Funding Opportunities
External Opportunities
The CSE Data Science Initiative is constantly searching for funding opportunities that include a data science element. If you are aware of a current solicitation not listed here, please email us at csedsi@umn.edu.
Funding Agency | Due Date | Title | Comments |
| NSF | See specific programs listed in DCL. | Dear Colleague Letter: Leveraging Innovations From Evolution (LIFE) (NSF 24-049) | |
| NEH | Optional draft due: January 10, 2024 Deadline: February 14, 2024 | Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence | |
| NSF | July 17, 2023; July 15 annually thereafter January 16, 2024 (January 15 annually thereafter) | Arctic Research Opportunities Arctic Natural Sciences; Arctic Social Sciences (NSF 23-572) | Recurring |
| NSF | Preliminary: October 31, 2023 Full: February 12, 2024 | National AI Institutes (NSF 23-610) - Astronomical Sciences | |
| NSF | Preliminary: January 12, 2024 Full: May 17, 2024 | National AI Institutes (NSF 23-610) - AI for Discovery in Materials Research and Strengthening AI | |
| DOD | Abstracts due January 23, 2024. Full proposals due March 4, 2024. | Boosting Innovative GEOINT - Science & Technology Broad Agency Announcement (BIG-ST BAA) | See also NGA opens BIG-ST BAA Topic 1. |
| DOE | Pre-Applications (required): February 29, 2024. Pre-Application Response Date: March 21, 2024 Final Application: May 2, 2024 | EXPRESS: 2024 Exploratory Research for Extreme Scale Science (DE-FOA-0003300) | |
| NSF | March 11, 2024 | Emerging Mathematics in Biology (eMB) (NSF 24-513) | |
| NSF | March 14, 2024 | Mathematical Sciences Research Institutes (NSF 23-606) | Next due date is March 4, 2029. |
| NSF | March 15, 2024 | Collaborations in Artificial Intelligence and Geosciences (CAIG) (NSF 24-518) | Informational webinar on Monday, January 22, 2024, 12:00-1:30 PM CST. Registration required. |
| DOE | Pre-Applications (required): March 19, 2024 Pre-Application Response Date: April 11, 2024 Final Application: May 21, 2024 | Advancements in Artificial Intelligence for Science (DE-FOA-0003264) | The DOE SC program in Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) hereby announces its interest in basic computer science and applied mathematics research in the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for science. |
| State of MN | March 27, 2024 | Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR) | |
| NSF | March 31, 2024 | Dear Colleague Letter: Advancing education for the future AI workforce (EducateAI) (NSF 24-025) | |
| NSF | April 8, 2024: Phase 1: Planning Grants, Translational Research Coordination Networks, Workshops April 22, 2024: Phase 2: Project proposals | Responsible Design, Development, and Deployment of Technologies (ReDDDoT) (NSF 24-524) | The ReDDDoT program invites proposals from multidisciplinary, multi-sector teams that examine and demonstrate the principles, methodologies, implementations, and impacts associated with responsible design, development, and deployment of technologies, focusing especially on key technologies. |
| NSF | April 10, 2024 February 19, 2025 and annually on the third Wednesday in February thereafter | Algorithms for Threat Detection (ATD) (NSF 24-526) | Recurring. Program supports research on new approaches to leveraging massive spatiotemporal datasets to analyze and understand spatiotemporally distributed phenomena. |
| NSF | Pre-applications (required): April 23, 2024 Full proposal: August 30, 2024 | Ideas Lab: Use-Inspired Acceleration of Protein Design (NSF 24-550) | Track I. Use-driven application for small binders. Track II. The design and use of enzymes and families of enzymes. "Up to 8 awards are anticipated .... Awards will be funded up to $3,750,000 per year for up to 3 years...." |
| NSF | April 24, 2024 December 19, 2024 and annually on the third Thursday in December thereafter | Partnership to Advance Conservation Science and Practice (PACSP) (NSF 24-531) | Recurring. Partnership between NSF and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation. |
| NSF | April 30, 2024 for consideration in FY 2024 | Dear Colleague Letter: Funding Opportunities for Engineering Research to Achieve Net-Zero Climate Goals by 2050 (NSF 24-045) | Proposals submitted after April 30, 2024, will be considered for fiscal year 2025. |
| DARPA & ARPA-H | April 30, 2024 for open track | ARPA-H joins DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge to safeguard nation’s health care infrastructure from cyberattacks | See also March 21, 2024 announcement from ARPA-H |
