Myron Gutmann
Assistant Director
National Science Foundation
Amy Friedlander
Senior Advisor, Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
National Science Foundation
The Directorate for the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) at the National Science Foundation is undertaking an activity called SBE 2020, through which ideas about the future of the SBE sciences are being gathered. The goal is to have the community provide guidance about big scientific ideas, opportunities to build capacity, and scientific infrastructure needs and possibilities over the next decade. The first steps have included a request for white papers that propose ideas for the SBE sciences for 2020. The papers have now been received and analysis and synthesis of suggestions is underway. This project briefing will include a description of the white papers received, a preliminary synthesis of their content, and plans for making the papers, and analysis of them, available to the scientific and policy communities.