NSF Funding Opportunities
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Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC)
Supports use-inspired research that addresses communities’ social, economic and environmental challenges. Projects must work with community stakeholders on pilots that integrate intelligent technologies with the natural and built environments.
- S&CC Planning Grants (SCC-PG) $150K for durations of one year
- S&CC Integrative Research Grants (SCC-IRG) Track 1 $2.5M for durations up to four years
- S&CC Integrative Research Grants (SCC-IRG) Track 2 $1.5M for durations up to three years
Expires: April 1, 2024
Research Infrastructure in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (RISBS)
Supports projects that create computational tools and data to facilitate basic research in the social and behavioral sciences that can lead to improved health, prosperity and security. The RISBS program administers separate solicitations for the American National Election Study (ANES), the General Social Survey (GSS) and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID).
Computer and Information Science and Engineering: Core Programs
Supports research and education projects that develop new knowledge in all aspects of computing, communications, and information science and engineering, as well as advanced cyberinfrastructure, through the following core programs:
- Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF): Algorithmic Foundations (AF) program; Communications and Information Foundations (CIF) program; Foundations of Emerging Technologies (FET) program; and Software and Hardware Foundations (SHF) program. +Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS): Computer Systems Research (CSR) program; and Networking Technology and Systems (NeTS) program.
- Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS): Human-Centered Computing (HCC) program; Information Integration and Informatics (III) program; and Robust Intelligence (RI) program.
- Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC): OAC Core Research (OAC Core) program.
Awards:
- Small Projects $600K for durations up to three years (CCF, CNS, and IIS only)
- Medium Projects $1.2M for durations up to four years (CCF, CNS, and IIS only)
- OAC Core Projects $600K for durations up to three years (OAC only)
Infrastructure Innovation for Biological Research (Innovation)
Supports research to design or improve research tools and methods with a focus on research infrastructure in three program areas: bioinformatics, instrumentation and research methods.
Award: The size and duration of any individual request should be justified by the amount and complexity of the work to be accomplished (up to approximately $500K-1M).
Rapidly Accelerating Research on Artificial Intelligence in K-12 Education in Formal and Informal Settings
Supports time-sensitive research including the development of AI tools and environments to advance age-appropriate equitable learning and inclusive teaching, support of learning about and interest in AI, use of AI to teach AI; and the integration of generative AI in education in an ethical, responsible, and effective way.
Award: $200K for durations up to one year
Energy, Power, Control, and Networks (EPCN)
Supports research in modeling, optimization, learning, adaptation and control of networked multi-agent systems; higher-level decision making; and dynamic resource allocation and risk management.
Award: The size and duration of any individual request should be justified by the amount and complexity of the work to be accomplished.
Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC)
Supports research addressing cybersecurity and privacy, drawing on expertise in one or more of these areas: computing, communication and information sciences; engineering; economics; education; mathematics; statistics; and social and behavioral sciences.
Awards:
- CORE and Transition to Practice (TTP) Small Projects $600K for durations up to three years
- CORE and TTP Medium Projects $1.2M for durations up to four years
- EDU Projects $400K for durations up to three years or $500K for durations up to three years for collaborations between a cybersecurity subject matter expert and an education researcher
Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E)
Supports research that uses new computational and data science approaches to advance knowledge and accelerate discovery in science and engineering.
Deadline: Depends on the Division; anytime or annually in the Fall
Award: The size and duration of any individual request should be justified by the amount and complexity of the work to be accomplished.
Condensed Matter and Materials Theory (CMMT)
Supports fundamental research and education on hard and soft materials and related phenomena; the development of associated analytical, computational and data-centric techniques; and predictive materials-specific theory, simulation and modeling.
Deadline: Accepted anytime (recommended to avoid April 15-June 15)
Award: The size and duration of any individual request should be justified by the amount and complexity of the work to be accomplished.
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Collaborations in Artificial Intelligence and Geosciences (CAIG)
Supports geoscience research, education and fellowships to advance the development and adoption of AI.
