Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CyberTraining) is Wednesday, February 14, 2018.

The overarching goals of this program are to:

• Prepare, nurture, and grow the national scientific research workforce for creating, utilizing, and supporting advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) that enables potentially transformative fundamental science and engineering research and contributes to the nation’s overall economic competitiveness and security
• Ensure broad adoption of CI tools, methods, and resources by the fundamental science and engineering research community to enable new modes of discovery
• Integrate core literacy and discipline-appropriate advanced skills in advanced CI as well as computational and data science and engineering into the nation’s educational curriculum/instructional material fabric spanning undergraduate and graduate courses. For the purpose of this solicitation, advanced CI is broadly defined as the set of resources, tools, and services for advanced computation, data handling, networking, and security that collectively enable potentially transformative fundamental research.

This solicitation calls for developing innovative, scalable training and education programs to address the emerging needs and unresolved bottlenecks in scientific and engineering research workforce development, from the postsecondary level to active researchers. The resultant training and education programs, spanning targeted, multidisciplinary communities, will lead to transformative changes in the state of workforce preparedness for advanced CI-enabled research in the short and long terms. As part of this investment, this solicitation seeks to broaden CI access and adoption by (i) increasing or deepening accessibility of methods and resources of advanced CI and of computational and data science and engineering by a wide range of scientific disciplines and institutions with lower levels of CI adoption to date; and (ii) harnessing the capabilities of larger segments of diverse underrepresented groups. Proposals from, and in partnership with, the aforementioned communities are especially encouraged.

Please contact the Office of Sponsored Research and Programs if you are interested in applying for this proposal.