Research Authority - Technion R&D Foundation
Active Funding Resources in
Exact and
Material Sciences, Environment and Agriculture
[ All funds | Life | Exact & Materials | Social &
Humanities]
For assistance call Robi – 2152 robertg@technion.ac.il, Iris
– 1272 irisbr@trdf.technion.ac.il, Luba – 1477 lubak@technion.ac.il
The list is arranged by
deadlines in chronological order (dd.mm), first Israeli divided by RFPs and
Workshops, then Foreign.
Deadlines are highlighted in Green
Please note:
1) No
overhead implies that overhead costs
to the academic institute are not covered by the grant.
2) Overhead XX%
implies that overhead costs to the academic institute are covered partially.
Please contact Research
Authority if planning to submit.
Israeli:
30.4 | OPRA The Association for Advancement of
Research on Open Problems in Nuclear & Particle Physics
Discrepancies
between existing theories and experimental findings, and the mathematical
consistency of physical theories. Research Topics: Nuclear Physics, Strong
interactions, Weak interactions. Funding: up to $70K/year for 1-3 years.
1.5 | Bar-Ilan University Press: President's Prize
äĺöŕú äńôřéí ůě ŕĺđéářńéčú
ář-ŕéěď: ôřń đůéŕ ŕĺđéářńéčú ářÎŕéěď ěńôř äîç÷ř äčĺá áéĺúř ěůđú úůô"ă
éĺňđ÷ ěçéáĺř î÷ĺřé ůě ńôř îç÷ř ĺňéĺď ůđëúá áňářéú ĺéĺâů ěäĺöŕú äńôřéí ůě
ŕĺđéářńéčú ář-ŕéěď. îčřú äôřń äéŕ ěäĺ÷éř ĺěňĺăă ëúéáä îç÷řéú îňĺěä äôĺđä âí ěöéáĺř
äîůëéě äřçá.
ńëĺí äôřń: 30,000 ¤ ěî÷ĺí
äřŕůĺď ĺ- 10,000 ¤ ěî÷ĺí äůđé.
12.5 |
US-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund (BARD)/ NIFA-BARD-MOST: Nutritional Security (Pre-application)
The nutritional Security program is a new funding
track that enhances U.S.-Israel collaboration on joint scientific innovation to
address the multifaceted challenges of nutritional security. The program
focuses on solutions to promote health, reduce hunger and address diet-related
health issues while enhancing sustainability. Beyond food quality, the program
places specific emphasis on the affordability, accessibility, and overall
availability of nutritionally balanced diets that are crucial for human well-being.
Priority areas:
*Impact of nutrition and diet on health and
well-being
*Food Science, processing and safety
*Sustainable solutions for nutritional security
Funding: Up to
480,000 NIS for 3 years.
Collaboration
is limited to American research scientists who have been funded by NIFA
(the list of projects).
https://www.bard-isus.com/fundingTypes/Details/24
14.5 |
M-Era-Net (MOST): Materials and battery technologies (Pre-Proposal)
Consortia of minimum 3 partners from 3 eligible
countries
Addressing materials research and innovation to
support the European Green Deal and Sustainable Development Goals. Topics:
- Sustainable
advanced materials for energy
- Innovative
surfaces, coatings and interfaces
- High
performance composites
- Functional
materials
- Materials
addressing environmental challenges
- Next
generation materials for advanced electronics
Funding for the Israeli partners – up to 100K Euro
over 3 years.
*
One can hold only one international MOST grant at any given time. Please check with us about the eligibility if
you intend to apply.
https://www.m-era.net/joint-calls/joint-call-2024
M-ERA.NET Call 2024 webinar will be held on March 7.
For registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FZHKKWErSXydIeVR8889jQ#/registration
15.5 | VATAT – MOST ‘Proof
of Concept’ Research Projects
ĺú"ú-îůřă äîăň: úëđéú ěîéîĺď
îç÷řé äĺëçú äéúëđĺú
äĺĺňăä ěúëđĺď
ĺú÷öĺá (ĺú"ú) ĺîůřă îůřă äîăň îňĺđééđéí ěúîĺę áîůĺúó ááéöĺň äĺëçú äéúëđĺú
ěîç÷ř îăňé ĺŕ÷ăîé áňě ôĺčđöéŕě ěééůĺí îńçřé.
÷ĺě ÷ĺřŕ ćä áŕ ěúîĺę áîç÷ř áůěá äĺëçú
äéúëđĺú áěáă (POC:
Proof of Concept)
ëěĺîř, îç÷ř áĺ ŕéď âĺó îńçřé äîňĺđééď
ěäů÷éň (îôŕú řîú äáůěĺú äčëđĺěĺâéú).
éĺăâů ëé ä÷ĺě
ä÷ĺřŕ ôúĺç ěëě úçĺîé äăňú äŕ÷ăîééí, ŕę äöňú äîç÷ř đăřůú ěäéĺú áňěú ôĺčđöéŕě
ééůĺîé ářĺř (úňůééúé, öéáĺřé ŕĺ çářúé).
âĺáä ĺîůę äîňđ÷ - ňă 350,000 ¤ ěú÷ĺôä
ůě 18-24 çĺăůéí.
äöňĺú äîç÷ř éëĺěĺú ěëěĺě ůĺúôéí
îäčëđéĺď ŕĺ îîĺńăĺú ŕ÷ăîééí ŕçřéí.
äčëđéĺď řůŕé ěäâéů 10 äöňĺú îčňîĺ, ňě ëď éňřę úäěéę áçéřä ôđéîé ůéđĺäě áěůëú äîđě"î.
çĺ÷řéí äîňĺđééđéí ěäâéů äöňä,
îúá÷ůéí ěůěĺç äöňä îěŕä, áŕđâěéú, ňă 15.5 ěëúĺáú: ra-tec@technion.ac.il
îáđä ääöňä:
^ ääöňä úĺâů áŕđâěéú ňě âáé äčôńéí ůá÷éůĺř ěîčä
* ňîĺă ůňř: ëĺúřú, ůîĺú äçĺ÷řéí îâéůé ääöňä, îçě÷ä ĺôřčé
÷ůř (ŕéď čĺôń îéĺçă).
* úëđéú äîç÷ř: (ňă 5 ňîĺăéí, ěŕ ëĺěě î÷ĺřĺú)
* ú÷öéá (ňă ňîĺă ŕçă)
* đńôç éůéîĺú (ňă 2 ňîĺăéí(
* ÷ĺřĺú çééí, ëĺěě řůéîú ôřńĺîéí řěĺĺđčééí (ňă 2 ňîĺăéí
ěëě çĺ÷ř)
çĺ÷řéí ůäöňúí
úŕĺůř áúäěéę äáçéřä äîĺńăéú, éĺëěĺ ěňřĺę ĺěňăëď ŕú äöňúí ňă ěîĺňă ääâůä ěîîîď – 18.6.24.
