ORAU Innovation Partnerships Grant Program

The ORAU Innovation Partnerships Grant Program is accepting applications for FY2025 (October 1, 2024 – September 30, 2025).  The program will focus on research and education topics that align well with ORAU’s expertise and current research priorities.  The goal of this grant program is to drive new opportunities for university consortium members and ORAU to formulate meaningful collaborations.

Applications must be focused on one or more of the FY2025 ORAU core focus areas (see below), and an ORAU Collaborator will partner with the university Principal Investigator upon award.

FY2025 Innovation Partnerships Grant Focus Areas and Example Topics:

• Improving Our Behavioral Health - health equity, social determinants of health, stress, loneliness, cultural approaches to healthcare, stigma, substance use disorders, and population health
• The Post-Pandemic World - remote working and learning, worker vulnerability, organizational and workforce resilience, disease surveillance, health communication, healthcare surge, and telehealth
• Implementing Innovative Technologies - data safety and cybersecurity, privacy, the digital economy, the digital divide, cross-border data sharing, and ethics
• Our Changing Planet - sustainability, environmental justice, clean energy, renewable energy, extreme weather events, water and air quality, ecosystems, urbanization and the built environment, and community resilience

The submission deadline is rolling, and awards are limited to two per member university per fiscal year.  Please visit the web site, https://www.orau.org/partnerships/grant-programs/innovation-partnerships.html, for additional details and to apply.