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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Improving Service Delivery for the Homeless with Analytics and Process Modeling - Community Engagement and Capacity Building
10/01/2020 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Monica Garfield
Award Type: Planning Grant, Underserved Community
Affiliation: Bentley University
Low-cost Smart Cities: Designing Affordable Smart Cities for All Communities
10/01/2020 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Corey Baker
Award Type: Planning Grant, Underserved Community
Affiliation: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
Making Micromobility Smarter and Safer
10/01/2020 – 09/30/2024
Lead PI: Clinton Andrews
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: Rutgers University
Mobility for all - Harnessing Emerging Transit Solutions for Underserved Communities
10/01/2020 – 09/30/2024
Lead PI: Abhishek Dubey
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: Institute for Software Integrated Systems, Vanderbilt University
Pilot Study and Workshop For Enhancing Rural-to-Urban Disaster Resilience by Integrating Social, Spatial and Digital Networks
10/01/2020 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Hyung Jin Kim
Award Type: Planning Grant, Underserved Community
Affiliation: Kansas State University
Planning Live, Sustainable Community Asset Mapping for a Dementia e-Friendly Alabama
10/01/2020 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Nicole Ruggiano
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
Privacy-enhanced data-driven health monitoring for smart and connected senior communities
10/01/2020 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Li Xiong
Award Type: Planning Grant, International
Affiliation: Emory University
Safety and Security of College Campuses and their Adjacent Communities
10/01/2020 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Edwin Yaz
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: Marquette University
Smart & Connected Childcare
10/01/2020 – 09/30/2021
Lead PI: Hilary Raikes
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: University of Nebraska Medical Center
Smart Septic Strategies: Data Integration to Manage Hidden Infrastructure Threats to Our Homes and Communities
10/01/2020 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Brian Bledsoe
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
Smart Technologies and Community Engagement to Address Data Gaps in Birth Outcomes Reporting
10/01/2020 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Alexandrina Agloro
Award Type: Planning Grant, Underserved Community
Affiliation: Arizona State University
SUNRISE: Using Mobile Games in Rural Tribal Communities to Promote Social and Emotional Resilience in Youth
10/01/2020 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Morgan Vigil-Hayes
Award Type: Planning Grant, Underserved Community
Affiliation: Northern Arizona University
Toward Disease-Resistant School Communities by Reinventing the Interfaces among Built Environments, Occupants, and Microbiomes
10/01/2020 – 04/30/2022
Lead PI: Shuai Li
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: University of Tennessee Knoxville
Towards cybernetic buildings: integrated intelligent sensing to create responsive environments
10/01/2020 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Junsong Yuan
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: SUNY at Buffalo
Understanding the most effective ways to engage community members in using technology and data as tools for influencing change in Wisconsin
10/01/2020 – 12/31/2021
Lead PI: Joshua Garoon
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Broadband Research Workshop and Report 2020
09/01/2020 – 09/30/2021
Lead PI: Henning Schulzrinne
Award Type: Other
Affiliation: Columbia University
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, Underserved Community
Affiliation: Mississippi State University
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
Improving Community and Neighborhood Safety through Open Data Collection
08/15/2020 – 07/31/2022
Lead PI: Daniel Balasubramanian
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: Vanderbilt University
Addressing Unprecedented Community-Centered Transportation Infrastructure Needs and Policies for the Mobility Revolution
08/01/2020 – 07/31/2021
Lead PI: Michael Hyland
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: University of California-Irvine
StreetBit: A Bluetooth beacon based System for Alerting Distracted Pedestrians in Urban Environments
08/01/2020 – 07/31/2022
Lead PI: Ragib Hasan
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Flood Hazard Management & Practitioner Information Network for Florida Coastal Communities
07/15/2020 – 06/30/2021
Lead PI: Ravi Srinivasan
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: University of Florida
Help by Any Means: Sociotechnical Protocols for Multimedia Requests for Assistance to Next-Generation 911 Services
07/15/2020 – 06/30/2022
Lead PI: Jessica Kropczynski
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: University of Cincinnati Main Campus
Using Data to Understand the Effects of Transportation on the Spread of COVID-19 as a Propagator and a Control Mechanism
07/15/2020 – 06/30/2022
Lead PI: Philip Paré
Award Type: RAPID
Affiliation: Purdue University