Open Calls for Proposals

RA submission: 23.4 | MOST submission by 30.4

Italian-Israeli research teams are hereby invited to submit joint proposals for scientific research projects in any of the following areas:

1. Immunotherapy in cancer
2. New strategies for products derived from polymeric waste

Funding: up to 400,000 NIS (equivalent to 100,000 euros), for 3 years.

Up to 8 research proposals will be selected for funding.

* 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.gov.il/he/pages/rfp03032025

MAECI website: https://www.esteri.it/it/diplomazia-culturale-e-diplomazia-scientifica/cooperscientificatecnologica/accordi_coop_indscietec/

RA submission: 5.5 | MOST submission by 12.5

Taiwan-Israeli research teams are hereby invited to submit joint proposals for applied research projects in any of the following areas:

1. Semiconductor design
2. Next generation materials

Funding: up to NIS 266,000 (equivalent to approx. US$ 70,000), for 2 years.

Up to 6 research proposals will be selected for funding.

* 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.trdf.co.il/files/TI.pdf

https://www.trdf.co.il/files/cv form.doc

https://www.trdf.co.il/files/full proposal research plan form.docx

NSTC website: https://www-nstc-gov-tw.translate.goog/folksonomy/rfpDetail/fd06589b-32e7-429f-8088-46be0c56cfcd?l=ch&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Please note: proposals should be submitted in parallel both at the MOST portal and M-Era-Net website.

The aim is to fund ambitious transnational RTD projects addressing materials research and innovation supporting the European Green Deal and the United Nations’ Sustainable development Goals (SDG).

The Call 2025 includes the following thematic areas:

• Sustainable materials for energy applications
• Innovative surfaces, coatings and interfaces
• Advanced composites and lightweight materials
• Functional materials
• Materials addressing environmental challenges
• Next generation materials for electronics  

Funding for the Israeli partners – up to 100K Euro over 3 years. Consortia of minimum 3 partners from 3 eligible countries.

* One can hold only one international MOST grant at any given time, as PI and as Co-PI.  Please check with us about the eligibility if you intend to apply.

https://www.m-era.net/joint-calls/joint-call-2025

https://www.m-era.net/joint-calls/joint-call-2025/participating-countries-regions-call-2025/israel-programmes/israel-most

M-ERA.NET Call 2025 information webinar will be held on 25th March 2025, 12:00 – 13:30 (Brussels time), registration link will be published soon.   

Supports research at the intersection of AI and the humanities: (1) catalyze groundbreaking, domain-specific research outcomes from humanities scholars through the integral application of AI-inspired tools and techniques; and (2) produce insights and techniques from the humanities that will advance the development of AI generally.  HAVI encourages collaboration of humanities scholars with AI researchers to produce advances both in AI and in the humanities.  HAVI Priority Areas:

* Specific outcomes seen by the field as major steps forward, solutions to longstanding problems, or innovative approaches that open up entirely new pathways of inquiry.

* Construction of datasets (or new methods of data acquisition / construction) with properties that reduce or eliminate current problems in AI…

* Integration of humanities approaches and agency in AI model training, construction, and usage.

* Exploration of AI-based approaches that the field sees as risky, but with high impact if successful.

As a result, projects must strongly align with one or both of the following priority areas:

** Heterogeneity and Contextual Understanding – projects that identify and operationalize a multiplicity of cultural, material, and perceptual differences – in both AI and the humanities…

** Multimodal and Multilingual Understanding – … Accelerating research in non-textual areas as visual art, photography, film and television, music, advertisements, theater, and dance, will require the invention of new methods in multimodal understanding, as well as improving methods developed for non-humanistic data so that they can be applied to humanities topics…

Funding: One to three years in the following categories:

– Small awards: Under $100,000 per year – small-scale efforts at early, exploratory stages

– Medium awards: $100,001 to $500,000 per year – research and development that has completed initial phases of planning and is ready to initiate projects that will produce specific, novel outcomes

– Large awards: $500,001 to $1.5 million per year – interdisciplinary research efforts designed to produce groundbreaking humanities research, new AI tools, datasets, and models through deep interaction with AI theory, systems, and methods.

www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-and-ai-virtual-institute

Information Session 1: March 12 at 9am EST- Register Here: https://schmidtentities.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_moihUZc2Q0O2qvjkSmZMJQ#/registration

Information Session 2: March 19 at 2pm EST- Register Here: – https://schmidtentities.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ItsGJVKZTjupKpkzwEe8qA#/registrationv

To celebrate and support the achievements of women in science and those who inspire the next generation of female scientists around the world.
Applicants must hold a non-tenured position, with PhD degree, MD, or other type of doctorate by dissertation obtained after 31 December 2015.
Funding: $50K, the award also includes coverage on nature.com, and mentoring opportunities through The Estée Lauder Companies.
https://www.nature.com/immersive/inspiringwomeninscience/index.html

For the Promotion of Young Scientists in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) to address global challenges aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Prize recognizes young scientists whose work contributes to global socio-economic progress and encourages greater interest in science, particularly among women and girls, to foster gender equality and promote scientific careers.