á÷éůĺř äáŕ îĺôéň
đĺńç ňăëđé ůě ä÷ĺě ä÷ĺřŕ, čĺôńé äâůä (éůîůĺ âí ěäâůä äôđéîéú áčëđéĺď) ĺëď ńéëĺí
ůě îôâů îúňđééđéí ůđňřę ěŕçřĺđä:
www.gov.il/he/departments/publications/Call_for_bids/rfp02042024
19.5/30.8 | Tokushima University – Technion Collaboration (3rd round) - any
scientific topic of mutual interest
Following a Memorandum
of Understanding between the Nichia Corporation, Tokushima University and the
Technion, Nichia Corporation intends to fund up to 5 joint research projects of
researchers from TU and the Technion.
Research domains: any scientific topic of mutual interest.
Funding: Projects are planned for two years with a total funding of
$100K/year/project ($50K/year/PI).
Application procedure:
Stage 1 - An optional initial one-page pre-proposal + one-page CV will be
submitted by email to TISI Office - tisi_office@tokushima-u.ac.jp
or to Technion Research Authority - ra-tec@trdf.technion.ac.il
by
May 31.
This stage is optional
and meant to help Technion PIs in finding a suitable partner at Tokushima
University and vice-versa, therefore, there is no requirement for a partner
from the other institution. The pre-proposals will serve only to identify
possible TU/Technion collaborators (but not for any kind of
pre-selection).
The pre-proposals
submitted at each university will be disclosed to the researchers from the
other university to allow a matching process.
Both universities' PIs will
actively contact each other based on their Keywords, Research Fields, and
Topics to form international research groups.
Stage 2 - Successfully matched PIs jointly prepare a collaborative research
proposal and submit it from Tokushima University's PI to TISI office - tisi_office@tokushima-u.ac.jp.
by August
30.
One PI can apply with
two collaborative proposals.
The Project Guidance Team
will notify the results in November 2024.
Call for Proposals,
forms and Application Guidelines: www.acot.tokushima-u.ac.jp/Information/call-for-tisi-collaborative-research-project-phase-3/
Tokushima Researcher’s
information:
* Educators and
Researcher’s Directory: http://pub2.db.tokushima-u.ac.jp/ERD/organization/10992/index-en.html
* Names and Research
Fields: www.isc.tokushima-u.ac.jp/english/app/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/faculty-research-interests.pdf
* Video Messages: www.acot.tokushima-u.ac.jp/ourcontents/audio-visual
1.6 | Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS): Michael Bruno Award for
Israeli Scholars in STEM Fields
The Michael Bruno Memorial
Award is granted annually to three outstanding mid-career Israeli scholars who
have demonstrated an exceptional originality of mind, dedication and
ground-breaking impact in their research, and who have succeeded in influencing
and re-shaping their field of expertise. This award, a personal prize in the
amount of 200,000 NIS, is both the highest recognition of past accomplishments
and a vote of confidence in the laureates’ future achievements and
contributions to research and Israeli academia.
Eligible candidates
must be faculty members of STEM fields in Israeli research institutions who are
under 50 years of age as of February 15, 2024 or up to 15 years after first
University appointment.
https://www.ra.trdf.co.il/files/BrunoOpenCall.pdf
1.7 | Ministry of Environmental Protection: Early Detection and Identification of
Oil-Based Sea Pollution
äîůřă ěäâđú äńáéáä: îëřć ôĺîáé 2024/1 (÷ĺě
÷ĺřŕ) áđĺůŕ ŕéúĺř ĺćéäĺé îĺ÷ăí ůě ćéäĺí éí áůîď
éů ěäĺăéň îřŕů ěřůĺú äîç÷ř ňě äâůä: đîöŕ ááăé÷ú
äîçě÷ä äîůôčéú.
ěŕĺř ăřéůĺú îđäěéĺú řáĺú äâůä ěřůĺú
äîç÷ř24.6
äîöéňéí éĺëěĺ ěäâéů, áîńâřú ÷ĺě ÷ĺřŕ
ćä, äöňĺú ěîç÷ř áđĺůŕ ůéîĺů áîë"í úăř âáĺä (HF) ěŕéúĺř ëúîé ůîď áîřçá äéîé ůě éůřŕě ĺćŕú áîčřä ěáçĺď ŕú
ääéúëđĺú ůě ôéúĺç îňřëú ëěě ŕřöéú ěâéěĺé, äúřňä ĺ đéäĺě ŕéřĺňé ćéäĺí éí áůîď
áéůřŕě. ňě äîç÷ř ěëěĺě îňřę đéńĺé ěáçéđú éňéěĺú äâéěĺé ůě ëúîé ůîď áéí. äîç÷ř
öřéę ěëěĺě đéńĺé, đéúĺç đúĺđéí ĺńéëĺí îăňé, îń÷đĺú ĺäîěöĺú ěîůřă ěăřëé ôňĺěä
îéčáééí áđĺůŕ ůě ůéîĺů áîë"í HF ëëěé áîňřę ääúřňä
äîĺ÷ăîú ěćéäĺí éí áůîď.
ú÷öéá:
äé÷ó äú÷öéá äîůĺňř äëĺěě ě÷ĺě ÷ĺřŕ äéđĺ 200 ŕěó ů÷ěéí.
ú÷öéá
î÷ńéîěé ěäöňä ňă 200 ŕěó ů÷ěéí ěůđúééí (ëĺěě ú÷ĺřä ĺîň"î).
https://mr.gov.il/ilgstorefront/he/p/4000585937
1.12 | Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS): 2026-2027 Individual Fellowships and Research Groups (all disciplines)
Individual Fellowships: scholars from Israel and abroad are invited to submit proposals for residencies (5 or 10 months) at the IIAS. Proposals must seek to be innovative, with the potential to impact research in the field. Two or three scholars who collaborate on the same project should apply individually and state clearly that they wish to work together.
https://iias.huji.ac.il/Individual_researchers
https://www.ra.trdf.co.il/files/IF.pdf
Research Groups: scholars from Israel and abroad (5-8 core fellows) invited to submit proposals (which must seek to be innovative with potential impact on their research field) to spend residency (3, 5, 10 months) at IIAS.
https://iias.huji.ac.il/RG_Application
https://www.ra.trdf.co.il/files/RG.pdf
https://iias.huji.ac.il/open-calls
NSF-BSF
programs:
Israeli researchers can join research proposals submitted by US PI(s) to
the NSF, in the programs listed below. Two applications per calendar
year (Oct 1 – Sept 30) are permitted
The Israeli budget is funded by the BSF as follows: up to
$80K/yr for experimental studies and $55K/yr for theoretical and
computer-based studies.
Pay attention to the application deadlines. While many programs
are open all year long, some still have specific time limits.
Details
on all NSF-BSF programs: www.bsf.org.il/funding-opportunities/nsf-bsf-joint-research-grants/the-programs/
·
Biocomputing through
EnGINeering Organoid Intelligence (BEGIN OI): Jan. 17
·
Economics and Decision Sciences: Jan. 24
·
Computing and Communication Foundations
(CCF): Open All Year
·
Computer Networks and Systems
(CNS): Open All Year
·
Information and Intelligence Systems
(IIS): Open All Year
·
Cyber Security and
Privacy (SaTC): Open All Year - In any case,
Israeli PIs will consult with Ms. Yael Dressler in the BSF office (yael@bsf.org.il) regarding their project description and
budget request before advancing the preparation and submission of their
proposal.
