| Funding Landscape and New Limited Submission Opportunities for the Week of August 7, 2023 | Please share this information with department heads and eligible faculty. | | Funding Landscape
American Chemical Society (ACS) announces a call for seed grant proposals for Petroleum Research Fund
This program supports fundamental research directly related to petroleum or fossil fuels. There are two mechanisms to support this work: New Directions Research Program and Doctoral New Investigator Grants. Deadline is September 8, 2023. ACS recently hosted a webinar for this program which gave a program overview and talked about the application process.
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DOE releases a call for Materials, Operation, and Recycling of Photovoltaics (MORE PV)
The Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) will provide funding for research and development to reduce material usage, improve installation quality and resilience of photovoltaic (PV) systems, and address handling of PV systems at the end of life. Concept papers are due 9/13.
Topic Area 1 will use $12 million of non- Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) funding to fund collaborations of diverse stakeholders who can bring expertise from all life stages of the PV system lifecycle to reduce cost and lifecycle impacts of a PV system and its components, including co-located storage. Projects funded in this topic area will develop technology and design solutions to optimize the interconnected energy, economic, and environmental impact metrics in pursuit of rapid and sustainable scale-up of PV technologies.
Topic Area 2 uses funds designated by the BIL and seeks to fund one research partnership at a maximum of $8 million dedicated to improving materials recovery efficiency and developing safe end-of-life (EOL) practices for PV system components, including modules, inverters, and other balance-of-system (BOS) components. The partnership will focus on technologies and methods to enable low-cost reuse, refurbishing, repair, and recycling of photovoltaic materials, and best practices for safe disposal of these materials, and will include data collection, analysis, and working groups to enable effective collaborations and technology transfer.
Details | | | Limited Submission Opportunities | | Description: NSF, through the Office of the Chief of Research Security Strategy and Policy (OCRSSP), seeks to establish 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.
Limitation: one application per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Wednesday, August 16, 2023
Sponsor Deadline: Monday, October 30, 2023 | Description: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Grid Deployment Office (GDO) established the Puerto Rico Energy Resilience Fund (PR-ERF) to administer the $1 billion through a program focused on both residential and community-based energy resilience investments, including but not limited to solar photovoltaic (PV) and battery storage deployments, as well as community partnerships and other activities to grow Puerto Rico’s clean energy economy.
Limitation: one application per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Tuesday, September 5, 2023
Sponsor Deadline: Monday, September 18, 2023 | | Description: The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity is to invite Institutional Network Awards (U2C-TL1) to cultivate a highly integrated cohort of trainees and early career investigators and to develop career development resources to accelerate kidney, urologic, and hematologic research. To maximize integration and promote a true trainee community, Institutions are invited to submit a single, unified U2C-TL1 application to engage, recruit, prepare, and sustain the next generation of scientists able to contribute to advancing research in kidney, urology, and hematology. Applications representing multiple institutions within a single metropolitan area are strongly encouraged (see Section III.3). Successful awardees are expected to relinquish all active T32s supported by the NIDDK, Division of Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases (KUH) at the time of the U2C-TL1 award.
Limitation: one application per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Sponsor Deadline: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 | Description: The W. M. Keck Foundation is inviting proposal applications for its Research Program, which seeks to benefit humanity by supporting projects in two specific areas (1) medical research and (2) science and engineering, that are distinctive and novel in their approach, question the prevailing paradigm, or have the potential to break open new territory in their field.
Limitation: Eight Concept Papers per institution (four per category) and two Phase I applications per institution (one per category).
Internal Submission Deadline: Monday, December 4, 2023
Sponsor Deadline: Wednesday, May 1, 2024 at 3:30 pm
UI Information Session: On Wednesday, September 27, 2023 from 12:00-1:00 pm, the RDO will host a Zoom information session focused on Keck's Research Program. Join the UI Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) for this information session to learn more about this program, Keck’s priorities, the concept call and review process, and have your questions answered. Register to attend the virtual session here. | | | |
