SWC and grants

• Shared resource between SWC and DC?

• A "bank" of text that can be adapted and inserted into grant applications, i.e. to request financial support for a workshop or two or three or to contribute to core operations for curriculum development. Contact info for individuals willing to look over.

• Submitted grants. Anywhere from actual proposals to a list/table.

  • Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE).
    • http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/nsf14588/nsf14588.htm
    • See "Engaged Student Learning: Design and Development, I & II"
    • Submitted 2014-01-13 by Lorena Barba, Greg Wilson, Paul Wilson, Titus Brown, Katy Huff, Rachel Slaybah (lead), Ethan White, Tracy Teal and Kay Thaney
    • proposal here: https://github.com/swcarpentry/iuse2014
  • Ethan White's list of publicly available grant proposals in the biological sciences could be mined for more examples
    • http://jabberwocky.weecology.org/2012/08/10/a-list-of-publicly-available-grant-proposals-in-the-biological-sciences/

Upcoming/ongoing grant opportunities of potential relevance to SWC, plus who is working up an application.

• NSERC CREATE (Canada) "supports the training of teams of highly qualified students and postdoctoral fellows".

  • SWC could partner with CREATE programs to deliver a specific kind of enhanced training
  • explicit attention must be paid to training outside the discipline's normal technical skills; SWC-type skills could potentially meet that objective
  • "The training initiative should be focused on providing a value-added experience to the university training environment to better prepare research trainees for their future careers in industry, government or academia."
  • "... raise the standard for best practices in research training and development of professional skills"
  • $150K - $300K per annum for up to 6 years; 80% must go to student stipends; remaining 20% can go to various things including "short-term training related to professional skill development"
  • UBC's Statistical Consulting and Research Lab has delivered R/stats/SWC-ish workshops for at least one NSERC CREATE already
  • program has been going on since 2009 and ongoing + new CREATEs are potential SWC partners
    • All competition results

• NIH Research Education Program (R25) ... support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs

  • Recent call: Training Modules to Enhance Data Reproducibility (R25)
  • aimed at "support[ing] creative educational activities with a primary focus on developing courses for skills development, specifically, training modules for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and beginning investigators designed to enhance data reproducibility
  • Letter of intent due 2014-10-24; application due 2014-11-21

• Shuttleworth Foundation Fellowship: "fellowships to individuals to implement their innovative idea for social change. We are most interested in exceptional ideas at the intersection between technology, knowledge and learning, with openness being the key requirement"

  • https://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/applications/
  • Greg Wilson is planning to apply (deadline is end of October 2014)

• Recently announced NIH BD2K awards are examples of activities SWC could partner in in the future:

  • http://bd2k.nih.gov/FY14/Ed/Ed.html#sthash.COUXcDzh.dVEYA5uc.dpbs

• Here are all current NIH BD2K funding opportunities, highlighting some esp. relevant ones

  • http://bd2k.nih.gov/funding_opportunities.html#sthash.26tfrgjq.dpbs
  • Courses for Skills Development in Biomedical Big Data Science (R25) next deadline 2015 April 01
  • Open Educational Resources for Biomedical Big Data (R25) next deadline 2015 April 01