I-CREWS Education and Workforce Development Grants, Idaho Digital Access Grants, ITD Research Program Funding & Fall 2024 Lightning Talks

I-CREWS Education and Workforce Development Grants

The statewide NSF EPSCoR Track 1 Reserach Infrastructure Improvment (RII) award for Idaho Community-engaged Resilience for Energy-Water Systems (I-CREWS) invites applications for Education and Workforce Development funding to support two programs:

Community Integrated Programs (CIP) are courses offered to community members, undergraduate and graduate students, co-created around community-identified priorities, to address energy-water systems issues. CIPs engage learners across disciplines (e.g., across STEM, policy, and law), knowledge systems (e.g., local and Indigenous knowledge, academic knowledge), and bridge between the community and academic institutions.

Vertically Integrated Programs (VIP) is an intentional curricular infrastructure that establishes an on ramp for students and provides a range of training, mentoring and professional development support to both students and faculty. The VIP is implemented statewide and the goal is to provide the scaffolding to support transdisciplinary science and grow the next generation of conservation science leaders and workers.

Amount

Up to $10,000 in direct-costs.

Due

Thursday, December 5, 2024 at 12pm PST

Idaho Digital Access Grants

The Idaho Commission for Libraries (ICfL) is accepting applications for the following grant opportunities to facilitate local solutions to digital access divides:

Connecting Communities Digital Access Program provides Windows devices and accessories to eligible entities. Grantees train Idahoans on cybersecurity and digital skills, and Idahoans who complete the training keep the device.

Digital Access for All Idahoans Monetary Grant provides funding to do digital access work such as hiring digital navigators to provide local and regional in-person support, creating and hosting digital skills and cybersecurity training opportunities, and providing technical support and low-cost devices.

Amount

• Connecting Communities Digitial Access Program – Up to 50 laptops and associated accessories for a project length of eighteen (18) months.
• Digital Access for All Idahoans Monetary Grant – $10,000 to $150,000 for a project length of eighteen (18) months.

Due

• Connecting Communities Digitial Access Program – Friday, December 6, 2024
• Digital Access for All Idahoans Monetary Grant – Friday, December 20, 2024

ICfL will host an informational webinar on November 14, 2024 at 2pm MST.

ITD Research Program Funding Opportunities

The Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) Research Program is seeking proposals for three new contract research studies. These projects include:

• GIS-based Source Management System: Developing a Geospatial Database of Material Sources in Idaho for Use on ITD Projects
• Evaluation and Improvement of ITD-Controlled Material Source Program
• Benefits of Transportation Research in Idaho

ITD’s Research Program supports research, development, and technology transfer activities addressing the Department’s strategic goals and initiatives.

Amount

• GIS-based Source Management System – Up to $200,000 for thirty (30) months.
• Evaluation and Improvement of ITD-Controlled Material Source Program – Up to $150,000 for twenty (20) months.
• Benefits of Transporation Research in Idaho – Up to $100,000 for eighteen (18) months.

Due

Friday, December 20, 2024 at 5pm MST

Specific questions should be submitted via e-mail to: research@itd.idaho.gov. Questions must be submitted no later than Monday, November 18, 2024 at 5:00 p.m. MST. Responses to all questions submitted by this deadline will be posted on ITD’s Research Program website within 10 business days of the deadline.

Reminder: Fall 2024 Lightning Talks: Partnering with Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESUs)

Please join us for a virtual Lightning Talks event on Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESUs). CESUs function as “virtual” organizations, linking federal agencies and institutions to increase access to expertise and facilities. At this Lightning Talks event, speakers will present on how they connected and developed partnerships with federal agencies through the CESU and the projects that they led under the CESU mechanism. Speakers will each have 5 minutes for their presentations followed by 3 minutes for Q&A. After all presentations have finished, the audience will have the opportunity to join breakout rooms with their chosen speaker(s) to ask more questions about their projects.

When: Friday November 8th, 2024 at 1pm MT
Location: Zoom

Presenters & Topics

1. Bob H. Reinhardt, Associate Professor, Department of History and Boise State Representative to the Rocky Mountain-CESU
   Title: Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units: Mutual Benefits for Federal Agencies and Boise State Faculty
2. Moji Sadegh, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
   Title: Evolving Western Wildfires and Their Impacts
3. Pei-Lin Yu, Affiliate Professor, Department of Anthropology and Fulbright Senior Research Fellow; Tribal Liaison, Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla District
   Title: CESUs, National Parks, and Climate Change in the American Southwest
4. Jared L. Talley, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, School of Public Service
   Title: Salmon Recovery in Idaho: It’s a Dam(n) People Issue
5. Jim McNamara, Professor, Department of Geosciences
   Title: Hydrologic Implications of a Declining Mountain Snowpack
6. Marie-Anne de Graaff, Associate Dean of Research, Creative Activity and Graduate Education, COAS and Professor Department of Biological Sciences
   Title: Utilizing CESU to Build Community and Foster Long-Term Research Collaborations with Local Agencies