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7 October 2024
F.20 Mentorship and Opportunities in STEM with Academic Institutions for Community Success (MOSAICS) Seed Funding – formerly known as the SMD Bridge Program Seed Funding – is an initiative to support partnerships between faculty and students at under-resourced institutions (URIs) to carry out NASA-relevant research. It is expected that proposals will be from U.S. non-R1 institutions. More than 50% of the funding must be for the URI(s) and proposals must include at least one NASA partner team member located at a NASA Center and/or facility. See Section 2 for more information.
ROSES-2024 Amendment 55 extends to 11 October 2024 the cut-off date for proposals to be included in the Winter 2025 review for F.20 MOSAICS Seed Funding, to give more time to those proposers who may be impacted by Hurricane Helene. New text is in bold and deleted text is struck through.
When it is solicited, F.18 Mentorship and Opportunities in STEM with Academic Institutions for Community Success (MOSAICS) Five-Year Collaboration Awards (M5YCA) will solicit proposals for up to five years of funding to support longer-term research and mentoring collaborations between scientists and engineers at NASA Centers or Facilities and faculty at institutions historically underfunded by NASA. Three funding categories are available: Small, Medium, and Large, corresponding up to ~$200,000/year, ~$500,000/year, and ~$1M/year, respectively, including indirect costs.
ROSES-2024 Amendment 50 releases DRAFT text of F.18 M5YCA for community comment. Comments and questions concerning this draft are due by 22 November 2024, either anonymously via this Google Form or via email to hq-smd-bridge@mail.nasa.gov with the subject line "Feedback on ROSES-2024 F.18 DRAFT".
Please direct questions concerning F.18 M5YCA or F.20 MOSAICS Seed Funding to Patricia (Padi) Boyd at hq-smd-bridge@mail.nasa.gov.