National Science Foundation (NSF) Research.gov

• Principal Investigators (PIs) and Other Authorized Users (OAUs) must first register for a Research.gov account. Please use your FAU email address as the primary email during registration.
• After completing the registration form and clicking Save & Preview, you will be taken to the Preview Account Registration screen to review your information and submit your account registration.
• An account is not active until it has been approved by the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP). Upon submission, OSP will receive an email notification from NSF indicating that an account requires approval. Once approved, the user may begin utilizing Research.gov.

Before starting an NSF proposal, PIs should review the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG).

To create and submit a proposal:

1. Sign in to Research.gov using the Sign In button at the top right of the screen. You will land on the Proposal Dashboard page.
2. Click on Letters of Intent and Proposals under the Prepare & Submit Proposals category.
3. Click the Continue to Proposal System button to go to the proposal preparation page.
4. Click Prepare New.
5. Select your desired submission type from the dropdown menu. Answer the questions and provide relevant details, including the funding opportunity and proposal title.
6. To add an Other Authorized User (OAU) to a proposal, within the specific proposal choose Proposal Actions. Then, click on Manage Personnel and Subaward Organizations, select Manage Personnel, and choose Add Other Authorized User. (An OAU is typically a departmental or college research administrator.)
7. Provide access to the Authorized Organizational Representative (AOR) to View, Edit, and Submit the proposal.
8. Upload required documents such as budgets, biographical sketches, and other supporting materials.

• Once the Research.gov application is completed, the proposal information and documents must be entered and uploaded into FAU’s Novelution system.
• Upload a PDF of the entire Research.gov application to Proposal Attachments in Novelution, FAU’s grant proposal tracking system and route for internal approval by the department/college and OSP.
• After all internal approvals are secured in Novelution, an OSP Proposal Administrator will contact the PI and Research Administrator regarding proposal review and submission.

After submitting a proposal to NSF, the PI can check its status by logging into Research.gov. From the Proposal Dashboard, click on Submitted Proposals under the Prepare & Submit Proposals section to view the current status.