Summary:
In 2025 YPS will award three distinct types of grants, reflecting a growing and diversifying demand across the university to support novel and impactful projects that are aimed at solving planetary challenges.
Application Deadline Date:
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Lower Limit Amount ($):
25,000
Upper Limit Amount ($):
250,000
Academic Area:
Planetary Solutions
Description:
YPS is seeking proposals that align with our mission, and particularly with one or more of our primary lenses: climate change; biodiversity and ecosystems; and communities and society. The program is funded with longstanding generous support from the Three Cairns Climate Impact Innovation Fund, and this year we are pleased to welcome the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture and AI at Yale as partners in funding select awards. Additional support for these grants comes from the Natural Carbon Solutions Fund, the Simon Bates Catalyst Fund, the Science Catalyst Fund for Planetary Solutions, the Gordon Data and Environmental Sciences Research Grants, and the Science Frontiers Endowment.
Initiation grants are intended to empower work on potential new, challenging, or high-risk research and scholarship. Activities in an Initiation grant may include but are not limited to workshops, conferences, book projects, art installations, and curricular improvements. YPS expects to fund up to six Initiation grants with budgets up to $25,000 and a 12-month timeline.
Acceleration grants are intended to support projects focused on research and scholarship that lay the groundwork for implementation. This may involve conducting proof-of-concept studies, gathering preliminary data, and practicing team science. This phase is crucial for bridging the gap between ideas and practical, scalable solutions. YPS will award up to twelve Acceleration grants with budgets up to $100,000 and an 18-month timeline.
Constellation grants are intended to enable transformation of academic knowledge into tangible, actionable outcomes in concert with stakeholders. This could include pre-commercialization efforts to support new spin-out companies or developing, testing and scaling decision-making tools in collaboration with stakeholders who would implement those tools in their activities. This phase is aimed at ensuring that the research achieves its full potential. YPS anticipates funding up to three Constellation grants with budgets up to $250,000 and a 24-month timeline.
Award Purpose:
Research
Year In School:
PhD
Post Doctoral
Other
Eligibility Requirement - Gender:
Any
Eligibility Requirement - Citizenship:
Any
Eligibility Requirement - Residency:
Any
Eligibility Requirement - Other:
We encourage proposals from everyone: from physical and natural scientists, social scientists, engineers, clinicians, and those working in the arts and humanities. All teams must be led by a Yale faculty or staff member who is eligible to serve as a Principal Investigator (PI) and can include any university community member. Projects must be new, and teams must be interdisciplinary, though they do not need to be newly formed. We encourage proposals that explore collaborations with staff and the operations of the university and New Haven, harnessing the power of the campus or city staff as research partners. Junior faculty members are especially encouraged to apply.
Specializations:
Business and the Environment
Climate Change Science and Solutions
Ecosystem Management and Conservation
Energy and the Environment
Environmental Policy Analysis
Forestry
Industrial Ecology and Green Chemistry
People, Equity, and the Environment
Water Resource Science & Management
Urban
Date Updated:
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Recipients:
0
Eligibility - Citizenship:
US Citizens/Permanent Residents
Foreign Nationals
DACA
Amount:
250000