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Higher Education Grant Projections

Hanover is closely monitoring developments surrounding COVID-19 and how it has and may continue to impact the education community. This resource center provides key facts, resources, and potential responses to this rapidly evolving situation. Our team has also created a visualization dashboard of CARES Act funding by agency and award type. As always, your dedicated Content Director and Relationship Director are ready to help with custom research solutions to the challenges you are facing.

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The following grid outlines the projected federal grant competitions of interest to higher education institutions from June to August 2020, including COVID-19 opportunities. In the interests of space, we have not included all 40+ COVID-19 prospects in the table below (click here for a full list), but have highlighted some of the most notable high-profile RFPs.
 
In addition to relevant information about each award, this grid includes the following:
  • Projected submission deadlines (subject to change upon release of funding announcements)
  • Approximate support deadlines for new clients to enlist Hanover's proposal development services for each corresponding funding announcement:
    • Full proposal production - Foundation: 6-8 weeks; Federal: 9-10 weeks;
    • Revision and resubmission consulting - Foundation: 4-6 weeks; Federal: 5-6 weeks; and
    • Proposal Review - Foundation: 2-4 weeks; Federal: 3-4 weeks
 
To download a PDF version of this grid, which includes quick links to competition websites, click here. 
 
 

COVID-Specific Funding Opportunities

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

NIH

Bench Testing Therapeutic/Indication Pairing Strategies (UG3/UH3)

6/5/20

6/26/20 

Competition Description

Funds projects that repurpose existing drugs or biologics that have begun or completed a Phase I clinical trial.

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

NIH

Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program: Exploratory Collaborative Innovation Awards (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)

6/11/20

6/18/20

7/11/20

Competition Description

Supports collaborative research activities that develop innovative solutions that will improve the efficiency, quality and impact of turning laboratory, clinic and community observations into interventions that improve public health.

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

Deutsche Forschungs-gemeinschaft 

Call for Multidisciplinary Research into Epidemics and Pandemics in Response to the Outbreak of SARS-CoV-2

7/3/20

7/10/20

7/1/20 (LOI)

Competition Description

Encourages international partnerships for projects addressing prevention, early detection, containment, and investigation of the causes, impacts, and management of pandemics.

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

HHS

Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)

10/2/20

10/9/20

10/31/20

Competition Description

Seeks research for an array of medical countermeasures to diagnose, treat, or protect against against COVID-19.

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

NIH

Availability of Urgent Competitive Revisions for Research on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the Causative Virus SARS-CoV-2

1/8/21

1/15/21

2/5/21

Competition Description

Seeks projects to develop predictive models for disease spread; tools for rapid detection; and rapid development of therapeutic agents.

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

NIH

Emergency Awards: Rapid Investigation of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

4/1/21

4/8/21

4/29/21

Competition Description

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to provide an expedited (rapid) funding mechanism for research on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

NIH

Emergency Awards: Rapid Investigation of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

4/1/21

4/8/21

4/29/21

Competition Description

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to provide an expedited (rapid) funding mechanism for research on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

NSF

Dear Colleague Letter on the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Varies by program; discuss with Hanover Content Director

Varies by program; discuss with Hanover Content Director

Varies by NSF program

Competition Description

Encourages research community to respond through existing NSF opportunities via the RAPID funding mechanism for COVID-19 topics.

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

NSF

Dear Colleague Letter: Provisioning Advanced Cyberinfrastructure to Further Research on the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Varies by program; discuss with Hanover Content Director

Varies by program; discuss with Hanover Content Director

Varies by NSF program

Competition Description

Invites RAPID proposals and supplemental funding requests to existing awards that address COVID-19 challenges through data and/or software infrastructure development activities.

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

HHS

Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) Novel Coronavirus EZ-BAA

Approx. four weeks ahead of intended submission date

Approx. three weeks ahead of intended submission date

Rolling 

Competition Description

Seeks research for molecular diagnostic assays, point-of-care detection, screening models, and other topics pertaining to COVID-19.

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

NSF

Request for SBIR/STTR Phase I Proposals Addressing COVID-19

Approx. four weeks ahead of intended submission date

Approx. three weeks ahead of intended submission date

Rolling 

Competition Description

University researchers may serve as subcontractors for any small business’ commercializable R&D pertaining to NSF-related COVID-19 topics.

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

NIH

R01, R21, SBIR/STTR for COVID-19

Varies by program; discuss with Hanover Content Director

Varies by program; discuss with Hanover Content Director

Standard tri-annual dates for R01R21SBIR/STTR

Competition Description

Three of the largest NIH parent/umbrella funding mechanisms have now been updated to indicate that applications pertaining to COVID-19 research are welcomed.

