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DE-FOA-0002820: 2023 Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (DOE-EM) Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program (MSIPP)

Closed Closed September 19, 2023 Opportunity DE-FOA-0002820 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$5.0 million
• Award floor$1.0 million
• Total funding$24.5 million
• Expected awards12
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement, Grant

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to colleges and universities.

• Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
• Private institutions of higher education

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Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Minority Economic Impact awards averaged $3.0 million; this notice allows up to $5.0 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (82% over five years) went to colleges and universities.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

**THIS IS A TWO-STEP FUNDING OPPORTUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT** APPLICATION DUE DATE AND TIME: SEPTEMBER 19, 2023, AT 5:00 PM ET The mission of the Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (DOE-EM) is to complete the safe cleanup of the environmental legacy brought about from decades of nuclear weapons development and government-sponsored nuclear energy research. The DOE-EM’s mission and priority areas are to: 1) Achieve Significant Construction Milestones 2) Execute Key Cleanup Projects 3) Reduce the EM Footprint 4) Award Contracts that Enable Accelerated Progress 5) Drive Innovation and Sustainability and Improve Performance The DOE-EM is focused on enhancing and fostering a sustainable and diverse DOE-EM Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) workforce pipeline. Through the technology Curriculum and Professional Development Program (CPDP) and the EM Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) Shared Interest Research Program (SIRP), DOE-EM will promote the development of a nationally engaged scientific and engineering workforce that will lead to future career pathways in the DOE-EM complex for underrepresented groups. Specifically, CPDP and SIRP will create and foster a sustainable and diverse DOE-EM workforce STEM pipeline by accepting Concept Papers and Applications for grants addressing the following areas: 1) Curriculum enhancement through instrumentation/computing assistance - Cost, installation, and maintenance of specialized equipment and instrumentation. - Curriculum exploration, development, and improvement leading to substantive and purposeful integration of theoretical and experimental learning activities of collegiate students. 2) Development of high-quality courses embedded in majors and minors aligned with the DOE-EM missions and/or the development of majors and minors aligned with the DOE-EM missions that are sustainable beyond the period of the funding. 3) Modification of existing courses and curricula to deepen and/or better integrate learning and teaching activities in STEM-related fields as related to the DOE mission through the engagement of the national laboratory’s community by: - Embedding facilities and personnel in their courses and curricula. - Use of state-of-the-art instrumentation available within the DOE-EM complex (national labs and user facilities) to further drive critical scientific and technological advances. 4) University Faculty Professional Development Training.

Category: Energy, Environment.

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