February 17, 2023 Federal Funding Opportunities
U.S. Department of Agriculture; National Institute of Food and Agriculture Secondary Education, Two-Year Postsecondary Education, and Agriculture in the K-12 Classroom Challenge Grants Program applications due April 5, 2023 The Secondary Education, Two-Year Postsecondary Education, and Agriculture in the K-12 Classroom Challenge Grants (SPECA) program seeks to promote and strengthen secondary education and two-year postsecondary education in the food and agriculture sciences in order to help ensure the existence of a workforce in the U.S. that’s qualified to serve the food and agriculture sciences system, and promote complementary and synergistic linkages among secondary, two-year postsecondary, and higher education programs in the food and agriculture sciences in order to advance excellence in education and encourage more young Americans to pursue and complete a baccalaureate or higher degree in the food and agriculture sciences.
U.S. Department of Agriculture; National Institute of Food and Agriculture Integrated Research, Education, and Extension Competitive Grants Program – Organic Transitions applications due April 27, 2023 This competitive grant program provides funding for integrated, multifunctional agricultural research, extension, and education activities. Integrated projects aim to resolve problems through the application of science-based knowledge and address needs identified by stakeholders. Organic transition projects should include research and at least one of the other two functions of the agricultural knowledge system (Extension, and Education) focused on a problem or issue. Research applications are sought in the following areas:
- Priority 1: Document and understand the effects of organic practices on soil health and fertility; greenhouse gas mitigation; enhanced biodiversity; and understanding of weeds, pests and diseases dynamics for better management to help systems adapt to climate change, build resilience of the organic farming system, protect water and other resources, and provide other ecosystem services.
- Priority 2: Develop improved technologies, methods, models, and metrics to document, describe, and optimize the ecosystem services and the climate change adaptation and mitigation ability of organic crop, livestock, and integrated crop-livestock production systems.
- Priority 3: Develop cultural practices and other allowable alternatives to substances recommended for removal from the National Organic Program’s National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances.
- Priority 4: Overcome barriers to organic transition.
U.S. Department of Agriculture; National Institute of Food and Agriculture releases request for applications for Agriculture and Food Research Initiative’s Foundational and Applied Sciences Program The Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Foundational and Applied Science Program supports grants in the following six AFRI priority areas to advance knowledge in both fundamental and applied sciences important to agriculture: Plant Health and Production and Plant Products; Animal Health and Production and Animal Products; Food Safety, Nutrition, and Health; Bioenergy, Natural Resources, and Environment; Agriculture Systems and Technology; and Agriculture Economics and Rural Communities.
U.S. Department of Commerce; National Institute of Standards and Technology Precision Measurement Grant Program abbreviated applications due March 22, 2023 The Precision Measurement Grants Program (PMGP) supports significant research in the field of fundamental measurement or the determination of fundamental constants.
U.S. Department of Defense Defense University Research Instrumentation Program proposals due May 12, 2023 The central purpose of the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) is to provide equipment and instrumentation to enhance research related education in areas of interest and priority to the Department of Defense. Proposals must address the impact of the equipment or instrumentation on an institution’s ability to educate students through research in disciplines important to U.S. Department of Defense missions.
U.S. Department of Education; Office of Postsecondary Education: International Foreign Language Education Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program Short-Term and Long-Term Projects applications due March 27, 2023 This program provides grants to support overseas projects in training, research, and curriculum development in modern foreign languages and area studies for teachers, students, and faculty engaged in a common endeavor. Short-term projects may include short-term seminars, curriculum development, group research or study, or advanced intensive language programs. Long-term projects are advanced overseas intensive language programs designed by the applicant that may be carried out during a full year, an academic year, a semester, a trimester, a quarter, or a summer. GPA long-term projects provide participants an opportunity to use and strengthen their advanced language training while experiencing the culture in the foreign country.
U.S. Department of Education; Office of Postsecondary Education: International Foreign Language Education: Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship Program applications due April 11, 2023 The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship Program provides opportunities for doctoral students to engage in dissertation research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies. The program is designed to contribute to the development and improvement of the study of modern foreign languages and area studies in the U.S.
U.S. Department of Energy; Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Large Wind Turbine Materials and Manufacturing concept papers due March 23, 2023 The goals of this funding opportunity are to:
- Further develop broad, foundational, manufacturing “platform” technologies and address gaps and barriers that are currently limiting use of composite materials in clean energy and decarbonization-related applications with wind energy applications.
- Enable additive manufacturing processes for rapid prototyping, tooling, fabrication, and testing of large wind blades.
- Apply additive manufacturing to non-blade wind turbine components.
