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This Funder Tool Kit specifically highlights the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). It includes news, priorities, funding opportunities, and award history, as well as proposal guidance and resources. The Funder Tool Kits are a collaborative effort between the UCF Libraries and OR Research Development Team.
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Getting Research Funded: Five Essential Rules for Early Career Researchers by
This engaging, researcher-centred guide offers early career researchers foundational grants literacy that will serve them throughout their careers. It provides an insight into the culture of grantseeking, as well as tactics for grant writing. Getting Research Funded provides clear strategies on how to stage your research and understand project development, find aligned funding bodies and schemes, build strong research teams and partnerships, get the project right and effectively plan your grantseeking. Based in Australia and the UK, the authors use their knowledge and extensive engagement with global researcher cohorts to offer a well-honed understanding of the funding landscape, the pressures and priorities affecting ECRs and the best way to support them in effective grantseeking. This book is ideal reading for anyone looking for a succinct and supportive guide to ensure they have all the tools to get their research funded. The 'Insider Guides to Success in Academia' offers support and practical advice to doctoral students and early-career researchers. Covering the topics that really matter, but which often get overlooked, this indispensable series provides practical and realistic guidance to address many of the needs and challenges of trying to operate, and remain, in academia. These neat pocket guides fill specific and significant gaps in current literature. Each book offers insider perspectives on the often implicit rules of the game -- the things you need to know but usually aren't told by institutional postgraduate support, researcher development units, or supervisors -- and will address a practical topic that is key to career progression. They are essential reading for doctoral students, early-career researchers, supervisors, mentors, or anyone looking to launch or maintain their career in academia.
Publication Date: 2023
The Grants Register 2024 by
The Grants Register 2024 is the most authoritative and comprehensive guide available of postgraduate and professional funding worldwide. It contains international coverage of grants in almost 60 countries, both English and non-English speaking; information on subject areas, level of study, eligibility and value of awards; and information on over 6,000 awards provided by over 1,300 awarding bodies. Awarding bodies are arranged alphabetically with a full list of awards to allow for comprehensive reading. The Register contains full contact details including telephone, fax, email and websites as well as details of application procedures and closing dates. It is updated annually to ensure accurate information.
Publication Date: 2023
Writing Proposals and Grants by Publication Date: 2024
The How to Grants Manual: : Successful Grantseeking Techniques for Obtaining Public and Private Grants by
This book provides the user with a system for pre-determining the likelihood of grants success before investing time in proposal preparation. The exhibits, tables and figures keep new and veteran grantseekers focused on the process and on obtaining the critical information they need to decide whether to complete a proposal. The interactive exhibits that are downloadable provide the worksheets users needs to win grants This book shows readers how and when to use the research they gather on prospective grantors to increase their chances of success. Instruction is provided on why and how to gather information on past grantees, scoring systems, and reviewers, and on how to make preproposal contact to dramatically increase success rates. The deceptively simple techniques outlined in the exhibits, and the use of the project planner to present an orderly proposal in a timely manner, are worth the whole investment in the book. Bauer does not start with how to write a grant, but rather how proposal development fits the grantseeker's career plan, and relates to the mission of his or her nonprofit, university, college, department or program. The emphasis on the book is not on money, but on creating a winning match between the grantor, the grantee, and his or her institution/organization. The reader is provided with strategies and techniques to create strong teams, build productive consortia, and match grantseeking tasks to group member skills. This is particularly relevant now given grantors' growing interest in funding interdisciplinary and multiple site projects and research that uses grant monies more efficiently. Those readers that teach or coach grantseeking will also find strategies in the book that are essential to creating success for others in the grants process. As the hunt for grants gets more competitive and hectic, the need for a system that uses time effectively and provides organizational techniques and other strategies for increasing grants success rates, is critical. The step-by step process presented in the book plus the free downloadable worksheets make the purchase of this book a very cost-effective investment.
ISBN: 9781475853940Publication Date: 2021
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FIND INFORMATION: News, Funding Opportunities, and Past Awards
DOE 2020-2025 Strategic Plan - a comprehensive blueprint to guide the agency's core mission of ensuring America's security and prosperity by addressing its energy, environmental, and nuclear challenges through transformative science and technology solutions
DOE Budgets and Performance Information - from Energy.gov
Learn Grants: DOE - includes mission and vision, program summaries and highlights, and links to more information. From grants.gov
Energy News - from Energy.gov
STEM Resources - Includes women in STEM, Teach and Learn, Energy Literacy, Joules of Wisdom blog, Competitions, Energy 101 Videos, STEM Rising Newsletter
#WomenInSTEM Blog - A listing of all of the #WomeninSTEM blogs on Energy.gov
DOE Blog - from Energy.gov
Direct Current: An Energy.gov Podcast
DOE Social Media Resources - Purpose and strategy, helpful links, and best practices. From Energy.gov
Pivot database (DOE saved search) - find, track, and share current/anticipated funding opportunities
Grants.gov (DOE search) - Browse current/forecasted DOE funding opportunities.
