NSF Cover Page Form
The Grants.gov NSF CoverPage form can transmit the necessary information and attachments required for your application to NSF. You should check your program announcement for instructions on how to complete the form and which attachments should be included (and the formatted associated with the attachments). The associated attachments can be added in the Attachments tab and the other information is populated from the form specific NSF Cover Page questionnaire in Kuali Research. Below outlines how to add the necessary attachments and other information in Kuali Research to map to the given fields in the form.
Instructions
Once a Grants.gov opportunity containing the NSF CoverPage form is attached and marked as included in your federally-sponsored proposal you can complete the NSF Cover Page questionnaire and follow the following instructions to populate/map the necessary attachments.
- Navigate to the Kuali Research Attachments tab -> Proposal panel
- Select the +Add button to create a new attachment
- Select the desired Attachment Type associated with this form
- For example, choose Mentoring Plan'
- Select Status of 'Complete'
- Enter a Description (optional if attachment type doesn't allow multiple)
- Upload the desired Attachment
- Click 'Save'
Repeat the above steps for the additional attachments you need to add to this form and please refer to your program announcement for instructions on the files required for the application.
The below chart outlines the form fields and the fields in Kuali Research that map or the Attachment Types associated with the form.
Form Section | Kuali Tab | Kuali Narrative or Question ID | Form Instructions |
1. Funding Opportunity Number Opportunity closing date |
S2S Opportunity Lookup |
n/a |
Automatically populated by attached Grants.gov application |
2. NSF Unit Consideration Division Code/Division Name Program Code/Program Name |
Sponsor & Program Information |
n/a |
Sponsor Division Code: Required field that must be at least 8 characters. Sponsor Program Code: Required field that must be at least 4 characters. |
3. Principal Investigator (PI) Information |
Questionnaire |
Question ID: 53 |
Click the Yes if you are currently serving, or have previously served, as a PI, co-PI or Program Director on any Federally funded project. |
4. Other Information |
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See below for each specific checkbox instructions. |
Beginning Investigator (Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG II.E.2)) |
Questionnaire |
Question ID: -10111 |
Click the Yes to answer if you are an NSF Beginning Investigator. Otherwise, click No. |
Accomplishment-Based Renewal (PAPPG Chapter V.B) |
Questionnaire |
Question ID: -10112 |
Click Yes to confirm this proposal is an NSF Accomplishment Based renewal? Otherwise, click No. |
Funding of a Foreign Organization or Foreign Individual (PAPPG I.E.2.c)
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Questionnaire |
Question ID: -10144 |
Click Yes to confirm this proposal is funding of a Foreign Organization? Otherwise, click No. |
Off-Campus or Off-Site Research (PAPPG II.D.1.d (viii) & II.E.9)
|
Questionnaire |
Question ID: -10161 |
Click Yes to confirm this would result in off-site research? Otherwise, click No. |
Disclosure of Lobbying Activities (PAPPG II.D.1.d) |
Questionnaire or Organization record YNQ |
Question ID: -10110 or Organization YNQ ID: H0 |
Click the appropriate button(s) to respond to Disclosure of Lobbying Activities. This will map from either questionnaire OR Organization YNQ ID H0; if either is answered YES, the form will map YES. |
Funding of an International Branch Campus of a U.S. IHE (PAPPG Chapter I.E.1) |
Questionnaire | Question ID: -10143 | Click Yes to confirm this proposal is funding of an International Branch Campus? Otherwise, click No. |
Potential Life Sciences Dual Use Research of Concern (PAPPG II.E.6 & XI.B.5) |
Questionnaire |
Question ID: -10160 |
Click Yes to confirm this proposal is potential life sciences dual use research? Otherwise, click No. |
Potential Impacts on Tribal Nations |
Questionnaire |
Question ID: -10162 |
Click Yes to confirm this proposal has potential impact on Tribal Nations? Otherwise, click No. |
5. Additional Single-Copy Documents |
Attachments |
Narrative IDs: 13, 14, 87 |
Personal_Data (multiple files*) Propietary_Information (one file) NSF_SingleCopyDocument (allows multiples*) *requires unique file names since multiple allowed. |
6. Data Management Plan and Sharing Plan |
Attachments | Narrative ID: 146 | Proposal Attachment type 'Data Management Plan' |
7. Mentoring Plan |
Attachments | Narrative ID: 147 | Proposal Attachment type 'Mentoring Plan' |
8. GOALI - Industrial PI Confirmation Letter |
Attachments | Narrative ID: -1 | Proposal Attachment type 'GOALILetter' |
9. RAPID, EAGER or RAISE - Program Officer Concurrence Email |
Attachments | Narrative ID: -2 |
Proposal Attachment type 'RAISEEmails' Although labeled RAISEEmails it can be used for this attachment for RAPID, EAGER, or RAISE. |
10. Potential Impacts on Tribal Nations |
Attachments |
Narrative ID: -9 Narrative ID: -10 |
Proposal Attachment types: 'PotentialTribalImpacts1' 'PotentialTribalImpacts2' |
11. Type of Proposal (select one) |
Questionnaire | Question ID: -10115 | Select the appropriate application type from the dropdown. |
12. Authorized Representative (AOR) Provide the NSF ID associated with the AOR for this application: |
Key Personnel - pulls from new Key Person Extended Attributes table (outside proposal) | n/a |
New field of NSF_ID in Key Person Extended Attributes table for the AOR will map. Prior to submit it will map a placeholder ID and then replace with the NSF ID of the AOR that does the 'submit to sponsor' action. |
Print/Submit
- After successfully uploading the attachment(s) and compliance entrie(s) go to the S2S Opportunity Search tab -> Forms panel
- Check the NSFCoverPage form in the select column and click the 'Create PDF' button
- Also, if this form needs to be included in the submission remember to check the 'Include' checkbox prior to final submission to Grants.gov.
- Upon Print and/or Submission the form will populate like described above with the referenced attachments appended behind the form.
Current Version(s)
- NSF_CoverPage_2_3-V2.3
Past Version(s)
- NSF_CoverPage_2_0-V2.0
- NSF_CoverPage_1_9-V1.9
- NSF_CoverPage_1_8-V1.8
- NSF_CoverPage_1_7-V1.7
- NSF_CoverPage_1_6-V1.6
- NSF_CoverPage_1_3-V1.3
- NSF_CoverPage_1_2-V1.2
- NSF_CoverPage-V1.1
- NSF_CoverPage-V1.0
Related Maintenance Table(s)
- n/a
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