Deadline: 27-Oct-21
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) Award Program – is seeking applications for Chemical Safety to research, develop, design, and demonstrate solutions to real world challenges.
The P3 Program encourages a shift towards more environmentally benign products, processes, and systems with the aim of improving quality of life, promoting economic prosperity, and protecting the planet. Innovative research can take the form of wholly new applications or applications that build on existing knowledge and approaches for new uses.
Areas
EPA supports research for evaluating and predicting impacts from chemical use and disposal and providing states and industries with information, tools, and methods to make better informed and more timely decisions about the thousands of chemicals in the United States. EPA seeks projects that support research and demonstration of innovative and cost-effective solutions for the following topic areas:
- New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) to help reduce or replace animal testing, as well as tools to assess their feasibility. EPA defines NAMs as technologies and approaches (and combinations of both) including in vitro and in silico testing methods. They also include methodologies that can integrate and calculate data from various sources, and serve to reduce, refine or replace vertebrate animal testing.
- Advance information technology and software tools to mine ever-expanding data sources for information on chemical exposures and toxicities to build the usable knowledge infrastructure
Funding Information
- Anticipated Funding Amount: Approximately $800,000 total for all awards Potential Funding per Award: Up to $25,000 per Phase I grant including direct and indirect costs. Applications for Phase I grants requesting an award of more than $25,000 will not be considered. Applications for Phase I grants must be for one year.
- Upon the successful completion of Phase I, grant recipients will have the opportunity to apply for a P3 Phase II grant of up to $100,000 total with a two-year duration, including direct and indirect costs. Applications for Phase II grants requesting an award of more than $100,000 or with a duration of more than two years will not be considered. Cost-sharing is not required for either Phase I or Phase II grants.
Eligibility Criteria
- Public and private institutions of higher education (limited to degree-granting institutions of higher education) located in the U.S. (includes eligible institutions of higher education located in U.S. territories and possessions) are eligible to apply to be the recipient of a grant to support teams of undergraduate and/or graduate students.
- Profit-making firms are not eligible to receive assistance agreements from the EPA under this program.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=335247