NSF Upcoming Funding Opportunities

Decision, Risk and Management Sciences (DRMS)

Full Proposal Target Date: January 20, 2026

Program Guidelines: PD 23-1321

The Decision, Risk and Management Sciences Program (DRMS) supports scientific research directed at increasing understanding and effectiveness of decision making by individuals, groups, organizations and society. DRMS supports research with solid foundations in theories and methods of the social...
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National Science Foundation Translation to Practice (NSF TTP)

Full Proposal Deadline Date: January 20, 2026
NSF TTP-T and TTP-P Tracks

Program Guidelines: NSF 25-540

The U.S. NSF Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (NSF TIP) partners across sectors to advance three primary focus areas – accelerating technology translation and development, fostering regional innovation and...
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NSF Trailblazer Engineering Impact Award (TRAILBLAZER)

Letter of Intent Deadline Date: January 20, 2026

Program Guidelines: NSF 26-502

The NSF Trailblazer Engineering Impact Award (TRAILBLAZER) program supports individual investigators who propose novel research projects with the potential to innovatively and creatively address new areas of fundamental or applied research, catalyze development of new industries or capabilities...
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Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS)

Full Proposal Target Date: January 16, 2026

Program Guidelines: NSF 25-507

The objective of the Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program is to support basic scientific research about the nature, causes, consequences, or evolution of the spatial dimensions of human behaviors, activities, and dynamics as well as their...
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Accelerating Research Translation (ART)

Full Proposal Deadline Date: January 15, 2026

Program Guidelines: NSF 25-548

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks to increase the scale and pace of advancing discoveries resulting from academic research into tangible solutions that benefit the public. The overarching goal for the Accelerating Research Translation (ART) program is to advance the U.S....
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Antarctic Research Not Requiring U.S. Antarctic Program Field Support

Full Proposal Target Date: January 15, 2026

Program Guidelines: NSF 25-526

Through this solicitation, the Antarctic Sciences Section (ANT) of the Office of Polar Programs (OPP) funds cutting-edge research that:

  • Improves understanding of interactions among the Antarctic region and global systems.
  • Improves understanding of the dynamic linkages...
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Arctic Research Opportunities

Full Proposal Target Date: January 15, 2026
Target Dates for Arctic Natural Sciences and Arctic Social Sciences

Program Guidelines: NSF 23-572

The National Science Foundation (NSF) invites investigators at U.S. organizations to submit proposals to the Arctic Sciences Section in the Office of Polar Programs (OPP) within the Geosciences Directorate, to conduct research about the Arctic region.

The goal of this solicitation is to...
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Cultural Anthropology Program Senior Research Awards (CA-SR)

Full Proposal Target Date: January 15, 2026

Program Guidelines: NSF 25-502

The primary objective of the Cultural Anthropology Program is to support fundamental, systematic anthropological research and training to increase understanding of the causes, consequences and complexities of human social and cultural variability. The Cultural Anthropology Program welcomes...
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Linguistics

Full Proposal Target Date: January 15, 2026

Program Guidelines: PD 98-1311

The Linguistics Program supports basic science in the domain of human language, encompassing investigations of the grammatical properties of individual human languages, and of natural language in general. Research areas include syntax, semantics, morphology, phonetics and phonology.

The...
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Social Psychology

Full Proposal Target Date: January 15, 2026

Program Guidelines: PD 22-1332

The Social Psychology Program at NSF supports theoretically focused empirical investigations that advance fundamental social psychological explanations of human behavior, attitudes, and...
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Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure

Full Proposal Deadline Date: January 15, 2026

Program Guidelines: NSF 23-520

This program seeks to prepare, nurture, and grow the national scientific research workforce for creating, utilizing, and supporting advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) to enable and potentially transform fundamental science and engineering (S&E) research and...
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Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE)

Full Proposal Deadline Date: January 13, 2026
Phase I Proposals

Program Guidelines: NSF 24-606

The Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) program aims to harness the power of open-source development for the creation of new technology solutions to problems of national and societal importance. Many NSF-funded projects result in publicly accessible, modifiable, and...
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Safety, Security, and Privacy of Open-Source Ecosystems (Safe-OSE)

Preliminary Proposal Deadline Date: January 13, 2026

Program Guidelines: NSF 24-608

Vulnerabilities in an open-source product and/or its continuous development, integration and deployment infrastructure can potentially be exploited to attack any user (human, organization, and/or another product/entity) of the product. To respond to the growing threats to the safety, security,...
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Oceanographic Facilities and Equipment Support

Full Proposal Target Date: January 12, 2026

Program Guidelines: NSF 23-525

Oceanographic facilities and equipment are supported by the Integrative Programs Section (IPS) of the Division of Ocean Sciences (OCE), Directorate for Geosciences (GEO). These awards are made for the procurement, conversion and/or upgrade, enhancement, or annual operation of platforms in the...
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Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP)

Full Proposal Deadline Date: January 12, 2026
Small Grants for Research (SGR)

Program Guidelines: NSF 21-595

The Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) provides awards to federally recognized1 Tribal Colleges and Universities, Alaska Native-serving institutions, and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions to promote high quality science (including sociology, psychology, anthropology,...
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Collaboratory to Advance Mathematics Education and Learning for K-12

Letter of Intent Deadline Date: January 9, 2026

Program Guidelines: NSF 26-501

The Collaboratory to Advance Mathematics Education and Learning (CAMEL) for K-12 initiative aims to advance mathematics learning and education through purposeful collaboration that draws on the interdisciplinary Science of Learning (including neuroscience; cognitive, developmental, and social...
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Human Networks and Data Science (HNDS)

Full Proposal Deadline Date: January 8, 2026
Deadline for direct submissions to Human Networks and Data Science - Core Research (HNDS-R) by permission only. Submissions with HNDS-R as secondary do not require permission and should follow the primary program's submission dates.

Program Guidelines: NSF 23-568

The Human Networks and Data Science program (HNDS) supports research that enhances understanding of human behavior by leveraging data and network science research across a broad range of topics. HNDS research will identify ways in which dynamic, distributed, or heterogeneous data can provide...
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ECosystem for Leading Innovation in Plasma Science and Engineering (ECLIPSE)

Full Proposal Deadline Date: December 5, 2025
Preliminary proposal deadline specified above for: EES - Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology

Program Guidelines: PD 24-110Z

Plasma science is a transdisciplinary field of research where fundamental studies in many disciplines, including plasma physics, plasma chemistry, materials science, and space science, come together to advance knowledge for discovery and technological innovation.  The primary goal of the...
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Geoinformatics (GI)

Full Proposal Target Date: December 5, 2025

Program Guidelines: NSF 23-594

The Geoinformatics program funds the deployment, operation, and sustainment of cyberinfrastructure (CI) resources to serve and support Earth Sciences research and education. In this solicitation, “Earth Sciences” refers to the academic research communities supported by programs...
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Division of Physics: Investigator-Initiated Research Projects (PHY)

Full Proposal Deadline Date: December 9, 2025
Nuclear Physics - Theory and Experiment; Elementary Particle Physics - Theory; Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology – Theory; Quantum Information Science; Physics of Living Systems - Refer to Solicitation for Applicable Deadline

Program Guidelines: NSF 23-615

The Division of Physics (PHY) supports physics research and the preparation of future scientists in the nation’s colleges and universities across a broad range of physics disciplines that span scales of space and time from the largest to the smallest and the oldest to...
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