Mid-Career Advancement (MCA)

The Mid-Career Advancement (MCA) program is designed to support scientists and engineers at the mid-career stage, providing them with protected time, resources, and the means to gain new skills through synergistic and mutually beneficial partnerships. The program aims to help lift constraints that limit the amount of time devoted to research, reducing workload inequities and enabling a more diverse scientific workforce. Key aspects of the program include: * Providing protected time and resources to established scientists and engineers targeted at the mid-career stage * Encouraging interdisciplinary networking and convergence across science and engineering fields * Supporting research projects that envision new insights on existing problems or identify new problems made accessible with cutting-edge methodology or expertise from other fields * Requiring applicants to demonstrate how their current research program could substantively benefit from the protected time, mentored partnership(s), and resources provided through this program.