| NSF | April 30, 2024 for consideration in FY 2024 | Dear Colleague Letter: Funding Opportunities for Engineering Research in Artificial Intelligence (NSF 24-039) | Research and education proposals related to Artificial Intelligence as an Emerging Industry. Proposals submitted after April 30, 2024, will be considered for fiscal year 2025. |
| NSF | May 13, 2024 (Emerging Ideas Proposals Only) January 14, 2025 and annually on January 14 thereafter Discovery Proposals Only in 2025 and 2026 | ACED: Accelerating Computing-Enabled Scientific Discovery (ACED) (NSF 24-541) | Register for the ACED Webinar on March 12, 2024, 2:00-3:00 PM central time. Recurring. |
| NSF | May 15, 2024 | Sustainable Regional Systems Research Networks (SRS RNs) (NSF 24-533) | Estimated Number of Awards: 1 to 2 Anticipated Funding Amount: $30,000,000, depending upon availability of funds. |
| NSF | May 16, 2024 | Enabling Partnerships to Increase Innovation Capacity (EPIIC) (NSF 23-625) | Recurring. Also January 21, 2025. |
| NSF | June 3, 2024 | Recurring. Future due dates: February 5, 2025 and February 5, 2026 | |
| NIFA-AFRI (USDA) |
June 6, 2024 | For this cycle, the SAS program area will fund projects that significantly advance previously established foundational and applied sciences for the following USDA priority outcomes: Food and Nutrition Security, Strengthening the Bioeconomy, and Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry (CSAF). Recurring. | |
| AFRL | April 15, 2024: White Papers due June 10, 2024: Proposal Submission Due Date (by invitation only from White Paper Selection notice) | AFRL FY24 Data Assimilation Center of Excellence | Revised full announcement. Listen to audio of March 21, 2024 webinar. |
| NSF | June 11, 2024 | Global Centers: Use-Inspired Research Addressing Global Challenges through the Bioeconomy (NSF 24-556) | From RFP: “Storing and analyzing huge amounts of genome and phenotype data will require innovations in computing, including artificial intelligence (AI) and mathematical foundations behind these AI approaches.” |
| NSF | June 20, 2024 | Mathematical Foundations of Digital Twins (NSF 24-559) | Recurring. Next due date: March 17, 2025, and annually on March 15 thereafter. |
| NSF | June 21, 2024 | Foundations for Digital Twins as Catalyzers of Biomedical Technological Innovation (NSF 24-561) | Recurring. Next due date: May 5, 2025, and annually on the first Monday in May thereafter. |
| NIH | September 3, 2024 (earliest submission date: August 3, 2024) | NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award (R01 - Clinical Trial Optional): RFA RM-24-004 | Transformative Research Award website. Pre-application webinar on June 26, 2024, from 3:30-5:00 PM ET. Register for the webinar and join on Webex. |
| NIH | September 6, 2024 (earliest submission date: August 6, 2024) | NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (DP5 - Clinical Trial Optional): RFA RM-24-005 | Early Independence Award website. Pre-application webinar on June 26, 2024, from 1:00-2:30 PM ET. Register for the webinar and join on Webex. |
| NIH | September 9, 2024 (earliest submission date: August 9, 2024) | NIH Director’s Pioneer Award Program (DP1 Clinical Trial Optional) (RFA-RM-24-002) | NIH Director's Pioneer Award website. Pre-application webinar on June 25, 2024, from 2:00-3:30 PM ET. Register for the webinar and join on Webex. |
| NSF | Phase II full proposals due August 30, 2024. Only Phase I awardees eligible to submit. | NSF Convergence Accelerator Phases 1 and 2 for the 2023 Cohort - Tracks K, L, M (NSF 23-590) | Letter of intent was due July 11, 2023. Full Phase I proposals were due August 22, 2023. |
| NSF | September 6, 2024 and annually thereafter. | NSF Research Traineeship Program (NRT) (NSF 21-536) | Recurring |
| NSF | September 13, 2024 Then annually, second Friday in September. | Community Infrastructure for Research in CISE (CIRC) (NSF 23-589) | 2023 program solicitation |
| NASA | Step 1: January 23, 2025 Step 2: April 3, 2025 | B.16 Heliophysics Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning-Ready Data | Specific proposal opportunity description pdf |
| NSF | Annually on the second Thursday in September | Experiential Learning for Emerging and Novel Technologies (ExLENT) (NSF 23-507) | 2023 program solicitation |
| NSF | Annually on September 6 | National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) Program (NSF 21-536) | Recurring |
| NSF | October 3, 2024 | Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science (SCH) (NSF 23-614) | Recurring, next due date is October 3, 2025. |
