NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
U.S. National Science Foundation United States
NSF's flagship award for early-career faculty that integrates research and education; about 500 awards a year.
Free to start · no account needed
Get your application narrative and project proposal for this programme, drafted from your own documents in about two minutes.
You look at it first. Nothing is submitted without your tap.
About
Also: multi-year research and education funding.
Who can apply: Single PI only (no co-PIs); one proposal per annual competition; see solicitation for eligible PI types.
Annual; due the fourth Wednesday of July (July 28, 2027, 5 p.m. local time). Next deadline: 2027-07-28.
How to apply: through research gov (you need an account there).
What to prepare: proposal, budget, cv.
From the official page (checked 2026-10-21): “Fourth Wednesday in July, Annually Thereafter”
Who can apply
- Open to researchers
- Single PI only (no co-PIs); one proposal per annual competition; see solicitation for eligible PI types.
What you will need
- Grant or policy applicationOnward Scout drafts it from your sourced profile; you approve every line.
- Financial summaryUpload yours, or let Onward Scout draft one from your profile for you to edit.
- Academic CVUpload yours, or let Onward Scout draft one from your profile for you to edit.
How to apply
Applications go through the official page (research gov), which needs an account in your name. The deadline is 28 July 2027.
How Onward Scout helps
This one is submitted on the organiser's own site, behind your login. Onward Scout prepares every answer and file in the form's order with one-tap copy, so submitting takes minutes; you mark it submitted when you're done.
Every answer is drafted from your own documents and cites where each fact came from; anything we can’t source is flagged for you, never invented.
Let Onward Scout prepare this application
Get your application narrative and project proposal for this programme, drafted from your own documents in about two minutes. Free to start, no account needed: you look at the draft first, and nothing goes to U.S. National Science Foundation without your tap.
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