Opportunities With Due Dates
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NSF | NSF 20-517 | The interests are outlined in the "core" program descriptions:Chemical Process Systems (CPS) Cluster- Catalysis- Electrochemical Systems- Interfacial Engineering- Process Systems, Reaction Engineering, and Molecular ThermodynamicsEngineering Biology and Health (EBH) Cluster- Biophotonics- Biosensing- Cellular and Biochemical Engineering- Disability and Rehabilitation Engineering- Engineering of Biomedical SystemsEnvironmental Engineering and Sustainability (EES) Cluster- Environmental Engineering- Environmental Sustainability- Nanoscale InteractionsTransport Phenomena (TP) Cluster- Combustion and Fire Systems- Fluid Dynamics- Particulate and Multiphase Processes- Thermal Transport Processes | Pre-Proposal: 2/12/2020 Full Proposal: 4/30/2020 | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! | |
DOE | DE-FOA-0002197 | Topic areas include:Batteries and Electrification (up to $40 million)Lithium-ion batteries using silicon- based anodesLow cost electric traction drive systems using no heavy rare earth materials utility managed smart charging supporting projects that will demonstrate managed and controlled charging loads for a large number of vehicles.Advanced Combustion Engines and Fuels (up to $27.5 million)Platinum group metals content reduction to enable cost-effective after-treatment for gasoline and diesel enginesImproved efficiency of medium- and heavy-duty natural gas and propane (LPG) enginesEnergy-efficient off-road technologies directly applicable to agriculture sector and/or other off-road vehiclesTwo-stroke, opposed-piston engine research and developmentMaterials Technology (up to $15 million)Lightweight and high-performance fiber-reinforced polymer composites for vehicle applicationsEnergy Efficient Mobility Systems (up to $13.5 million)Improving transportation system efficiency through better utilizationEnabling vehicle and infrastructure connectivityImproving mobility, affordability, and energy efficiency through transitTechnology Integration (up to $36 million)Gaseous fuels technology demonstration projectsAlternative fuel proof-of-concept in new communities and fleetsElectric vehicle and charging community partner projectsTechnology integration open topicTransportation and Energy Analysis (up to $1.2 million) | Concept Paper: 2/21/2020 Full Proposal: 4/14/2020 | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! | |
DOE | DE-FOA-0002229 | Topic areas include: Electrolyzer Manufacturing R&D (up to $15M): Lowering the cost of hydrogen produced from megawatt- and gigawatt-scale electrolyzers by improving large-scale, high-volume electrolyzer manufacturing in the U.S.Advanced Carbon Fiber for Compressed Gas Storage Tanks (up to $15M): Reducing the cost of hydrogen and natural gas storage tanks by developing low-cost, high-strength carbon fiber and scaling up to industry-relevant scales.Fuel Cell R&D and Domestic Manufacturing for Medium and Heavy Duty Transportation (up to $10M): Advancing the development of domestically manufactured fuel cell components and stacks that meet the cost and performance needs of trucks and other emerging heavy duty applications. H2@Scale New Markets R&D – HySteel (up to $8M): Enabling the use of hydrogen in steel manufacturing applications, aligned with FCTO and H2@Scale priorities for fostering new markets for hydrogen.H2@Scale New Markets Demonstrations in Maritime and Data Centers (up to $14M): Developing first-of-a-kind demonstrations to jumpstart emerging new market opportunities for hydrogen in maritime and data center applications.Training and Workforce Development (up to $2M): Creating cohesive, strategic, and well-coordinated regional efforts to develop the skills necessary to support the growing hydrogen and fuel cell industry. | Concept Paper: 2/25/2020 Full Proposal: 4/20/2020 | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! | |
ARPA-E | - | Galvanizing Advances in Market-aligned fusion for an Overabundance of Watts (GAMOW) | GAMOW will prioritize R&D in (1) technologies and subsystems between the fusion plasma and balance of plant, (2) cost-effective, high-efficiency, high-duty-cycle driver technologies, and (3) cross-cutting areas such as novel fusion materials and advanced and additive manufacturing for fusion-relevant materials and components. Applicants should leverage and build on foundational SC-FES research programs in fusion materials, fusion nuclear science, plasma-materials interactions, and other enabling technologies, while ensuring that market-aware techno-economic analyses inform project goals.Awardees must work toward one or more of the following high-level program objectives:Demonstrate substantial progress toward technical feasibility and/or increases in performance compared to the current state of the art in the priority R&D areas.Enable significant device simplification or elimination of entire subsystems of commercially motivated fusion energy systems.Reduce fusion energy system costs, including those of critical materials and component testing.Improve the reliability, safety, and/or environmental attractiveness of fusion energy systems.ARPA-E will contribute up to $15 million in funding over a three-year program period, and FES will contribute up to $5 million per year for three years for qualifying technologies. | Concept Paper: 3/27/2020 Full Proposal: TBD | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! |
