeted activities that spark brand-new international research partnerships. The central purpose of the program was not to fund mature, long-standing collaborations, but to provide relatively small, catalytic awards that enable initial engagement, relationship-building, and early-stage coordination with overseas counterparts. In practical terms, the program supported participation in activities meant to launch new cross-border collaborations, helping teams move from informal interest to a concrete, workable international research connection.

NSF positioned this opportunity within the broad "Science and Technology and other Research and Development" activity category, reflecting that proposals could come from many parts of the research enterprise. The opportunity was tied to multiple NSF CFDA numbers spanning engineering; mathematics and physical sciences; geosciences; computer and information science and engineering; biological sciences; social, behavioral, and economic sciences; education and human resources; polar programs; the Office of International Science and Engineering; the Office of Cyberinfrastructure; and the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). That wide set of program alignments signals that NSF intended the collaboration-catalyzing concept to apply across disciplines, including STEM fields and relevant social science and education research areas where international partnership-building could accelerate scientific progress.

In terms of funding scale, NSF anticipated making about 40 awards under this solicitation, with an estimated total program funding level of $2,000,000. Individual awards were relatively modest, with a stated award floor of $10,000 and an award ceiling of $100,000. Those amounts reinforce the program's "catalyst" orientation: the grants were sized to help teams initiate collaboration-building activities (such as early coordination, planning, or participation in international partnership-development efforts) rather than support large multi-year research projects. Cost sharing or matching was required, meaning applicants needed to contribute resources beyond the NSF funds, consistent with a model where institutions and partners also invest in getting the collaboration off the ground.

Eligibility was listed as "unrestricted," meaning it was broadly open to any type of entity, subject to any clarifications that may have been contained in the full solicitation text. The supported participants were explicitly U.S. researchers and students, emphasizing workforce development and the involvement of trainees alongside investigators. The funding instrument was a standard NSF grant.

The solicitation timeline shows that it was originally posted on November 15, 2010, with a full proposal target date of March 1, 2011, followed by an additional target date of September 1, 2011, and indications that March 1 and September 1 would recur annually thereafter. However, the record also states that the opportunity is archived and no longer accepting proposals, with an archive date of December 19, 2011. For those looking for the original details, NSF referenced an additional information link as "NSF Publication 11-508." For technical access issues through Grants.gov, the contact provided was grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov, and NSF also noted support for problems linking to the announcement.

Overall, this program can be understood as a cross-disciplinary NSF mechanism for seeding new international research relationships by covering the kinds of early activities that often prevent collaborations from forming in the first place, using small-to-moderate awards, requiring some cost share, and aiming for broad participation across the NSF research community.

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