Broadening participation in through mentoring and collaboration.

Applications to all EPSCoR programs can include requests for federally-negotiated institutional F&A/indirect costs. Maximum budget request amounts indicated apply to direct costs. F&A costs can be added to these direct cost maximums.

Only one application per investigator per year is allowed.

KY NSF EPSCoR requires the use of standardized template forms for all sections of submitted proposals. You can download the URE templates on this page.

Proposals should be submitted to jeff.mossey@uky.edu as a PDF file that merges all the application documents within a single file no larger than 25MB. A complete proposal for funding includes a cover sheet, project summary, project description, a Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) training plan, documentation of current and pending support, PI’s biosketch and proposed participants’ resumes, a projected budget and budget justification.

All KY NSF EPSCoR awardees and funded participants are obligated to complete a Seed Funding Annual Awards Outcomes Report available on our website http://kynsfepscor.uky.edu/reporting/

Each institution that applies for financial assistance from KY NSF EPSCoR must have a formal institutional plan to provide appropriate training and oversight in the responsible and ethical conduct of research to undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers participating in the proposed research project. KY NSF EPSCoR must receive verification and notification that participants on supported project have received appropriate training consistent with their established institutional policies.

Restrictions apply. Foreign travel cannot be proposed. Requests for computers cannot be proposed.

Any proposal submitted to KY NSF EPSCoR and declined for funding can be modified and resubmitted during the next program cycle but if declined more than once, should not be submitted again.

Please be advised that if awarded, a certification of completion of Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) training for all of the aforementioned participants, consistent with the sub-awarded institution’s policies, will need to be provided to KY NSF EPSCoR before a subcontracted award can be fully executed.