Deadline: March 15, 2024
Award: $250K-$1M for durations up to three years
Responsible Design, Development, and Deployment of Technologies (ReDDDoT)
Supports multidisciplinary, multi-sector teams that examine and demonstrate the principles, methodologies, implementations, and impacts associated with responsible design, development, and deployment of technologies in practice, focusing especially on the key technologies specified in Section 10387 of the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022. There are three priority areas: artificial intelligence, biotechnology, or natural and anthropogenic disaster prevention or mitigation.
Deadline: April 8, 2024 (Phase 1: Planning Grants, Translational Research Coordination Networks, Workshops); April 22, 204 (Phase 2: Project Proposals)
Award: $300K for durations up to 2 years for Planning Grants; $500K for durations of 3-4 years for Translational Research Coordination Networks; $75K for Workshops; $750K-$1.5M for durations of 3 years for Project Proposals
Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*)
Supports coordinated campus-level networking and cyberinfrastructure improvements for science applications and distributed research projects.
- Area (1) Data Driven Networking Infrastructure,
- Area (2) Computing and the Computing Continuum,
- Area (3) Network Integration and Applied Innovation,
- Area (4) Data Storage and Digital Archives, and
- Area (5) Strategy.
Deadline: April 22, 2024; October 15, 2024
Award: $100K - $1.4M depending on area for durations up to two years
Sustainable Regional Systems Research Networks (SRS RNs)
Supports multi-organizational teams to collaboratively produce convergent research, education and outreach that addresses grand challenges in sustainable regional systems.
Deadline: May 15, 2024
Award: $15M for durations up to 5 years
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
Supports research on engineered systems with a seamless integration of cyber and physical components, such as computation, control, networking, learning, autonomy, security, privacy and verification, for a range of application domains.
- Small Projects $500K for durations up to three years; rolling deadline through May 30, 2024
- Medium Projects $1M for durations up to three years; rolling deadline through May 30, 2024
Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI): Biocomputing through EnGINeering Organoid Intelligence (BEGIN OI)
Supports foundational and transformative research to advance the design, engineering, and fabrication of organoid systems that are capable of processing information dynamically while interfacing with non-living systems.
- Research Thread 1: Biocomputing Theory and Modelling
- Research Thread 2: Biology-Integrated Culture Maintenance and Hardware Systems
- Research Thread 3: Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI)
Deadline: September 12, 2024 (LOI), December 12, 2024 (Full Proposal)
Award: $2M for durations up to four years
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NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Program (S-STEM)
Supports institutions of higher education to fund scholarships for academically talented low-income students and to study and implement a program of activities that support their recruitment, retention and graduation in STEM.
- Track 1: Institutional Capacity Building
- Track 2: Implementation: Single Institution
- Track 3: Inter-institutional Consortia
Collaborative Planning Grants to Develop an Inter-institutional Consortium
Deadline: Tracks 2, 3, and 4, Collaborative Planning February 20, 2024, annually thereafter; Track 1 March 28, 2024, annually thereafter
Award: Track 1 (Institutional Capacity Building) $1M for a duration of up to six years; Track 2 (Implementation: Single Institution) $2.5M for a duration of up to six years; Track 3 (Inter-institutional Consortia) $5M for a duration of up to six years; Collaborative Planning $100K for a duration of one year.
Algorithms for Threat Detection (ATD)
Supports research on new ways to use spatiotemporal data to model human dynamics, with an emphasis on identifying and forecasting unusual events and future threats. There are two areas of interest:
- Develop mathematical, statistical and computational algorithms for analysis of massive spatiotemporal datasets, at scale; and
- Develop mathematical theory to guide the application of advanced artificial intelligence to processing massive spatiotemporal data.
Deadline: February 21, 2024; recurring annually on the third Wednesday in February
Award: Unspecified
Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS)
Supports innovative approaches to science and engineering research on brain function, specifically collaborative activities that span a broad spectrum of computational neuroscience research, as appropriate to the missions and strategic objectives of each agency.