·
Foundational Research in
Robotics: Open All Year
·
Physics: Various Deadlines
·
Materials (DMR): Open All Year
·
Astronomy and Astrophysics: Nov. 15
·
Mathematics: Various Deadlines
·
Mathematical and Scientific Foundations of
Deep Learning: Various Deadlines
·
Electrical, Communications and Cyber
Systems (ECCS): Open All Year
·
Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental
and Transport Systems (CBET): Open All Year
·
Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing
Innovation (CMMI): Open All Year
·
Earth Sciences (GEO): Open All Year
·
Atmospheric
and Geospace Sci.: Open All Year
·
Marine Oceanography: Various Deadlines
·
EAGER (Early-Concept applications in all
the active NSF-BSF programs): Open All Year
·
Chemistry: Various Deadlines
Israeli - all year round:
DFG – German Science
Foundation: Research Grant for Middle East Collaboration
Researchers working in
Germany who meet the DFG’s eligibility requirements can submit a joint proposal
to fund domestic (German) and international project costs with colleagues from:
· Israel (bilateral projects) or
· Israel and Palestine or the following
countries that neighbour Israel: Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria (trilateral
or multilateral projects).
· Funding levels are typically ~ €300K
over 3 years for all partners.
www.dfg.de/en/research_funding/programmes/international_cooperation/middle_east_collaboration
www.dfg.de/formulare/54_016/index.jsp
ICL (Israeli Chemicals Ltd): ICL Open Innovation
(Crop Nutrition and Applied Agronomy)
ICL is looking to fund research projects in
the following domains:
Crop Nutrition:
·
Enhanced Efficiency Fertilizers
·
Biostimulants
·
Biodegradable CRF Coating
·
Nitrogen Fixation
·
Organic Fertilizers
·
Secondary nutrients
·
Delivery Platform
·
Ammonia synthesis
·
Increased P-availability
Applied Agronomy
·
Efficient fertilizers
application
·
Regenerative
Agriculture practical methods
·
Water use efficiency
practical methods
·
Nutrient balance
(plant, soil, water, atmosphere) sensing/analysis
·
GHG emissions
sensing/analysis
·
Soil microbiome
sensing/analysis
·
Soil/groundwater
contamination sensing/analysis
·
Yield estimation by
remote sensing
·
Plant nutrition’s DSS
Funding: The budget for the selected
proposals will be negotiated with ICL
For further details, please contact Adi
Perelman Adi.Perelman@icl-group.com
https://www.ra.trdf.co.il/files/ICL
Open Innovation .pdf
Israel Insurance
Association Research Fund: Research Grants
The Fund welcomes
applications for financial support for the purpose of conducting research on
insurance matters, especially on the subject of motor bodily injury insurance,
and other insurance branches of importance to the public interest (i.e
Earthquake and other Natural hazards risks and insurance). Funding: ask the
Research Authority - 2152
Eng: www.igudbit.org.il/eng/Index.asp?CategoryID=451
Heb: www.igudbit.org.il/Index.asp?CategoryID=420
Guidelines and
form: www.igudbit.org.il/_Uploads/1616keren(1).doc
The Israel Securities
Authority (ISA) (HA'RASHUT LE'NIAROT ERECH): Research Grants
Research grants in amount
of 5,000-40,000 NIS in subjects relevant to ISA activity.
http://www.isa.gov.il/GeneralResearch/179/Pages/default.aspx
Open University - Publication of
Exceptional Manuscripts
äŕĺđéářńéčä äôúĺçä -
ëúáé éă îç÷řééí î÷ĺřééí
ëúáé éă î÷ĺřééí îáĺńńé îç÷ř ůđëúáĺ áî÷ĺří
áňářéú, ňăééď ěŕ řŕĺ ŕĺř (áňářéú ŕĺ áůôä ŕçřú) îëě úçĺîé äăňú (îăňé äřĺç, îăňé
äçářä, îůôčéí, îăňéí îăĺé÷éí ĺňĺă), ůäé÷ôí ŕéđĺ ňĺěä ňě 100 ŕěó îéěéí, îĺćîđéí
ěäâůä ěůí áçéđú ŕôůřĺú ôřńĺîí. äĺöŕú äńôřéí îúçééáú ěäĺöéŕ ěŕĺř ŕú ëúá äéă áúĺę
ůđä îîĺňă ŕéůĺřĺ.
äîçářĺú ĺäîçářéí ůńôřéäí éú÷áěĺ ěôřńĺí
éůúúôĺ áňěĺéĺú ääô÷ä ëđäĺâ áúçĺí.
https://www.openu.ac.il/oui-press/pages/handwriting.aspx
23.4 | VELUX STIFTUNG
Daylight Research
Highly interdisciplinary,
on the effects and utilization of daylight in three fields:
- Daylight and humans
- Daylight and nature
- Daylight technology
Healthy Aging
Bio-psycho-social
approach and support research that aims to sustain or increase the functional
ability and intrinsic capacity of older people.
Funding: CHF 50-70K
($57-114K) per year for 1-4 years (possible to exceed with pre-approval)
https://veluxstiftung.ch/funding-areas/daylight-research/
https://veluxstiftung.ch/funding-areas/healthy-ageing/
30.4 | Einstein Award for Promoting
Quality in Research
The €500,000 Einstein Award for
Promoting Quality in Research in cooperation with the BIH QUEST Center for
Responsible Research honors researchers, institutions, and early career
researchers around the globe whose work helps to fundamentally advance the quality,
transparency, and reproducibility of science and research.
https://award.einsteinfoundation.de
30.4 | The Louis Bachelier
Network: ReFinE Call for Projects
To promote and enrich scientific research on the links
between real estate and finance, considering the physical nature of assets.
physical nature of assets (location and geographical
diversification, fixed costs, irreversibility). Open to all academic
disciplines.
Priority themes:
- Climate and real estate issues
- The liquidity of open-ended real estate funds
- Land development and value enhancement
- Differentiated effects of land artificialization
depending on the type of construction
- City centers, suburbs, and commercial real estate
- Evaluating macroprudential policies in residential
real estate
- Public policy, incentives, and energy transition
- Design of property and real estate taxation (local
tax competition) and national taxation (IFI and ISF)
Funding: up to 4,000 EUR, seminars and conferences
organized by the Institute as part of the network.
https://www.institutlouisbachelier.org/en/calls/current-calls/
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfcugYeZVHNsgDD4jWmLp8SoDXwssfZftViB_KpQhxqIIfUdw/viewform
30.4 | The UK Defense
and Security Accelerator (DASA): Sample
Preservation, Analysis, And Attribution (SPAA)
This competition
seeks proposals for innovations that could help the successful identification
of chemical and biological (ChemBio) materials and/or bring perpetrators to
justice.
The challenges
outlined in this competition are diverse in nature, therefore it is anticipated
that proposals will address a certain area rather than covering multiple
requirements.
