Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science

Awards from $600,000 per recipient for others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Oct 14, 2026.

Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)USScience, Technology, Research & Development

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Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science awards from $600,000 per recipient, open to others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification) in US, closing Oct 14, 2026.

Record fields
Program pool (total)
$5,800,000
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project)
Not confirmed
Award floor
$600,000
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
Oct 14, 2026
Deadline type
Fixed date
Opens
Oct 31, 2023
Status
Open
Eligible entities
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Geography
US
Matching funds
Not confirmed
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Application effort
Not confirmed
Use of funds
summer research experiences for K-14 educators · classroom activities and curricula · research activities in engineering or computer science
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.

Program pool (total)Across all awards this cycle
$5,800,000
Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
Not stated

Who can apply?

level
Derived from the source that published this record
entity
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Source field: entity types
state
US
Source field: states
industry
use
classroom activities and curricula, research activities in engineering or computer science, summer research experiences for K-14 educators
Source field: use of funds
size limit

Not confirmed

Source field: applicant size limit
clause text

*Who May Submit Proposals: Proposals may only be submitted by the following: -RET Sites Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) - Two- and four-year IHEs (including community colleges) accredited in, and having a campus located in the US, acting on behalf of their faculty members. Special Instructions for International Branch Campuses of US IHEs: If the proposal includes funding to be provided to an international branch campus of a US institution of higher education (including through use of subawards and consultant arrangements), the proposer must explain the benefit(s) to the project of performance at the international branch campus and justify why the project activities cannot be performed at the US campus.    RET Supplements RET Supplement to an existing award: Active ENG or CISE awardees. RET Supplemental funding request submitted as part of a proposal to ENG or CISE for a new or renewal grant or cooperative agreement: Eligibility requirements of the specific funding opportunity apply.   *Who May Serve as PI: The principal investigator of a RET in Engineering and Computer Science Site proposal must have a full-time, tenured or tenure-track faculty appointment within a College/Department of Engineering or Engineering Technology or a College/Department of Computer and/or Information Science broadly defined [including e.g., Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Software Engineering, Networking Science, Informatics] within the submitting US IHE. The PI must be a full-time Engineering and/or Computer Science faculty member whose primary job responsibilities are research and teaching and not a faculty member who is involved in an administrative capacity such as a dean or outreach coordinator.

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When does it close?

Oct 14, 202637 daysDeadline type Fixed date

What can the money be used for?

3 categorys
The source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
summer research experiences for K-14 educatorsclassroom activities and curricularesearch activities in engineering or computer science

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.

Common questions

6 questions
Every answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
How much can one applicant receive?
From $600,000 per recipient.
How much funding is available in total?
$5,800,000 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?
Oct 14, 2026.
Who is eligible to apply?
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification).
Which locations are eligible?
US.
What can the funding be used for?
summer research experiences for K-14 educators, classroom activities and curricula, research activities in engineering or computer science, as classified by the source.

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Source pagegrants.gov
Retrieved2026-09-04
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-09-03

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