Grant Opportunities

UVA's Environmental Institute invests in and facilitates interdisciplinary research, merging theories, methods, and data to develop novel frameworks and applications that are transformative and have societal impact.

Explore opportunities for funding and collaboration below.

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CoLab Seed Funding

Biannual funding window to catalyze novel interdisciplinary collaborations. 

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Rapid Grants

Submission on an on-going, rolling basis for time-sensitive research.

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Spark Grants

Funding for individual researchers ready to build novel research teams or initiatives. 

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Climate Collaboratives

Funding for large, interdisciplinary research teams.

Climate Collaboratives

The Institute has funded and/or supported over 70 research projects in a variety of ways. Please explore the frontier discovery from UVA researchers across disciplines in environmental issues, climate change, sustainability, resiliency, and more.

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Christine Mahoney in Appalachia museum

Climate Collaborative: Appalachian Renewable Energy & Resilience and a Co-Designed Community Model

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AI & Local Climate Policy

Using Advanced AI for Simultaneous Bias-Correction and Down-scaling of Climate Model Projections

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Climate & Enteric Infectious Disease (EID) Risk and Vulnerability

Climate & Enteric Infectious Disease (EID) Risk and Vulnerability

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Sisal, Mexico

Managed Retreat, Cultural Change, and Community Planning

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blue ridge mountain wind

A Case-based Study for Mountain-based Wind Energy

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frickin lasers

Resilient Recycling of Battery Materials Using Laser Processing

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mycelium

Robotic Fabrication of Architectured Mycelium Composites for Sustainable Construction

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bubbles

Clean Energy and Chemical System via Emerging Electrochemical Devices and Materials

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Seagrass meadow

Legacy blue carbon – long-term storage in seagrass meadows and potential to mitigate climate change

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community mapping

Integrating scenario analysis, model simulation, and design techniques to inform the scaling and siting of nature-based solutions to support multiple ecosystem services.

Funded Projects