- DOE solicitations are typically posted on Grants.gov as well as on the agency-specific funding opportunity websites listed above. If pursuing a DOE funding opportunity, it is wise to subscribe to receive email updates for that opportunity, as it is not unusual for one or more amendments to be posted between the original release date and the due date.
DOE Funding & Financing - Browse funding opportunities from DOE
Acquisition Forecast - It is the policy of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to provide timely information to the public regarding DOE’s forecast of future prime contracting opportunities and subcontracting opportunities which are available via the Department’s major site and facilities management contractors. (downloadable DOE HQ Acquisition Forecast in Excel spreadsheet format)
Specific Funding Mechanisms:
Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) program - established in 2009 by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences to fund integrated, multi-investigator Centers focusing on energy-related "grand challenges" and use-inspired basic research needs. As of 2020, a total of 41 EFRCs in 34 states have been funded.
There are several offices within the DOE which fund grants to Universities:
Basic Research
- Office of Science (SC)
- Funding Opportunities: https://www.energy.gov/science/office-science-funding/office-science-funding-opportunities
- The Office of Science is further divided into several programs: ASCR, BES, BER, FES, HEP, NP, SBIR/STTR
- Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
- ASCR supports research in applied mathematics, computer science, high-performance networks, computational partnerships (SciDAC) and educational programs.
- Funding Opportunities: https://science.osti.gov/ascr/Funding-Opportunities
- Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- BES supports a variety of research disciplines that seek to discover new materials and design new chemical processes. BES also supports the Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) program.
- Funding Opportunities: https://science.osti.gov/bes/Funding-Opportunities
- Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- BER supports research on atmospheric processes; terrestrial ecosystem processes; subsurface biogeochemical processes involved in nutrient cycling, radionuclide fate and transport, and water cycling; climate change and environmental modeling; and analysis of impacts and interdependencies of climatic change with energy production and use.
- Funding Opportunities: https://science.osti.gov/ber/Funding-Opportunities
- Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)
- FES supports research in plasma physics with the goal of building the scientific foundation needed to develop a fusion energy source.
- Funding Opportunities: https://science.osti.gov/fes/Funding-Opportunities
- High Energy Physics (HEP)
- HEP supports theoretical and experimental research in both elementary particle physics and fundamental accelerator science and technology.
- Funding Opportunities: https://science.osti.gov/hep/Funding-Opportunities
- Nuclear Physics (NP)
- NP supports research on heavy ion physics, medium energy nuclear physics, low energy nuclear physics, theoretical nuclear physics, accelerator physics, and isotope production.
- Funding Opportunities: https://science.osti.gov/np/Funding-Opportunities
Applied Research
- Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)
- ARPA-E supports high-potential, high-impact energy technologies that are too early for private-sector investment that have the potential to radically improve US economic prosperity, national security, and environmental well being.
- Funding Opportunities: https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov/
- Office of Electricity Delivery & Energy Reliability (OE)
- OE supports research on improving energy storage and delivery systems, as well as on cybersecurity as it relates to the nation's electronic grid. OE does not have a separate funding opportunities website, but any OE funding announcements would be posted on grants.gov.
- OE supports research on improving energy storage and delivery systems, as well as on cybersecurity as it relates to the nation's electronic grid. OE does not have a separate funding opportunities website, but any OE funding announcements would be posted on grants.gov.
- Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE)
- EERE invests solutions for energy-saving homes, buildings, and manufacturing, sustainable transportation, and renewable electricity generation. For example, EERE funds research on energy efficiency in buildings, development of solar, wind, water, and geothermal energy technologies, fuel cells, bioenergy, and advanced vehicle technologies.
- Funding Opportunities: https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/
- Office of Fossil Energy (FE)
- FE supports research fossil energy research, such as clean coal technologies (carbon capture and storage) and methane production. FE's funding opportunities are managed by the NETL.
- Funding Opportunities: http://energy.gov/fe/solicitations-and-business-opportunities
- Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
- NE supports nuclear energy research and development, including improving the reliability, safety, longevity, and affordability of nuclear reactors, developing sustainable nuclear fuel cycles, and minimizing the risks of nuclear proliferation and terrorism.
- Funding Opportunities: http://energy.gov/ne/services/funding-opportunities
- National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)
- The NETL is a national laboratory owned and operated by DOE. In addition to its own in-house research, which focuses largely on coal, natural gas, and oil technologies, NETL issues collaborative funding opportunities to partner with outside organizations, including universities. NETL also commonly announces and manages funding opportunities on behalf of other DOE agencies, such as the Office of Fossil Energy (FE) and Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE). NETL also serves as DOE's focal point for all unsolicited proposals.
