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Invites proposals for conferences that identify gaps in existing research infrastructure and define the mid-scale research infrastructure needed to address grand challenges for engineering research.

This call is for research proposals from joint U.S. - China teams on Sustainable Regional Systems (SRS). SRS advance science, engineering, and education to facilitate the transformation of current regional systems to enhance sustainability.

Invites Research Advanced by Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering (RAISE) and EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) proposals to all NSF Directorates in the area of clean energy technologies.

Invites collaboration between U.S. and U.K. research communities. Proposals may be accepted into programs within the following NSF directorates: Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences and Computer and Information Science and Engineering.

Encourages research and education proposals related to advanced manufacturing as an emerging industry.

Encourages research and education proposals related to microelectronics and semiconductors as an emerging industry.

Encourages research and education proposals related to net-zero climate goals and a circular economy.

Encourages proposals on post-transcriptional RNA and post-translational protein modifications and how these modifications influence the properties, interactions, and/or regulation of these macromolecules and their role in cellular and organismal phenotype.

Invites submission of Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) proposals on new approaches to refrigeration at less than 1 K; and new processing techniques and materials needed to fabricate ultra-low temperature refrigeration systems.

Invites proposals that use fundamental engineering to mitigate and remediate PFAS in the environment.

Lists opportunities for engineering researchers to submit proposals and supplemental funding requests for AI projects.

Encourages the submission of interdisciplinary proposals to develop novel all-in-one biosensing and actuating technologies for rapidly evolving or emerging biological threats.

Supports basic research, tool development and applications to advance the field of plant synthetic biology through ongoing programs in the Directorate for Biological Sciences and the Directorate for Engineering.

Invites supplemental funding requests from active awardees of the Engineering Directorate to support student-led design projects that prepare them for the engineering workforce.

Encourages proposals from scientists and engineers on the design of complex, synthetic biological components and cells.