There are three main challenge areas where innovative solutions
and approaches are being sought:
·
Challenge 1: New screening technologies for
rapidly detecting or identifying the presence or class of hazardous ChemBio
materials in a sample
·
Challenge 2: New sample collection/preservation
systems that better maintain the integrity and viability of hazardous samples
·
Challenge 3: New analytical approaches to improve
the forensic exploitation and the attribution of ChemBio materials and/or
recovered chemical/biological weapons material (RC/BWM)
Up to Ł1 million is available to fund multiple innovations at
Technology Readiness level (TRL) 2-4 to deliver fieldable prototypes/software
(TRL6+) to support investigations into ChemBio incidents.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/sample-preservation-analysis-and-attribution-spaa
1.5 | Environmental Research & Education Foundation -
Pre-proposals
Topic areas:
Waste minimization,
Recycling, Waste conversion to energy, biofuels, chemicals, or other useful
products. This includes, but is not
limited to, the following technologies:
Waste-to-energy,
Anaerobic digestion, Composting. Other thermal or biological conversion
technologies, Strategies to promote diversion to higher and better uses (e.g.
organics diversion, market analysis, optimized material management, logistics,
etc.), Landfilling.
Funding: average of
$160K for about 2 years
https://erefdn.org/research-grants-projects/how-to-apply-for-grant/
1.5 | DOD/U.S. Army Futures Command, Army
Applications Laboratory: Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Disruptive Applications (W911NF-19-S-0004)
(Accepting applications on a rolling basis until the
deadline)
Research Areas of Interest (please see BAA for
more details)
1. Autonomous platforms
2. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
(AI/ML)
3. Data
visualization and synthetic environments
4. Assured
Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT)
5. Power
generation and management technologies
6. Sensing
7. Communications
& networks
8. Computation
9. Space
10. Internet of Things (IoT)
11. Quantum Technologies
12. Signature reduction
13. Protection
14. Human Performance
15. Underpinning Methodologies
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/315517
7.5 | Amazon:
AI for Information Security call for proposals
Seeking to fund
machine learning research on the following topics in information security:
1. Threat,
intrusion, and anomaly detection for cloud security
2. Generative AI
and foundation models for information security
3. Graph modeling
and anomaly detection on graphs
4. Learning with
limited/noisy labels and weakly supervised learning
5. ML for malware
analysis and detection
6. Finding
security vulnerabilities using ML
7. Causal
inference for information security
8. Zero/one-shot
learning for information security
9. Reinforcement
learning for information security
10. Protecting and
preserving data privacy in the cloud
11. Securing
generative AI and foundation models
Funding: $80,000 for 1 year (Unrestricted
funds)
Sustainability
Invites proposals for innovative projects that merge machine learning
(ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques with life cycle assessment
(LCA) methodologies to support carbon abatement strategies. This call seeks to
fund projects that address the challenges associated with generating
consistent, transparent, and accurate carbon measurements.
Funding: Selected
Principal Investigators (PIs) may receive the following:
·
Unrestricted funds, from $50,000 to $100,000
·
AWS credits: up to $40,000
·
Training resources, including AWS tutorials and
hands-on sessions with Amazon scientists and engineers
7.5 | Semiconductor
Research Corporation (SRC): White Papers
Nanomanufacturing
Materials and Processes (NMP): 3D Heterogenous Integration\ \Back End Processes\ \ Front End
Processes\ 3D Monolithic\ Integration\Metrology\Patterning\ Photonics
Funding: $135K/year, for
3 years.
For more details:
https://src.secure-platform.com/a/page/NMP-needs
https://src.secure-platform.com/a/page/GetFunded/nmp
Packaging (PKG): Design Enablement and Tools\ Interconnects, including
photonics\ Power Delivery and Thermal Management\ Metrology, Modeling, and
Test\ Materials including Solder and Wire-bonds\
Funding: $105K/year, for
3 years.
For more details: https://src.secure-platform.com/a/page/PKG-needs
https://src.secure-platform.com/a/page/GetFunded/pkg#Research%20Needs
Due to the agency`s IP
policy, research proposals must be approved by the legal department before
submission. Please contact us if considering the application.
https://src.secure-platform.com/a/page/GetFunded
9.5 | DARPA: Defense Sciences Office (DSO)
– Structures Uniquely Resolved to Guarantee Endurance (SURGE) - Abstracts
Innovative proposals to rethink and accelerate
distributed additive manufacturing of critical structural parts. Structures
Uniquely Resolved to Guarantee Endurance (SURGE) will develop methods to
predict part life directly from data collected during additive manufacturing
(AM) in a way that is transferable across disparate machines, materials,
locations, and geometries. Research will merge in-situ sensing technologies,
process modeling, and microstructure-based fatigue life methods to quantify the
useful life of manufactured hardware. Predictions will be backed by extensive
experimental validation demonstrating a new paradigm for efficient part
qualification. Proposed research must investigate innovative approaches that
enable revolutionary advances in distributed AM capability. Specifically
excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the
existing state of practice.
https://sam.gov/opp/73bf9c89ba6e494ab7ddb3939a106e68/view
17.5 | American Chemical
Society (ACS) Green Chemistry Institute (GCI ): Pharmaceutical Roundtable
These grants are on a select list of
topics prioritized by the Roundtable each year. Successful proposals will
receive $80,000 for a 12-month research commitment.
·
Alternatives to Halogenated Solvents in Organic
Synthesis
Develop practical alternatives to
halogenated solvents (e.g., new solvents, solvent combinations, solvent
mixtures, computational modeling, recycling systems, etc.)
·
Data Science and Modeling Tools to Advance Green
Chemistry & Engineering
Towards the development of computational
tools that empower users to effectively design, implement, and evaluate green
processes with reduced process mass intensity, waste, health and safety impact,
and other aspirational improvements.
·
New Methods or Strategies for Greener Peptide
Synthesis and/or Purification
Develop novel methods and strategies for
improved solid-phase peptide synthesis.
·
Sustainable Oligonucleotides Process Development
New technologies and/or optimization of
existing methods to address the environmental challenges facing the current
process of oligonucleotide manufacturing.
(Non-profit, No
overhead)
https://www.acsgcipr.org/grants/
21.5 | Optica: Foundation
Challenge 2024 - photonics-based technology in Environment, Health and
Information
The Optica Foundation recognizes ten early-career professionals with exceptional ideas to leverage optics and photonics and address global challenges with the potential to transform our world. Applicants must be within 5–7 years of completing their highest degree and/or within the first 3 years of their faculty career. We consider proposals for problem-solving solutions resulting from basic research and development or enhancements of photonics-based technology in three categories: Environment, Health and Information.
Funding: $100K over 1-2 years.
https://apply.optica.org/prog/optica_foundation_challenge_2024
29.5 | NovoNordisk: Interdisciplinary
Synergy Programme
Collaborations between 2-4 research
groups. Main applicant from Denmark and Co-applicants can be based either in
Denmark or internationally.
To fund the exploration of novel
research areas that demonstrate the potential to have a high level of impact,
i.e. high risk/high-gain. Specifically, this program aims to support
fundamental research between technology readiness levels (TRL) 1 and 2.
