NSF EPSCoR — Active Tracks (Seed)
Funds United States states through EPSCoR tracks to strengthen institutional research readiness and innovation systems.
NSF EPSCoR (Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) is a set of funding tracks designed to strengthen research competitiveness in 21 US jurisdictions — states, territories, and commonwealths — that historically receive a disproportionately small share of federal research funding. The programme supports talent development, infrastructure investment, and collaborative research initiat…
STEM research capacity building, workforce development, and research infrastructure improvement in the 21 EPSCoR-eligible U.S. jurisdictions across multiple concurrent funding tracks.
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