- NETL funding opportunities: http://www.netl.doe.gov/business/solicitations
- NETL's instructions for submitting unsolicited proposals: http://www.netl.doe.gov/business/unsolicited-proposals
Finding Past Awards:
- DOE Office of Science maintains a searchable and interactive map of awarded grants as well as lists of all awards .
- ARPA-E provides descriptions of all past and current funded projects on its website. Past awards for the other applied research offices are not readily discoverable.
- A searchable database of funding totals for DOE is available at USAspending.gov
FOIA Request Information (DOE)
The OR Research Development Team maintains a library of internal/external submitted proposals and can assist with securing a sample and submitting FOIA requests. Contact Research Development for more information.
PLAN YOUR PROPOSAL: Guidance and Resources
Grants 101 - from Grants.gov
DOE overview - from Grants.gov
Grant Rules, Regulations, and Guidance
DOE FAQs - from the DOE Office of Science (SC)
Peer Review Process and Review Criteria:
The DOE reviews the scientific and technical merit of all applications, and the peer review process is described on the website of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, as well as in the regulatory document 10 CFR Part 605.
The stated review criteria are:
- Scientific and/or technical merit or the educational benefits of the project;
- Appropriateness of the proposed method or approach;
- Competency of applicant's personnel and adequacy of proposed resources;
- Reasonableness and appropriateness of the proposed budget; and
- Other appropriate factors, established and set forth by ER in a notice of availability or in a specific solicitation.
Individual solicitations will define additional review criteria for a specific funding opportunity, and will often assign percentage points to how each review criterion will weigh in to the overall proposal score. Applicants are advised to read the solicitation's review criteria information carefully and to allocate space in their proposal to reflect the relative weights of the individual criteria.
DOE Statement on Digital Data Management - Here, data management involves all stages of the digital data life cycle including capture, analysis, sharing, and preservation. The focus of this statement is sharing and preservation of digital research data.
- Suggested Elements for a Data Management Plan
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Data Management Resources at the Office of Science User Facilities
UCF Library Support - The UCF library maintains a Data Management Research Guide. You can schedule a consultation to meet with a librarian for an in-depth one on one consultation specific to your research topic.
- Crafting the Data Management Plan
- DMP Tool - Create, review, and share DMPs that meet institutional and funder requirements. The DMP Tool Blog and Webinar Series provide helpful guidance.
- STARS - UCF researchers are eligible to submit materials to STARS, a university-wide digital repository hosted on the Digital Commons platform (a comprehensive hosted solution for storing, managing, and sharing data). Click here to visit the researcher portion of the FAQs for STARS.
- re3data.org - The Registry of Research Data Repositories is a tool for helping identify and locate online repositories of research data.
DRAFT YOUR PROPOSAL: Section Instructions and Templates
This guide provides quick-reference information to complete DOE proposals (refer to the RFP for specific requirements).
UCF Office of Research Budget Guidance
Acquisition and contracting services are provided by the DOE Acquisition and Assistance Office.
For more information about proposal requirements for the following DOE subunits please refer to the links below:
- Energy efficiency or renewable energy
- Fossil energy
- Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Nuclear energy
- Power grid, electricity delivery, and energy reliability
Grant applications must be submitted through Grants.gov.
The OR Research Development Team can provide support with proposal coordination, templates, samples, supplemental documents, reviews, and more. Visit our website for more information.
POINTS OF CONTACT
DOE Point of Contact at UCF
This point of contact is very familiar with DOE priorities/processes and can give helpful advice to increase the competitiveness of your proposal.
Talat Rahman, PhD
UCF Pegasus Professor
Department of Physics
University of Central Florida
407-823-1480
Talat.Rahman@ucf.edu
Additionally, information on Office of Research points of contact related to contracts, proposal submission, compliance, tech transfer, IRB, and IACUC is available at research.ucf.edu
Support from UCF Librarians
General Proposal Support from Research Development Team
Now that you have found the perfect funding opportunity, let us help you build the perfect proposal. The OR Research Development team can help with planning, preparation assistance, draft review feedback, informational resources, and more! Visit our website for next steps information.
EARLIER - Support for Large, Complex Proposals with Significant Impact
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Find Potential Collaborators
Find potential collaborators via the PIVOT Database - Run a search or View tutorials
Find scholarship by DOE Awardees with the Web of Science - View tutorial or Search now
See DOE awardees via the USA Spending Database - UCF-specific or Search all awards
The OR Research Development Team would be happy to help search for potential collaborators at UCF. Visit our website for more information.