| NSF | Target dates for Planning Grant preliminary proposals are the second Wednesdays in September and March. Full proposal target dates are the second Wednesdays of December and June. | Dear Colleague Letter: NSF (GEO and SBE) Directorates and NOAA Call for IUCRC (Industry-University Cooperative Research Center) Proposals for Modeling of Catastrophic Impacts and Risk Assessment Due to Climate Change (NSF 23-106) | See the IUCRC program solicitation for more details. |
| NSF | Not stated | Dear Colleague Letter: Global Centers Program Competition (NSF 24-023) | Letter to inform people of the next round of the Global Centers Program anticipated to be in FY2024. |
| NSF | Not stated | Dear Colleague Letter: Future Proofing Plants to a Changing Climate (NSF 23-096) | |
| NSF | December 1, 2023 December 6, 2024 December 5, 2025 | Geoinformatics (NSF 23-594) | There are two tracks, Innovative Resources and Sustained Resources. Both were open for 2023. 2024: Sustained Resources only. 2025: Innovative Resources only. |
| DARPA | Due date for 2023 was November 30. | Advanced Research Concept (ARC) Opportunity: Collaborative Knowledge Curation | |
| NIFA-AFRI (USDA) | Vary from August to October 2024. | Agriculture and Food Research Initiative - Foundational and Applied Science Program | Recurring. See especially p. 56 and p. 91. |
| NSF | Due date for 2023 was November 17. | Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems (DISES) (NSF 23-609) | This has been a recurring program. |
| USDA-DSFAS | Due date for 2023 was November 16. | Data Science for Food and Agricultural Systems (DSFAS) (Part of AFRI Foundational and Applied Science Program) (see p. 91ff) | Recurring |
| NSF | Not stated | Dear Colleague Letter: Special Guidelines for Submitting Collaborative Proposals under the U.S. NSF/GEO – DFG/Geosciences Lead Agency Opportunity on collaborative Research on Climate Change (NSF 23-113) | DFG is the German Research Foundation. |
| NSF | Not stated. | Arctic System Science; Arctic Observing Network; Polar Cyberinfrastructure; Arctic Research Coordination and Policy Support (NSF 23-572) | Recurring. |
| NSF | The submission window for 2023 was February 27 - March 13. | Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) (NSF 23-530) | This has been a recurring opportunity in odd-numbered years, i.e. 2023, 2025, etc. |
| NSF | Due dates for 2023 were May 15, June 20, and December 18. | Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-2 (Mid-scale RI-2) (NSF 23-570) | This has been a recurring opportunity in odd-numbered years. This is the 2023 solicitation, which required a letter of intent, a preliminary proposal, and a final proposal by invitation only. |
| NSF | None currently. | Regional Innovation Engines | Read the original Broad Agency Announcement for 2022-2023. Read more about REIs. NSF anticipates future calls for proposals, pending availability of funds. To stay in the loop about future funding calls and opportunities to engage, sign up for their newsletter. |
| NSF | Due dates for 2023 were August 25 for letter of intent (required) and December 8 (full proposal). | Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention Phase II (PIPP Phase II Centers Program) (NSF 23-608) | Unclear if this will be a recurring opportunity. |
| DARPA | Due date for 2023 was November 30. | Foundation Models for Scientific Discovery (DARPA-PA-23-04-01) AI Exploration (AIE) Opportunity |
Internal (UMN) Opportunities
Sponsoring Program | Due Date | Title | Comments |
| UMN Data Science Initiative | Annually in October | Data Science Initiative (DSI)-MnDRIVE graduate assistantship program | 2024 solicitation |
| UMN Data Science Initiative | Annually in October | Small and Medium/Large Seed Grants | 2024 solicitation for Small and Medium/Large seed grant proposals |
| MnDRIVE Environment | Seed Grants | For 2023 seed grants, letters of intent were due on January 27, 2022, and full proposals were due on March 3, 2023. | |
| Institute on the Environment | Statement of Intent: February 12, 2024 Applications: March 12, 2024 | Impact Goals Request for Proposals | Expanded set of domains in 2024 including Adaptation, Mitigation, Biodiversity, Clean Energy, Water & Land, Food Systems, Planetary Health, Environmental Justice, Natural Capital., & Decision Support. Final award selections will be made and announced by June 1, with the projects starting July 1, 2024. |
| College of Science & Engineering | INTER S&E CTIONS Seed Grants | This program began with the 2022 RFP. |