Funding: up to DKK 15M (2.1M$) over
4 years
https://novonordiskfonden.dk/en/grant/interdisciplinary-synergy-programme-2024/
1.6
| Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation: Heinrich Wieland Prize
This 250,000
euros international prize honors outstanding research on biologically active
molecules and systems in the fields of chemistry, biochemistry, and physiology
as well as their clinical importance.
https://www.heinrich-wieland-prize.de/heinrich-wieland-prize.html
3.6 | DARPA: Defense Sciences
Office (DSO) – QUAntum Materials Engineering using eLEctrOmagNetic fields
(QUAMELEON)- Abstracts
innovative exploratory research
concepts in the technical domain of Physics. The objective of this ARC topic is
to study condensed matter systems where the coherent interaction between light
at the few-photon level, or the vacuum electromagnetic field, and matter
results in new physics that can be exploited for Quantum Information (QI)
devices such as quantum enhanced sensors, light sources or detectors,
transducers, and quantum emulators. This ARC Opportunity is soliciting ideas to
explore the following question: How can engineered light-matter coupling be
used to control or enhance quantum materials by harnessing vacuum effects or
few-photon external drives?
https://sam.gov/opp/448e4bc8dc154934a114ed7b06342a50/view
4.6 | Volkswagen Shiftung: Scoping
workshops
Researchers at German universities
and research institutions, international co-applicants
For researchers who want to take a
step beyond their current activities and think about the future of their field
of research.
Funded scoping workshops are held in
Hannover at the Xplanatorium Herrenhausen Palace
conference center. Workshops are
supported with funds covering personnel as well as non-personnel or travel
costs.
https://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/funding/funding-offer/scoping-workshops
https://www.ra.trdf.co.il/files/MB_394_e.pdf
7.6 | DOD/Naval Information Warfare Systems Center,
Pacific (NIWC Pacific): Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for C4ISR, Information Operations,
Cyberspace Operations and Information Technology System
Research, Cryogenics &
Quantum
(Unsolicited white papers are accepted and evaluated on a rolling
basis as submitted. If
interested in submitting a
white paper, there is no benefit/competitive advantage gained by waiting to
submit in the final days before
the BAA closes)
Areas of interest include but are not limited to the
following (please see BAA for more details)
1. General C4ISR
2. Command and Control
3.
Communications
4.
Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
5.
Unmanned Vehicles
6. Information
Operations/Cyberspace Operations
7.
Ubiquitous Communications and Computing Environment
8.
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Research
9.
Advanced Power and Energy Production and Efficient Use
10. Cryogenics & Quantum
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=348612
14.6 | DARPA: Tactical Technology Office
(TTO)– Redefining Possible- abstracts
Air | Ground | Maritime | Space |
The Tactical Technology Office (TTO) of the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting executive summaries,
proposal abstracts, and proposals for applied research, advanced technology
development, platform demonstrations, or systems studies that aim to redefine
the future of warfighting across four domains: Air, Ground, Maritime, and
Space.
https://sam.gov/opp/7ac5f3da391441e9ba060502c469683a/view
20.6 | DARPA: Biological Technologies Office
(BTO)– Biological Technologies- abstracts
Abstracts may be
submitted on a rolling
basis until deadline
Bio-complexity | Bio-Devices | Bio-systems | Disease | Health | Injury | Med-Devices | Neuroscience | Opportunities | Restoration | Sensors | Space | Syn-Bio |
BTO is
interested in submissions related to the following topic areas:
·
General
Topics (that fit BTO`s mission)
·
Human
Performance
·
Materials,
Sensors, Processing
·
Ecosystem
and Environmental
·
Biosecurity
and Biosafety
·
Biomedical
and Biodefense
Please see BAA for further
information.
https://sam.gov/opp/597bf60984314db1b3ecfce393677c75/view
30.6 | The Matsumae International Foundation:
Research Fellowship
Support program for young researches who want to conduct research in
Japan
Fellowship period: six months between April 2025 to March 2026.
Fields of research such as natural science, engineering, and medicine
are given first priority.
Funding: arrival funding of 120K JPY ($790) and monthly allowance of
220K JPY ($1450)
https://www.ra.trdf.co.il/files/fellowship-announcement-2025_EN.pdf
https://www.mif-japan.org/en/fellowship/announcement/
30.7 | Wellcome Trust:
Discovery Awards
provides funding for established researchers and
teams from any discipline who want to pursue bold and creative research ideas
to deliver significant shifts in understanding that could improve human life,
health, and wellbeing.
Funding: the average size of a
Discovery Award is Ł3.5 million, although the
trust have supported awards from Ł700,000 to Ł8 million.
Please note: the host organisation of the lead applicant
needs to be based in UK, Republic of Ireland, Low- or middle-income countries
https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/schemes/discovery-awards
7.8 |
Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research: Harvest for Health Breakthrough
Crop Challenge (Part 2: Predictive Model Development and Validation)
The purpose is to develop a predictive model to
determine a crop’s potential as a source of ingredients with the following
functional properties:
• Thickeners, emulsifiers, and stabilizers
• Bulking agents
• Taste and flavor enhancers
• High nutrient density (specific nutrients to be
proposed by applicants)
(Participating
in the seed funding part is not a requirement for applying to the predictive
model development and validation part).
Funding:
$1.0 million (one award)
Informational webinar will be
hold on October 3, at noon EDT, register to attend the
webinar (mandatory).
16.8 | John Templeton
Foundation: Core Funding Areas - Online Funding Inquiry Form
Invest in bold
ideas from contrarian thinkers — ideas that cross disciplinary boundaries and
challenge conventional assumptions. Welcomes grant
applications to support field-leading research and high-impact public
engagement programs in these areas.
·
Character Virtue Development
·
Individual Freedom & Free Markets
·
Mathematical & Physical Sciences
·
Religion, Science, and Society
Funding: Not specified. Duration:
up to 5 years.
www.templeton.org/what-we-fund/core-funding-areas
31.8 | AO Foundation: Biomedical Innovation Funding
Eligible projects must focus on either:
Clinical tools and technologies for any element of the
entire patient journey in musculoskeletal disorders, from diagnosis to
post-operative care; or
Educational tools, platforms or channels for lifelong
training of surgeons.
https://www.aofoundation.org/what-we-do/innovation-translation/innovation-funding
1.9
| Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience
Provides research grants to proposals for basic and
applied studies on glycoconjugate.
Funding: up to 7,000,000 yen (~$48K) for 1 year.
https://mizutanifdn.or.jp/grant/apply.html
3.9 | Volkswagen Shiftung: Pioneering Research –
Exploring the Unknown Unknown
For visionary projects from the field of
basic research. Addresses outstanding researchers from all disciplines and is
open to various funding formats.
Funding: up to 500K EUR for up to 3 years
4.9 | NovoNordisk: Exploratory Interdisciplinary Synergy Programme
Collaborations between 2-4 research groups. Main
applicant from Denmark and Co-applicants can be based either in Denmark or
internationally.
To fund the exploration of un-tested research areas
that demonstrate the potential to have a high level of impact, i.e. high
risk/high-gain. Specifically, this program aims to support fundamental research
between technology readiness levels (TRL) 1 and 2.
Funding: up to DKK 5M (715K$) for up to 3 years
https://novonordiskfonden.dk/en/grant/exploratory-interdisciplinary-synergy-programme-2024/
26.9 | DARPA: Defense Sciences Office
(DSO)– DSO Office-wide Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)
Chemistry | Complexity | Materials | Math | Physics | Quantum | Sensors | Social |
To support its mission, DSO is interested in
engaging with the R&D community to tackle
complex challenges and develop impactful
capabilities. DSO frames its office according to the
thrust areas described further below, but
encourages any fundamental research concept, idea, or effort that addresses DARPA’s mission to make
pivotal investments in breakthrough
technologies for national security.
