NSF 23-521: Strengthening the Cyberinfrastructure Professionals Ecosystem (SCIPE)
Closed
This grant is closed. Who won this program's grants before is below, and similar open grants are at the end of the page. It is in our archive of U.S. National Science Foundation notices from 2022.
U.S. National Science Foundation offered grants of up to $5.0 million to the applicants described in the notice. It expected to make $15.0 million in total. It is no longer open on Grants.gov.
From the official notice on Grants.gov, last changed June 27, 2025. Checked November 7, 2026.
- Award ceiling$5.0 million
- Total funding$15.0 million
- Cost sharingNot required
- Funding typeGrant
Key dates
| Posted | November 22, 2022 |
|---|---|
| Archived by Grants.gov | June 27, 2025 |
Who can apply
This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
*Who May Serve as PI: To ensure relevance to community needs and to facilitate adoption, those proposals of interest to one or moredomain divisionsmustinclude at least one PI/co-PI with expertise relevant to the targeted research discipline. All proposals shall include at least one PI/co-PI with expertise relevant to OAC.
Is this a realistic fit?
- Most of the money in the 7 programs behind this notice (82% over five years) went to colleges and universities.
- No cost sharing or match is required.
What the grant funds
The overarching goal of this solicitation is to democratize access to NSF’s advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) ecosystem and ensure fair and equitable access to resources, services, and expertise by strengthening how Cyberinfrastructure Professionals (CIP) function in this ecosystem. It aims to achieve this by (1) deepening the integration of CIPs into the research enterprise, and (2) fostering innovative and scalable education, training, and development of instructional materials, to address emerging needs and unresolved bottlenecks in CIP workforce development. Specifically, this solicitation seeks to nurture, grow and recognize the national CIP[1] workforce that is essential forcreating, utilizing andsupportingadvanced CI to enable and potentially transform fundamental science and engineering (S&E) research and education and contribute to the Nation's overall economic competitiveness and security. Together, the principal investigators (PIs), technology platforms, tools, and expert CIP workforce supported by this solicitation operate as an interdependent ecosystem wherein S&E research and education thrive. This solicitation willsupport NSF’s advanced CI ecosystem with a scalable, agile, and sustainable network of CIPs that can ensurebroad adoptionof advanced CI resources and expert services including platforms, tools, methods, software, data, and networks for research communities, to catalyze major research advances, and to enhance researchers' abilities to lead the development of new CI. The SCIPE program is led by the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) in the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and has participation from other NSF directorates/divisions, as described in Section II. Program Description,Programmatic Areas of Interest. Not all directorates/divisions are participating at the same level, and some have specific research and education priorities. The appropriate contact for the SCIPE program in any directorate/division is the Cognizant Program Officer (PO) for the respective directorate/division/office/program listed below. All projects are expected to clearly articulate how they address essential community needs, will provide resources that will be widely available to and usable by the research community.
Who has won Mathematical and Physical Sciences grants before
From fiscal 2021 to 2025, Mathematical and Physical Sciences (47.049) awarded $8.5 billion across 14,898 grant awards, an average of $568,976 per award.
| Recipient | State | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. | Arizona | 22 | $725 million |
| Associated Universities Inc | Virginia | 18 | $646 million |
| California Institute of Technology | California | 148 | $316 million |
| Cornell University | New York | 179 | $256 million |
| Florida State University | Florida | 92 | $228 million |
Who has won STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) grants before
From fiscal 2021 to 2025, STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) (47.076) awarded $6.7 billion across 7,210 grant awards, an average of $932,576 per award.
| Recipient | State | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Regents of the University of California | California | 47 | $137 million |
| The Leland Stanford Junior University | California | 16 | $123 million |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Massachusetts | 12 | $122 million |
| University of Wisconsin System | Wisconsin | 64 | $92.1 million |
| North Carolina State University | North Carolina | 79 | $91.2 million |
Who has won Geosciences grants before
From fiscal 2021 to 2025, Geosciences (47.050) awarded $5.4 billion across 7,605 grant awards, an average of $710,829 per award.
| Recipient | State | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| University Corporation for Atmospheric Research | Colorado | 78 | $725 million |
| Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | Massachusetts | 288 | $627 million |
| Texas a & M Research Foundation | Texas | 3 | $287 million |
| University of California San Diego | California | 170 | $223 million |
| The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York | New York | 160 | $193 million |
Other programs behind this notice
- Computer and Information Science and Engineering
- Engineering
- Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships
- Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences
Applying now
This notice no longer takes applications. Agencies often post the same opportunity again under a new number, so check the program's notices on Grants.gov and the similar open grants below.
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Questions people ask
Is NSF 23-521 still open?
No. It is no longer open on Grants.gov.
Who can apply for Strengthening the Cyberinfrastructure Professionals Ecosystem (SCIPE)?
U.S. National Science Foundation accepted applications from the applicants described in the notice. The notice adds further conditions, so read its eligibility section.
What is the deadline for Strengthening the Cyberinfrastructure Professionals Ecosystem (SCIPE)?
Closed. Applications are no longer accepted; the program's newer notices are on this page when there are any.
How much funding is available?
Awards of up to $5.0 million each. About $15.0 million in total.
Who has won Engineering grants before?
The largest recipients over five fiscal years were Georgia Tech Research Corp, Purdue University, Regents of the University of Michigan. The program made 11,244 awards worth $4.3 billion in that time.