July 31, 2023
Federal Funding Opportunities
The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) supports field-initiated research to build knowledge and understanding of education practice and policy that will help improve education experiences and outcomes for all learners across the lifespan in the U.S. Through this program, IES supports both basic and applied research that contributes to scientific knowledge and theory of teaching, learning, and organizing education systems; yields outcomes and products that are useful to learners and the educators and education institutions that serve them; and informs stakeholders about the cost and practical benefits and effects of programs, practices, and policies on relevant outcomes. IES will consider applications that address one of the following topics:
- Career and Technical Education
- Civics Education and Social Studies
- Cognition and Student Learning
- Early Learning Programs and Policies
- Improving Education Systems
- Literacy
- Policies, Practices, and Programs to Support English Learners
- Postsecondary and Adult Education
- Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education
- Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Context for Teaching and Learning
- Teaching, Teachers, and the Education Workforce
This program supports rigorous special education research that addresses practical problems and issues facing learners with or at risk for disabilities, their families, practitioners, and policymakers. IES encourages a broad range of research, including studies that may have more than one research focus, such as reading and behavior, and may focus broadly on students with disabilities or on a particular disability, such as autism spectrum disorders. The range of research supported through this program includes, but is not limited to, programs to improve child development and school readiness; academic and/or behavioral interventions; instructional practices and/or professional development programs for teachers and other school-based personnel; strategies for improving the family support and engagement critical to the success of students with disabilities; policies and systems-level interventions and programs to address school finance, school-community collaborations, or school structures that affect educational progress for students with disabilities; transition from secondary school to postsecondary education, career, and/or independent living; as well as access to, persistence in, and completion of postsecondary education.
This program prepares researchers to conduct rigorous and relevant early intervention and special education research. The intention is to support investigators in the early stages of their academic careers who have an established interest in special education research and to prepare them for an independent research career focused on learners with or at risk of disabilities. Under this program, investigators complete an integrated research and career development plan with guidance from experienced mentors.
The purpose of this program is to equitably improve postsecondary student outcomes, including retention, transfer, credit accumulation, and completion, by leveraging data and implementing, scaling, and rigorously evaluating evidence-based activities to support data-driven decisions and actions by institutional leaders committed to inclusive student success.
This opportunity is part of the National Institutes of Health Helping to End Addictions Long-term (HEAL) initiative to accelerate the development of novel medications to treat all aspects of the opioid addiction cycle, including progression to chronic use, withdrawal symptoms, craving, relapse, and overdose. This specific funding opportunity will support research focusing on the identification of druggable new targets and discovery of optimizable probes for development of safe and efficacious medications to prevent and treat opioid use disorders, opioid overdose, and opioid-polysubstance use comorbidities.
The overarching goal of this program is to encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research workforce, to pursue further studies or careers in research by supporting creative educational activities with a primary focus on courses for skills development, research experiences, and mentoring activities. The fully integrated educational activities should prepare undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds to enter Ph.D. degree programs in the neurosciences. To accomplish this institutional awards will be provided to develop neuroscience research education programs comprised of collaborative partnerships integrated across different educational institution types. Each partnership must include:
- one or more institutions that either have a historical and current mission to educate students from any of the populations that have been identified as underrepresented in biomedical research or have a documented track record of recruiting, training and/or educating, and graduating underrepresented students, which has resulted in a historically documented contribution by the institution to the national pool of graduates from underrepresented backgrounds who pursue biomedical research careers;
- a research-intensive institution that has an established neuroscience or neuroscience-related program;
- integrated curriculum/academic enhancement and research experience activities designed to increase participants’ preparation to enter doctoral programs in the neurosciences; and
- well-described plans to provide early communication and interaction between participating students and graduate neuroscience programs across the country.
This program supports research that examines technology and its relationship to society through the lens of the humanities, with a focus on the dangers and/or opportunities presented by technology, broadly defined. The National Endowment for the Humanities is particularly interested in projects that examine the role of technology in shaping current social and cultural issues.
The Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems (DISES) Program supports research projects that advance basic scientific understanding of integrated socio-environmental systems and the complex interactions within and among the environmental and human components of such a system. The program seeks proposals that emphasize the truly integrated nature of a socio-environmental system versus two discrete systems (a natural one and a human one) that are coupled. DISES projects must explore a connected and integrated socio-environmental system that includes explicit analysis of the processes and dynamics between the environmental and human components of the system.