DOE | DE-FOA-0002203 | Topic areas within this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) will advance DOE’s Bioenergy Technology Office’s objectives of reducing the price of drop-in biofuels, lowering the cost of biopower, and enabling high-value products from biomass or waste resources. Topic areas include:Scale-Up of Bench Applications (up to $28M): Reducing scale-up risk of biofuel and bioproduct processes.Waste to Energy Strategies for a Bioeconomy (up to $18M): Addressing ways to use materials that are currently "waste" to make energy and new products, including strategies for municipal solid waste; wet wastes, like food and manures; and municipal waste water treatment.Algae Bioproducts and CO2 Direct-Air-Capture and Efficiency (up to $14M): Lowering the cost of algal biofuels by improving carbon efficiency, and/or by employing direct air capture technologies.Bio-Restore: Biomass to Restore Natural Resources (up to $8M): Quantifying the economic and environmental benefits associated with growing energy crops, with a focus on restoring water quality and soil health.Efficient Wood Heaters (up to $5M): Developing and testing low-emission, high efficiency residential wood heaters.Biopower and Products from Urban and Suburban Wastes: North American Multi-University Partnership for Research and Education (up to $15M): Developing innovative technologies to manage major forms of urban and suburban waste, with a focus on using plastic waste to make recycled products and using wastes to produce low-cost biopower.Scalable CO2 Electrocatalysis (up to $8M): Developing low temperature and low pressure CO2 electrocatalysis technologies for generating chemical building blocks. | Concept Paper: 3/5/2020 Full Proposal: 4/30/2020 | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! | |
DOE | DE-FOA-0002219 | This multi-topic funding opportunity aims to drive down costs and risks associated with the discovery of hidden geothermal systems in the Basin & Range region of the U.S., and to enhance energy system resilience through the utilization of Reservoir Thermal Energy Storage (RTES), Deep Direct-Use (DDU) and other geothermal direct use applications on university campuses, military installations, hospital complexes, and other large energy end-uses across the U.S.The topic areas will be:Topic Area 1 – Exploration RD&D: Hidden Geothermal Systems in the Basin and RangeTopic Area 2 – Advanced Energy Storage Initiative (AESI): Bi-directional Energy Storage Using Low-Temperature Geothermal Applications | LOI: 3/2/2020 Full Proposal: 4/8/2020 | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! | |
DOE | DE-FOA-0002243 | Solar Energy Technologies Office Fiscal Year 2020 Funding Program | Funding will support advancements in the following areas:Photovoltaics (PV) Hardware Research – $15 million for 8-12 projects that aim to extend PV system lifetimes and reduce hardware costs of solar systems made of silicon solar cells, as well as new technologies like thin-film, tandem, and perovskite solar cells.Integrated Thermal Energy Storage and Brayton Cycle Equipment Demonstration (Integrated TESTBED) – $39 million for 1-2 projects that will develop a test site to accelerate the commercialization of supercritical carbon dioxide power cycles, a key component of low-cost concentrating solar power plants.Solar Energy Evolution and Diffusion Studies 3 (SEEDS 3) – $10 million for 6-8 projects that will examine how information flows to stakeholders to enable more efficient decision-making about solar and other emerging technologies, such as energy storage.Innovations in Manufacturing: Hardware Incubator – $14 million for 7-9 projects that will advance innovative product ideas from a prototype to a pre-commercial stage, with an aim for products that support a strong U.S. solar manufacturing sector and supply chain.Systems Integration – $30 million for 7-11 projects that will develop resilient community microgrids to maintain power during and restore power after man-made or natural disasters, improve cybersecurity for PV inverters and power systems, and develop advanced hybrid plants that operate collaboratively with other resources for improved reliability and resilience.Solar and Agriculture: System Design, Value Frameworks, and Impacts Analysis – $6.5 million for 4-6 projects that will advance the technologies, research, and practices necessary for farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural enterprises to co-locate solar and agriculture.Artificial Intelligence Applications in Solar Energy with Emphasis on Machine Learning – $6 million for 8-12 projects that encourage partnerships between experts in AI and solar industry stakeholders to develop disruptive solutions across the value chain of the solar industry.Small Innovative Projects in Solar (SIPS): PV and Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) – $5 million for 15-20 projects that advance innovative and novel ideas in PV and CSP that can produce significant results within the first year of performance.Dates:Mandatory Letter of Intent (LOI) for Topics 1-7: March 9, 2020Informational Webinar: February 12, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. ET Register HereConcept Papers: March 16, 2020Topic Area 8 SIPS applicants DO NOT submit a Concept Paper.Mandatory LOI for Topic Area 8: Small Innovative Projects in Solar (SIPS) April 9, 2020Full Applications: May 21, 2020Topic 8 SIPS Applications: May 21, 2020 | Concept Paper: 3/16/2020 Full Proposal: 5/21/2020 | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! |
