Featured Opportunities

November 12, 2025

• Syngenta is seeking solutions that deter birds (ducks, sparrow, pigeons, black birds etc.) from damaging crops such as rice in Japan and cereals and corn in Europe, from seed to full stage crop. Bird damage has long been a persistent challenge faced by farmers and results in reduced plant stand and ultimately lowers crop yields. Traditional scare tactics and physical barriers have provided some relief, but they fall short in offering sustainable, cost-effective, and non-harmful solutions. Syngenta is seeking innovative bird repellent solutions, that will not cause any long-term harm to wildlife, including birds and other species. We are open to exploring many different types of solutions including chemical, physical and technological repellents.
• Through its Dear Colleague Letter: Use-Inspired Creativity Extension for the Bioeconomy (UICREX-Bioeconomy), the National Science Foundation (NSF) invites existing awardees in selected clusters/programs/divisions within the Directorates for Biological Sciences (BIO) and Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) to explore the Use-Inspired Creativity Extension for the Bio-economy (UICREX-Bioeconomy) to extend funding for research awards that have the potential to be translated into commercial activities in the U.S. bio-economy. This opportunity is offered in collaboration with the Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP). The use-inspired nature of these activities should demonstrate clear implications for the foreseeable benefits to society. The UICREX-Bioeconomy adds up to two years to the initial award period to offer the most creative concepts an extended opportunity to pursue adventurous, "high-risk" opportunities that are not necessarily covered by the original/current award.
• The Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research (FFAR) seeks input from the food and agriculture community to guide our program development, ensuring our research benefits the U.S. food and agriculture system. This platform offers a meaningful way for the community to share ideas for new programs and projects with FFAR. They invite researchers to share their Research Concept. If FFAR is interested in learning more about your concept, you will receive an email regarding next steps. Should FFAR decline to pursue your concept further, you will receive a brief response with an explanation for why FFAR is not pursuing your concept at this time. Please note that the volume of concepts they receive outpaces their ability to provide in-depth feedback for each response.
• The National Endowment for the Humanities Media Projects program supports the development, production, and distribution of radio programs, podcasts, documentary films, and documentary film series that engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways. Projects must be grounded in humanities scholarship and demonstrate an approach that is thoughtful, balanced, and analytical. Media Projects offers two levels of funding: Development and Production. 1. Purpose The Media Projects program supports the development, production, and distribution of radio programs, podcasts, documentary films and television programs that engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways. The Division of Public Programs encourages media projects that promote a deeper understanding of American history and culture as well as those that examine international themes and subjects in the humanities. Proposals must demonstrate the potential to attract a broad general audience and should be intended for national or regional distribution. Film and television projects may be stand-alone documentaries or a series of programs. Radio and podcast projects may be single programs, a series, or segments within an ongoing program.
• The Kress Foundation’s History of Art Grants program supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European works of art and architecture from antiquity to the early 19th century. Grants are awarded to projects, including those incorporating the use of digital methodologies and tools, that create and disseminate specialized knowledge, such as archival projects, development and dissemination of scholarly databases, documentation projects, museum exhibitions and publications, photographic campaigns, scholarly catalogues and publications, and technical and scientific studies. Grants are also awarded for activities that permit art historians to share their expertise through international exchanges, professional meetings, conferences, symposia, consultations, the presentation of research, and other professional events. Support may also be offered for mentored professional development opportunities in art museums, particularly those that encourage close collaboration between museum educators and curators to foster the development of emerging interpretive museum professionals.
• The Teagle Foundation's commitment to strengthening liberal arts education and ensuring its benefits are broadly accessible infuses all of our grantmaking. Their grant initiatives foreground the role of faculty--as teachers in the classroom, as masters of the curriculum, and as agents of change--to transform undergraduate education. They request that prospective grantees share brief Concept Papers in response to our current Request for Proposals. After review of the concept papers, a limited number of applicants will then be invited to submit full proposals. The Teagle Foundation uses concept papers as the basis for inviting full planning or implementation proposals. Requests from both single institutions and multiple institutions partnering together will be considered.
