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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Climate and Environmental Resilience
Common SENSES (Standards for ENacting Sensor networks for an Equitable Society) : Community-Led, Science-Driven Climate Resilience in Boston, MA
10/01/2022 – 09/30/2025
Lead PI: Daniel O'Brien
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: Northeastern University
A data-driven approach to designing a community-focused indoor heat emergency alert system for vulnerable residents (CommHEAT)
01/01/2023 – 12/31/2025
Lead PI: Ulrike Passe
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: Iowa State University
Preparing for Future Pandemics: Subway Crowd Management to Minimize Airborne Transmission of Respiratory Viruses (Way-CARE)
01/01/2023 – 12/31/2026
Lead PI: Xuan Sharon Di
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: Columbia University
Designing Smart, Sustainable Risk Reduction in Hazard-Prone Communities: Modeling Risk Across Scales of Time and Space
10/01/2022 – 09/30/2025
Lead PI: Kenichi Soga
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: University of California-Berkeley
Enabling Smart Cities in Coastal Regions of Environmental and Industrial Change: Building Adaptive Capacity through Sociotechnical Networks on the Texas Gulf Coast
10/01/2022 – 09/30/2026
Lead PI: Michelle Hummel
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: University of Texas at Arlington
Trust Formation and Risk Communication in Underserved Communities during Compound Hazard Events through Online and Offline Social Networks (TRUCHE)
10/01/2022 – 09/30/2023
Lead PI: Arif Mohaimin Sadri
Award Type: Planning Grant
Planning for Resilience and Equity through Accessible Community Technology: Developing a Community-Led Planning Tool for Climate Readiness
01/01/2022 – 12/31/2022
Lead PI: Christina Rosan
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: Temple University
Connecting communities with real-time data collection and downscaled climate risk models to improve water quality and sustain salt marshes in the Buzzards Bay Watershed
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Christopher Neill
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: Woodwell Climate Research Center, Inc.
Development of Resilience Roadmap for Rio Grande Valley
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Ali Nejat
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: Texas Tech University
Enhancing Community Engagement in Flood Mitigation Using Integrated Hydrodynamic Modeling and Multi-Scale Socio-Economic Risk Assessment
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Emad Habib
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Human-AI Teaming for Flood Evacuation Decision Making
10/01/2021 – 09/29/2023
Lead PI: Vidya Samadi
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: Clemson University
Implementing an integrated, wireless monitoring network to enhance decision making in communities impacted by environmental and industrial change
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Michelle Hummel
Affiliation: University of Texas at Arlington
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
Tapping the Potential: Contribution of Non-Expert Citizens to Expediting the Functional Recovery of Civil Infrastructures Damaged by Extreme Events
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Behrouz Shafei
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: Iowa State University
Integrating Information Flows and Supporting Communities as Decision-Makers in Response to Acute and Chronic Stressors
09/01/2020 – 08/31/2023
Lead PI: Katherine Lieberknecht
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin
Leveraging Smart Technologies and Managing Community Resilience through Networked Communities and Cross-Sector Partnerships
09/01/2020 – 08/31/2023
Lead PI: Yue Ge
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees
Reducing the Vulnerability of Disadvantaged Communities to the Impacts of Cascading Hazards under a Changing Climate
09/01/2020 – 08/31/2022
Lead PI: Farshid Vahedifard
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: Mississippi State University
Scalable Modeling and Adaptive Real-time Trust-based Communication (SMARTc) System for Roadway Inundations in Flood-Prone Communities
09/01/2020 – 08/31/2023
Lead PI: Khan Iftekharuddin
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: Old Dominion University Research Foundation
Community-Based Automated Information for Urban Flooding
10/01/2018 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Mikhail Chester
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: Arizona State University
Landslide Risk Management in Remote Communities: Integrating Geoscience, Data Science, and Social Science in Local Context
10/01/2018 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Robert Lempert
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: Rand Corporation