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Climate Change Education (CCE): Climate Change Education Partnership (CCEP) Program, Phase 1 (CCEP-I) NSF 10-542

Internal Competition Completed

Principal Investigators Selected:

Ram Prasad, Information and Decision Sciences

Program Summary

The Climate Change Education Partnership (CCEP) program seeks to establish a coordinated national network of regionally- or thematically-based partnerships devoted to increasing the adoption of effective, high quality educational programs and resources related to the science of climate change and its impacts. Each CCEP is required to be of a large enough scale that they will have catalytic or transformative impact that cannot be achieved through other core NSF program awards. The CCEP program is one facet of a larger NSF collection of awards related to Climate Change Education (CCE) that has two goals:

preparing a new generation of climate scientists, engineers, and technicians equipped to provide innovative and creative approaches to understanding global climate change and to mitigate its impact; and,
preparing today's U.S. citizens to understand global climate change and its implications in ways that can lead to informed, evidence-based responses and solutions.

Each CCEP must include representation from at least each of the following communities: climate scientists, experts in the learning sciences, and practitioners from within formal or informal education venues. This solicitation seeks proposals for development of Phase I Partnerships (CCEP-I). CCEP-I grantees will receive up to 2 years of funding to support synthesis, network-building, and strategic planning activities leading toward potential Phase II Partnerships (CCEP-II). Each CCEP-I awardee is expected to:

conduct an inventory of existing climate change education resources and identify educational needs and opportunities relevant to their particular region or theme;
identify key players from relevant stakeholder communities and initiate network development;
convene community workshops and other community-building activities that lead toward development of a comprehensive climate change education strategic plan for that Partnership;
and,
begin to serve as a test-bed for development, customization and scaling up of standards-based instructional materials, professional development and training models, and other appropriate activities tailored to the Partnership's goals.

Awards: For Phase I Partnerships, awards are expected to be between $750,000 and $1,000,000 total for two years.

Additional Information
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10542/nsf10542.htm

Deadlines

UIC Internal Letter of Intent (mandatory)	March 9, 2010
UIC Internal Competition	TBD
Sponsor Letter of Intent (required)	April 23, 2010
Sponsor Full Proposals	May 24, 2010

Letter of Intent Instructions

By submitting this form, applicant attests that s/he has read and meets the sponsor's eligibility criteria for this program.
OVCR may reserve submission slots for previously submitted but unfunded proposals that received highly competitive ratings from the external sponsor. These will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis by the Vice Chancellor. For consideration, scanned copies of your complete reviews (not just summary) must be included with LOI.
LOI form: http://tigger.uic.edu/depts/ovcr/research/funding/forms/0600.doc.

Depending upon the number of LOIs submitted, OVCR might be required to facilitate an internal peer review process to select UIC’s submission(s) to this program. White paper instructions will be issued to those submitting LOIs, if necessary.

Please contact Tony Halford at ahalford@uic.edu or 312-996-7036 with any questions.

If an authorized principal investigator is not listed above, please consider the limited competition still open. Contact RDS@uic.edu for further information.