Growing Convergence Research
Funds teams from genuinely different disciplines to attack one hard problem together — $1.2 million to $3.6 million each.
Convergence research is NSF's name for something more demanding than working across disciplines. Its test has two parts. The research has to be driven by a specific, compelling problem — a deep scientific question or a pressing societal need. And the integration has to go deep, until the knowledge, theories, methods, data, communities and even the languages of the disciplines involved are genuinel…
Multidisciplinary teams pursuing deep integration across disciplines to solve one specific, compelling scientific or societal problem — building common frameworks, integrated theories, methods and research tools from the start, and cultivating the earliest foundations of a convergent approach.
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