NCRR Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) (R25) | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The NCRR Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) (R25) opportunity, listed as Funding Opportunity Number PAR-10-206, is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant program designed to strengthen science and health education for children in PreK-12 while also improving how well the broader public understands modern health science. The core idea is to support projects that do more than deliver basic science lessons; SEPA is aimed at building and testing innovative research education programs that expand research career awareness and opportunities for young learners and connect communities to the kinds of clinical and basic research advances that NIH helps fund. In practice, that means proposals are expected to translate real biomedical research into meaningful, age-appropriate learning experiences and outreach that can spark long-term interest in health and science pathways.

A central feature of this program is partnership. SEPA specifically encourages dynamic collaborations between biomedical and clinical researchers and PreK-12 teachers, schools, and other organizations that support education or community engagement. The intent is to bridge the gap between research institutions and classrooms or informal learning environments by having working scientists and educators jointly develop, deliver, and evaluate programming. Projects can involve schools directly, but the announcement also highlights informal science education (ISE) and media-based approaches, reflecting an interest in reaching students and families outside traditional classroom settings through museums, science centers, community programs, public outreach, and educational media.

The announcement places particular emphasis on projects that fill gaps where existing materials and programs are weak or missing. Applications are given added importance when they target PreK-12 and/or informal science education or media topics that are not already covered well by standard curricula or common community and ISE/media activities. In other words, applicants are encouraged to identify underserved content areas, emerging science topics, or populations and communities not well reached by typical STEM programs, and then propose new approaches that can be evaluated for effectiveness.

Funding is provided through the NIH Research Education (R25) grant mechanism, which is commonly used to support education and research training-related activities rather than traditional hypothesis-driven research projects. For this SEPA solicitation, NCRR planned to make approximately 3 million dollars available per year and anticipated funding about 10 new awards per year during fiscal years 2011 through 2013. The listed award ceiling is 250,000 dollars, and the opportunity explicitly states that cost sharing or matching is not required, which can make participation more feasible for schools, nonprofits, and smaller institutions.

Eligibility is broad and includes many types of organizations that might be positioned to build effective researcher-educator-community partnerships. Eligible applicants include public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private higher education institutions, independent school districts, nonprofits (both with and without 501(c)(3) status, as specified), and various local government entities such as city or township governments, county governments, and special district governments. The eligibility list also includes Native American tribal governments (both federally recognized and other than federally recognized, as specified), tribal organizations, and tribally controlled colleges and universities. In addition, the opportunity notes other eligible applicants such as Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), faith-based and community-based organizations, U.S. territories or possessions, and eligible agencies of the federal government. This wide eligibility reflects the program goal of reaching diverse communities and supporting multiple pathways for delivering science education and engagement.

Key administrative details include a posted date of May 24, 2010, and a closing date of June 22, 2012, with the opportunity archived on July 23, 2012. The program falls under the education and health funding activity category and is associated with CFDA numbers 93.351 (Research Infrastructure Programs) and 93.389 (National Center for Research Resources). The sponsoring agency is NIH, specifically the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), and the full announcement was hosted through the NIH grants guide page referenced in the additional information link. For technical issues accessing the announcement, the contact listed is the NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER) webmaster.

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