Title
Education and Workforce Development: Professional Development for Secondary School Teachers and Educational Professionals
Agencies
United States Department of Agriculture
Description
The Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) is America’s flagship competitive grants program that provides funding for fundamental and applied research, education, and extension projects in the food and agricultural sciences. In FY 2018, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) requests applications for the AFRI’s Education and Workforce Development (EWD) Program areas (formerly the Food, Agriculture, Natural Resources and Human Sciences Education and Literacy Initiative, or ELI) to support:
• professional development opportunities for K-14 teachers and education professionals;
• training of undergraduate students in research and extension; and
• fellowships for predoctoral candidates and postdoctoral scholars.
The anticipated amount available for new grants in this FY 2018 EWD Request for Applications (RFA) is approximately $24.1 million. This RFA solicits for Standard Grants, and Food and Agricultural Science Enhancement (FASE)
Grants, whereas project types solicited in this RFA are Research, Education, Extension and
Integrated. Grant types solicited vary by Program Area and not all grant types are solicited within each Program Area. See Part I, C (Program Area Description) for grant and project types solicitedby each specific Program Area, and Part II, C., for a description of each individual grant type and project type.
This notice identifies the objectives for AFRI EWD projects, deadline dates, funding information, eligibility criteria for projects and applicants, and application forms and associated instructions needed to apply for an AFRI EWD grant.
More Information
https://nifa.usda.gov/sites/default/files/rfa/FY%202018%20AFRI%20Education%20and%20Workforce%20Development_0.pdf
Submission Limits
Any single institution may submit a maximum of three grant applications; limit of
one award per lead institution
Deadlines
Internal Notice of Intent |
May 31, 2018 |
Notification of Internal Competition |
Jun 1, 2018 |
Internal Pre-proposal |
Jun 15, 2018 |
Results of Internal Competition |
Jun 22, 2018 |
Agency Notice of Intent/Pre-proposal |
N/A |
Agency Proposal |
Jul 11, 2018
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