The Standards Coordination Office Curricula Development Cooperative Agreement Program (SCO CD CAP) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for activities to develop undergraduate and/or graduate level curricula to incorporate documentary standards, standards development, and standardization information and content into seminars, modules, courses, and learning resources.
Donor Name: National Institute of Standards and Technology
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/14/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
The recipients will work with NIST to strengthen education and learning about documentary standards, standards development, and standardization.
Recipients are expected to:
- develop curriculum to educate undergraduate and/or graduate students about the impact and nature of documentary standards and standardization so that they enter the workforce and/or continue their academic studies with a strong understanding and appreciation for the value and benefits of standards and standardization;
- develop sustainable approaches, methods, and models that can be replicated and/or built upon by the participating accredited IHE and other U.S. colleges and universities to support the integration of documentary standards and standardization content into undergraduate and/or graduate level curricula;
- develop a Communication Plan to share project information, results, and outcomes within the participating accredited IHE and with other U.S. colleges and universities, including an action plan for internal and external outreach that will effectively demonstrate how the project outcomes may be replicated and/or built upon by the applicant and other educational programs at U.S. colleges and universities;
- broadly disseminate project information, results, and outcomes for public release with the applicant and other educational programs at U.S. colleges and universities, and relevant educational communities or fields of practice through presentations, papers, news releases, newsletters, professional journals, exhibits, conferences, workshops, seminars, exhibits and trade shows, websites, and other appropriate media and forums that serve the academic community;
- participate in two (2) one-day workshops, which may be held virtually or in person. The first will be held in Q4 of 2025 and the other in Q4 of 2027 or 2028. Workshops held in person will take place at NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Applicants should include travel-related expenses to participate at two in-person workshops in their proposed budgets of this NOFO; and
- write a Final Summary Paper of major accomplishments and conclusions, of approximately 10 pages in length that will describe the project and its importance, explain the original project goal, describe the project outcomes, describe how the work was evaluated, and report the findings and lessons learned through the activity, including a summary of the project’s suitability and potential for adoption in other educational organizations, communities, or fields of practice. The Final Summary Paper will be due to the Federal Program Officer within 45 days after the end of the project period. It must be in a publicly releasable format and must not contain any personal or proprietary information.
The following can be funded under this program:
- the design, testing, and evaluation of undergraduate and/or graduate curricula, course content and materials, courses or course modules, seminars, class assignments, student projects, and/or student participation in mock standards development activities and negotiations;
- standards curriculum in any area that support science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) and/or other related disciplines such as law, public policy, business, and/or multi-disciplinary approaches;
- stipends for instructors who are not funded as key technical personnel but are identified in the proposal as collaborators from other IHEs and have demonstrated a commitment through a Letter of Commitment from their department head or higher, to pilot and/or implement the curricula developed into undergraduate and/or graduate curriculum at their school;
- travel to implement the Communication and Dissemination Plan; and
- help for the cost for students who assist instructors.
Funding Information
In FY25, NIST anticipates funding up to 8 awards up to $100,000 per award with a project performance period of up to 3 years.
Eligibility Criteria
Accredited institutions of higher education (IHEs), as defined at 20 U.S.C. 1001, located in the United States or its territories. An eligible IHE applicant may work individually or include proposed sub-awards or contracts with others, such as non-profits or commercial organizations, in a project application, effectively forming a team or consortium. Although Federal entities are not eligible to receive funding under this NOFO, they may participate as unfunded collaborators. NIST seeks to collaborate with and encourages applications from a wide range of organizations, including but not limited to community colleges, minority-serving institutions, and other accredited IHEs dedicated to serving students from underrepresented grantors. Additionally, applicants offering undergraduate and graduate degree programs are encouraged to collaborate with community colleges.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
