Sponsors occasionally limit the number of submissions that an institution can submit. When a call for proposals is “limited,” the Office of Research and Innovation (R&I) uses an internal selection process to determine which application(s) will be submitted to the sponsor for funding or award consideration.
The limited submission competitions process at UNL is a three-step process:
- Notifications of intent: Interested applicants must complete an online Notification of Intent to Submit Form by no later than UNL’s intent deadline. These notifications of intent are required and allow R&I to plan for the review of limited submission competition pre-proposals.
- Internal Pre-Proposal Submission: If there are more interested applicants than the sponsor’s limit allows, R&I will conduct an internal competition to select the UNL application(s) that will be recommended for submission to the sponsor. In this case, interested applicants will be notified to complete and submit an internal pre-proposal on or before the UNL pre-proposal deadline.
- Selection: Interested applicants will be notified by e-mail if their pre-proposal has been selected (or not selected) for submission to the sponsor as a full proposal. Selected applicants will then complete and submit the sponsor’s application by the sponsor deadline.
Active limited submission competitions follow. If you are interested in applying to a limited submission competition that is not featured here, contact Jackson Hardin (jhardin11@unl.edu), funding opportunity coordinator, to inquire about the status of the competition.
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Addressing the Housing Affordability Crisis Research Grant Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359817
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 07/07/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/24/2025
This opportunity seeks to support research projects that will build knowledge and advance policy solutions related to government-induced demand and housing affordability, immigration and housing affordability, the financialization of housing and housing affordability, economic opportunity cost and housing affordability, and opportunity zones.
If you are interested in developing a proposal in response to this funding opportunity, please complete a notification of intent to submit by . For more information regarding the internal selection process, visit https://research.unl.edu/fundingopps/active-limited-submission-competitions/.
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Climate + Health Excellence Centers
https://www.bwfund.org/funding-opportunities/climate-change-and-human-health/burroughs-wellcome-fund-climate-health-excellence-chex-centers/?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=7c823c1e1a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_07_01_06_19&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-7c823c1e1a-712519256
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 07/07/2025
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 08/07/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 12/04/2025
This opportunity seeks to support institutions or consortia that are already moving toward establishing themselves as centers of excellence for understanding climate change’s impact on human health and for leadership in climate education or public communication around climate and health.
Institutions may only submit one proposal that reflects the institution’s strategic goals in basic, applied, and implementation research.
If you are interested in developing a proposal in response to this funding opportunity, please complete a notification of intent to submit by 07/07/2025. For more information regarding the internal selection process, visit https://research.unl.edu/fundingopps/active-limited-submission-competitions/.
Department of State
Effectively Strengthening Safety and Security of Biological Research Globally
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/360002
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 07/14/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/11/2025
This opportunity seeks to support activities related to national implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention, which promotes the implementation of safeguards and nonproliferation measures to prevent biological accidents and the acquisition, development, and use of biological weapons.
Institutions may submit one application in response to this opportunity.
If you are interested in developing a proposal in response to this funding opportunity, please complete a notification of intent to submit by 07/14/2025. For more information regarding the internal selection process, visit https://research.unl.edu/fundingopps/active-limited-submission-competitions/.
National Science Foundation
EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement-Focused EPSCoR Collaborations Program
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/epscor-research-infrastructure-improvement-focused-epscor/nsf24-573/solicitation
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 04/21/2025
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 12/16/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 01/27/2026
This program, formerly known as “EPSCoR Track-2 program,” builds interjurisdictional collaborative teams of EPSCoR investigators in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics focus areas consistent with the current National Science Foundation Strategic Plan. Projects must include researchers from at least two EPSCoR eligible jurisdictions with complementary expertise and resources necessary to address challenges that neither party could address as well or as rapidly independently.
For this year’s competition, proposals will be accepted in the following focus area: “Building capacity towards use-inspired research.”
An organization may submit only one proposal to the competition as lead.
If you are interested in developing a proposal in response to this funding opportunity, please complete a notification of intent to submit by 04/21/2025. For more information regarding the internal selection process, visit https://research.unl.edu/fundingopps/active-limited-submission-competitions/.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence
https://www.neh.gov/program/humanities-research-centers-artificial-intelligence
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 07/21/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/01/2025
This program seeks to create new centers of scholarly discourse and learning, each one a nexus for collaborative efforts that reach across disciplinary lines to gain a more holistic understanding of AI in the modern world and especially its implications for the United States.
Each institution may submit only one application under this notice.
If you are interested in developing a proposal in response to this funding opportunity, please complete a notification of intent to submit by 07/21/2025. For more information regarding the internal selection process, visit https://research.unl.edu/fundingopps/active-limited-submission-competitions/.
