Grants and funding for social organisations

Benefit from a trust offer

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

Depending on your needs, the Banque des Territoires can offer you a trust solution with the aim of: Carrying out development projects; Securing a fund management system; Securing financing.

Fund lifelong learning

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Etablissement public dont services de l'Etat · Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

_________________________________________________________________ 🚩 The funding described in this section complies with State aid regulations and therefore does not include any aid elements. _______________________________________________________________ Are you a structure involved in education (primary, secondary, extracurricular or higher education) with a strong social and territorial impact, a continuing education structure with a strong social and territorial impact, an apprenticeship training structure (CFA / OFA), an EdTech in education or vocational training with a key support function for training organizations or training organizations and/or apprentice training centers, or a local authority or a local public company (mixed economy company)? Do you wish to apply for funding for a project that promotes access to education for all? The Banque des Territoires invests in your projects to enable everyone to learn in the best conditions and throughout their lives, anywhere in the territory. Our funding offer is structured around two components. The first is dedicated to education, where we support, advise and finance educational projects in the territories. The second is dedicated to training…

Benefit from a bank account for condominium trustees

France · FR

Who can apply Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

_________________________________________________________________ 🚩 The financing described in this section complies with state aid regulations and therefore does not include any aid elements. _______________________________________________________________ The Banque des Territoires offers condominium trustees a complete banking offer to manage the accounts of the various condominiums they are responsible for: Management and savings account; Works fund account; Account keeping services

Optimize corporate account management

France · FR

Who can apply Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

_________________________________________________________________ 🚩 The funding described in this section complies with State aid regulations and therefore does not involve any aid elements. _______________________________________________________________ The Banque des Territoires offers solutions to optimize corporate account management. By opening an equity account, you benefit from numerous advantages: A complete account management offer; A secure, autonomous and efficient service; Management of your corporate and current accounts.

Deposit sums of money to secure your projects

France · FR

Who can apply Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

La Banque des Territoires offers a consignment service that can be used as a financial guarantee with your financial and economic partners. It allows the consignment of sums related to: An ICPE (Installation Classified for Environmental Protection) establishment; An expropriation; A PPRT (Technological Risk Prevention Plan); An industrial wasteland rehabilitation project.

Deposit sums of money for local communities

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Etablissement public dont services de l'Etat

_________________________________________________________________ 🚩 The funding described in this section complies with state aid regulations and therefore does not involve any aid elements. _______________________________________________________________ Through the Caisse des Dépôts, the Banque des Territoires offers a service for depositing sums of money while awaiting the resolution of a dispute or with a view to carrying out a project. This free deposit can be requested in the following situations: Expropriation with a view to carrying out a project; Pre-emption of real estate; Establishment of a PPRT (Technological Risk Prevention Plan); Occurrence of environmental risks in the territory; Desire to guarantee the completion of a housing development; Desire to ensure a financial contribution during a social plan.

Manage online authorizations

France · FR

Who can apply Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

Thanks to the CDC-Net Online Banking service, you can manage the authorizations of employees who have access to the professional accounts of your office, your EPL (Local Public Company) or your OLS (Social Housing Organization). This service offers you many advantages: Online management of authorizations granted to employees (addition, suspension, deletion and modification of access); Supervision of each employee's action possibilities (access thresholds, account numbers and authorized transfer levels); Monitoring of operations related to granted authorizations (validation of requests and alerts on modifications made); Securing validations and access modifications by electronic signature; Access to CDC-Net 7 days a week, 24 hours a day; Telephone assistance to help with using the service.

Funding the revitalization of city centers

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Etablissement public dont services de l'Etat · Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

_________________________________________________________________ 🚩 The funding described in this section complies with State aid regulations and therefore does not include any aid elements. _______________________________________________________________ The Banque des Territoires offers several funding and action plans to contribute to the revitalization of city centers: The Action Cœur de Ville loan aimed at revitalizing the city centers of tomorrow; The urban renewal loan for the Petites villes de demain to improve the living conditions of residents; Specific engineering and funding solutions.