Novel Materials & Structures: This thrust includes, but is not limited to,
science and
technology in quantum devices, atomic scale
systems, and functional and structural materials.
Sensing & Measurement: This thrust includes, but is not limited to,
science and technology in quantum sensing and metrology, seeing (sensing) the
unseen, and novel light sources.
Computation & Processing: This thrust includes, but is not limited to,
science and technology of quantum computing, cryptography, and modeling of
complex systems.
Enabling Operations: This thrust includes, but is not limited to,
technologies to support space based operations, tactically remote environments,
and resource assurance.
Collective Intelligence: This thrust includes, but is not limited to,
exploration of complex social systems, adaptable Artificial Intelligence (AI),
and AI-accelerated learning.
Emerging Threats: This thrust includes, but is not limited to,
national security concerns related to global issues associated with raw material
availability, environmental catastrophes, and digital societies.
https://sam.gov/opp/972be70efd7e4608b01311466edf6b0f/view
23.9 | VELUX STIFTUNG - Forestry
- Innovative,
sustainable and integrative forest management to develop and provide solutions
for adapting to or mitigating climate change, promoting biodiversity, providing
resilient ecosystem services while supplying sustainable forest products.
- Incentives for
action and behavioural chang by transforming theoretical and abstract values of
forest products and services.
Funding: CHF
50-70K ($57-114K) per year for 1-4 years (possbile to exceed with pre-approval)
https://veluxstiftung.ch/funding-areas/forestry/
30.9 | VELUX STIFTUNG
Daylight
Research
Highly
interdisciplinary, on the effects and utilization of daylight in three fields:
- Daylight
and humans
- Daylight
and nature
- Daylight
technology
Healthy
Aging
Bio-psycho-social
approach and support research that aims to sustain or increase the functional
ability and intrinsic capacity of older people.
Funding:
CHF 50-70K ($57-114K) per year for 1-4 years (possible to exceed with
pre-approval)
https://veluxstiftung.ch/funding-areas/daylight-research/
https://veluxstiftung.ch/funding-areas/healthy-ageing/
30.9 | U.S.
DOD Office of Naval Research (ONR): Navy and Marine Corps Science and
Technology Long Range BAA – White papers / Full proposals (N0001424SB001)
(Submission
anytime up to deadline)
ONR,
ONRG, and MCWL are interested in receiving proposals for Long-Range S&T Projects that
offer potential for advancement and improvement of Navy and Marine Corps operations.
Readers should note that this is an announcement to declare ONR, ONRG and MCWL’s broad role
in competitive funding of meritorious research across a spectrum of science and
engineering disciplines.
ONR Technology areas
that ONR is pursuing are provided at the ONR website
at https://www.nre.navy.mil/our-research/onr-technology-and-research
ONRG supports
fundamental research seed grants, conferences, and workshops that foster
collaboration between the U.S. Navy, and international scientists and
technologists.
To
discuss your ideas for an international grant proposal, please contact a
Science Director
specializing
in your field or located in your region by navigating to the ONRG website at
https://www.nre.navy.mil/organization/onr-global
Funding
and duration not specified
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/350427
1.10 | LEO Foundation: Education and awareness grants
Call
opens on Aug. 20, Projects must be carried out in Denmark
Welcomed application:
- Spur the interest and strengthen the capabilities of children and young people within the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields.
- Disseminate research-based knowledge to the public. increase public awareness about science and its role in developing our society.
- Promote public knowledge and understanding about skin, skin health, and skin diseases.
Funding: below or above DDK 1 ($145K) - different requirements for proposal and evaluation.
https://leo-foundation.org/en/grants-and-awards/research-grants/
\ Call guidelines
9.10 | NovoNordisk: CHALLENGE PROGRAMME 2025 – Heterogeneity in
biomanufacturing
Collaborations between 2-4 research groups. Main
applicant from Denmark and Co-applicants can be based either in Denmark or
internationally.
To understand the impact of heterogeneity in
biomanufacturing and develop novel approaches for detection, control, and
mitigation throughout both upstream and downstream processing.
Funding: up to DKK 60M (8.5M$) for 6 years
https://novonordiskfonden.dk/en/grant/challenge-programme-2025-heterogeneity-in-biomanufacturing/
14.10 | Promobilia
Foundation: Research Projects
Foster the development and
dissemination of technical aids, with a particular emphasis on enhancing
mobility, alongside supporting scientific research to create new aids and
restore mobility and communication capabilities for individuals with
disabilities.
Only projects affiliated
with Swedish organizations, or their equivalents are eligible for application.
In certain instances, projects conducted abroad may also be considered for
application.
Funding: up to 500K SEK
($48K) per year for a max period of 3 years (Non-profit)
https://www.promobilia.se/en/apply-for-project-grants/
28.11 | ZiF - Center for
Interdisciplinary Research: Research Group - Research in groups
The ZiF is an
internationally operating Institute for Advanced Study. It offers
opportunities—with respect to time, space, and funding—for outstanding
interdisciplinary research. To support the work of groups on-site in Bielefeld,
ZiF allocates financial resources and provides infrastructure as well as
organisational support. If their collaborative application is successful, ZiF
will host these groups on its campus.
Funding: (1) Visiting group
- €50,000; (2) Long term group -€200,000
https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/einrichtungen/zif/funding/research-in-groups/
1.12 | Environmental Research & Education Foundation-
Pre-proposals
Topic areas:
Waste minimization, Recycling, Waste
conversion to energy, biofuels, chemicals or other useful products. This includes, but is not limited to, the
following technologies:
Waste-to-energy, Anaerobic digestion,
Composting. Other thermal or biological conversion technologies, Strategies to
promote diversion to higher and better uses (e.g. organics diversion, market
analysis, optimized material management, logistics, etc.), Landfilling.
Funding: average of $160K for about 2
years
https://erefdn.org/research-grants-projects/how-to-apply-for-grant/
30.4.26 | DOD/US Army
Research Office: Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for LPS Qubit
Collaboratory (LQC)
(Pre-proposals/pre-applications
may be submitted at any time throughout the 5-year period from the BAA release
date to the BAA closing date)
The Lab for Quantum Computing (LQC) has three main
goals (please see BAA for more details):
1. Advance fundamental research and technologies for
quantum computing and related applications, particularly focusing on qubit
development.
2. Foster strong partnerships to address challenging
long-term issues in quantum information science and technology.
3. Develop the future quantum workforce by offering
research experiences in government and with LQC partners.
LQC's success will be marked by substantial
progress in solving complex, long-term research problems in quantum information
science and technology, which will propel the field forward. These challenges
include improving device performance, exploring alternative qubit physics and
gate types, and enhancing materials to boost qubit gate fidelity.
Funding: Incubator proposals are expected
to be 1-3 years in duration and not exceed $500K/year. Longer proposals may be
considered due to scheduling requirements of fabrication and experiments.
