Future NSF Convergence Accelerator Research Topics

For over 70 years, NSF has been improving American lives by being at the forefront of research and technologies. Aligned to the NSF Convergence Accelerator’s ideation process, this is your opportunity to think big to address current and future national and societal challenges. Ideas submitted to the program’s Dear Colleague Letter, Request for Information are consolidated and those that meet the program’s criteria are considered as a funded workshop. SUBMITTED TOPIC IDEAS MUST FULFILL THE FOLLOWING REQUIREMENTS: • Be broad in technical scope. • Be impactful to society at scale. • Build upon foundational research. • Be suitable for a multidisciplinary, convergent research approach. FURTHERING THE IDEA, NEXT STEPS Ideas that meet the program’s criteria are funded by NSF into community workshops. Workshops are intended to further develop and frame ideas to incorporate convergence research and encourage collaboration among stakeholders from various disciplines and with different forms of expertise from academic, industry, nonprofit, government, and other communities of practice. The findings of these workshops assist NSF in developing the final convergence research track topics to be funded in future years. Please review the RFI on NSF's website found here: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22021/nsf22021.jsp