NSF S&CC Projects

NSF funds a variety of projects in and related to smart and connected communities.

Primary Award Mechanisms:

Integrative Research Grants: full awards of ~$1M-$2.5M for up to four years to support fundamental integrative research that addresses technological and social science dimensions of smart and connected communities and pilots solutions together with communities.
Planning Grants: awards of ~$150K for 1 year to facilitate capacity building and prepare project teams to propose future well-developed IRG proposals.

Other Award Mechanisms:

EAGER: awards for exploratory work on early stage or untested research concepts or approaches with potentially transformative outcomes ("high risk, high payoff")
RAPID: awards for proposals having a severe urgency with regard to availability of, or access to data, facilities or specialized equipment, including quick-response research on natural or anthropogenic disasters and similar unanticipated events
Other: awards such as workshops, conferences, etc.

For details about these award types, please refer to the S&CC solicitation.

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Community First: A Smart and Connected Communities Virtual Organization
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2024
Lead PI: Payman Arabshahi
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: University of Washington
Crowd+AI Tools to Map, Analyze, and Visualize Sidewalk Accessibility for Inclusive Cities
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2025
Lead PI: Jon Froehlich
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: University of Washington
Innovations for Community-Held Infrastructure
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2024
Lead PI: Kurtis Heimerl
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: University of Washington
MAPPING INSTABILITY: Building an Intelligent Community Agent Platform for Understanding the Impact of Large Scale Crisis on Small Town Communities
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Narges Mahyar
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Multimodal Data Analytics and Integration for Effective COVID-19, Pandemics and Compound Disaster Response and Management
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2024
Lead PI: Shu-Ching Chen
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: University of Missouri-Kansas City
Online Role-Playing Games for Improving Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration in Concurrent Disaster Response Planning
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Divya Chandrasekhar
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: University of Utah
SafeGuard—Detecting and Minimizing Wandering Incidents of Children and Adults with Disabilities
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2024
Lead PI: Michelle Ballan
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: SUNY at Stony Brook
SmartCurb: Building Smart Urban Curb Environments
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Yan Wang
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: University of Florida
CrossGuard: Enhancing Pedestrian Experience at Intersections
10/01/2020 – 09/30/2024
Lead PI: Shubham Jain
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: SUNY at Stony Brook
Connecting Communities through Smart Tools and Sensors to Deliver Enhanced Ecosystem Services and Economic Returns from Regenerative Farmland Management
03/15/2021 – 02/28/2023
Lead PI: Suzanne Russo
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: Resources for the Future
Privacy and Fairness in Planning when using Third-Party, Heterogeneous Data Sources
01/15/2021 – 12/31/2022
Lead PI: Adam Aviv
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: George Washington University
Broadband Research Workshop and Report 2020
09/01/2020 – 09/30/2021
Lead PI: Henning Schulzrinne
Award Type: Other
Affiliation: Columbia University
Addressing Community Challenges Through University-Government Collaboration
06/01/2020 – 05/31/2021
Lead PI: Jay Nath
Award Type: EAGER
Affiliation: CITY INNOVATE INC
NSF Workshop on State-of-the-Art and Challenges in Resilience
10/01/2018 – 09/30/2019
Lead PI: Saurabh Bagchi
Award Type: Other
Affiliation: Purdue University
Smart and Connected Communities- Perspectives for Border Communities
10/01/2018 – 09/30/2020
Lead PI: Miroslav Krstic
Award Type:
Affiliation: University of California-San Diego
Smart and Connected Communities - 2019 PI Meeting
10/01/2018 – 04/30/2020
Lead PI: Radha Poovendran
Award Type: Other
Affiliation: University of Washington
2018 NSF Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC) Program Aspiring PI Workshop
09/01/2018 – 08/31/2019
Lead PI: Baek-Young Choi
Award Type: Other
Affiliation: University of Missouri-Kansas City
Second Trans-Atlantic Symposium on Information and Communication Technology (ICT),To Be Held at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, in Washington DC, June 18-19, 2018.
09/01/2018 – 08/31/2019
Lead PI: Anne Bowser
Award Type: Other
Affiliation: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Empowering Smart and Connecticut Communities through Programmable Community Microgrids
09/01/2018 – 04/30/2020
Lead PI: Peng Zhang
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: University of Connecticut
Scoping an NSF Prize Challenge For Smart and Connected Communities
07/01/2018 – 12/31/2019
Lead PI: Benjamin Levine
Award Type: EAGER
Affiliation: U.S. Department of Transportation
NSF PI Meeting - Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC)
04/01/2018 – 03/31/2019
Lead PI: Radha Poovendran
Award Type: Other
Affiliation: University of Washington
2018 and 2019 US Ignite Application Summits - Bridging Academic Research and Community Stakeholders for Increased Impact
02/01/2018 – 01/31/2020
Lead PI: Joseph Kochan
Award Type: Other
Affiliation: National Spectrum Consoritum
Social Complexity, Fragmented Decisionmaking, and the Politics of Smart Cities
09/08/2017 – 02/29/2020
Lead PI: Susan Sterett
Award Type: Other
Affiliation: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Visioning for Effective Community/University/Industry Collaboration Models
09/01/2017 – 08/31/2018
Lead PI: Azer Bestavros
Award Type: Other
Affiliation: Trustees of Boston University