Financing rehabilitation and construction in QPVs

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

_________________________________________________________________ 🚩 The financing described in this section complies with state aid regulations and therefore does not involve any aid elements. _______________________________________________________________ The Banque des Territoires offers a loan financing solution from the Caisse des Dépôts savings funds for operations carried out within QPVs (Priority City Districts). It aims to finance rehabilitation, construction and acquisition-improvement projects: Public facilities; Infrastructures; Urban developments. Financing can take the form of: An Urban Project Loan ( PPU Loan Opens a new window ); An Urban Renewal Development Loan ( PRU-AM Loan Opens a new window ).

Financing asset transfer in social rental housing

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Etablissement public dont services de l'Etat · Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

_________________________________________________________________ 🚩 The financing described in this section complies with regulations relating to state aid and therefore does not include any aid elements. _______________________________________________________________ The Banque des Territoires offers Prêt Transfert, a solution to finance asset transfer and lease buyouts within social rental housing. The project may concern: Social rental housing transferred between operators (local authorities and low-rent housing organizations, for example) and eligible for savings fund financing; Hostels as defined in article R351-55 of the Construction and Housing Code; Several other types of specific housing, provided they are eligible for a savings fund loan. Please note: the Prêt Transfert finances transfer and sale projects excluding works. Works are covered by a works loan: Rehabilitation loan (PAM); Habitat Improvement Restructuring Extension Loan (PHARE).

Financing the renovation of APL-approved housing in specific housing

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Etablissement public dont services de l'Etat · Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

_________________________________________________________________ 🚩 The financing described in this section complies with regulations relating to State aid and therefore does not include any aid elements. _______________________________________________________________ Banque des Territoires offers PAM Fixed Rate, a loan aimed at financing the renovation of APL (Aide Personnalisée au Logement) approved housing in specific housing. It concerns: Medical-social establishments; Student residences; Young workers' hostels (FJT); Migrant workers' hostels (FTM); Social residences; Relay houses; Family pensions. The amount of the PAM Fixed Rate loan represents a maximum of half of the total cost of the operation. It can be supplemented by a PAM loan at the Livret A rate + 0.6%.

Financing the rehabilitation of social housing with the Eco-loan

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Etablissement public dont services de l'Etat · Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

_________________________________________________________________ 🚩 The financing described in this section complies with state aid regulations and therefore does not involve any aid elements. _______________________________________________________________ Banque des Territoires offers Éco-prêt, a loan offer aimed at financing the rehabilitation of the most energy-intensive social housing. In mainland France: it applies to housing with a TH-C-E ex energy audit or a rental DPE and whose primary energy consumption is at least 151 kWh/m2/year. In the DOM: the loan applies to housing built before May 1, 2010 in Guadeloupe, Guyana, Reunion and Martinique, but also to those built before July 1, 2014 in Mayotte. Discover the characteristics of the Eco-loan: A maximum amount of 22,000 € per dwelling; An increase of 2,000 € per dwelling for operations labeled HPE renovation (High Energy Performance) or BBC renovation (Low Consumption Building Effinergie); An increase of 3,000 € per dwelling for projects targeting a building containing asbestos; The possibility of supplementing it with the PAM Fixed Rate Eco-loan to cover 100% …

Financing the renovation of your housing stock

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Etablissement public dont services de l'Etat · Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

_________________________________________________________________ 🚩 The financing described in this section complies with state aid regulations and therefore does not include any aid elements. _______________________________________________________________ Are you a local authority, a public institution or a social housing organization? Are you carrying out a rehabilitation project for your housing stock to improve the daily lives of residents, bring your homes up to accessibility standards or carry out energy renovation? The Banque des Territoires offers you its PAM loan to support your financing needs for improvement, residentialization and rehabilitation works. The PAM loan offers many advantages by guaranteeing identical financial characteristics regardless of the operation financed or by giving you the possibility of adjusting your loan according to your needs. In some cases, you can also supplement your loan with a Fixed Rate PAM.

