Opportunity Information: Apply for DE FOA 0001810
The Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) funding opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number DE-FOA-0001810) is a competitive grant program run by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, specifically through the Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES). It is presented as a re-competition, meaning DOE is renewing the EFRC portfolio through an open selection process, and it explicitly invites both brand-new center proposals and renewal proposals from existing or prior EFRC teams. The overall aim is to support major, multi-investigator research centers that tackle foundational, high-impact problems in basic energy sciences and related discovery science, typically at a scale and level of integration that would be difficult to achieve through individual investigator awards.
A central requirement of this opportunity is alignment with DOE BES priority directions and flagship planning documents. Applicants are expected to build their proposed EFRC research agenda around the priority research directions identified in the DOE "Basic Research Needs" report series, as well as the scientific grand challenges laid out in the report "Directing Matter and Energy: Five Challenges for Science and the Imagination." Proposals should also connect to the opportunities for discovery described in "Challenges at the Frontiers of Matter and Energy: Transformative Opportunities for Discovery Science." In practice, this means DOE is signaling that EFRCs should not be incremental or narrowly scoped; instead, they should be organized around clearly articulated grand challenges in matter and energy, with compelling basic-science questions, strong hypotheses or research thrusts, and a credible plan to deliver transformative advances.
The program is categorized as discretionary funding, and the funding instruments include grants and other mechanisms. The activity category is Science and Technology and other Research and Development, and it is associated with CFDA number 81.049. Eligibility is listed as unrestricted, meaning the competition is open to any type of entity as long as it meets any additional eligibility conditions that may be specified elsewhere in the full announcement. This broad eligibility commonly allows participation from universities, national laboratories, nonprofit research institutions, and potentially industry or other organizations, either as lead applicants or as collaborators, depending on the FOA terms.
On the funding side, the opportunity indicates an award ceiling of up to $20,000,000 and an expectation of about 20 awards. These figures suggest DOE intends to support a sizeable cohort of centers and that individual center budgets can be substantial, consistent with EFRCs being large, coordinated efforts. Final selections are made by Federal officials following a rigorous merit review process described in the FOA, indicating that applications will be evaluated competitively against defined criteria (typically including scientific merit, team capability, management and integration plans, and broader program relevance), and only the highest-ranked proposals will be funded.
Key dates provided in the source data show the FOA creation date as November 27, 2017, with an original closing date of April 11, 2018. Overall, the opportunity is best understood as DOE BES investing in a set of flagship, center-scale basic research programs designed to push the frontiers of fundamental understanding in materials, chemistry, and related areas that underpin future energy technologies, with proposals expected to be tightly connected to DOE's stated grand challenges and research needs.Apply for DE FOA 0001810
- The Department of Energy - Office of Science, Office of Science in the science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Energy Frontier Research Centers" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 81.049.
- This funding opportunity was created on Nov 27, 2017.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Apr 11, 2018. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $20,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 20 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.
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