The APS Innovation Fund provides funding to advance collaborative projects that align with the APS Strategic Plan and support the APS mission "to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics for the benefit of humanity, promote physics, and serve the broader physics community." The reimagined Innovation Fund will lift up topics and themes of specific pertinence, providing pilot or supplemental funding for innovative projects that can be scaled across to the scientific community. The funding activity will include innovation best practices support and an impact evaluation period.
The Application Cycle for 2024
The application is now available. The pre-proposal deadline is May 6, 2024.
Assistance Preparing Your Application
The APS Innovation Fund offers information sessions and consultations to help you prepare your application.
Virtual Information Session
APS Innovation hosted a virtual information session on March 22, 2024, from 12 pm to 1 pm ET.
Review the information session recording
Personalized Consultations
Couldn't make it to the virtual information session? No worries! Contact us via email, or sign up for a personalized 1:1 consultation.
The 2025 International Year of Quantum
The 2024 application cycle focus is the 2025 International Year of Quantum (IYQ).
In recognizing the imperative to cultivate, enrich, and disseminate activities that foster a deeper understanding of quantum concepts and offer opportunities to the public, we are calling upon our members to take a leading role.
Innovation Fund Recipients
APS is pleased to honor the exemplary recipients of the Innovation Fund for their commitment to serving the physics community:
News Highlights
Learn more about the Innovation Fund and its recipients in APS News and Physics:
- To Boost Undergrad Enrollment, Physics Departments Turn to APS Innovation Fund Program, DALI
- Physics Professor Helps Win Energy Department Grant to Expand Science Education
- APS Innovation Fund Supports “Vibrant” US-Africa Collaborations in Modeling Electronic Structure
- The Physics Curriculum Needs More Data Science — and One Team is Making it Easier Than Ever to Integrate It
- Educators Needed for a Quantum Future
- APS Innovation Fund Fuels Quantum Education
- Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction Touts Achievements
- Physicist in Brazil Translates Physics Lessons into Portuguese and Spanish for High Schoolers
- Physics Lab Kits Help Foster the Next Generation of East African Scientists
Contact
If you have questions, please email the APS Innovation Fund team.
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