Office of Naval Research (ONR) and  Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Funding Opportunities

– Application Process –

1. The applicant’s Institution must hold an active SAM.gov Registry, including a valid Unique Entity ID (formerly known as DUNS number) and an NCAGE number. Verify UTEC registration status with the Office of Research (investigacion@utec.edu.pe) .
2. Applicants must check prioritized research topics in each agency’s “Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)” See AFOSR BAA, ONR BAA, ONR Sponsored Research Areas.
3. Applicants must write a proposal, that addresses any current BAA, in a white paper format (see example here):

→The white-paper proposal format:

• Proposal title
• Your full contact information and position at your institution. Include mailing address, email, phone and fax numbers.
• Specify AFOSR’s or ONR’s BAA topic / name of Program Manager
• A brief project description, problem statement, objectives, and technical relevance.
• Approaches proposed to solve problem
• What resources, human and physical, are available.
• An approximate estimate of the cost (Overhead, Materials, Equipment, Salaries, Travel)

→White-paper should be no longer than 2-3 pages.

• May attach brief résumé scientific personnel involved
• May attach supporting papers/publications

4. Submit your white paper to UTEC Office of research writing to investigacion@utec.edu.pe, indicating “ONR/AFOSR proposal” in the subject line.

5. All white papers from UTEC will be sent to the Southern Office of Aerospace Research and Development (SOARD) where they will be initially reviewed for relevance, academic merit and pertinence (how they match an ongoing agency research interest).

6. The corresponding Agency will contact researchers that pass the first filter to work on a full proposal, to submit to centralized offices for funding, matching UTEC applicants with researchers within ONR / AFOSR.

Catalyst Pump-Priming Projects

→International Grant

Catalyst funding for pump-priming projects is available to support collaborations between Network members in bacterial vaccinology to explore new approaches and strategies to advance their vaccines in partnership with LMICs and industry, and acquire the data to support substantive funding applications.

The catalyst funds are flexible, typically up to £50,000 and expect to provide deliverables within 6 months post-award. This catalyst funding scheme prioritise projects that:

• Facilitate onward progression of bacterial vaccines along the pipeline to licensure
• Offer robust solutions to overcome the difficult preclinical to clinical transition
• Advance the ability to tackle the global challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
• Involve BactiVac partnerships, particularly new partnerships, with a long-term work plan
• Include LMICs and/or industrial partners
• Demonstrate a clear pathway to impact
• Have realistic plans in place to demonstrate intellectual property (IP) has been considered
• Include plans for achieving further substantive funding at the end of the project

How to apply
Applicants will need to be members of the Network to be eligible to apply. The allocation of funding will be decided by the Network Management Oversight Board.

Follow us @BactiVac using the hashtag #BactiVacFunding. You can also download BactiVac Catalyst Funding flyer (PDF, 281KB) to circulate and/or display within your organisation.

Pump-priming projects supported in previous rounds of funding are highlighted in ‘Funded Work’.

Key dates
Round 8: NOW OPEN
Applications opened: 31 October 2023
Submission deadline: 03 March 2024 (23.59 hours UK time)

Apply here.

Acreditación de laboratorios

→National Grant

Within the framework of Loan Agreement No. 9334-PE with the WB to finance the Project: “Improvement and expansion of STI services to strengthen the National System of Science, Technology and Innovation”, the competition called “ACREDITATION OF LABORATORIES”, it is planned to grant subsidies for the accreditation of laboratories to Peruvian universities, IPIs, CITEs and/or other CTI institutions, which provide calibration and testing services to Peruvian companies to evaluate the conformity of their products with national and international standards. . General Objective Promote the accreditation of Conformity Assessment Bodies – OEC, specifically: -Test laboratories under NTP-ISO/IEC 17025:20171, -Calibration laboratories under NTP-ISO/IEC 17025:20172 or -Conformity laboratories clinical analyzes under NTP-ISO 15189:20233. The purpose of accreditation is for the aforementioned OECs to provide services with international quality standards, aimed at evaluating the conformity of services or products of Peruvian companies, preferably in prioritized value chains (IVAI), with national and international standards. Competition Priorities The proposals presented in this financial scheme must be aimed at accrediting testing methods, calibration procedures or clinical analyzes of laboratories whose services allow, among others, to meet demands related to value chains (IVAI) or sectors. productive linked to the following strategic areas:

Strategic areas:

1.Low carbon and climate resilient economy
a. Adaptation and mitigation to climate change
b. Valuation and sustainable use of biodiversity
c. Circular economy
d. Food safety
e. Renewable energy
2. Health
3. Digital economy and information and communication technologies (ICTs)

Deadline: Thursday, December 21, 2023 at 13:00:00 local time UTC/GMT -5 hours.

Apply here.

