Amendment 20: F.20 MOSAICS Seed Funding formerly SMD Bridge Program Seed Funding Final Text.

F.20 Mentorship and Opportunities in STEM with Academic Institutions for Community Success (MOSAICS) Seed Funding - formerly known as the SMD Bridge Program Seed Funding - is an initiative to support partnerships between faculty and students at under-resourced institutions (URIs) to carry out NASA-relevant research. It is expected that proposals will be from U.S. non-R1 institutions. More than 50% of the funding must be for the URI(s) and proposals must include at least one NASA partner team member located at a NASA Center and/or facility. See Section 2 for more information.

ROSES-2024 Amendment 20 releases final text for F.20 MOSAICS Seed Funding, which had been listed as "TBD". Notices of Intent are not requested, and proposals may be submitted at any time, see Section 3.7, but those submitted by September 30, 2024, will be reviewed in Winter 2025, with anticipated award date in March 2025. Proposals submitted by March 28, 2025, will be reviewed in Summer 2025, with anticipated award date in late August 2025.

SMD expects to host Webinars and Office Hours to support proposers and awardees, and answer questions related to this opportunity. Dates and times are given in Section 1.3.1 and connect information for these events will be made available under "Other Documents" on the NSPIRES page for this program element and the SMD Bridge Website at https://science.nasa.gov/smd-bridge-program, once they are scheduled.

On or about June 7, 2024, this Amendment to the NASA Research Announcement "Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) 2024" (NNH24ZDA001N) will be posted on the NASA research opportunity homepage at https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2024.

Questions concerning F.20 MOSAICS Seed Funding, should be directed to Patricia (Padi) Boyd at hq-smd-bridge@mail.nasa.gov.