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

DOE

Dear Colleague Letter

Approx. four weeks ahead of intended submission date

Approx. three weeks ahead of intended submission date

Rolling

Competition Description

Encourages scientific questions that underpin COVID-19 response that the research community may answer using DOE user facilities, computational resources, and enabling infrastructure.

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

Google

Google Cloud Research Credits

Approx. four weeks ahead of intended submission date

Approx. three weeks ahead of intended submission date

Rolling

Competition Description

A total of $20 million in Google Cloud research credits will be provided for leveraging Google’s computing capabilities and infrastructure to study therapies, vaccines, etc.

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

Amazon

AWS Diagnostic Development Initiative

Approx. four weeks ahead of intended submission date

Approx. three weeks ahead of intended submission date

Rolling

Competition Description

Amazon has announced $20 million to provide technical support and AWS promotional credits for existing AWS customers to advance diagnostic research.

 

 

Non-COVID Funding Opportunities

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

NSF

Cyber-Physical Systems

6/2/20

6/22/20

Competition Description

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are engineered systems that are built from, and depend upon, the seamless integration of computation and physical components. Advances in CPS will enable capability, adaptability, scalability, resiliency, safety, security, and usability that will expand the horizons of these critical systems. The CPS program aims to develop the core research needed to engineer these complex CPS, some of which may also require dependable, high-confidence, or provable behaviors. 

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

NIH

NIH Research Enhancement Award (R15)

6/4/20

6/25/20

Competition Description

Supports small-scale research projects at educational institutions that provide baccalaureate or advanced degrees for a significant number of the Nation’s research scientists but that have not been major recipients of NIH support.

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

NEH

Digital Humanities Advancement Grants

6/2/20

6/9/20

6/30/20

Competition Description

This program supports innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging digital projects at different stages of their lifecycles, from early start-up phases through implementation and sustainability. Experimentation, reuse, and extensibility are hallmarks of this program, leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities.

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Development of Clinical Quality Measures to Improve Diagnosis

6/2/20

6/9/20

6/30/20

Competition Description

 The purpose of this funding opportunity is to provide assistance in the form of grants for the development of innovative clinical quality measures that promote excellence in diagnosis of three categories of disease – acute vascular events, infections and cancer.

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund

Species Conservation Initiatives

6/2/20

6/9/20

6/30/20

Competition Description

The Fund has been established to provide targeted grants to individual species conservation initiatives, recognize leaders in the field and elevate the importance of species in the broader conservation debate. Its focus is global and eligibility for grants will extend to all plant, animal and fungi species conservation efforts, without discrimination on the basis of region or selected species.

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

NIH

Various R Series and K Series resubmissions 

Late May/
 Early June

Early/
 Mid-June

Various July deadlines

Competition Description

Resubmissions under various NIH mechanisms for supporting investigator-led research projects.

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

NSF

Partnerships for Innovation

6/8/20

6/15/20

7/8/20

Competition Description

The Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) Program within the Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP) offers researchers from all disciplines of science and engineering funded by NSF the opportunity to perform translational research and technology development, catalyze partnerships and accelerate the transition of discoveries from the laboratory to the marketplace for societal benefit.

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

NARA

Access to Historical Records: Major Initiatives program

6/11/20

6/18/20

7/9/20

Competition Description

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks projects that will significantly improve public discovery and use of major historical records collections. The Commission is especially interested in collections of America’s early legal records, such as the records of colonial, territorial, county, and early statehood and tribal proceedings that document the evolution of the nation’s legal history.

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

NEA

Grants for Arts Projects (FY 2021)

6/11/20

6/18/20

7/9/20

Competition Description

Grants for Arts Projects is the National Endowment for the Arts’ principal grants program. Through project-based funding, they support public engagement with, and access to, various forms of excellent art across the nation, the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence, learning in the arts at all stages of life, and the integration of the arts into the fabric of community life.

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

NSF

Convergence Accelerator Phase I and II

6/11/20

6/18/20

7/10/20

Competition Description

The goals of NSF’s convergence accelerator effort are to support and accelerate use-inspired convergence research in areas of national importance within particular topics (tracks). This solicitation invites proposals for the following Tracks: Quantum Technology (Track C) AI-Driven Innovation via Data and Model Sharing (Track D)

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

USDA

Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grants

6/12/20

6/19/20

7/13/20

Competition Description

The DLT Program provides financial assistance to enable and improve distance learning and telemedicine services in rural areas. 

