Scientific Meetings for Creating Interdisciplinary Research Teams in Basic Behavioral and Social Science Research (R13) | Apply Online

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The Scientific Meetings for Creating Interdisciplinary Research Teams in Basic Behavioral and Social Science Research (R13) funding opportunity (RFA-CA-10-017) is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Conference Grant that supports scientific meetings designed to build and strengthen interdisciplinary research teams working in basic behavioral and social science research (b BSSR). The central idea is that well-structured conferences, workshops, and similar developmental activities can do more than just share findings; they can actively create the shared language, concepts, and working relationships needed for researchers from different fields to collaborate effectively and push foundational b BSSR forward in ways that matter for the nation’s health and well-being.

The FOA specifically targets meetings that increase a team’s capacity to accelerate, expand, and/or strengthen fundamental knowledge in basic behavioral and social science research. Proposed teams must include at least one investigator grounded in the basic social and/or behavioral sciences, and they must also include investigators from at least one additional discipline, reflecting NIH’s emphasis on truly cross-disciplinary work rather than single-field gatherings. The expectation is that applicants will use the meeting structure to move beyond parallel play across disciplines and instead foster genuine integration, where participants develop common terminology, align assumptions, and agree on compatible approaches that allow them to tackle shared b BSSR questions together.

Applicants are encouraged to organize meetings around one of two broad aims. The first is to accelerate or broaden a particular b BSSR research domain by integrating disparate approaches from basic behavioral and social science research and allied disciplines, essentially bringing different toolkits together to open new directions or solve persistent conceptual problems. The second is to raise the sophistication of theory, methods, and analytic strategies used in b BSSR, for example by introducing advanced measurement, modeling, experimental design, or data integration practices from other fields and adapting them to core b BSSR questions. In both cases, the meetings are meant to be developmental and team-forming, not just informational, with outcomes that position participants to pursue stronger interdisciplinary research after the conference ends.

The award uses the NIH R13 mechanism, which is tailored for conferences and scientific meetings rather than traditional research project work. Applicants may request support for multiple meetings over a period of up to two years, allowing for a sequence of workshops or convenings that progressively build collaboration and produce more durable interdisciplinary teams and agendas. This structure fits the reality that meaningful team science often requires repeated interaction to align frameworks, refine shared questions, and develop practical plans for future joint studies.

For funding, NIH’s Basic Behavioral and Social Science Opportunity Network (OppNet) planned to commit about $325,000 in total costs (including both direct costs and facilities and administrative costs) in fiscal year 2011, with an anticipated four to six new awards. The opportunity was posted on August 27, 2010, with an application closing date of December 14, 2010, and an archive date of January 14, 2011.

Eligibility is broad and includes many organization types that commonly host or organize scientific meetings. Eligible applicants include public and private institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations (including those with and without 501(c)(3) status, other than institutions of higher education), for-profit organizations (other than small businesses are explicitly listed, though small businesses are also eligible), and multiple levels of government such as state, county, city/township, special district governments, independent school districts, public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, and tribal governments and tribal organizations (including federally recognized tribal governments). The eligibility information also notes inclusion of historically underserved and mission-specific institutions and groups, such as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-serving institutions, tribally controlled colleges and universities (TCCUs), Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions, as well as faith-based or community-based organizations, regional organizations, U.S. territories or possessions, and even non-U.S. entities (foreign organizations). No cost-sharing or matching requirement is listed, which can reduce barriers for organizers focused on convening early-stage interdisciplinary teams.

The FOA is associated with a wide set of CFDA numbers spanning many health-related research areas, signaling that the meeting topics can connect b BSSR to numerous NIH mission areas and disease or population domains. Even though the mechanism is a conference grant, the intended impact is long-term: building interdisciplinary teams and shared frameworks that can later generate stronger basic behavioral and social science research programs, methods, and collaborations relevant across health and well-being priorities.

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