Government Funding Opportunities
Below is a list of recent and ongoing open U.S. Department of Energy funding opportunity announcements. The ones presented here are for energy R&D work for which universities are eligible and likely to be a lead. For a comprehensive listing of DOE funding opportunity announcements, please visit the DOE program office web pages, FedConnect, or grants.gov. Additionally, MITEI sends out regular e-mail notices to MIT researchers with these opportunities and other funding opportunity announcements. If you are an MIT professor or research staff and would like to be added to this distribution list, please contact Marissa Blake (mblake@mit.edu). Please send other questions and comments to Daniel Enderton (enderton@mit.edu).
Recently Released or Announced DOE Solicitations For Energy R&D (For Which Universities Are Eligible to be the Lead Investigator):
Fossil: (DE-FOA-0000146) (pdf)
Support of Advanced Coal Research at U.S. Colleges and Universities
Funding: $2.041M (Max $300K), Open Date: 10/15/09, Close Date: 11/24/09
Fossil: (DE-FOA-0000131) (pdf)
Bench-Scale and Slipstream Development and Testing of Post-Combustion Carbon Dioxide Capture and Separation Technology for Application to Existing Coal-Fired Power Plants
Funding: $55M (Max for Bench Scale $3M, Max for Slipstream $15M), Open Date: 10/14/09, Close Date: 12/15/09
Ongoing DOE Solicitations For Energy R&D For Which Universities Are Eligible:(For Which Universities Are Eligible to be the Lead Investigator):
**Amendment** (DE-FOA-0000152) (pdf)
Recovery Act - Workforce Training For The Electric Power Sector
Funding: $100M, Open Date: 09/21/09, Close Date: 11/30/09
Science:
DOE Office of Science Graduate Fellowship
Close Date: 11/30/09
(DE-FOA-0000149) (pdf)
Next Generation Nuclear Plant Program-Gas Cooled Reactor Design and Demonstration Projects
Funding: $40M (2 Awards), Open Date: 09/22/09, Close Date: 11/16/09
Office of Science: (DE-PS02-09ER09-25) (.pdf)
Biological Systems Research on the Role of Microbial Communities in Carbon Cycling
Funding: $12M, Open Date: 07/01/09, Close Date: 11/09/09
Office of Science: (DE-FOA-0000143) (pdf)
Computational Biology and Bioinformatic Methods to Enable a Systems Biology Knowledgebase
Funding: $5M (Approx. 15 Awards), Open Date: 09/14/09, Close Date: 01/29/10
Science/Basic Energy Sciences: (DE-PS02-09ER09-11) (pdf)
Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR); Building EPSCoR-State/National Laboratory Partnerships
Funding: $1.7M (max $250K/award), Open Date: 04/23/09, Close Date: 11/09/09
Please note that this is not an exhaustive list of DOE funding opportunity announcements. The ones presented here are for energy R&D work for which universities are eligible and likely to be the lead. For a full listing of DOE funding opportunity announcements, please visit grants.gov.
Pertinent NSF Announcements:
NSF: CHE-DMR-DMS Solar Energy Initiative (SOLAR)
Funding: $7M, Close Date: 12/08/09 (preliminary proposal) 3/10/10 (full proposal)
NSF: Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Funding: $66.987M, Close Date: 11/02/09 – 11/12/09 (depending on field)
Energy-related work may be appropriate for broad range of NSF funding opportunities, which are usually organized by discipline (e.g. biological sciences, engineering, etc). These are only a few opportunities, which may be of particular interest. Please visit http://www.nsf.gov/funding/ to search all NSF funding opportunities.
