NSF S&CC Projects

NSF funds a variety of projects in and related to smart and connected communities.

Primary Award Mechanisms:

Integrative Research Grants: full awards of ~$1M-$2.5M for up to four years to support fundamental integrative research that addresses technological and social science dimensions of smart and connected communities and pilots solutions together with communities.
Planning Grants: awards of ~$150K for 1 year to facilitate capacity building and prepare project teams to propose future well-developed IRG proposals.

Other Award Mechanisms:

EAGER: awards for exploratory work on early stage or untested research concepts or approaches with potentially transformative outcomes ("high risk, high payoff")
RAPID: awards for proposals having a severe urgency with regard to availability of, or access to data, facilities or specialized equipment, including quick-response research on natural or anthropogenic disasters and similar unanticipated events
Other: awards such as workshops, conferences, etc.

For details about these award types, please refer to the S&CC solicitation.

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Enabling Smart Cities in Coastal Regions of Environmental and Industrial Change: Building Adaptive Capacity through Sociotechnical Networks on the Texas Gulf Coast
10/01/2022 – 09/30/2026
Lead PI: Michelle Hummel
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: University of Texas at Arlington
Pathways to Sustainable Success in Smart and Connected Communities
10/01/2022 – 09/30/2024
Lead PI: Glenn Ricart
Award Type: EAGER
Affiliation: US Ignite
Qoyangnuptu: Smart, Connected, and Culturally-centered System to Support the Well-being of Hopi/Tewa Youth
10/01/2022 – 09/30/2026
Lead PI: Morgan Vigil-Hayes
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: Northern Arizona University
Reducing Loneliness for Long Term Care Older Adults through Collaborative Augmented Reality
10/01/2022 – 09/30/2026
Lead PI: Nilanjan Sarkar
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: Vanderbilt University
A Manufacturing-Driven Approach to Advancing Community in Northeast Ohio
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2024
Lead PI: Robert Gao
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: Case Western Reserve University
A Sustainable and Connected Community-Scale Food System to Empower Consumers, Farmers, and Retailers
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Oliver Kennedy
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: SUNY at Buffalo
Active sensing and personalized interventions for pandemic-induced social isolation
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2024
Lead PI: Insup Lee
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania
Building Community Response to Violence through the Rokwire Smart City Platform
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Sanjay Patel
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Building Resilience during Disasters through Digital Inclusion of Older Adults: A Smart and Connected Community Research Initiative
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: H. Raghav Rao
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: University of Texas at San Antonio
Connecting Coastal Communities (CCC)
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2023
Lead PI: Robert Chen
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: University of Massachusetts Boston
Designing and testing remote services to support formerly homeless persons in permanent housing
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2024
Lead PI: Anand Panangadan
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: California State University-Fullerton Foundation
Empathy and AI: Towards Equitable Microtransit
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Eleni Bardaka
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: North Carolina State University
Equitable new mobility: Community-driven mechanisms for designing and evaluating personal delivery device deployments
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Sarah Fox
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: Carnegie Mellon University
Food Environment Equity Dashboard NYC (FEED-NYC)
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Nevin Cohen
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: RFCUNY d/b/a CUNY Grad School of Public Health & Health Policy
Hyperlocal Risk Monitoring and Pandemic Preparedness through Privacy-Enhanced Mobility and Social Interactions Analysis
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2024
Lead PI: Li Xiong
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: Emory University
Improving healthcare access in marginalized communities through smart connected technologies
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Yu Nie
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: Northwestern University
Improving the Safety and Appeal of Public Transit in COVID-19 Times
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Roberto Manduchi
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: University of California-Santa Cruz
Innovations for Community-Held Infrastructure
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2024
Lead PI: Kurtis Heimerl
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: University of Washington
Just in Time Intervention for Patients with Chronic Heart Diseases in Arizona tribes
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Fatemeh Afghah
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: Clemson University
MAPPING INSTABILITY: Building an Intelligent Community Agent Platform for Understanding the Impact of Large Scale Crisis on Small Town Communities
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Narges Mahyar
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Multimodal Data Analytics and Integration for Effective COVID-19, Pandemics and Compound Disaster Response and Management
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2024
Lead PI: Shu-Ching Chen
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: Florida International University
Online Role-Playing Games for Improving Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration in Concurrent Disaster Response Planning
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2022
Lead PI: Divya Chandrasekhar
Award Type: Planning Grant
Affiliation: University of Utah
PanCommunity: Leveraging Data and Models for Understanding and Improving Community Response in Pandemics
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2024
Lead PI: K. Selcuk Candan
Award Type: Integrative Research Grant
Affiliation: Arizona State University
Preparing the Next-Generation Rural Workforce Through Inclusive and Place-Based Smart and Connected STEM Educational Delivery Models
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2023
Lead PI: Eliot Winer
Award Type:
Affiliation: Iowa State University