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Opportunity Summary:

The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Division of Chemistry, created the International Collaboration in Chemistry (ICC) opportunity to expand and strengthen research partnerships between investigators in the United States and colleagues abroad. The core purpose of the program is to support basic research in chemistry that is intentionally designed as a true bilateral collaboration, where the U.S. team and the foreign partner team each contribute distinct expertise, capabilities, or facilities that make the joint work stronger than either side could accomplish alone. Proposals are required to be written in English and must clearly establish a collaborative research plan between a U.S. investigator and an investigator located in one of the designated partner countries or regions.

The ICC program is built around formal partnerships between NSF Chemistry and a set of foreign funding agencies. The participating partner agencies listed in the announcement include: the Austrian Science Fund (FWF, Austria), the Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP, Brazil), the French National Research Agency (ANR, France), the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF, Israel/U.S.), the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS, Japan), the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF, South Korea), the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR, Luxembourg), the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR, Russia), and the National Science Council (NSC, Taiwan). The practical implication of these partnerships is that a collaboration is expected to be structured so that the U.S. side seeks support through NSF while the foreign collaborator aligns with their corresponding national or regional funding agency, following any coordination rules laid out by those agencies and the NSF solicitation.

From a funding and scale standpoint, the opportunity was a discretionary grant program within the federal category of Science and Technology and other Research and Development, under CFDA 47.049 (Mathematical and Physical Sciences). NSF anticipated making about 20 awards, with an estimated total program budget of about $10,000,000. Individual award sizes were expected to fall between $300,000 (award floor) and $600,000 (award ceiling). The solicitation explicitly stated there was no cost sharing or matching requirement, meaning applicants were not required to provide institutional or third-party funds as a condition of eligibility or competitiveness.

Eligibility to submit on the U.S. side followed NSF’s standard institutional eligibility framework for research grants, with proposals submitted by U.S.-based organizations on behalf of their investigators. Eligible applicant organizations included accredited U.S. universities and colleges (including two-year and four-year institutions such as community colleges), as well as certain U.S. non-profit, non-academic organizations that are tied to education or research activities, such as independent museums, observatories, research laboratories, professional societies, and similar entities. As with most NSF opportunities, proposals are submitted by the institution rather than by individuals acting alone, even though the work is led by a Principal Investigator (PI).

The solicitation also included important PI participation limits designed to prevent duplicate submissions and manage overlap with standard NSF Chemistry programs. U.S. PIs were allowed to submit either an ICC proposal or an unsolicited proposal to the NSF Division of Chemistry during the FY2013/FY2014 submission year, but not both. In addition, the ICC program would not accept proposals from U.S. investigators who already held an individual investigator award from the Division of Chemistry unless the ICC submission was being made as a renewal proposal. For Chemistry grantees who simply wanted to add an international component onto an already funded project, NSF advised contacting the program officer managing the current award to discuss the possibility of a supplemental funding request rather than submitting a new ICC proposal.

In terms of timing and status, the opportunity was originally posted on July 9, 2013, and it used a two-stage submission process with a required preliminary proposal followed by an invited or full proposal stage. The preliminary proposal deadline was September 9, 2013 (due by 5 p.m. local time of the proposer), and the full proposal deadline was November 12, 2013. The listing indicates the opportunity is now archived (NSF 13-573), with an archive date of May 19, 2014, meaning it is no longer an open competition under that specific solicitation number and dates, though similar international collaboration mechanisms may appear in later NSF solicitations.

Finally, the announcement provided basic support guidance for access issues, directing applicants with electronic access problems to Grants.gov support (grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov). Overall, ICC was designed as a structured pathway for U.S. chemistry researchers to build focused, well-integrated international collaborations with specific partner countries, backed by coordinated funding relationships between NSF and counterpart agencies abroad.

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