Funding: $50K prize

https://unescoalfozanprize.org/call-for-applications-and-nominations-unesco-al-fozan-international-prize-for-the-promotion-of-young-scientists-in-stem

Interested in supporting early-stage fundamental research toward a more principled theory of the behavior of our AI systems, which will let us confidently estimate how much to trust a given AI as it becomes more capable. This may involve making the internal structure of AI models more transparent to human understanding, or instead use more theoretical approaches for predicting how AIs will behave in novel circumstances.
Funding: Grants will typically range in size between $50,000 and $5 million.
Prioritized research areas: https://www.openphilanthropy.org/tais-rfp-research-areas/
https://www.openphilanthropy.org/request-for-proposals-technical-ai-safety-research/

Awarded to emerging leaders in academia and enables research that embodies Adam Smith’s own approach to rigorous empiricism and long-term, inter-disciplinary thinking and radical innovation. Interested in those whose research looks at long-term funding of innovation and in those who take interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches. We welcome applications from relevant disciplines and are particularly keen to receive applications from early-career researchers.
Funding: $75K
https://www.panmurehouse.org/programmes/panmure-house-prize/

An award for outstanding achievements in scientific and technical R&D in the field of energy.

https://globalenergyprize.org/en/o-premii/

To recognize outstanding efforts that enhance the rigor, reliability, robustness, and transparency of research in the life sciences, natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities, and stimulate awareness and activities fostering research quality among scientists, institutions, funders, and politicians. Promoting access to research results (‘Open Science’), embracing collaborative research (‘Team Science’) and increasing diversity in research are only some of the objectives established by the international jury.

Award Categories

* Individual Award: Individual researchers or small teams of collaborating researchers can be nominated. The laureate will be awarded €150,000.

* Institutional Award: Organizations, institutions, or other entities can apply or be nominated. The award-winning organization will receive €100,000.

* Early Career Award: Early career researchers or small teams of collaborating researchers can submit a project proposal that seeks to foster research quality and value for an award of €100,000.

https://award.einsteinfoundation.de

Funding the crucial work needed to both understand the implications of this paradigm on model safety and how to utilize the inference-time compute paradigm to actively make LLMs safer.
Encourage applications for research that discover novel failure modes emerging from inference-time compute, demonstrate the replicable nature of recently surfaced problems to certify their validity, design robust evaluations that quantify and measure associated risks, or construct targeted interventions that actively enhance model safety. Projects should aim to produce tangible research outcomes that advance the scientific understanding
of inference-time compute safety—such as theoretical analyses, rigorously validated evaluation designs, mitigation strategies, functional prototype implementations, or reproducible experimental results.
Funding: up to $500K per for 12-18 months
https://www.schmidtsciences.org/ai-safety-science-inferencetimecompute/

(another deadline on 1.12)
In response to the urgent need for innovative solutions and a deeper understanding of these pressing environmental challenges, three selected areas represent some of the most significant issues affecting resource management and the environment today:
– Climate Change Impacts/Greenhouse Gas Emissions
– Emerging Contaminants
– Advancing Materials Circularity & Recycling
Funding: awarded grants have ranged from $15,000 to over $500K, average grant amount being $160,000. Typical project durations are about 2 years.
https://erefdn.org/research-grants/

To develop a resource for health research that links satellite-derived air quality products to quantified uncertainties and strengthens the understanding of the implications of such uncertainties for exposure, epidemiological, and health assessment research.

The study should focus on air quality in the United States and must clearly articulate the relevance and substantial added value of the research to the human health effects of air pollution in the United States.

Funding: up to $1,000,000 over 2 years. HEI seeks to fund 2-3 studies.

www.healtheffects.org/rfa/rfa-25-1-advancing-satellite-derived-air-quality-data-and-approaches-use-health-studies

(more deadlines on: August 31, November 30)

Clear connection to the German research system (topic, scientist, institute). Interdisciplinary projects welcomed.

Areas of support:

– History, Language & Culture

– State, Economy and Society

– Medicine and the Natural Sciences

15 to 20 speakers, not earlier than 6 months after application submission, not for a staged conference. Non Profit, no overhead.

https://www.fritz-thyssen-stiftung.de/en/funding/types-of-support/conferences/

This ARC Opportunity is soliciting ideas to explore the following question: To accelerate development and integration of multi-functional materials, how do we create generalizable models to explore thin film crystal bonding onto suitable substrates under diverse real-world process conditions and parameters?

