FUNDING OPPORTUNITY FOR STUDENT RESEARCH TEAMS

The attached RFP from EPA offers grants for projects that are "student led with faculty involvement."  $10,000 for a planning year and opportunity to compete for an additional $75,000.

website: http://es.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2007/2007_p3_4thannual.html

SYNOPSIS:
The P3 competition will provide grants to teams of college students to research, develop, and design solutions to challenges to sustainability. P3 highlights people, prosperity, and the planet - the three pillars of sustainability - as the next step beyond P2 or pollution prevention. The P3 Awards program is a partnership between the public and private sectors to progress toward sustainability by achieving the mutual goals of economic prosperity, protection of the natural systems of the planet, and providing a higher quality of life for its people. EPA and its affiliates offer the P3 Awards competition to respond to the technical needs of the developed and developing world in moving towards the goal of sustainability. Please see the P3 website ( http://www.epa.gov/P3) for more details about this program.

All projects, regardless of category, should be student led with faculty involvement, as appropriate and necessary.

FUNDING:
It is anticipated that a total of approximately $500,000 will be awarded under this announcement for Phase I, depending on the availability of funds. The EPA anticipates funding approximately 50 grants for Phase I under this RFA. The projected award per Phase I grant is up to $10,000, for one year. Requests for amounts from EPA in excess of a total of $10,000 including direct and indirect costs, will not be considered although total project costs may exceed $10,000. The total project period for an application submitted in response to this RFA may not exceed one year.

Based on the completed Phase I design, the proposal for additional funding under Phase II, and recommendations from the judging panel convened by the National Academies, EPA will select up to ten P3 Award winners, depending on the availability of funds. These P3 Award winners will be eligible to receive the additional Phase II funding of up to $75,000 each from EPA, bringing the total funding under this solicitation for Phase I and Phase II to approximately $1,250,000.