Engineering Environmental Resiliency (EER) Grant
US Federal Government
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This call is open to universities, research institutions and non-profits, at idea and R&D stage. Funding is a grant. Coverage is read from the notice itself: United States.
NSF's Engineering Environmental Resiliency program funds fundamental research to advance resource and energy conservation, waste minimization, circular economy, and environmental protection through innovations in biotechnology, AI, nanotechnology, and sustainable manufacturing. The program supports universities and research institutions developing technologies for waste reduction, critical-mineral recycling, contaminant detection, and life-cycle assessment to strengthen U.S. manufacturing and energy resilience.
About this grant
The Engineering Environmental Resiliency (EER) program, administered by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), supports fundamental research to advance resource and energy conservation and recovery, and to safeguard the natural environment and human health. The program aims to improve the use of domestic resources to make U.S. manufacturing and energy systems more resilient and secure. EER projects advance national priorities including artificial intelligence, biotechnology, quantum science and engineering, nanoengineering, and microelectronics. The program supports research that transforms biotechnology and manufacturing to create domestic sources of energy, and studies the sustainability of benign manufacturing through engineered chemical, biological, and/or geo-physical processes. The program funds development of innovative technologies that minimize or re-use waste discharges to soil, water, and air by closing resource loops, as well as research on sustainable recycling and management of waste materials and critical minerals. It also supports studies on life cycle assessment, materials flow analysis, and AI modeling to advance the circular economy. EER research encompasses the chemistry, biochemistry, transport, and fate of nutrients and contaminants of emerging concern in air, water, soil, and sediments, including the biochemical reactivity of pollutants in the built environment. The program supports fundamental and quantitative understanding of how nanomaterials and nanosystems interact with biological and environmental media, and funds research on engineered systems for detection of and rapid response to pathogens and toxins in water, soil, and air.
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Eligibility
The program is unrestricted and open to any type of entity, subject to any clarification provided in the additional eligibility information. Proposals whose main goal is understanding earth systems are considered more appropriate for the NSF Directorate for Geosciences, and proposals focusing on human behavior or social responses to environmental issues are better suited for the NSF Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.
How it's scored
No specific evaluation criteria, scoring rubrics, or panel composition details are described on this page. As an NSF discretionary grant program, proposals are likely reviewed through NSF's standard merit review process, but no further details are provided here.
Key requirements
- ✓Fundamental research advancing resource and energy conservation or environmental protection
- ✓Focus on closing resource loops, waste minimization, recycling, or critical-mineral management
- ✓Research on contaminant fate, transport, nanomaterial interactions, or pathogen/toxin detection in environmental media
- ✓Alignment with national priorities: AI, biotechnology, quantum science, nanoengineering, or microelectronics applications to sustainability
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Frequently asked questions
- Who can apply for Engineering Environmental Resiliency (EER)?
- Eligibility covers organisations in US; university, research-institution, nonprofit. See the eligibility criteria above for the full conditions.
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Circular economy funding supports reuse, repair, remanufacturing, product redesign and secondary materials markets. Grants tend to back pilots with businesses and local authorities, while tenders buy collection, sorting and recovery services. Applicants are usually asked to show the material flows involved and who will buy the recovered output.
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