The Battelle Memorial Institute-Ohio State partnership fosters programs that examine the complex relationship between science and technology and broader social and cultural issues. Strong emphasis is placed on educational and public service projects rather than pure research. Interdisciplinary collaborations within the university and collaborations with other institutions are especially encouraged. Projects that address engineering-related topics or feature collaborations between engineering and the social sciences or arts/humanities are particularly welcomed.
The National Science Foundation is announcing its intentions to build
upon the success of previous Early Concept Grants for Exploratory
Research (EAGERs) in the area supported by the Secure and Trustworthy
Cyberspace (SaTC) program (see solicitation 14-599:
[1]http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf14599) and
to accept additional EAGER proposals that encourage novel
interdisciplinary research resulting from new collaborations between
one or more Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)
researchers and one or more Social, Behavioral and Economic Science
(SBE) researchers. (Research teams with a history of collaborating
together should instead submit directly to the SaTC solicitation.) The
proposed research should fit both the Trustworthy Computing (TWC) and
the Social, Behavioral and Economic (SBE) Sciences perspectives within
the SaTC solicitation.