DOE | DE-FOA-0002227 | Through the Wells of Opportunity (WOO) FOA, EERE's Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO) is soliciting well owners or operators with “idle” wells that are willing to partner with DOE to advance and test EGS technologies in-situ. Due to the criticality of the technology prototyping and methodology testing phase of research and development in the innovation pipeline, this FOA focuses on active field testing, where the Federal government takes on the associated high cost and risks.Topic Area 1 – Pilot (FORGE Test Wells): The objective of this initiative is to select, prepare, permit, and repair idle wells for early-stage FORGE technology and methodology testing prior to or in lieu of testing in the FORGE Utah wells. These wells will be closely linked to the FORGE effort, contributing to the overall goals and mission of the FORGE initiative by enabling higher-risk technology testing.Topic Area 2 – Amplify (EGS Near-Field RD&D): This field validation effort will culminate in new power production, adding to the economic viability of these existing geothermal fields and illustrating that near-field EGS can be successfully deployed now and that low permeability/unproductive wells near existing hydrothermal fields can be turned into valuable assets using EGS techniques. | Full Proposal: 4/6/2020 | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! | |
NSF | NSF 20-042 | With this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), the Directorate for Engineering and the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences of the National Science Foundation announce their interest in receiving EArly-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) proposals to support research in fundamental theory, design, algorithm, and experimental verification of RF, analog, and mixed-signal techniques that will significantly enhance and ensure the security of electronic devices. To encourage convergence in research, PIs are expected to submit proposals demonstrating complementary expertise to tackle the challenging security problems involving multiple disciplines.Examples of research topics include novel RF, analog, and mixed-signal approaches to:address the security vulnerability caused by electromagnetic emissions;address the security vulnerability originated from the power management circuits;ensure secure communications and sensing within the RF spectrum from kHz to THz;ensure trusted microelectronics going through multiple phases of design, fabrication, packaging, and validation;explore advanced materials and devices that can enhance and ensure security.For consideration for funding in Fiscal Year 2020, proposals must be submitted by April 6, 2020. | Full Proposal: 4/6/2020 | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! | |
NSF | NSF 20-552 | The goal of this solicitation is to support fundamental research and education of a future workforce that will enable Future Manufacturing: manufacturing that either does not exist today or exists only at such small scales that it is not viable. Future Manufacturing will require the design and deployment of diverse new technologies for synthesis and sensing, and new algorithms for manufacturing new materials, chemicals, devices, components and systems. It will require new advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning, new cyber infrastructure, new approaches for mathematical and computational modeling, new dynamics and control methodologies, new ways to integrate systems biology, synthetic biology and bioprocessing, and new ways to influence the economy, workforce, human behavior, and society.Among this array of technologies and potential research subjects, three thrust areas have been identified for support in FY 2020 under this solicitation:Future Cyber Manufacturing Research,Future Eco Manufacturing Research, andFuture Biomanufacturing Research.This solicitation seeks proposals to perform fundamental research to enable new manufacturing capabilities in one or more of these thrust areas.This solicitation will support the following three award tracks:Future Manufacturing Research Grants (FMRG) - Two types of awards will be supported in FY 2020:Type I: $500,000 to $750,000 per year for up to five years,Type II: $750,000 to $2,000,000 per year for up to five years;Future Manufacturing Seed Grants (FMSG) - Awards in this track will provide support for up to two years at a level not to exceed $250,000 per year; andFuture Manufacturing Networks (FMNet) - Awards in this track will provide up to five years of support at a total amount of $500,000. | LOI: 4/10/2020 Full Proposal: 6/5/2020 | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! | |
American Made Challenges | - | The Fish Protection Prize is catalyzing new solutions, designs, and strategies to protect fish from water infrastructure, such as water diversions and pipes, and intakes at hydropower dams. We’re seeking innovative ideas to advance fish exclusion technology.Competitors can propose solutions for any fish species found in the United States and that can be applied to river and irrigation canal diversions, unscreened diversion pipes for irrigation or municipal water supplies, cooling water intakes of power plants, or dam intakes. New ideas for addressing fish exclusion or improvements to existing technologies are also welcome.While the prize is soliciting solutions of all shapes and sizes, organizers identified the following six topic areas as having the greatest potential for successful and cost-effective fish exclusion:Sensory deterrents (e.g., acoustic and visual)Turbulence and velocity-based deterrentsCombination stimulus barriersDiversion or intake layouts/geometryFish screen materials or coatingsFish screen cleaning methods.Innovators will compete for $700,000 of combined cash prizes and voucher support to help protect fish from these threats. As many as three winners will be selected. | Important Dates CONCEPT Stage Open: January 27, 2020 CONCEPT Stage Close: April 24, 2020 Anticipated CONCEPT Stage Winner Notification: May 2019 Anticipated INCUBATION Stage Open: June 2020 Anticipated INCUBATION Submission Close: August 2020 Anticipated PITCH CONTEST Stage Open: September 2020 Anticipated Winners Announced: September 2020 | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! | |