Deadline: March 7, 2024; November 13, 2024; November 12, 2025
Award: $250K/year for durations of three to five years
Emerging Mathematics in Biology (eMB)
Supports research in mathematical biology that addresses significant biological questions by applying nontrivial mathematics or developing new theories — particularly from foundational mathematics, including artificial intelligence or machine learning.
Deadline: March 11, 2024, annually thereafter
Award: $500-750K for durations up to three years
NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL) Quantum Science and Technology Demonstrations (QSTD): I. Pilot Phase
Supports the demonstration of practical quantum advantage, the actual application of the tools of Quantum Information Science and Engineering (QISE) to problems that will enable solutions that classical approaches can only solve much less efficiently or not at all.
Deadline: April 9, 2024 (LOI), June 11, 2024 (Proposal)
Award: $1M for durations of one year
Algorithms for Threat Detection (ATD)
Supports research on new ways to use spatiotemporal data to model human dynamics, with an emphasis on identifying and forecasting unusual events and future threats.
Deadline: April 10, 2024; February 19, 2025; annually on the third Wednesday in February
Award: $150-300K
Future Manufacturing (FM)
Supports fundamental research, education, and training of a future workforce to overcome scientific, technological, educational, economic, and social barriers in order to catalyze new manufacturing capabilities that do not exist today. Focuses on cybermanufacturing, eco-manufacturing and biomanufacturing.
Deadline: April 11, 2024; January 13, 2025
Award: $3M for up to four years (research grants); $500K for up to two years (seed)
Human Networks and Data Science (HNDS)
Supports research that studies the behavior of individuals and groups by leveraging data and network science and the development of data infrastructure that makes such work possible.
Deadline: Core Research July 11, 2024, annually thereafter in January and July; Infrastructure February 1, 2024, annually thereafter in February and August
Awards: Core Research $400K; Infrastructure $800K for durations of one to five years
Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence
Supports research to develop fundamental knowledge about principles, processes and mechanisms of learning and about augmented intelligence — how human cognitive function can be augmented through interactions with others and technology.
Deadline: August 7, 2024 and February 12, 2025 (recurring annually)
Cognitive Neuroscience (CogNeuro)
Supports advancement of our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying human cognition and behavior. Funded proposals typically advance theories in cognitive neuroscience by relating precise and rich quantifications of physiology, cognition and behavior with each other (Intellectual Merit) and strengthen the field through, for example, outreach, mentoring the next generation of diverse cognitive neuroscientists and/or increasing awareness and utilization of the research the field produces (Broader Impacts).
Deadline: August 15, 2024
Decision, Risk and Management Sciences (DRMS)
Supports research that increases understanding of how individuals, organizations and societies make decisions. Areas include judgment, decision analysis and aids, risk analysis and communication, public policy decision making and management science.
Deadline: January 18 and August 18; annually
A Science of Science Approach to Analyzing and Innovating the Biomedical Research Enterprise (SoS:BIO)
Supports the development of theories, models, analytical tools, data and metrics that can inform the science of science, science policy, public outcomes and the advancement of the scientific enterprise, with a focus on the biomedical sciences.
Deadline: September 9, 2024; recurring annually on February 9 and September 9
Award: $100K-250K/year (total) for durations up to 4 years
Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science (SCH)
Supports the development of transformative high-risk, high-reward advances in computer and information science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, behavioral and/or cognitive research to address pressing questions in the biomedical and public health communities.
- Fairness and Trustworthiness
- Transformative Analytics in Biomedical and Behavioral Research
- Next Generation Multimodal and Reconfigurable Sensing Systems
- Cyber-Physical Systems
- Robotics
- Biomedical Image interpretation
- Unpacking Health Disparities and Health Equity
Deadline: October 3, 2024; October 3, 2025
Award: $300K/year (total) for durations up to four years
Geoinformatics (GI)
Supports the deployment, operation, and sustainment of cyberinfrastructure (CI) resources to serve and support Earth Sciences research and education.
- The Innovative Resources track supports the early-stage development, deployment, and community-building for CI resources that serve Earth Sciences research and education.
- The Sustained Resources track supports the sustained operations and user community support for mature CI resources that serve Earth Sciences research and education.
