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§19051 Broader Impacts

Title 42 › Chapter 163— RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, COMPETITION, AND INNOVATION › Subchapter III— NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION FOR THE FUTURE › Part E— Fundamental Research › § 19051

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Director must, within 120 days after August 9, 2022, hire a qualified independent group to review how the Broader Impacts review criterion is used across the Foundation and to recommend ways to better meet the goals in section 1862p–14. The Director must also award competitive grants to colleges, nonprofit groups, or consortia to help make the Broader Impacts criterion easier and more effective to use. Grants can fund training for program officers, peer reviewers, grants staff, faculty, and students; shared collections of best practices; and tools to measure and document research’s societal impacts.

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Title 42, §19051

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(a)Not later than 120 days after August 9, 2022, the Director shall enter into an agreement with a qualified independent organization to assess how the Broader Impacts review criterion is applied across the Foundation and make recommendations for improving the effectiveness for meeting the goals established in section 1862p–14 of this title.

(b)The Director shall make awards on a competitive basis, to institutions of higher education or non-profit organizations (or consortia of such institutions or organizations) to support activities to increase the efficiency, effectiveness, and availability of resources for implementing the Broader Impacts review criterion, including—

(1)training and workshops for program officers, merit review panelists, award office administrators, faculty, and students to improve understanding of the goals and the full range of potential broader impacts available to researchers to satisfy this criterion;

(2)repositories and clearinghouses for sharing best practices and facilitating collaboration; and

(3)tools for evaluating and documenting societal impacts of research.

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42 U.S.C. § 19051

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

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