NSF | NSF 20-540 | Research activities will be focused on explicit topics involving some of the most challenging questions in the general area of Mathematical and Scientific Foundations of Deep Learning. Each collaboration will conduct training through research involvement of recent doctoral degree recipients, graduate students, and/or undergraduate students from across this multi-disciplinary spectrum. Annual meetings of the Principal Investigators (“PIs”) and other principal researchers involved in the collaborations will be held at the Simons Foundation in New York City. This program complements NSF's National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes program by supporting collaborative research focused on the mathematical and scientific foundations of Deep Learning through a different modality and at a different scale. Anticipated Type of Award: Continuing GrantEstimated Number of Awards: 2NSF and the Simons Foundation expect to co-fund two projects.Anticipated Funding Amount: $20,000,000 | LOI: 3/20/2020 Full Proposal: 4/30/2020 | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! | |
DOE | DE-FOA-0002245 | BOTTLE: Bio-Optimized Technologies to keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills and the Environment | DOE’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) develops technologies that convert domestic biomass and waste resources into fuels, products, and power to enable affordable energy, economic growth, and innovation in renewable energy and chemicals production. DOE’s Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) develops technologies that drive energy productivity improvements in the U.S. manufacturing sector, efficiently utilize abundant and available domestic energy resources, and support the manufacture of clean energy products with benefits extending across the economy. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) will support high-impact technology research and development (R&D) to enable the development of technologies that overcome the challenges associated with plastic waste.Topic Areas include:1) Highly Recyclable or Biodegradable Plastics: develop new plastics that have improved performance attributes over a comparable existing plastic that can be cost-effectively recycled or biodegrade completely in the environment or in compost facilities.2) Novel Methods for Deconstructing and Upcycling Existing Plastics: generate energy efficient recycling technologies (mechanical, chemical, or biological) that are capable of breaking plastic streams into intermediates which can be upgraded into higher value products.3) BOTTLE Consortium Collaborations to Tackle Challenges in Plastic Waste: create collaborations with the Bio-Optimized Technologies to Keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills and the Environment (BOTTLE) Laboratory Consortium to further the long-term goals of the Consortium and the Plastics Innovation Challenge.Awards1 Highly Recyclable or Biodegradable Plastics3-5 awards$1.5-$2.5 million (minimum - maximum)$8 million total funding estimated2 Novel Methods for Deconstructing and Upcycling Existing Plastics3-5 awards$1.5-$2.5 million (minimum - maximum)$8 million total funding estimated3 BOTTLE Consortium Collaborations to Tackle Challenges in Plastic Waste4-6 awards$1.5-$2.5 million (minimum - maximum)$9 milliontotal funding estimated | Concept Paper: 4/22/2020 Full Proposal: 6/18/2020 | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! |
NSF | - | The submitted Idea Machine entries were in the form of short concept outlines and videos rather than full-length research proposals. To develop these conceptual descriptions into actionable research agendas that include sets of specific research questions, NSF seeks proposals for catalytic activities in the form of:Conferences that bring together those interested in shaping any or a group of these top 33 broad ideas into actionable research themes, or new long-term research programs.EAGER projects to extend, develop and test concepts from among the top 33 ideas that are ripe for early stage, transformative research.Opportunities for participation by undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, K-12 students, industry representatives, and others are encouraged. NSF welcomes proposals that include efforts to broaden participation of underrepresented groups (women, minorities, and persons with disabilities) in the development of the research agendas. Reflecting the Idea Machine concept, NSF seeks proposals on topics that cross disciplinary boundaries.Conference proposals: March 15, 2020EAGER Research Concept Outlines: March 1, 2020EAGER proposals: April 30, 2020 | EAGER proposals: April 30, 2020 | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! | |
