Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program
Posted
- Opportunity number
- 21-623
- Agency
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National Science Foundation
- Applications due
- Not on record
- Award size
- Not on record
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Grant
- Category
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- Science and Technology and other Research and Development
- Eligible applicants
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- Unrestricted
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- Full announcement
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is seeking grant applications for its Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences (HEGS) Program. The objective of this program is to support basic scientific research on the spatial distribution of human activity and environmental processes across various scales. The program welcomes proposals that utilize diverse research traditions and methodologies, including empirically grounded, theoretically engaged, and methodologically sophisticated research in all sub-fields of geographical and spatial sciences. Proposals must articulate how the research questions engage human dimensions relevant to people and societies, and how the results are generalizable beyond the case study. The deadline for submitting proposals is not provided.
Typical award values under the HEGS Program range from $30,000 to $500,000, with project periods spanning 1-5 years. The awards are primarily Project Grants issued by the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences and Division of Social and Economic Science, with research performance occurring at academic and research institutions across the United States.
Synopsis
The objective of the Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program is to support basic scientific research about the nature, causes and/or consequences of the spatial distribution of human activity and/or environmental processes across a range of scales. Contemporary geographical research is an arena in which diverse research traditions and methodologies are valid. Recognizing the breadth of the field's contributions to science, the HEGS Program welcomes proposals for empirically grounded, theoretically engaged, and methodologically sophisticated, generalizable research in all sub-fields of geographical and spatial sciences. Because the National Science Foundation's mandate is to support basic scientific research, the NSF Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences program does not fund research that takes as its primary goal humanistic understanding or applied research.HEGS welcomes proposals that creatively integrate scientific and critical approaches, and that engage rigorous quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods in novel ways.However, a proposal that applies geographical/spatial methods to a social problem but does not propose how that problem provides an opportunity to make a theory-testing and/or theory expanding contributions to geographical science will be returned without review. HEGS supported projects are expected to yield results that will enhance, expand, and transform fundamental geographical theory and methods, and that will have positive broader impacts that benefit society.A proposal to the HEGS Program must also articulate how the results are generalizable beyond the case study. It should be noted that HEGS is situated in the Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences Division of the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate at NSF. Therefore, it is critical that research projects submitted to the Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program illustrate how the proposed research questions engage human dimensions relevant and important to people and societies. A proposal that fails to be responsive to these program expectations will be returned without review.
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