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Opportunity Summary:

The Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) opportunity is a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant program designed to fund research and education projects that depend on meaningful international collaboration. The core idea behind PIRE is that certain scientific and engineering advances cannot be achieved by a single country working alone, either because the expertise, data, facilities, field sites, or real-world conditions needed to answer the research questions are distributed globally, or because the problems themselves are inherently international in scope. Through this program, NSF aims to raise the level of international engagement across the U.S. science and engineering community and, at the same time, prepare researchers and students to work effectively in cross-national teams where different cultures, institutions, and ways of doing science are part of the day-to-day reality.

In this particular competition, NSF narrowed the focus of PIRE to its agency-wide investment area called Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES). That means proposals were expected to center on sustainability-related challenges and to do so in an interdisciplinary way. SEES emphasizes integrated approaches to understanding and responding to environmental, social, and cultural changes tied to population growth and development, as well as the push toward a more sustainable energy future. In practice, this focus encourages projects that combine multiple fields (for example, engineering with environmental science, or computer science with social science and education) to develop solutions and training models that are relevant to sustainability at scale.

PIRE is NSF-wide, meaning it spans essentially all major NSF-supported disciplines and directorates. The listed CFDA areas reflect that breadth, covering engineering, math and physical sciences, geosciences, computer and information science, biological sciences, social and behavioral sciences, education and human resources, polar programs, international science and engineering, cyberinfrastructure, and EPSCoR, among others. The program’s emphasis is not just on producing strong research results, but also on building education and workforce outcomes that create a globally engaged and diverse U.S. science and engineering pipeline. A competitive PIRE project, by design, would show how international partnership is central to both the research plan and the education/training plan, rather than a secondary add-on.

The award instrument is a discretionary NSF grant. For this solicitation, NSF anticipated making around 15 awards with an estimated total program funding level of $15,000,000, and it did not require cost sharing or matching. The opportunity was originally posted July 25, 2011, used a two-stage submission process with a required preliminary proposal due October 19, 2011 (by 5 p.m. local time), and full proposals due May 15, 2012. The solicitation has since been archived, with an archive date of July 22, 2014, so it is no longer open for submission, but it remains a useful reference point for how NSF structured PIRE competitions during that period.

Eligibility was limited in a specific way. Proposals could be submitted only by U.S. academic institutions with Ph.D.-granting programs that awarded doctoral degrees in the 2009 or 2010 academic years in any NSF-supported area. NSF maintained a list of eligible institutions and instructed organizations not appearing on the list to contact PIRE program staff to confirm eligibility. The solicitation also explicitly encouraged institutions that had not previously received PIRE awards to apply, signaling an interest in broadening participation beyond past awardees.

For official guidance and full requirements, the solicitation pointed applicants to NSF Publication 11-564 and provided support contacts, including NSF Grants.gov support for access issues and a PIRE email contact for eligibility questions.

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