NSF | NSF 20-550 | The General Social Survey (GSS) is a nationally representative interview survey of the United States adult population that collects data on a wide range of topics: behavioral items such as group membership and participation; personal psychological evaluations including measures of well-being, misanthropy, and life satisfaction; attitudinal questions on such public issues as crime and punishment, race relations, gender roles, and spending priorities; and demographic characteristics of respondents and their parents. The GSS has provided data on contemporary American society since 1972, serving as a barometer of social change and trends in attitudes, behaviors, and attributes of the United States adult population. In 1984, the GSS stimulated cross-national research by collaborating with Australia, Britain, and Germany to develop data collection programs modeled on the GSS. This program of comparative cross-national research, called the International Social Survey Program (ISSP), now includes 43 nations and enables researchers and analysts to place findings and trends from the United States within a comparative context.Since its inception, the GSS has completed 32 in-person, cross-sectional surveys of the adult household population of the United States with response rates that exceed 60 percent. The survey is currently fielded biennially. Data from the GSS are made available to scholars, students and the public for research, analysis and educational activities within 12 months of data collection.The Sociology Program in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences expects to make one award for the next four-year funding cycle, fiscal years 2021-2024, to support the 2022 and 2024 GSS and the U.S. component of the ISSP survey. We anticipate an award in the range of $14 million and at most $16 million over four years to support two waves of data collection, dissemination activities, and outreach. The expected starting date is August 2021. | LOI: 6/1/2020 Full Proposal: 8/17/2020 | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! | |
NSF | NSF 20-556 | Next-generation multimodal sensor systems for precision health integrated with AI, machine learning (ML), and mathematical and statistical (MS) methods for learning can be envisioned for harnessing a large volume of diverse data in real time with high accuracy, sensitivity and selectivity, and for building predictive models to enable more precise diagnosis and individualized treatments. It is expected that these multimodal sensor systems will have the potential to identify with high confidence combinations of biomarkers, including kinematic and kinetic indicators associated with specific disease and disability. This focused solicitation seeks high-risk/high-return interdisciplinary research on novel concepts, innovative methodologies, theory, algorithms, and enabling technologies that will address the fundamental scientific issues and technological challenges associated with precision health.Individual projects will be funded up to $750,000 for three years depending on the availability of funds. | Full Proposal: 6/8/2020 | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! | |
American Made Challenges | - | The American-Made Geothermal Manufacturing Prize (Geothermal Prize) is designed to spur innovation and address manufacturing challenges fundamental to operating in harsh geothermal environments. This prize further supports the ability of the geothermal industry to reach the target of 60 GWe of geothermal capacity by 2050 as outlined in the recently released GeoVision study . The Geothermal Prize is a series of four progressive competitions that harness the rapid advances that additive manufacturing can provide in tool design, fabrication, and functionality. It incentivizes innovators and entrepreneurs to discover new advanced manufacturing solutions. This rapid, scalable approach to prototype development not only provides cash prizes, but also engages America’s unique innovation ecosystem to help participants achieve their goals. April 20, 2020: Contest open for submissionsJuly 20, 2020: Submission deadline | Full Application: 7/20/2020 | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! | |
NIH | RFA-AG-21-018 | This FOA invites applications to create an Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratories for Aging Research Coordinating Center (AITCC), serving the needs of NIA and the NIA’s Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratories for Aging (AITC). The AITCC will serve as a hub for the AITC program and will facilitate and coordinate trans-AITC activities. The AITCC will also provide overarching support and advice to AITCs in the following domains: (1) setting ethical research standards involving older Americans and cognitivelyimpaired older Americans who will be exposed to technology and artificial intelligence methods; (2) providing assistance through the preparation of background instructions and submission templates to ensure compliance with laws and FDA regulations and facilitate approval of technology and products associated with artificial intelligence; (3) preparing background instructions and submission templates to assist AITC pilot investigators with reimbursement of technology through insurers; (4) assisting pilot recipients with scaling, dissemination, and commercialization of artificial intelligence and technology products derived from AITCs or other NIA-funded grants; and (5) disseminating AITC scientific and product advances to the broader lay audience, scientific community, and commercial market. | LOI: 9/1/2020 Full Proposal: 10/1/2020 | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! | |
