Funding Opportunities for R&D and Evaluation of Education Interventions and Products Across the Federal Government
Last Updated April 2020
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| Program | Key Information | Timeline | POC |
| ED | $1.1M to for-profit firms for R&D and evaluation of innovative commercially viable ed-tech products for students, teachers, and administrators, across many areas in education and special education. | Next RFP winter 2020 |
Edward.Metz@ed.gov |
| ED | $1.4M to $3.3M (mainly to universities or non-profits) for basic research, R&D of interventions and assessments, and evaluation across many topics in education. | Next RFA Early spring 2020 |
Edward.Metz@ed.gov |
| ED | $1.4M to $3.3M (mainly to universities or non-profits) for basic research, R&D of interventions and assessments, and evaluation across many topics in special education. | Next RFA Early spring 2020 |
Sarah.Brasiel@ed.gov |
| NIH
Omnibus Solicitation for Small Business Innovation Research Grant Applications |
$1.75M for IDM STEM resources that address P-12 student career choice or health and medicine topics for the community | OPEN NOW 9/5/19 Due dates Jan 5, Apr 5 (current solicitation ends April 7, 2020). | Tony Beck |
| NIH | $1.35M/5 years for: development of innovative educational activities for P-12 teachers and students or interactive science center/museum health exhibits. | OPEN NOW until July 14, 2022. Due dates are July 14, 2020; July 13, 2021; July 13, 2022 |
Tony Beck |
| IMLS | $5 to $250K for projects that strengthen the ability of an individual museum to serve its public. Lifelong Learning category | Next NOFO summer 2020
Anticipated deadline is November 16, 2020 |
Helen Wechsler |
| IMLS | $50K to $1M for projects that address critical needs of the museum field and that have the potential to advance practice in the profession so that museums can improve services for the American public. Digital Platforms and Applications category. | Next NOFO summer 2020
Anticipated deadline is November 16, 2020 |
Helen Wechsler |
| NEH | $30,000 – $300,000 to supports projects that interpret and analyze humanities content in primarily digital platforms and formats. The projects must be designed to attract broad public audiences and incorporate sound humanities scholarship. | Next Deadline: 06/19/2020 |
Jeff Hardwick jhardwick@neh.gov; Marc Ruppel |
| NSF
Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers |
ITEST is an applied research and development program providing direct student learning opportunities in pre-kindergarten through high school. ITEST seeks proposals that pursue innovative instructional approaches and practices. | Next Deadline: 8/19/19 |
DRLITEST@nsf.gov |
| NSF
Discovery Research PreK-12 |
DRK-12 seeks to enhance the learning and teaching of STEM by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of STEM education innovations and approaches. | Next Deadline: 8/14/2020 | drldrk12@nsf.gov
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| NSF AISL Advancing Informal STEM Learning
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The AISL program seeks to advance new approaches to and evidence-based understanding of the design and development of STEM learning opportunities for the public in informal environments. | No Current Deadline Available | drlaisl@nsf.gov
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| NSF | $1.5M for early stage R&D of innovation education technology products. | June & December submissions | Rajesh Mehta; rmehta@nsf.gov |
| NSF
EHR Core Research |
ECR Core invites proposals for fundamental research (basic research or use-inspired basic research) that advances knowledge in one or more of the three Research Tracks: STEM Learning and Learning Environments, Research on Broadening Participation in STEM fields, and Research on STEM Workforce Development | Next Deadline:
10/1/20 |
ECR@nsf.gov |
| NSF
ECR: BCSER: EHR Core Research (ECR): Building Capacity in STEM |
ECR: BCSER supports activities that enable early and mid-career researchers to acquire the requisite expertise and skills to conduct rigorous fundamental research in STEM education. | Next Deadline:
6/7/19 |
ECRBCSER@nsf.gov |
| NSF
Computer Science for All |
This program aims to provide all U.S. students the opportunity to participate in computer science (CS) and computational thinking (CT) education in their schools at the preK-12 levels. This solicitation focuses on researcher-practitioner partnerships (RPPs) that foster the research and development needed to bring CS and CT to all schools. | Next Deadline:
2/26/21 |
Karen King |
| NSF | Funds exploratory and synergistic research in learning technologies to prepare learners to excel in work at the human-technology frontier. | Next Deadline:
1/11/21 |
Cyberlearning-WHTF@nsf.gov |
| HHS/ACL/NIDILRR | Offers 6-month $100K Phase I grants and 2-year $575K Phase II to for-profit U.S. businesses to R&D innovative commercially viable products and services designed to meet the needs of individuals with all types of disabilities across the age span.
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Next Deadline:
Multiple dates |
Brian.Bard@acl.hhs.gov |