• NSF’s Mind, Machine, and Motor Nexus (M3X) program supports fundamental research that enables intelligent engineered systems and humans to engage in bidirectional interaction in a physics-based environment, to enhance and ensure safety, productivity, and well-being. For the purpose of this program an intelligent engineered system is a human-designed system — physical, virtual, or a combination of both — that interacts with its environment to achieve specific goals. These systems collect data, analyze it to make informed decisions, and take actions that enhance safety, efficiency, and well-being. They may operate autonomously or collaboratively with humans, adapting their actions based on the data they collect. A key requirement for the M3X program is that these systems must function within a physics-based environment, whether physical or virtual, where interactions exhibit recognizable physical behaviors, such as those associated with gravity, friction, force, and inertia. Proposals submitted to the M3X program must clearly articulate how the proposed work advances knowledge of bidirectional interactions between humans and intelligent engineered systems. Examples include robots assisting in disaster response, smart environments that learn user preferences, and virtual reality-based rehabilitation technologies that simulate plausible physics.
• The purpose of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), NIH’s NICHD Resource Program Grants in Bioinformatics (P41) is to support the continued operation, maintenance, and dissemination of unique knowledge, data, and/or bioinformatics resources that are of major importance to the research community using animal models of embryonic developmental processes. These grants will support ongoing development and enhancement of the resources, user training and services, provision of community generated data storage and curation, wide dissemination of the tools and/or resources, and expansion of interoperability with other NIH bioinformatics resources.
• HHS, NIH’s Bioengineering Partnerships with Industry (U01) solicits applications from research partnerships formed by academic and industrial investigators to accelerate the development and adoption of promising bioengineering tools and technologies that can address important biomedical problems. The objectives are to establish these tools and technologies as robust, well-characterized solutions that fulfill an unmet need and are capable of enhancing our understanding of life science processes or the practice of medicine. Awards will focus on supporting multidisciplinary teams that apply an integrative, quantitative bioengineering approach to developing technologies. The goal of the program is to support technological innovations that deliver new capabilities which can realize meaningful solutions within 5 – 10 years.
• Through its Dear Colleague Letter: Leveraging Cyberinfrastructure for Research Data Management (RDM), the National Science Foundation (NSF), led by the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC), invites Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) and conference/workshop proposals that aim to leverage cyberinfrastructure to advance research data management (RDM) and public access to research data in alignment with the goals of OAC's Cyberinfrastructure for Public Access and Open Science (CI PAOS) program. The NSF aims to make the results of NSF-supported research publicly available to the greatest extent possible. The CI PAOS program aims to catalyze new and transformative socio-technical partnerships supporting research data infrastructure ecosystems across domains through early-stage collaborative activities between cyberinfrastructure researchers, scientists, research computing experts, data management experts, research labs, university libraries, and other communities of practice.
• The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) funds high-impact, innovative health research focused on solving complex challenges that can significantly improve health outcomes. Using diverse funding mechanisms, ARPA-H can address the critical challenges that traditional research and private industry cannot. Mission Office Innovative Solution Openings (ISO) provide a way to seek funds for individual research projects that fall outside the scope of an ARPA-H program or initiative, but that still aligns with an ARPA-H research focus areas. Mission Office ISOs are accepted on a rolling basis.
• NSF’s OPUS program is targeted to individuals, typically at later-career stages, who have contributed significant insights to a field or body of research over time. The program provides an opportunity to revisit and synthesize that prior research into a unique, integrated product(s) useful to the scientific community, now and in the future. All four clusters within the Division of Environmental Biology (Ecosystem Science, Evolutionary Processes, Population and Community Ecology, and Systematics and Biodiversity Science) encourage the submission of OPUS proposals. This program targets investigators, typically later-career researchers, who have, over time, produced significant work and accumulated data sets from a series of research projects, and who are planning to integrate that work into a single synthesis to generate new understanding. Proposals requesting support for the production of new data (beyond a very minor, well-justified scope) are not appropriate. Likewise, efforts simply to summarize previous results or conduct meta-analyses will not be supported. We expect OPUS awards to generate novel understanding, new questions, and emergent insights that are more than the sum of their individual parts. OPUS projects generally result in one or more synthetic products. Past OPUS award products include, but are not limited to, any combination of scientific papers, monographs, software, websites, books, films, synthesized datasets, or data repositories.
• NSF’s Human Networks and Data Science (HNDS) program 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 novel answers to fundamental questions about individual or group behavior. HNDS is especially interested in proposals that provide data-rich insights about human networks to support improved health, prosperity, and security. HNDS has two tracks: (1) Human Networks and Data Science – Infrastructure (HNDS-I) and (2) Human Networks and Data Science – Core Research (HNDS-R)