Matrix – Winter 2026

Short Courses on Innovative Methodologies  and Approaches in the Behavioral and Social Science (RFA-OD-25-003)

The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of many NIH Institutes and Centers. The overarching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs.

National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) Specific Language:

Computational and data science methods for studying complex systems to advance research on Whole Person Health including machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms, mathematical and computational modeling, predictive multisystem models, problem-driven multi-models, mechanistic multisystem models, or simulation modeling are also of interest.

Next Due Date: April 9, 2027

 

Infrastructure Systems and People (ISP) - PD 25-342Y

This NSF program supports fundamental research on the design, optimization, sustainability and resilience of infrastructure systems during normal operation and extreme events, such as natural hazards, to serve community needs. The program particularly encourages interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary exploration that will open new research frontiers and significantly expand and transform relevant research communities. The program welcomes research that addresses novel system integration, user-inspired system and service design, data analytics, and socio-technical studies focused on engineering and system innovation during normal and extreme conditions. The program also values innovative research efforts focused on collecting, standardizing, and sharing large-scale databases of real-world infrastructure systems and people-infrastructure interactions during normal and extreme operating conditions, which can be instrumental in providing benchmarks for model verification and validation and for advancing future research innovation in ISP. 

Full proposal accepted anytime

 

Young Researchers of the Complex Systems Society 

Bridge grants

The Bridge Grants are a way for us to encourage young scientists to look for new scientific collaborations. We provide its awardees with financial support for a short external visit. More precisely, each application for a Bridge Grant must be submitted by two young researchers in complexity science. One of them is a receiving and the second a visiting candidate. The visiting candidate obtains the financial support to travel to the receiving candidate’s institution and work together on a project that addresses a problem in the field of complex systems.

Scholarships for Events on Complex Systems (SECS)

The yrCSS wants to encourage young scientists to participate in events related to complexity science. The Scholarship for Events on Complex Systems (SECS) is made for this very purpose. It provides financial support for young researchers to attend conferences, workshops, schools, symposiums or other scientific events related to complex systems. 

Deadline: Call for both opportunities open in March 2026

 

Russell Sage Foundation – Core Research Grants

RSF will only accept letters of inquiry (LOIs) under its core programs for Social, Political and Economic Inequality (SPEI), the Future of Work (FOW) and its special initiative Implications of the 2023 Supreme Court Decision to Ban Race-Conscious Admissions at Colleges and Universities for Educational Attainment and Economic Mobility (SCD23).

Letter of Inquiry Deadline	Invited Proposal Deadline	Funding Decision	Grant Start Date (on/after)
Mar 11, 2026 (SPEI, FOW, SCD23)	Jun 18, 2026	Nov 2026	Jan 1, 2027

 

Schmidt Sciences – 2026 Humanities and Artificial Intelligence Virtual Institute (HAVI) RFP

Schmidt Sciences is requesting proposals to the Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI), aimed at fostering research in the digital humanities with a particular focus on artificial intelligence. Ideal projects will have co-PIs with expertises from both the humanities and AI and will address research questions from both domains. This request is open to universities and non-profits globally.

Deadline: March 13, 2026

 

NBER/Economic Measurement Research Institute - Advancing Economic Measurement

The EMRI seeks proposals for research on innovations in economic measurement with the objective of being translated into improvements in official statistics and statistical agency practice. Projects that explore the use of new sources of data that could be incorporated into the production of official statistics to improve the accuracy, timeliness, and/or granularity of existing data series or to fill important gaps in available statistics are most likely to be favorably evaluated. All subject areas bearing on official economic statistics are in scope; priority areas include labor market statistics, the measurement of economic activity and inflation, and statistics relevant to assessing the impact of R&D and new technologies on the economy. Proposals should include a plan for collaboration between the academic research team and federal statistical agency staff.  Researchers with project ideas, but who do not yet have a statistical agency collaborator, are encouraged to reach out to the EMRI directors to discuss potential strategies for collaboration.

Deadline: Thursday, January 15, 2026