Funding: up to $300,000.

https://sam.gov/opp/d07df126129d4f98bd0a8d38aedf4218/view

https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/crystal-substrate-bonding

Executive Summary Due Date: 19 April 2025

Artificial Intelligence | Autonomy | Complexity | Logistics | Manufacturing | ML | Platforms | Systems |

The DARPA Tactical Technology Office (TTO) creates technological surprise and provides new options for national security, by demonstrating revolutionary platforms and systems with cutting-edge technology. TTO demonstrates compelling hardware at scales that demonstrate disruptive capability, with designs that reduce risk and cost by managing complexity, and which can be manufactured responsively and affordably. TTO is soliciting innovative executive summaries and proposals that enhance the nation’s ability to rapidly build, adapt and sustain force structures with the following focus areas: Platform Innovation, Missionized Autonomy, Managing Complexity, Freedom’s Forge 2.0, and Disruptive Emergent Technology.

https://sam.gov/opp/03c6a0ca7eea42b3af6a1322a8002576/view

Recognize fundamental contributions in a broad array of areas of scientific knowledge, technology, humanities and artistic creation.

Funding: 400K euros prize money, a diploma and a commemorative artwork.

https://www.frontiersofknowledgeawards-fbbva.es/conditions/#convocatoria

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
• Life Sciences
• Mathematical & Physical Sciences
• Public Engagement
• Religion, Science, and Society

Funding: Not specified. Duration: up to 5 years.

www.templeton.org/what-we-fund/core-funding-areas

www.templeton.org/funding-areas/life-sciences

www.templeton.org/grants/grant-calendar

(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

> Smart Consumables for Digital Integration in Biomanufacturing Processes: While life science suppliers have been creating new software, automation technologies, sensors, and analytical tools, the consumables used in these processes are still largely “analog”. Merck conducts research into scalable and modular smart consumables that interact with their digital environment, improve the efficiency of purification processes and reduce errors. Proposals should develop a concept and working prototype for smart downstream consumables, such as filters and chromatography media or devices.

Funding: one grant of up to 120,000 EUR/year for up to 3 years with potential further collaboration.

> Multi-Purpose Microphysiological Systems (MPS): Underlying gaps and discrepancies between the biology of in vitro assays and in vivo animal models with the clinical reality of patients’ physiopathology has led to inaccurate selection and prioritization of compound development.  Merck is developing world class human-based MPS that can materially improve translatability and reduce the usage of animals in the testing of drug and chemical compounds. Merck is particularly interested in:

* Novel development of Cardiac, Brain (including Blood-Brain Barrier), and Lung models, both iPSC and Patient Derived Organoid based

* Applications including but extending beyond toxicology to include absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADME) as well as efficacy models (specifically in relation to Oncology and Neuroinflammation diseases).

* AI model development of human-based MPS systems using data from existing MPS models and/or newly developed MPS models

Funding: We are offering up to one grant to be negotiated on a case by case basis and provides access to applicable areas of our MPS technology platform, along with collaboration opportunities with our scientists and partners.

www.merckgroup.com/en/research/open-innovation/research-grants.html

Research areas supported: chemistry, earth sciences, chemical and petroleum engineering, and related fields such as polymers and materials science.

Funds scientists and engineers with limited no preliminary results and who intend to use the PRF-driven preliminary results to seek continuation funding from other agencies. Should not be in the same direction as—or overlap with—current projects in the lead PI’s research group.

Funding: $125K for 2 years

https://www.acs.org/funding/grants/petroleum-research-fund/programs/new-directions-grants.html

To improve sustainable forest management that addresses the pressing problems of climate change and biodiversity loss as well as society’s need for forest products.
Funding: CHF 50-100K ($56-113K) per year for 1-4 years (possible to exceed with pre-approval)
https://veluxstiftung.ch/funding-areas/forestry/

In response to the urgent need for innovative solutions and a deeper understanding of these pressing environmental challenges, three selected areas represent some of the most significant issues affecting resource management and the environment today:
– Climate Change Impacts/Greenhouse Gas Emissions
– Emerging Contaminants
– Advancing Materials Circularity & Recycling
Funding: awarded grants have ranged from $15,000 to over $500K, average grant amount being $160,000. Typical project durations are about 2 years.
https://erefdn.org/research-grants/

Aimed at researchers in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines who wish to collaborate with specialist colleagues in the federal states where the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung provides sponsorship (Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Thuringia).
Funding: 100K EUR (research stay of up to 12 months in Germany possible), can provide further funding of 50,000 EUR to cover costs arising from the award winner’s collaboration with specialist colleagues in Germany.
https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/apply/sponsorship-programmes/carl-zeiss-humboldt-research-award

(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

(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/search-results-detail/332894

(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