NSF CyberTraining grants: January 2027 deadline
NSF CyberTraining funds US projects that train researchers to build and use advanced research computing tools, with awards up to $1,000,000. Deadline 21 January 2027.
The NSF CyberTraining program, full name Training based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, funds training, education and teaching materials for the research computing workforce. The solicitation is NSF 23-520. The next full proposal deadline is 21 January 2027, by 5 p.m. local time of the submitting organization. After that the deadline is the third Thursday in January each year.
NSF names three classes of award. Pilot projects get up to $300,000 for up to two years. Small Implementation projects get up to $500,000 and Medium Implementation projects up to $1,000,000, both for up to four years. NSF expects up to 6 Pilot, 9 Small and 3 Medium awards, 18 in total, with an anticipated funding amount of $9,300,000, subject to available funds.
The program has two goals. The first is broad use of advanced cyberinfrastructure tools, methods and resources by researchers, so they can also lead the building of new ones. The second is to bring basic and advanced skills in computation and data driven methods into undergraduate and graduate teaching. NSF defines advanced cyberinfrastructure as the resources, tools, methods and services for advanced computation, large scale data handling and analytics, and networking and security for large systems.
Proposals come from organizations in the NSF proposer categories. Unaffiliated individuals cannot apply. Every proposal must include at least one PI or co PI with expertise relevant to the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure. Proposals aimed at a research field must also include a PI or co PI from that field. Each person may take part in only one CyberTraining proposal per competition, and later submissions are returned without review.
NSF asks applicants to contact the program officers in the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure and in the relevant research division at least one month before the deadline, and to name them in the proposal. It says projects should meet real community needs and produce resources that the research community can widely use.