- Mature nascent technologies, processes, and methods that improve one or more aspects of advanced composites manufacturing, including automation, and sustainability (including recycling) of these materials.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Agency for Health Care Research and Quality Supporting the Management of Substance Use Disorders in Primary Care and other Ambulatory Settings applications due April 14, 2023 The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality seeks applications that develop and test strategies to improve the capacity of primary care and ambulatory care settings to provide evidence-based, patient-centered care for people who misuse opioids and other substances. The initiative will build on recent research on effective treatments and effective models of care and lead to sustainable changes in how substance use disorder care is delivered in primary care and/or develop lasting partnerships between primary care and other care settings.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Agency for Health Care Research and Quality Dissemination and Implementation of Equity-Focused Evidence-Based Interventions in Healthcare Delivery Systems applications due April 21, 2023 The purpose of this funding opportunity is to seek applications using dissemination and implementation science to fill evidence gaps critical to the development, adaption, implementation, and evaluation of equity-focused evidence-based interventions (EFEBIs) to accelerate health equity within healthcare delivery systems. Programs should build new evidence regarding the implementation and effectiveness of EFEBIs to address disparities and advance equitable care in healthcare delivery systems.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Health Resources and Services Administration Advanced Nursing Education Workforce Program applications due April 7, 2023 The purpose of the Advanced Nursing Education Workforce Program is to increase the number of primary care nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, and certified nurse midwives trained and prepared to provide primary care services, mental health and substance use disorder care, and/or maternal health care. Grants will support the training and graduation of advanced practice registered nursing students/trainees in these disciplines. Awardees will provide tuition and other eligible supports to trainees, build academic-clinical partnerships to facilitate clinical training, and continue to develop and sustain clinical faculty and preceptors as needed.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Advanced Nursing Education Nurse Practitioner Residency and Fellowship Program applications due April 11, 2023 The purpose of this program is to prepare new Advanced Practice Registered Nurses to effectively provide primary care by supporting the establishment, expansion and/or enhancement of existing community-based Nurse Practitioner (NP) residency and fellowship training programs that are accredited or in the accreditation process. The program also focuses on the integration of behavioral health and/or maternal health into primary care by training new primary care providers (adult, family, adult gerontology, pediatric and women’s health NPs), behavioral health providers (psychiatric/mental health NPs) and/or Certified Nurse Midwives to transition from education completion to practice, in community-based settings.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; National Institutes of Health Community Level Interventions to Improve Minority Health and Reduce Health Disparities applications due July 7, 2023 The purpose of this initiative is to support research to develop and test community-level interventions to improve minority health and reduce health disparities. This initiative will emphasize research priorities that can be addressed through community-engaged research approaches to assess and intervene on health determinants beyond the individual level, at the interpersonal, family, organizational, neighborhood, community, and societal levels.
NEW: National Science Foundation Growing Research Access for Nationally Transformative Equity and Diversity The National Science Foundation seeks to encourage nationally transformative ideas and scalable models to strengthen the Nation’s research enterprise, particularly at emerging research and minority-serving institutions. Broadly defined, the research enterprise includes human capital, practices and processes related to research development, research administration, technology transfer and commercialization, corporate relation/public-private partnerships, research integrity, compliance and security, research policy, student research training, and research leadership. In the past several decades, the complexity of managing externally funded activities has increased significantly. The recent pandemic has exacerbated this issue through increased attrition of research enterprise professionals and additional budget constraints. Insufficient resources hinder institutional ability to develop and manage externally funded projects, reducing the opportunity to fully realize the outcomes from creativity present in all the Nation’s institutions of higher education and their partners. Growing Research Access for Nationally Transformative Equity and Diversity (GRANTED), a new NSF-wide initiative, will seek to address these issues.
NEW: National Science Foundation Accelerating Research Translation proposals due May 9, 2023 The aim of the new Accelerating Research Translation (ART) program is to increase the scale and pace of advancing discoveries made while conducting academic research into tangible solutions that benefit the public. Specifically, the primary goals of this program are to build capacity and infrastructure for translational research at institutions of higher education (IHEs) and to enhance their role in regional innovation ecosystems. In addition, this program seeks to effectively train graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in translational research, benefiting them across a range of career options. This solicitation seeks proposals that enable IHE-based teams to propose a blend of:
- Activities that will help build and/or strengthen the institutional infrastructure to sustainably grow the institutional capacity for research translation in the short and long terms;
- Educational/training opportunities, especially for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, to become entrepreneurs and/or seek use-inspired and/or translational research-oriented careers in the public and/or private sectors; and
- Specific, translational research activities that offer immediate opportunities for transition to practice to create economic and/or societal impact.
National Science Foundation Professional Formation of Engineers: Revolutionizing Engineering Departments proposals due May 10, 2023 Revolutionizing Engineering Departments is designed to build upon previous efforts in engineering education research. Projects will develop radically new approaches among multiple two-year institutions to expand the path to engineering and engineering technology four-year programs from two-year institutions with programs such as pre-engineering, engineering and engineering technology. Projects will include consideration of the cultural, organizational, structural, and pedagogical changes needed to transform the department to one in which students are engaged, develop their technical and professional skills, and establish identities as professional engineers. The focus of projects should be on the department’s disciplinary courses and program.
National Science Foundation Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems proposals due September 7, 2023 The Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) program aims to harness the power of open-source development for the creation of new technology solutions to problems of national and societal importance. The overarching vision of POSE is that proactive and intentional formation of managing organizations will ensure a broader and more diverse adoption of open-source products; increased coordination of external intellectual content developer contributions; and a more focused route to technologies with broad societal impact. Toward this end, the POSE program supports the formation of new open-source ecosystems (OSE) managing organizations based on an existing open-source product or class of products, whereby each organization is responsible for the creation and management of processes and infrastructure needed for the efficient and secure development and maintenance of an OSE.
