Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
Awards $5,000 – $500,000 per recipient for other legal entity, closing Aug 18, 2027.
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Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) awards $5,000 – $500,000 per recipient, open to other legal entity, closing Aug 18, 2027.
- Program pool (total)
- $84,800,000Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- Award ceiling (per project)
- $500,000Award floor of $5,000 and award ceiling of $500,000 per award. Expected number of awards: 1350.
- Award floor
- $5,000
- Typical award
- Not confirmed
- Deadline
- Aug 18, 2027
- Deadline type
- Not stated
- Opens
- Jun 29, 2023
- Status
- Open
- Eligible entities
- Other Legal Entity
- Geography
- Not stated
- Matching funds
- No
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Use of funds
- Research participation by undergraduate students · Active research programs or research projects specifically designed for REU · REU Sites and REU Supplements
- Currency
- USD
How much money is available?
Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.
Source wording: “Award floor of $5,000 and award ceiling of $500,000 per award. Expected number of awards: 1350.”
Who can apply?
Not confirmed
Source field: applicant size limitNot confirmed
We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.When does it close?
Response date listed as Aug 18, 2027. This appears to be an ongoing program with rolling deadline structure typical of NSF solicitations.
What can the money be used for?
3 categorysThe source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.
How hard is the application?
2 fieldsEffort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Matching funds
- NoCost sharing is listed as false.
Common questions
6 questionsEvery answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
- How much can one applicant receive?
- $5,000 – $500,000 per recipient. The source states: “Award floor of $5,000 and award ceiling of $500,000 per award. Expected number of awards: 1350.”.
- How much funding is available in total?
- $84,800,000 across the whole programme. This is the total the funder has allocated, not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- When is the application deadline?
- Aug 18, 2027. Response date listed as Aug 18, 2027. This appears to be an ongoing program with rolling deadline structure typical of NSF solicitations.
- Who is eligible to apply?
- Other Legal Entity.
- What can the funding be used for?
- Research participation by undergraduate students, Active research programs or research projects specifically designed for REU, REU Sites and REU Supplements, as classified by the source.
- Is matching funding required?
- No. The source states that no matching funds are required. Cost sharing is listed as false.
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