Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure

This program aims to prepare and grow the national scientific research workforce for creating, utilizing, and supporting advanced cyberinfrastructure to enable and transform fundamental science and engineering research and education. The goals are to ensure broad adoption of cyberinfrastructure tools and methods by the research community and integrate advanced skills in cyberinfrastructure into undergraduate and graduate educational materials. Proposals may target one or both of these goals and should address emerging needs and unresolved bottlenecks in science and engineering research workforce development. Key aspects of this opportunity include: • Innovative, scalable training, education, and curriculum development to address community needs • Broadening participation from underrepresented groups • Encouraging collaboration between cyberinfrastructure and science and engineering domain disciplines • Providing resources widely available to and usable by the research community • Two project classes: Pilot Projects (up to $300,000, 2 years) and Implementation Projects (up to $500,000 or $1,000,000, 4 years)