NSF | NSF 20-553 | The ERC program supports convergent research that will lead to strong societal impact. Each ERC has interacting foundational components that go beyond the research project, including engineering workforce development at all participant stages, a culture of diversity and inclusion where all participants gain mutual benefit, and value creation within an innovation ecosystem that will outlast the lifetime of the ERC. The logical reasoning that links the proposed activities to the identified goals for each ERC should be clear. | LOI: 9/2/2020 Pre-Proposal: 10/2/2020 Full Proposal: 5/7/2021 | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! |
Proposals Accepted Anytime
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NSF | - | Critical Aspects of Sustainability (CAS): Micro- and Nanoplastics (MNP) | This Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) encourages the submission of proposals that tackle some of the fundamental scientific questions underlying micro- and nanoplastic characterization, behavior, and reactivity in the environment (including animal and human health), as well as their elimination from land and water systems.The degradation pathways of micro- and nanoplastics through photochemistry, ingestion, or microbial interactions are incompletely understood. Additionally, micro- and nanoplastics may adsorb and concentrate hazardous pollutants or acquire coatings of biofilms that affect their fate. Nanosized plastic particles may have very different properties than the larger microplastic particles in terms of environmental fate, aggregation, and sedimentation, and thus individual and ensemble characterization may be needed. Nanoplastics may cross the blood-brain and gut-blood barrier and present unique health concerns.3 Due to their small size and the complex sampling environments, reproducible analytical techniques are needed to understand the structure-property relationships of micro- and nanoplastic particles as well as their behavior in their environment.Sustainable solutions to the plastic waste problem require creative approaches from many scientific disciplines, to reduce the burden and harmful effects of micro- and nanoplastics and ensure our ability to track their fate in the environment.Several Directorates/Offices/Divisions participate in this DCL and welcome the submission of proposals on this topic, though each division will only accept proposals of a certain type, as described in the corresponding sections in the link above. | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! |
Lehigh | - | Support faculty groups that are ready to build research programs with promise of becoming loci of collective strength. | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! | |
Lehigh | - | Support members of the Lehigh faculty engaged in ideation, exploration, and planning substantial multi-faculty research ventures, including setting the stage for more boldly interdisciplinary work. | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! | |
NSF | NSF 19-1638 | The program's context is provided by ongoing and emerging changes in three interwoven elements of a community: its population, its built environment (critical infrastructures, physical and virtual spaces, and buildings and related structures) and the hazards and disasters to which it is exposed. The HDBE program seeks research that integrates these elements and that can contribute to theories that hold over a broad range of scales and conditions. Examples include but are not limited to unified frameworks and theoretical models that encompass non-hazard to extreme hazard and disaster conditions, theoretical and empirical studies that consider how interactions between a community's population and its built environment may suppress or amplify hazard exposure or its effects, and studies that seek to inform scholarship through the development of shared data and related resources. In these and other areas funded through the HDBE program, research that challenges conventional wisdom on the interactions among humans, the built environment and hazards and disasters is particularly encouraged. Given the richness of the phenomena under study, the HDBE program seeks research that advances theories, methods and data within and across diverse disciplines, whether in engineering, the social sciences, computing or other relevant fields. Ultimately, research funded through this program is expected to inform how communities can cultivate and engage a broad range of physical, social and other resources to ensure improved quality of life for their inhabitants. | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! | |