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=332894
20.11.27 | DOD/ DEVCOM Army Rsearch Laboratory (ARL): Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) Foundational Research (W911NF-23-S-0001)
(Accepting applications on a rolling basis
until the deadline)
Research Areas of Interest (please
see BAA for more details)
DEVCOM
ARL executes intramural and extramural research organized by eleven
competencies
that
provide the Army with foundational expertise and specialized capabilities
grounded in
scientific
excellence and driven by unique Army challenges.
The
eleven DEVCOM ARL competencies are:
Biological and
Biotechnology Sciences
Electromagnetic
Spectrum Sciences
Energy Sciences
Humans in
Complex Systems
Mechanical
Sciences
Military
Information Sciences
Network, Cyber,
and Computational Sciences
Photonics,
Electronics, and Quantum Sciences
Sciences of
Extreme Materials
Terminal Effects
Weapons Sciences
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/344592
For the full
list of opportunities under this BAA:
https://cftste.experience.crmforce.mil/arlext/s/arl-opportunities
Open
until suspended | U.S. Air Force
(AFOSR): Research Interests of the Air Force – Engineering, Complex systems,
Information and networks, Chemistry, Physical, Biological sciences
(FA9550-23-S-0001)
(Open on an ongoing basis until superseded)
AFOSR is looking for new basic research ideas and is open to
considering any unique and revolutionary concepts (pre-coordination
is strongly encouraged). Funding ranges are $100-300K per year for 3 to 5
years.
ENGINEERING AND COMPLEX SYSTEMS
· Dynamic
Materials and Interactions
· GHz-THz Electronics
· Energy, Combustion and Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics
· Unsteady Aerodynamics and Turbulent Flows
· High-Speed Aerodynamics
· Aerospace Composite Materials
· Multiscale Structural Mechanics and prognosis
· Propulsion and Power
· Agile Science for Test and Evaluation
INFORMATION AND NETWORKS
· Computational Cognition and Machine Intelligence
· Computational Mathematics
· Dynamical Systems and Control Theory
· Dynamic Data and Information Processing
· Information Assurance and Cybersecurity
· Mathematical Optimization
· Science of Information, Computation, Learning, and
Fusion
· Trust and Influence
· Complex Networks
· Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience
PHYSICAL SCIENCES
· Aerospace Materials for Extreme Environments
· Atomic and Molecular Physics
· Electromagnetics
· Optoelectronics and Photonics
· High Energy Radiation Matter Systems
· Quantum Information Sciences
· Physics of Sensing
· Space Science
· Ultrashort Pulse Laser-Matter Interactions
· Condensed Matter Physics
· Astrodynamics
CHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGICAL
· Biophysics
· Human Performance and Biosystems
· Mechanics of Multifunctional Materials and
Microsystems
· Molecular Dynamics and Theoretical Chemistry
· Natural Materials and Systems
· Organic Materials Chemistry
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/345653
Foreign - all year
round:
DFG: Individual Grants
Programme
DFG - the Germany research
foundation funds German scientists but Israeli partners can be funded as
subcontractors.
http://www.dfg.de/en/research_funding/programmes/individual/index.html
DFG – German Science
Foundation: Research Training Group and International Research Training
Groups
Research Training Groups
(comprised of one or more universities) are established to promote young
researchers; they are run by 5-10 professors with expertise in any field. There
are two program profiles: 1) research: focuses on one main topic; and 2) qualification:
enables doctoral researchers to produce independent research findings with
international visibility, and simultaneously qualify for domestic and
international academic and non-academic job market.
International research
training groups are structured doctoral programs run by German universities in
conjunction with universities abroad, promoting systematic research cooperation
from the partner group.
There is a two-stage
proposal process: draft proposal that leads to invitation for full proposal.
Funding is for nine years in two 4.5 year segments.
http://www.dfg.de/formulare/54_05/
DFG – German Science
Foundation: Grants to Support the Initiation of International
Collaboration
Funds collaborative
activities, such as three-month research stays at partner institutions, guest
visits, or joint workshops, between international partners.
http://www.dfg.de/formulare/1_813/1_813_en.pdf
ZiF - Center for
Interdisciplinary Research: Workshops
An opportunity for any
kind of academic event, ranging from smaller gatherings that encourage
intensive exchange (e.g. colloquia) to larger meetings (e.g. conferences) that
discuss topics and questions in a broader interdisciplinary framework. The
format is open to academics of all disciplines, based in Germany or abroad.
Proposals can be submitted by one person or a team of up to four people. For
teams of more than one applicant, their disciplinary backgrounds should reflect
the interdisciplinarity of the proposal.
Applications must be
submitted at least 10 months prior to the proposed event. Dates need to be
coordinated with ZiF Group and Conference Support
(zif-conferencesupport@uni-bielefeld.de) in advance.
Funding: up to 15K EUR
https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/einrichtungen/zif/funding/workshops/
AstraZeneca: Open
Innovations
Preclinical data - data, analytical or computer science
research groups that profile data sets with algorithms to interrogate patterns
in data and link to biological outcomes. Allow to get access to unpublished
data. Publications encouraged.
Clinical research
opportunities - Translational data:
Data, analytical, or
computer science research groups with algorithms to interrogate data patterns
and link them to biological outcomes. Publications encouraged.
No funding, only
collaboration
https://az-portal-ex.idea-point.com/Default.aspx?groupid=null
Volkswagen Foundation:
Off the Beaten Track
Created for projects
pursuing a truly extraordinary research design, giving visionary impetus to
academia, or depending on the neutrality of a private funder. Within this
funding segment the Foundation supports outstanding projects beyond existing
funding schemes, disciplinary boundaries, and the mainstream.
Contact Research Authority
if planning to submit (overhead).
Application only after
prior consultation with Volkswagen!!!
https://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/funding/our-funding-portfolio-at-a-glance/off-the-beaten-track
Volkswagen Foundation: Pioneering Research
– Exploring the Unknown Unknown
Aim: to support groundbreaking and risky
research ideas with high scientific relevance. We are looking for basic
research projects that are not dedicated to the already 'known unknown', but
that strive to explore the 'unknown unknown' thereby holding the potential for
major scientific breakthroughs, but also for failure.
The main applicant has to be employed a
German scientific institution. Foreign scientists are welcome to participate as
co-applicants.
Funding: up to 500K Euro for 3
years. (No overhead).
Protocol Labs:
Decentralized Access Control in CRDTs / Optimized storage and convergence time
in causal CmRDTs
RFP-7: Multi-Level DHT Design and
Evaluation
RFP-8: Scalability Bounds of P2P
Pub/Sub (libp2p floodsub, gossipsub and episub)
(Additional RFPs
to be announced)
Results are to be
released as open source under MIT license. Funding: up to $200K
Company website: https://protocol.ai
RFPs: https://github.com/protocol/research-RFPs
Humboldt Foundation
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Research Awards
Awarded to outstanding
accomplishments in research, if they are expected to continue producing
cutting-edge academic achievements and have a lasting impact beyond their area
of specialization. Academics, regardless of their discipline or nationality,
may be nominated, provided that they have received their doctoral degree within
the past 18 years. Award winners are invited to conduct a research project of
their own choosing in Germany in close collaboration with a specialist
colleague. Project duration 6-12 months. Award amount is €45,000.
