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Shrink Smart program assists Iowa’s Shrinking Towns
A handful of Iowa communities and a group of Iowa State University researchers are trying to demonstrate that less can, in fact, be more, and small can, in fact, be vibrant. If you’re smart about it. In an outgrowth of community surveys begun a quarter…
International Workshop Agreement (IWA)
Hosted by the Standardization Administration of the People’s Republic of China (SAC), the workshop will be held virtually, on March 14-16, 2022, and June 22-24, 2022. The two sessions will be complemented by additional online correspondence and…
Civic Innovation Challenge
The Civic Innovation Challenge is a multi-agency, federal government research and action competition that aims to fund ready-to-implement, research-based pilot projects that have the potential for scalable, sustainable, and transferable impact on…
NSF's Smart & Connected Communities Effort
The NSF S&CC program, started in 2016, supports foundational research to solve complex challenges faced by communities in the 21st century. It focuses on fostering deep collaborations between researchers, local governments, industry, and community…
NSF's 2022 S&CC PI Meeting
The 2022 National Science Foundation Smart & Connected Communities Principal Investigators' Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, October 11, 2022 and Wednesday, October 12, 2022 in Arlington, Virginia.