NSF | NSF 19-078 | Supplemental Funding Opportunity to Support Student Design Projects Directly Related to NSF Research | NSF will consider supplemental funding requests to support student design projects connected to active NSF grants. The goals of these supplements are the following: To connect student design projects to innovative, NSF-supported research and the latest advances in engineering science. To expose students to the discovery process of research while preparing them for their roles in the engineering workforce. To provide a team of students with the funds necessary to pursue the design process, from need finding, industry and customer discovery, through prototyping and validation. Participating Divisions - Directorate for Engineering Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET) Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) Electrical, Communications, and Cyber Systems (ECCS) The maximum amount of funding per supplement will be $4,000. Supplemental funding requests may be submitted at any time. However, sufficient time must be allowed (e.g. a minimum of 8 weeks) to permit review and recommendation in advance of the project's initiation. | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! |
NSF | NSF 19-9102 | This program seeks to support basic research through core disciplinary programs aimed at improving the sustainability of resources for future generations while maintaining or improving current products in order to offer technologically-advanced, economically competitive, environmentally-benign and useful materials to a global society. In order to address these challenges, the program aims to identify opportunities for innovation in a wide range of contributing disciplines as well as integrative activities. This program encourages the development of new experimental and theoretical/modeling approaches that will aid in both reductionist and whole-systems approaches. This program welcomes proposals in any area of research supported through the participating divisions that address the topics outlined below. The Division of Chemistry (CHE/MPS) The Division of Materials Research (DMR/MPS) The Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems Division (CBET/ENG) Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI/ENG) Due dates vary, please click the link to the left to learn more. | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! | |
NSF | NSF19-095Y | With the NSF Convergence Accelerator, NSF's goals are: (i) to pilot a new NSF capability to accelerate use-inspired convergence research in areas of national importance, and (ii) to initiate convergence team-building capacity around exploratory, potentially high-risk proposals in specific convergence topics (tracks). The NSF Convergence Accelerator supports use-inspired, goal-oriented, basic research, encouraging rapid advances through partnerships that include multiple stakeholders (e.g., industry, academic, not-for-profits, government entities, and others). Full Proposal Accepted Anytime Due dates will be announced via Dear Colleague Letters, Program Announcements, and Solicitations. | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! | |
NSF | NSF 19-7680 | BPE focuses on enhancing the diversity and inclusion of all underrepresented populations in engineering, including gender identity and expression, race and ethnicity (African Americans/Blacks, Hispanic Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders), disability, LGBTQ+, first generation college and socio-economic status. BPE funds research to Understand and analyze the systemic barriers that prevent underrepresented groups from pursuing and succeeding in engineering. Understand and analyze factors that enhance our ability to increase access to engineering by creating support systems and social networks that raise career awareness about different engineering pathways. Develop innovative methods and projects to significantly impact the recruitment and retention of engineering students from underrepresented groups. Develop innovative methods and projects to aggressively recruit and retain tenure track faculty from underrepresented groups. Design and transform culture to make diversity, equity, and inclusion a priority in the engineering enterprise. | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! | |
NSF | NSF 18-7607 | The EPCN Program's goal is to encourage research on emerging technologies and applications including energy, transportation, robotics, and biomedical devices & systems. EPCN also emphasizes electric power systems, including generation, transmission, storage, and integration of renewable energy sources into the grid; power electronics and drives; battery management systems; hybrid and electric vehicles; and understanding of the interplay of power systems with associated regulatory & economic structures and with consumer behavior. | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! | |
NSF | NSF 19-1631 | The CIS program supports fundamental and innovative research in the design, operation and management of civil infrastructure that contributes to creating smart, sustainable and resilient communities at local, national and international scales. This program focuses on civil infrastructure as a system in which interactions between spatially- and functionally- distributed components and intersystem connections exist. All critical civil infrastructure systems are of interest, including transportation, power, water, pipelines and others. | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! | |
NYSERDA | PON 4074 | Electric Power Transmission and Distribution (EPTD) High Performing Grid | Promotes the development of a high performing smart grid that accommodates a diverse supply of clean energy generation resources, enhances overall electric grid performance, and enables customers to reduce their energy costs, energy consumption, and environmental impacts. Up to $30 million is available to support research and engineering studies, product development and demonstration projects that improve the resiliency, reliability, efficiency, quality, and overall performance of the electric power delivery system in New York State. Concept papers or proposals must demonstrate significant statewide public benefits and quantify all energy, environmental and economic impacts. | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! |
