Opportunity Information: Apply for EPA G2024 P3 Q1

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is offering the 21st Annual P3 Awards, a national student design competition focused on "People, Prosperity and the Planet." This opportunity is structured as a discretionary grant program (Funding Opportunity Number: EPA G2024 P3 Q1; CFDA: 66.516) that supports student-led, interdisciplinary projects aimed at creating practical, real-world environmental solutions. The central idea of the P3 program is to move beyond classroom theory and push student teams to design, build, test, and demonstrate tangible innovations that can make a measurable difference in their communities.

The specific emphasis in this year’s description is on research and demonstration projects that help improve the nation’s air quality through innovative and cost-effective approaches. EPA is looking for projects that advance the underlying science while also producing usable information and tools for decision-makers. The scope is intentionally broad, but it includes work such as assessing how air pollutants affect people and ecosystems at different scales, from individual and neighborhood impacts up through regional and national patterns. It also includes developing and evaluating practical strategies to prevent or reduce air pollution, with a clear preference for solutions that are sustainable, affordable, and innovative, including multipollutant approaches and sector-based strategies that address emissions in a more integrated way rather than tackling pollutants one at a time.

Another major theme in the announcement is improving the methods and data that support air quality decisions. That can include human exposure and environmental modeling, new or improved monitoring methods, better metrics for understanding risk and performance, and information systems that help state, Tribal, and local agencies make informed choices. In other words, proposals can range from technology demonstrations (like a new monitoring device, filtration concept, or emissions-reduction method) to decision-support innovations (like improved modeling workflows or community-centered exposure assessment methods), as long as they are grounded in air quality improvement and can be demonstrated in a real setting.

Awards under this competition have a ceiling of $75,000 per award, and EPA expects to make about 16 awards. The original application closing date listed for this opportunity is February 21, 2024, and the opportunity was created on December 22, 2023. Eligibility is summarized in the notice as "Others," with the program directing applicants to consult Section III of the Notice of Funding Opportunity for the detailed eligibility rules, which is typical for student design competitions where eligibility often depends on institutional participation and team composition requirements.

Overall, this grant opportunity is best understood as a hands-on, innovation-driven student competition where EPA funds promising, practical designs that address air quality challenges. Strong proposals will typically combine technical soundness with clear community relevance, demonstrate feasibility within the project period and budget, and show how the team will produce a tangible prototype, pilot, or demonstration that could be scaled or adopted more broadly if successful.

  • The Environmental Protection Agency in the environment sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "21st Annual P3 Awards: A National Student Design Competition Focusing on People, Prosperity and the Planet" and is now available to receive applicants.
  • Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 66.516.
  • This funding opportunity was created on 2023-12-22.
  • Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-02-21. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
  • Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $75,000.00 in funding.
  • The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 16 candidate(s).
  • Eligible applicants include: Others.
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