NSF Interdisciplinary Behavioral and Social Science Research proposals due January 23, 2013

The Interdisciplinary Behavioral and Social Science Research (IBSS) competition emphasizes the conduct of interdisciplinary research by teams of investigators in the social and behavioral sciences.
There are two types of projects that may be supported by IBSS:

IBSS Large Interdisciplinary Research Projects (with maximum award sizes of $1,000,000)

IBSS Interdisciplinary Team Exploratory Projects (with maximum award sizes of $250,000)
In addition to the standing NSF merit review criteria of intellectual merit and broader impacts, proposals submitted for the IBSS competition will be evaluated using special review criteria with respect to three different dimensions of their interdisciplinarity: the interdisciplinarity of the research team, the interdisciplinarity of the research approaches to be used, and the interdisciplinarity of the expected intellectual significance of the research results.
All proposals submitted for the IBSS competition must include three or more senior personnel from at least two different SBE disciplinary fields.
An individual researcher may participate as a principal investigator (PI), co-principal investigator (co-PI), or other member of the senior personnel of a project for only one project submitted for the IBSS competition during a single year.
Each person serving as a PI, co-PI, or other member of the senior personnel on a project must include a signed or e-mailed statement as a supplementary document in the proposal confirming that person's participation in the project and confirming that this is the only IBSS project for which the person is serving as one of the senior personnel.
For more information and a synopsis of the program, visit the program soliciation page.
Important: Effective January 2013, NSF merit review criteria have changed, including a new requirement that project summaries be entered in online text box forms. See the NSF overview for more information.