Project description

Project summary

Table of contents

Cover sheet

There are several major components of the cover sheet of the proposal. The information requested on the Cover Sheet is as follows:

• Title of Proposed Project

The title of the project must be brief, scientifically or technically valid, intelligible to a scientifically or technically literate reader, and suitable for the use in public press.

• Information (including address information).

Each individual’s name and e-mail address must be entered in the boxes provided.

• Previous awards (if available)

The table of contents is an essential part of the project proposal. It should be brief (no more than one page) and contain all parts of the proposal and indication to the corresponding pages. If you are involved in a group project, make sure to discuss the table of contents with all the participants.

The proposal is supposed to contain a summary of the proposed activity suitable for publication, not more than one page in length. It should not be an abstract of the proposal, but rather a self-contained description of the activity that would result if the proposal was funded. The summary should be written in the third person and include a statement of objectives and methods to be employed. It must clearly address in separate statements:

• the intellectual merit of the proposed activity;
• the broader impacts resulting from the proposed activity.

It should be informative to other persons working in the same or related fields and, insofar as possible, understandable to a scientifically or technically literate lay reader.

The Project Description should provide a clear statement of the work to be undertaken and must include:

• objectives for the period of the proposed work and expected significance;
• relation to longer-term goals of the project;
• and relation to the present state of knowledge in the field, to work in progress under other support and to work in progress elsewhere.

The Project Description should outline the general plan of the work, including the broad design of activities to be undertaken, and, where appropriate, provide a clear description of experimental methods and procedures and plans for preservation, documentation, and sharing of data, samples, physical collections, curriculum materials and other related research and education products. It must describe as an integral part of the narrative, the broader impacts resulting from the proposed activities, addressing one or more of the following as appropriate for the project: how the project will integrate research and education by advancing discovery and understanding while at the same time promoting teaching, training, and learning; ways in which the proposed activity will broaden the participation of underrepresented groups (e.g., consider gender, ethnicity, disability, geographic position, etc.); how the project will enhance the infrastructure for research and/or education, such as facilities, instrumentation, networks, and partnerships; how the results of the project will be disseminated broadly to enhance scientific and technological understanding; and potential benefits of the proposed activity to society at large.

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