Self-nomination is not possible. Nomination processing normally takes up to six
months, selection committee meetings are held twice a year – currently at the
beginning of spring and in early autumn.
http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/bessel-award.html
Humboldt Research
Fellowship for Experienced Researchers
For highly-qualified
scientists and scholars from abroad, who completed their doctorates less than
12 years ago to spend extended periods of research (6-18 months; may be divided
up into a maximum of three blocks) in Germany. Candidates are expected to have
their own, clearly defined research profile. Funding: fellowship of €3,150 per
month. The selection committee meets every year in March, July and November.
http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/humboldt-fellowship-experienced.html
Humboldt Research Award
The award is granted in
recognition of a researcher's entire achievements to date to academics whose
fundamental discoveries, new theories, or insights have had a significant
impact on their own discipline and who are expected to continue producing
cutting-edge achievements in the future. Award
winners are invited to spend a period of up to one year cooperating on a
long-term research project with specialist colleagues at a research institution
in Germany. Nominations may be submitted by established academics in Germany or
by award winners of the Humboldt Foundation working abroad, provided that the
nomination is made jointly with a colleague working in Germany. Direct
applications are not accepted. The award is valued at €60,000. Selection
Committee meetings are held twice a year – currently at the beginning of spring
and in early autumn.
http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/humboldt-award.html
Reimar
Lüst Award for International Scholarly and Cultural Exchange
Highly respected humanities scholars and
social scientists. For multipliers making exceptional contributions in and
through science to the long-term advancement of bilateral relations between
Germany and their home countries. Part of the ‘Humboldt
Research Award’.
James S. McDonnell
Foundation: Collaborative Activity Awards supports research in 3 areas: Bridging Brain, Mind,
and Behavior; Complex Systems; and Brain Cancer Research. These awards support
study panels, research networks or other ways of pushing work on mind/brain
forward outside the usual mechanism of investigator-initiated research
proposals. The collaborative award process is not used to support meetings,
conferences, etc.
www.jsmf.org/apply/collaborative/index.htm
Microsoft Azure for
Research Award Program – Bi-monthly RFPs
Microsoft Research is
soliciting proposals for the use of Microsoft Azure in research. We welcome
research proposals from any branch of scholarly activity. We review these
proposals on the fifteenth of even-numbered months (April, June, August, and so
forth).
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/azure/default.aspx#award-program
Swiss National Science Foundation
(SNSF): Scientific Exchanges
aimed at researchers
who want to host their own scientific event in Switzerland, invite colleagues
from abroad for a research visit to Switzerland, or visit their colleagues in
another country. Scientific conferences and workshops
are the two types of event covered by the scheme. Research visits by Swiss
researchers to other countries or by researchers from abroad to Switzerland are
funded for a period of 1 to 6 months. For scientific events, the travel
expenses and food and board costs of participants from abroad are covered, for
research visits those of travelling guests.
www.snf.ch/en/wSd33rwrhn7Q16jI/funding/science-communication/scientific-exchanges
National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST): Measurement Science and Engineering (MSE)
Research Grants
Applications will be
considered on a continuing basis except to the Fire Research lab. Applications
may be processed and considered for funding in the current fiscal year or in
the next fiscal year, subject to the availability of funds. It is advised to consult
with the contact person of each program before submission indicated for the
following laboratories:
· the Material Measurement
Laboratory (MML);
· the Physical Measurement
Laboratory (PML);
· the Engineering Laboratory (EL);
· Fire Research (FR);
· the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL);
· the Communications Technology Laboratory (CTL);
· the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR);
· the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST);
· the Special Programs
Office (SPO);
· the Standards Coordination Office (SCO);
· the International and Academic Affairs Office (IAAO);
and
· the Associate Director for Laboratory Programs (ADLP).
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=331121
Simons Foundation:
Targeted Grants in Mathematics and Physical Sciences - LOI
The program is intended
to support high-risk projects of exceptional promise and scientific importance
on a case-by-case basis. Funding: flexible, for up to 5 years. (M)
Volkswagen
Foundation: Life? – A fresh scientific approach to the basic principles of life
- project outlines
The program encourages projects that contribute to
comprehending fundamental principles of life by working with systems
resembling those of living ones or by exploring chemical and physical cellular
processes. Funding can be made available for projects that link up most recent
research from the interface between the natural and life sciences with the
attempt to answer fundamental questions on life itself. This call also
addresses methodic developments that may contribute to answering this question.
Amongst others, the Foundation will consider approaches from systems biology,
synthetic biology, cell biology, xenobiology, artificial intelligence or
robotics and similar research areas. The main focus of the proposals should be
to connect excellent research in the natural and life sciences with the aim to
reveal fundamental characteristics of life. Funding: Up to 10 projects
can be funded per call, each in an amount of a maximum of 1.5 M euros over 5
years.
COMCAST : Comcast Innovation Fund
Areas of Interest: Internet Network | Low Latency Networking | Internet
core network protocols | Edge Computing | Internet Consolidation &
Mechanisms | Internet Governance and Policy Analysis | Broadband Mapping |
Rural Broadband | CDNs and Video Streaming | Multi-Path Networking | IoT
consumer labeling | Privacy and Security automation | Privacy threat modeling |
Cybersecurity | Privacy engineering and protection | Software supply chain
security and integrity
Open-Source Development Grants
Fund new or continued development of
open-source software in areas of interest to Comcast or of benefit to the
Internet and broadband industries.
General Research Grants
Focused on supporting excellent technical
research in a wide variety of fields that are relevant to the evolution of the
Internet.
Targeted Research Grants
Narrowly tailored and typically study more
specific issues that are relevant to the evolution of the Internet.
Useful & Interesting Things Grants
Fund work that contributes to the Internet
in novel and useful ways. Includes individuals who are working on ideas,
technologies, or approaches that are useful and valuable to the Internet.
Funding: $3K to $150K for 1 year (No overhead).
https://innovationfund.comcast.com/
Bayer: Center of Expertise in Tropical
Agriculture (CEAT)
CEAT Latin America welcomes collaborations
on novel approaches relating to sustainable crop farming in tropical
environments. Aiming to enable technologies, approaches and services from
ideas to marketed products in order to anticipate trends and support farmers’
decision-making in tropical agriculture. The research can be related to (but
not limited to) resistance monitoring (weeds, pests and diseases), future
threats to tropical agriculture (new pests), digital farming, automatic /
online systems for pest monitoring, integrated disease, weed, and insect
management/control, combined seeds and crop protection strategies and improved
crops for higher yields. This program is open to application on a rolling
basis. Funding limit and program duration is Discretionary.
https://innovate.bayer.com/programs/ceat-center-expertise-tropical-agriculture#application-process
Foundation for Food & Agriculture
Research: Research Concept
Funds food and
agriculture science that addresses large-scale challenges to develop actionable
knowledge and solutions.
*Soil health; *Sustainable water management;
*Next generation corps; *Advanced animal system; *Urban food systems; *Health
agriculture Nexus.
Funding: Not specified (Please note:
Matching).
https://foundationfar.org/grants-funding/open-opportunities/