Proyectos de Investigación en Ciencias Sociales 2024-04

→National Grant

Basic research projects aim to promote research in the social sciences, producing original, relevant and quality knowledge that contributes to decision-making in the public sector, private sector and civil society.

Call priorities:

The proposals presented in this competition must be aligned with the following strategic areas:

1. Economic policy

1.1. Macroeconomics, growth and productive transformation

1.2. Employment and informality

1.3. Poverty and equity

2. State and public management

2.1. Public management and civil service

2.2. Corruption and organized crime

23. Governance, State reform, crisis and political representation.

2.4. Urban planning and citizen security

2.5. Subnational elections

3. Sustainable development

3.1. Regional development and decentralization

3.2. Rural development and agriculture

3.3. Environmental management of natural resources and climate action

3.4. Science, technology and innovation

4. Citizen rights

4.1. Education, learning and interculturality

4.2. Impact of the health emergency

4.3. Ethnicity, discrimination and gender

4.4. Consumerism, inequality and social conflicts

4.5. Changing patterns in internal and external migration

4.6. Democracy

Deadline: Friday, January 26, 2024 at 13:00:00 local time UTC/GMT -5 hours.

Apply here.

Proyectos de Investigación Básica 2024-03

→National Grant

Basic research projects aim to increase the generation of new scientific knowledge in STI, through experimental or theoretical work that is undertaken mainly to explain the foundations of observable phenomena and facts, without the intention of providing an immediate or obvious benefit.

Call priorities:

The proposals presented in this competition must be aligned with the following strategic areas:

Natural Sciences

1.1 Mathematics

1.2 Computing and Information Sciences

1.3 Physical Sciences

1.4 Chemical Sciences

1.5 Earth and Environmental Sciences

1.6 Biological Sciences

Closing date: Tuesday, January 30, 2024 at 13:00:00 local time UTC/GMT -5 hours.

Apply here.

Reto ágil: Identificación y retiro de inchancables

→National Grant

Attention, innovator! Join this Agile Challenge!

Five mining companies that are members of the @Hub of Mining Innovation of Peru are looking for innovative solutions that identify and remove unclogging before the ore reaches the beginning of the crushing circuit.

Are you interested? Find out all the details and apply at https://n9.cl/9q0qe

Deadline: Monday, December 4 at 11:59 p.m.

STDF Funding Opportunities

→International Grant

Project Preparation Grants (PPG)

Funds up to US$50,000 are available for PPGs to prepare technically sound, innovative and sustainable projects. These grants can involve the application of SPS-related capacity evaluation tools, preparation of feasibility studies and/or formulation of project proposals to address specific SPS capacity building needs linked to trade.

Project Grants (PG)

Funds up to US$1,000,000 are available for PGs that improve food safety, animal and plant health capacity to comply with international sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) requirements. These grants are expected to help address SPS challenges or issues that affect trade to international markets.

The STDF can only provide funding to developing countries that appear on the OECD Development Assistance Committee’s list of Official Development Assistance recipients.

Applications are accepted in any of the three working languages of the STDF (English, French and Spanish) and should be submitted by e-mail to: stdf.funding@wto.org, using the official application forms available on this page.

Any questions about the application process or the application forms should be sent to: STDFSecretariat@wto.org.

Deadlines to apply for funding in 2024:

1 March for consideration in June
9 August for consideration in November

Apply here.

11th Hour Racing

→International Grant

Our vision for the future includes cleaner, healthier waterways through strong local stewardship and collective action around the world.

As the climate crisis intensifies, so does the impact on ocean health. We need a global paradigm shift from an extractive economy that depletes our natural resources to a sustainable economy that uses resources wisely and protects our ocean. We work to facilitate this transition by supporting local solutions to global problems, led by community organizations and industry leaders.

By supporting local pilot programs that model best practices of sustainability, restore coastal ecosystems, and advance ocean stewardship, our grantees are creating systemic change to restore ocean health.

Elegibility and grant focus areas

Research Grants on Education: Small

→International Grant

The Small Research Grants Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. We accept applications three times per year.

This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. Our goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education.

Applications Open: October 4, 2023.

Full Proposal Deadline: December 6, 2023, 12:00 pm NOON, Central Time.

Apply here.

Research Grants on Education: Large

→International Grant

The Large Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets ranging from $125,000 to $500,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. We anticipate awarding grants with budgets across each of the following funding tiers — $125,000 to 250,000; $250,001 to $375,000; and $375,001 to $500,000. Within each of our funding tiers, we evaluate projects within tier and strongly encourage applicants to submit for funding that best fits their project rather than applying for the highest amount. We accept Intent to Apply forms twice a year.

This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. Our goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education.

Applications Open: Early December 2023

Intent to Apply: January 24, 2024, 12:00 PM Noon (Central/Chicago Time)

Full Proposal Deadline: February 27, 2024, 12:00 PM Noon (Central/Chicago Time)

Apply here.