Deadline: Sustained Resources will recur on December 6, 2024, Innovative Resources will recur on December 5, 2025
Award: Innovative Resources $200K/year for durations up to three years; Sustained Resources budget must align with the project scope, for durations of three to four years.
Expeditions in Computing (Expeditions)
Supports long-term, multi-institutional research with the potential to transform computer and information science and engineering.
Deadline: Preliminary Proposal June 19, 2024, June 19, 2026; Full Proposal March 31, 2025, March 31, 2027
Award: $15M for durations up to seven years
Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models (IHBEM)
Supports research that incorporates research on social and behavioral processes in mathematical epidemiological models. The program provides support for projects that involve balanced participation from the mathematical sciences and from the social, behavioral, and economic sciences.
Deadline: February 1-14, 2025; recurring annually
Award: $1M for durations of 3-4 years
Enabling Discovery through GEnomics (EDGE)
Supports research to advance understanding of comparative and functional genomics and the development of innovative tools, technologies, resources, and infrastructure that advance biological research focused on the identification of the causal mechanisms connecting genes and phenotypes.
Deadline: February 20, 2025; recurring annually on the third Thursday in February
Award: $2M for durations up to four years
CyberCorps Scholarship for Service (SFS)
Supports scholarships in cybersecurity that require a service obligation following graduation equivalent to the length of the scholarship.
Deadline: July 15, 2024; annually thereafter on July 15
Award: Full scholarship for undergraduate and graduate students in cybersecurity for durations up to three years
Experiential Learning for Emerging and Novel Technologies (ExLENT)
Supports inclusive experiential learning opportunities that provide cohorts of diverse learners with the skills needed to succeed in emerging technology fields.
- Pivots track aims to attract individuals not currently enrolled in post-secondary educational programs, and have acquired useful skills such as time management, communication, and teamwork in non-emerging technology careers.
- Beginnings track aims to provide individuals possessing some existing STEM competencies (e.g., those with stackable certificates in STEM or those enrolled in associate’s degree programs, etc.) with experiential learning opportunities that deepen knowledge and skills in emerging technology fields.
- Explorations track aims to provide individuals with limited or no specialized STEM education the inspiration and opportunity to explore the potential of a career path in emerging technology fields.
Deadline: September 12, 2024; annually thereafter on the second Thursday in September
Award: $1M for durations up to three years
Community Infrastructure for Research in Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CIRC)
Planning Community Infrastructure (Planning) awards support planning efforts to engage research communities to develop new CISE community research infrastructures. Such an infrastructure could be eventually funded through the CIRC program (Planning-C) or the Mid-scale RI-1 or Mid-scale RI-2 programs (Planning-M).
Exploratory Development (Dev) awards support activities that involve the validation of one or more unproven infrastructure designs and/or technologies, which, if validated, could enable transformative community research infrastructure in the future. Successful projects are expected to provide the technical foundations necessary to pursue subsequent CIRC (New or Grand), Mid-scale RI-1, or Mid-scale RI-2 projects.
Medium Community Infrastructure (Medium) awards support the creation of new CISE community research infrastructure or the enhancement of existing CISE community research infrastructure with integrated tools, resources, user services, and research community outreach to enable innovative CISE research opportunities to advance the frontiers of the CISE core research areas.
Grand Community Infrastructure (Grand) awards support projects involving significant efforts to develop new CISE community research infrastructure or to enhance and sustain an existing CISE community research infrastructure to enable world-class CISE research opportunities for broad-based communities of CISE researchers that extend well beyond the awardee organization(s).
Deadline: September 13, 2024, annually thereafter on the second Friday in September
Award: Planning $50-250K for durations up to two years; Dev $250-750K for durations up to two years; Medium $750K-2M for durations up to three years; Grand $2-5M for durations up to five years
Engineering Research Center (ERC)
Convergent Research and Innovation through Inclusive Partnerships and Workforce Development
Supports high-risk, high-payoff research centers focused on advancing engineered systems technology and education through multidisciplinary, cross-sector partnerships.
