U.S. National Science Foundation
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Funding opportunities
EDU Core Research: Building Capacity in STEM Education Research (ECR: BCSER)
ECR’s Building Capacity in STEM Education Research (ECR: BCSER) supports projects that build investigators’ capacity to carry out high-quality STEM education re...
Promoting Research and Innovation in Methodologies for Evaluation
The Promoting Research and Innovation in Methodologies for Evaluation (PRIME) program seeks to support research on evaluation with special emphasis on exploring...
Climate Change Education Partnership Alliance Office (CCEPA Office)
In FY 2012, NSF funded six Phase II Climate Change Education Partnership (CCEP-II) projects. The PI's, Co-PI's and significant partners of the six CCEP-II proje...
University Radio Observatories Program
The URO program provides support for operations, technical enhancements, scientific investigations, and student training at university-based radio facilities. A...
EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Track-2
The Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) is a program designed to fulfill the National Science Foundation's (NSF) mandate to promote...
Division of Environmental Biology
The Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) supports fundamental research on ecosystems. Scientific emphases range across many evolutionary and ecological patte...
Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards
The objective of the Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program is to support basic scientific research about the nature, causes and/or consequences of...
Ocean Sciences Research Initiation Grants
The Division of Ocean Sciences (OCE) offers Research Initiation Grants in an effort to increase the participation of under-represented groups in the ocean scien...
Ocean Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
The Division of Ocean Sciences (OCE) offers Postdoctoral Research Fellowships to increase the participation of under-represented groups in the ocean sciences. A...
Small Business Technology Transfer Program Phase I Solicitation FY-2013
The Small Business Technology Transfer program stimulates technological innovation in the private sector by strengthening the role of small business concerns in...
Computing Education for the 21st Century
The Computing Education for the 21st Century (CE21) program aims to build a robust computing research community, a computationally competent 21st century workfo...
Living Stock Collections for Biological Research
The Living Stock Collections for Biological Research (LSCBR) program supports improvements in and partial operation of existing collections of living organisms...
Education Programs in Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences
AGSEducation supports efforts to integrateatmospheric and geospaceresearch and education via two main program areas, which are: 1) Research Experiences for Unde...
National Robotics Initiative
The goal of the National Robotics Initiative is to accelerate the development and use of robots in the United States that work beside, or cooperatively with, pe...
NSF National Innovation Corps Teams (NSF National I-Corps (TM) Teams) program
The National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks to further develop and nurture a national innovation ecosystem that guides the output of scientific discoveries clos...
Long Term Research in Environmental Biology
The Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB) Program supports the generation of extended time series of data to address important questions in evolut...
Law & Science (LS)
The Law & Science Program considers proposals that address social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules, as well as studies of how science and...
Transitions to Excellence in Molecular and Cellular Biosciences Research
The Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB) has developed a new opportunity to enable researchers with a strong track record of prior accomplishmen...
Sustaining Infrastructure for Biological Research
The Sustaining Infrastructure for Biological Research (Sustaining) Program supports the continued operation of existing research infrastructure that advances co...
Expeditions in Training, Research, and Education for Mathematics and Statistics through Quantitative Explorations of Data
The long-range goal of EXTREEMS-QED is to support efforts to educate the next generation of mathematics and statistics undergraduate students to confront new ch...
Mathematical Sciences Infrastructure Program
The primary aim of the Mathematical Sciences Infrastructure Program is to foster the continuing health of the mathematical sciences research community as a whol...
Innovation Corps Sites Program
The National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks to develop and nurture a national innovation ecosystem that builds upon research to guide the output of scientific d...
Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase I Solicitation FY-2013
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program stimulates technological innovation in the private sector by strengthening the role of small business conc...
NSF Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Fellows
Through the SEES Fellows Program, NSF seeks to advance education to inform the societal actions needed for environmental and economic sustainability and human w...
Plant Biotic Interactions
The Plant Biotic Interactions (PBI) program supports research on the processes that mediate beneficial and antagonistic interactions between plants and their in...