Open Call Funding

Below, find general funding opportunities of broad interest to the UT Austin research community. There are no limits to the number of proposals that may be submitted by UT Austin investigators for open call funding opportunities. 

To see funding opportunities from a specific agency posted here, or to have a specific awardee listed, please email vpr.rdt@austin.utexas.edu. 

Sponsored by:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Sponsor Deadline:
08/15/2025
Who can apply:
no restrictions or limits
Fields/Areas:
public policy, decision-making, politics, preference formation and expression, electoral processes, voting, public administration
Sponsored by:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Sponsor Deadline:
08/15/2025
Who can apply:
Open to all qualified applicants.
Fields/Areas:
Supports the development of cyberinfrastructure (CI) for the Earth Sciences (Geoinformatics). EAR-supported geoinformatics opportunities will fit into three tracks: Catalytic track, Facility track, and Sustainability track. These tracks broadly support the lifecycle of geoinformatics resource development, from pilots (Catalytic) to broad implementation (Facility) to sunsetting and long-term sustainability (Sustainability).
Sponsored by:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Sponsor Deadline:
09/02/2025
Who can apply:
By the submission deadline, any PI, co-PI, or other senior project personnel must hold either: a tenured or tenure-track position, or a primary, full-time, paid appointment in a research or teaching position. 
Fields/Areas:
open-source technology, small community, technology transfer
Sponsored by:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Sponsor Deadline:
09/04/2025
Who can apply:
No restrictions or limits
Fields/Areas:
ecosystems, biodiversity, environmental change, environment, climate change, geology, paleontology, ecology, envolution
Sponsored by:
National Endowment for the Humanities
Sponsor Deadline:
09/04/2025
Who can apply:
Individuals may serve as a project director (or co-director for the Collaborative category) on one DOT application per deadline but may be listed as personnel (not in a leadership role) on more than one DOT application per deadline.
Fields/Areas:
The Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (DOT) program supports research that examines technology and its relationship to society through the lens of the humanities, with a focus on the dangers and/or opportunities presented by technology. NEH is particularly interested in projects that examine the role of technology in shaping current social and cultural issues.
Sponsored by:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Sponsor Deadline:
09/12/2025
Who can apply:
Any PI, co-PI, or other senior project personnel must hold either: a tenured or tenure-track position, or a primary, full-time, paid appointment in a research or teaching position. 
Fields/Areas:
environment, sustainability, computing, environmental impacts of technology
Sponsored by:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Sponsor Deadline:
09/12/2025
Who can apply:
PI, co-PI, or other senior project personnel must hold either: a tenured or tenure-track position, or a primary, full-time, paid appointment in a research or teaching position.
Fields/Areas:
environment, sustainability, computing, environmental impacts of technology
Sponsored by:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Sponsor Deadline:
09/29/2025
Who can apply:
PI, co-PI, or other senior project personnel must hold either: a tenured or tenure-track position, or a primary, full-time, paid appointment in a research or teaching position at a US-based campus of an organization eligible to submit. PI's can apply to no more than one Core Programs, Large Projects proposal. 
Fields/Areas:
computer science, computation, information science, engineering
Sponsored by:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Sponsor Deadline:
09/29/2025
Who can apply:
tenured or tenure-track position, or a primary, full-time, paid appointment in a research or teaching position
Fields/Areas:
computer science, information, cyber systems, computer networking, electrical engineering,
Sponsored by:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Sponsor Deadline:
10/02/2025
Who can apply:
Open to all qualified applicants.
Fields/Areas:
Invites proposals for fundamental research (basic research or use-inspired basic research) that advances knowledge in one or more of the three Research Tracks: Research on STEM Learning and Learning Environments, Research on Broadening Participation in STEM fields, and Research on STEM Workforce Development.
Sponsored by:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Sponsor Deadline:
11/19/2025
Who can apply:
No restrictions or limits
Fields/Areas:
epidemiology, mathematics, quantitative, computation, evolution, disease, transmission
Sponsored by:
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Sponsor Deadline:
11/19/2025
Who can apply:
No restrictions or limits
Fields/Areas:
humanities, interdisciplinary, science, social sciences
Sponsored by:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Sponsor Deadline:
01/22/2026
Who can apply:
PI, co-PI, or Senior Personnel can appear on no more than two proposals submitted.
Fields/Areas:
ethics, STEM, science, technology, engineering, mathematics
Sponsored by:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Sponsor Deadline:
06/19/2026
Who can apply:
PI, co- PI, or senior personnel. An individual may participate in no more than one preliminary, and if invited, one full Expeditions proposal per competition. 
Fields/Areas:
computing, computer science, information science, engineering
Sponsored by:
NSF-BSF
Sponsor Deadline:
Ongoing
Who can apply:
Applications must be submitted jointly by an Israeli, and an U.S. scientist from a U.S. research institution. The addition of a UK, or a Chinese scientist to the proposal, to form a multinational proposal, is also allowed. 
Fields/Areas:
Various
Sponsored by:
National Science Foundation
Sponsor Deadline:
Ongoing
Who can apply:
No restrictions or limits.
Fields/Areas:
developmental biology and the evolution of developmental processes, development, structure, modification, function, and evolution of the nervous system, biomechanics and functional morphology, physiological processes, symbioses and microbial interactions, interactions of organisms with biotic and abiotic environments, plant and animal genomics, and animal behavior.
Sponsored by:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Sponsor Deadline:
Ongoing
Who can apply:
No restrictions or limits. Proposers are actively encouraged to email a one-page project summary to the ISP Program Officers before submitting a full proposal for guidance on whether the proposed research topic falls within the scope of the ISP program; this guidance should especially be requested for multi-disciplinary research proposals, and proposals for which research and/or development on the subject infrastructure(s) are also supported by other federal and/or state agencies.
Fields/Areas:
physics, geotechnical engineering, structural engineering, material sciences, architectural engineering, wireless communication and sensor technology, human factors, hydrologic or environmental engineering