Upcoming funding opportunities

MIT Solve: Gender Equity in STEM Challenge
Proposal Deadline: 06/02/2023

This program will support U.S.-based solutions that address barriers and unlock the untapped potential of girls and women in STEM across the country.

MIT Solve: Learning for Civic Action Challenge
Proposal Deadline: 05/09/2023

This program will support technology-enabled solutions that help learners take effective action on community and global issues by deepening civic knowledge and practicing collaborative problem solving.

NIH Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA)
Proposal Deadline: 07/14/2023

The overarching goal of the NIGMS SEPA R25 program is to support educational activities that encourage pre-college students (pre-kindergarten to grade 12) from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, to pursue further studies in STEM.

NSF Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST)
Proposal Deadline: 08/11/2023

Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) is an applied research and development program with goals to advance the equitable and inclusive integration of technology in the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) from pre-kindergarten through high school.

NSF Research Experiences for Teachers Sites in Biological Sciences (BIORETS)
Proposal Deadline: 07/31/2023

The National Science Foundation's Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) will support up to 10 awards annually to enable active research by cohorts of middle school teachers, high school teachers, and/or community college faculty. Research Experiences for Teachers Sites (RETS) with a focus on Biological Sciences (BIORETS) will include research projects in fields that are supported by the Directorate for Biological Sciences. BIORETS awards are expected to leverage the teachers' research experiences for curriculum development, with the goal of enriching their classroom teaching practices and inspiring a broad swath of students to consider higher education and careers in STEM.

NSF Research Training Groups in the Mathematical Sciences
Proposal Deadline: 06/06/2023

The long-range goal of the Research Training Groups in the Mathematical Sciences (RTG) program is to strengthen the nation's scientific competitiveness by increasing the number of well-prepared U.S. citizens, nationals, and permanent residents who pursue careers in the mathematical sciences. The RTG program supports efforts to improve research training by involving undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral associates, and faculty members in structured research groups pursuing coherent research programs.

Spencer Foundation Racial Equity Research Grants
Intent to Apply Deadline: 05/16/2023
Proposal Deadline: 06/14/2023

This program supports education research projects that will contribute to understanding and ameliorating racial inequality in education.

Spencer Foundation Research Grants on Education Large
Intent to Apply Deadline: 04/27/2023
Proposal Deadline: 05/24/2023

This program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets ranging from $125,000 to $500,000 for projects ranging from one to five years.

Spencer Foundation Transformative Research Program
Spencer has launched a new grant program supporting transformative research projects designed to reimagine education systems for equity.
The program builds on Spencer's long legacy of supporting ambitious work, as well as its five-decade history of trusting the field to identify and pursue the most relevant and exciting questions and opportunities for groundbreaking research. The program also breaks new ground for the Foundation—providing scholars with new opportunities to work together, plan together, learn together and dream together.

NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Supporting Cybersecurity & Privacy Education and Workforce Development
This DCL invites novel and transformative approaches for formal or informal educational innovations in cybersecurity and privacy, and identifies opportunities for two types of additional funding: education supplements to existing SaTC research awards, and EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) proposals.