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

NSF

INCLUDES Planning Grants

6/12/20

6/19/20

7/13/20

Competition Description

This program will support Planning Grants to build capacity for the development of collaborative infrastructure to: (a) facilitate innovative partnerships, networks, and theories of action for broadening participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) at scale and (b) lead to the establishment of future centers, alliances, or other large-scale networks to address a broadening participation challenge. 

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

AFOSR

Air Force Fiscal Year 2021 Young Investigator Research Program (YIP)

6/11/20

6/18/20

7/14/20

Competition Description

This program supports young in career scientists and engineers who have received Ph.D. or equivalent degrees by 1 April 2012 or later showing exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research. The program objective is to foster creative basic research in science and engineering; enhance early career development of outstanding young investigators; and increase opportunities for the young investigator to recognize the Air Force mission and related challenges in science and engineering.

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

NEH

Humanities Collections and Reference Resources

6/15/20

6/22/20

7/15/20

Competition Description

This program strengthens efforts to extend the life of humanities collections and make their intellectual content widely accessible, often through the use of digital technology. Awards are also made to create various reference resources that facilitate use of cultural materials, from works that provide basic information quickly to tools that synthesize and codify knowledge of a subject for in-depth investigation.

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

DHHS

Health Information Technology (IT) to Improve Health Care Quality and Outcomes (R21)

6/16/20

6/23/20

7/16/20

Competition Description

This FOA issued by AHRQ invites grant applications for funding to conduct exploratory and developmental research grants (R21) for projects in the early and conceptual stages of development that will contribute to the evidence base of how health information technology (IT) improves health care quality and outcomes.

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

NSF

Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)

6/25/20

7/2/20

7/27/20

Competition Description

The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

ED

Institute of Education Sciences (IES): Statistical and Research Methodology in Education

7/1/20

7/9/20

7/30/20

Competition Description

Through the Statistical and Research Methodology in Education grant program, NCER intends to support the development of a wide range of methodological and statistical tools to better enable applied education scientists to conduct rigorous education research.

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

NSF

Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education and Human Resources

7/7/20

7/14/20

8/4/20

Competition Description

The IUSE: EHR is a core NSF STEM education program that seeks to promote novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for undergraduate students. 

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

NEA

Our Town

7/9/20

7/16/20

8/6/20

Competition Description

Our Town is the National Endowment for the Arts’ creative placemaking grants program. Through project-based funding, they support projects that integrate arts, culture, and design activities into efforts that strengthen communities by advancing local economic, physical, and/or social outcomes.

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

NSF

ADVANCE: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions

7/10/20

7/17/20

8/7/20

Competition Description

The NSF ADVANCE program goal is to broaden the implementation of evidence-based systemic change strategies that promote equity for STEM2 faculty in academic workplaces and the academic profession.

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

NEH/AHRC

New Directions for Digital Scholarship in Cultural Institutions

7/21/20

7/28/20

8/18/20

Competition Description

Awards made through this program will fund teams of researchers and cultural institution professionals in the U.S. and U.K. working collaboratively to deliver transformational impact on digital methods and digital research in cultural institutions. This program is a joint offering of the United States’ National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the United Kingdom’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

ED IES

Education Research and Special Education Research Grant Programs

7/23/20

7/30/20

8/20/20

Competition Description

IES is announcing eight research competitions through two of its centers: The National Center for Education Research (NCER) is announcing four competitions, in the areas of: education research; education research training; education research and development centers; and systematic replication in education.The National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER) is announcing four competitions in the areas of: special education research; special education research training; National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) process data; and systematic replication in special education.

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

NSF

Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Initiation Initiative (CRII)

7/15/20

7/22/20

8/12/20

Competition Description

The NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) seeks to award grants intended to support research independence among early-career academicians who specifically lack access to adequate organizational or other resources. Open to faculty in in computer and/or information science and/or engineering, or in a related field of computational or data science.

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

NSF

NSF Innovation Corps Hubs Program (I-Corps)

7/16/20

7/23/20

8/13/20

Competition Description

The I-Corps Program is designed to support the commercialization of so-called "deep technologies," or those revolving around fundamental discoveries in science and engineering.

 

Funder

Competition

Full
Proposal
 Cutoff

Revision
 Cutoff

Review-only
 Cutoff

Submission
 Deadline

NSF

Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program

7/28/20

8/4/20

8/25/20

Competition Description

The National Science Foundation Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program seeks to encourage talented science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors and professionals to become K-12 mathematics and science (including engineering and computer science) teachers.

 

 

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