Request for Proposals for the 2022 Science…

We’re excited to announce a model new Request for Proposals (RFP) for our Science and Experience Empowered by the Public (STEP) Grants. These grants are planetary science and/or experience grants chosen from an open, worldwide, competed proposal course of. Proposals can request funding for various styles of science and/or experience initiatives. Proposals ought to match inside quite a lot of of The Planetary Society’s core enterprises (Uncover Worlds, Uncover Life, Defend Earth) and must be in line with The Planetary Society’s Strategic Framework 2019-2023.

Proposers ought to submit preliminary proposals (pre-proposals) by 23:59 UT (16:59 PDT) on August 17, 2022. Based mostly totally on the pre-proposal submissions, a small number of proposers will probably be invited to submit full proposals from which grant alternate options will probably be made.

For its full historic previous, by the use of the crowdfunding assist of its members and donors, The Planetary Society has supported science and experience initiatives to produce a fashion for members/donors to play an vigorous operate in home exploration whereas enabling advances in home science and/or experience.

The STEP Grants have been created to repeatedly compete a superb portion of The Planetary Society’s science and experience portfolio. That’s the second STEP Grants opponents. Throughout the first, there have been 38 pre-proposals submitted. Six of those have been invited to submit full proposals. From extraordinarily aggressive proposals, two proposals have been chosen for funding. The two worthwhile initiatives have been a radio SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) citizen science mission out of UCLA throughout the U.S., and a planetary safety mission to utilize a model new method to evaluate near-Earth asteroids out of the Faculty of Belgrade in Serbia.

See the 2022 STEP Grants RFP for particulars regarding the 2022 STEP Grants opponents along with how one can submit a pre-proposal.

We’re grateful to the Halıcıoğlu Family Foundation for its generous assist of the occasion and implementation of the STEP Grants program. We moreover thank all of our members who’ve been crowdfunding our science and experience initiatives since prolonged sooner than the time interval crowdfunding was invented.