Deadline: September 2024 (LOI), October 2024 (Preliminary Proposal), May 2025 (Full Proposal); dates anticipated, recurring every other year
Award: $15M for durations up to seven years
Research on Innovative Technologies for Enhanced Learning (RITEL)
Supports early-stage research in emerging technologies such as AI, robotics and immersive or augmenting technologies for teaching and learning that respond to pressing needs in real-world educational environments.
Deadline: November 5, 2024; November 4, 2025
Award: $900K for durations up to three years
Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CyberTraining)
Pilot projects are exploratory activities that may lead to Implementation projects.
Implementation projects make CI training and educational activities or curriculum/instructional materials broadly accessible to a significant portion of a community for one or more disciplines.
Deadline: January 18, 2025, annually thereafter
Award: Pilot up to $300K for durations up to two years; Implementation up to $1M for durations up to four years
Strengthening the Cyberinfrastructure Professionals Ecosystem (SCIPE)
Supports projects that deepen the integration of cyberinfrastructure professionals’ services into research, while fostering education, training and recognition that address CI workforce development needs.
Deadline: January 18, 2025, annually thereafter Limited Submission Opportunity.
Award: Not specified
Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2)
Supports research on what constitutes and promotes responsible research conduct and how to instill that knowledge in researchers, practitioners and educators across all career stages.
Deadline: January 23, 2025; fourth Thursday in January annually thereafter
Award:
- Conference Projects: $50K and a maximum duration of 12 months.
- Incubation Projects: $90K and a maximum duration of 12 months.
- Research Grants: $400K and a maximum duration of 3 years.
- Institutional Transformation Research Grants: $700K and a maximum duration of 5 years.
Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 (Mid-scale RI-1)
Supports the design and implementation of research infrastructure — including equipment, cyberinfrastructure, large-scale datasets and personnel — whose total project costs exceed NSF’s Major Research Instrumentation program but are under $20 million.
Deadline: January 2025 (anticipated, recurring every other year)
Award: $4-20M for durations up to five years
Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-2 (Mid-scale RI-2)
Supports the implementation of research infrastructure — including equipment, cyberinfrastructure, large-scale datasets and personnel — whose total project costs fall between $20 million and $100 million.
Deadline: May 2025 (LOI), June 2025 (Preliminary Proposal); dates anticipated, recurring every other year
Award: $20-100M for durations up to five years
Research Security and Integrity Information Sharing Analysis Organization (RSI-ISAO)
Supports the establishment of an independent Research Security and Integrity Information Sharing Analysis Organization (RSI-ISAO) to empower the U.S. research community (institutions of higher education (IHEs), non-profit research institutions, and small and medium-sized for-profit organizations) to address foreign government interference, support security-informed decision-making, and serve as a conduit that connects research community stakeholders with one another and with U.S. government (USG) agencies via NSF.
Deadline: September 2025 (LOI), October 2025 (Proposal); anticipated dates
Award: $9.5M for FY2024 then at least $10M/year for durations up to five years
National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes
Supports the development of new AI Institutes.
Deadline: Expected early 2026
Award: $16-20M for durations of four or five years
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Researcher and Educator Use Cases for the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) expires March 8, 2024. Individuals and groups of individuals in all research and education domains are invited to submit responses using the online submission form. Funding Opportunities for Engineering Research in Artificial Intelligence
Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) Supplemental Funding in Computer and Information Science and Engineering recommended submission prior to March 31 each year.
Advancing education for the future AI workforce (EducateAI) With this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), EDU and CISE encourage the submission of novel and high impact proposals that advance inclusive computing education that prepares preK-12 and undergraduate students for the AI workforce.
Medical / Health Cyber Physical Systems Proposals
Workshops to Identify Educational Requirements of the Future Ocean Technical Workforce
Stimulating Diversification in Language Science Research (LangDiv)
Advancing Research in the Geosciences Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)
Cyberinfrastructure, Data and Computation Opportunities for CMMI
Stimulating Integrative Research in Computational Cognition (CompCog)
Advancing Discovery with AI-Powered Tools (ADAPT) in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Questions? Contact data-science-hub@utah.edu!