NSF | NSF 19-051 | This Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) is aligned with NSF's Harnessing the Data Revolution Big Idea, and aims to build capacity across disciplinary boundaries, in preparation for larger scale investments at the intersection of computational, agricultural, and biological sciences. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Methods for analyzing existing, large datasets, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computer vision, for example, leveraging environmental, imaging, and genomic data; Models for genetic x environment x management x socioeconomic interactions (G x E x M x S) in order to predict livestock, aquaculture, and plant phenotypic outcomes and sustainability—such as yield, survivability, resistance to environmental stressors, pest resistance, drought resistance, and nutritional value; Data storage, management, and integration across a range of data types to enable a systems-level approach, including integration of big data in real-time systems; Wired and wireless networking challenges in rural settings, including computation at the edge; Security, privacy, and management for access and sharing of farm and community data; and Learning science innovations, which may include development of computational skills for biological and agricultural science majors, and communities of agricultural practice for a diverse and innovative future workforce. Proposals pursuant to this DCL may be submitted to one of the three programs listed below: Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) program; Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS): Core Programs—Information Integration and Informatics (III) program; and Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC) program. | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! | |
NSF | NSF 20-0016 | The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) invites grantees with active CISE awards to submit requests for Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Supplements, following the guidelines in the REU Sites and Supplements solicitation (NSF 19-582). CISE also invites grantees with active CISE awards to submit requests for Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Supplements, following the guidelines in the RET in Engineering and Computer Science: Supplements and Sites solicitation (NSF 19-575). Requests will be considered as they are received. CISE strongly encourages the submission of requests before March 30, 2020; the potential for funding requests after this date may be limited. | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! | |
EDA | EDA-2019-DISASTER | This investment assistance will help communities and regions devise and implement long-term economic recovery strategies through a variety of non-construction and construction projects, as appropriate, to address economic challenges in areas where a Presidential declaration of a major disaster was issued under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. § 5121 et seq.) (Stafford Act) ""as a result of Hurricanes Florence, Michael, and Lane, Typhoons Yutu and Mangkhut, and of wildfires, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and other natural disasters occurring in calendar year 2018, and tornadoes and floods occurring in calendar year 2019..."". To be competitive, applications must clearly incorporate principles for enhancing the resilience of the relevant community/region or demonstrate the integration of resilience principles into the investment project itself. Resilience is an essential component of any strategy for mitigating the potential for future disaster-related losses and adverse economic impacts for communities. Therefore, inclusion of resilience principles in the project is a necessary step to improve the capacity of the region to recover more quickly from future disaster events. Applicants must include a narrative attachment as a part of their application materials, describing in detail the nexus between their proposed project scope of work and disaster recovery and resilience efforts. The strength of the nexus to the disaster is drawn from the consequences of the relevant disaster(s) and the intended project outcomes that fulfill the community’s specific post-disaster needs. | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! | |
NSF | PD 20-144Y | The focus of the Robotics program is on foundational advances in robotics. Robotics is a deeply interdisciplinary field, and proposals are encouraged that explore the full range of fundamental engineering and computer science research challenges arising in robotics. However, all proposals must convincingly explain how a successful outcome will enable transformative new robot functionality or substantially enhance existing robot functionality. The proposal should clearly articulate how the intellectual contribution of the proposed work addresses fundamental gaps in robotics. Meaningful experimental validation on a physical platform is strongly encouraged. Projects that do not represent a direct fundamental contribution to robotics should not be submitted to the Robotics program.Program Will Accept Proposals Anytime After August 1, 2020 | Interested? Click here to connect with potential collaborators! |