Financing the construction and acquisition of social rental housing

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

_________________________________________________________________ 🚩 The funding described in this section complies with state aid regulations and therefore does not involve any aid elements. _______________________________________________________________ The PLS (Prêt Locatif Social) loan offer from Banque des Territoires finances projects aimed at: Constructing social rental housing, with or without land acquisition; Acquiring housing with or without improvement works; Acquiring premises to transform them into social rental housing; Carrying out collective housing operations for people with disabilities, the elderly, young workers, and students. PLS loans are loans from the Caisse des Dépôts savings funds. Their amount must represent at least half of the cost price of the operation. A complementary loan to the PLS may be granted.

Financing social housing with the High-Level Loan (PHB 2.0)

France · FR

Who can apply Etablissement public dont services de l'Etat · Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

_________________________________________________________________ 🚩 The financing described in this section complies with state aid regulations and therefore does not involve any aid elements. _________________________________________________________________ The second-generation high-level loan (PHB 2.0 Loan) aims to support investments by social landlords, whether they are social housing organizations or organizations approved for insertion project management. In partnership with Action Logement and the State, the Banque des Territoires offers you this long-term loan with advantageous financial characteristics. For the first 20 years, the interest rate is 0% with a total deferral of capital amortization. Then, for the next 10 to 20 years depending on your project, your interest rate will be aligned with that of the Livret A +0.60% and applied with constant amortization. For social housing organizations (OLS) The three tranches of PHB 2.0 apply only to new production (construction, acquisition, VEFA, acquisition-improvement) of approved PLAI, PLUS, and PLS housing. There is a particularity for the PHB 2.0 tranche dedicated to green constructions: simple acquisitions and acquisition-improvements, not so…

Assist elected officials in Jura from the conception to the realization of their community's projects

France · Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays

The Association of Mayors and Presidents of Intermunicipalities of Jura supports you in your project development efforts, answers your legal, administrative, and financial questions, offers information meetings or thematic training, all within a framework of enriching experience sharing. It is strongly recommended to contact the AMJ as soon as the project idea arises to optimize personalized support. The AMJ, neither AMO nor Project Manager, facilitates project ownership through the services offered.

Access to standard contracts to frame a transparent relationship between architects and different categories of project owners

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Département · Région · Collectivité d’outre-mer à statut particulier · Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

The CNOA makes available to everyone standard contract templates to frame a transparent and explicit relationship between architects and a wide variety of project owner categories. Each of these requires specific and adapted wording. CNOA now offers you access to these contracts through their new interactive digital tool: the "Contrathèque". Thanks to it, you can now draft your contracts directly online, with a practical and intuitive tool. This will guide you step by step through the process by providing explanations and comments that can help you make choices or understand the stakes of this or that clause. Your drafting will remain visible and verifiable at all times. The contrathèque gives you multiple freedoms and facilities: you remain free to download your templates directly, as was already the case. You can also, for more regular users, open an online account (free), to keep your contract drafts in progress, return to them, enter recurring data and retrieve them automatically in the contract, add appendices, etc. This platform, launched in a 'beta' version, will be progressively improved to take into account user feedback and enriched with new functionalities. The CNOA will regularly organize webinars…

Implement nature-based solutions projects for climate change adaptation in territories

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Département · Région · Collectivité d’outre-mer à statut particulier · Etablissement public dont services de l'Etat · Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

Nature 2050 is a national action program led by CDC Biodiversité and the Nature 2050 Fund, aiming to co-finance the implementation of nature-based solutions (NBS) that will contribute by 2050 to achieving the following objectives: * preserve and restore biodiversity to strengthen the dynamic stability and resilience of natural and anthropized ecosystems, and thus the maintenance of ecosystem services; * mitigate climate change by strengthening CO2 storage or capture capacities; * and adapt territories to these changes, notably by limiting their effects (e.g., urban heat islands) and natural risks (landslides, erosion, floods, droughts, fires, marine submersion...). These nature-based solutions promote the maintenance of ecosystem services and strengthen the resilience and socioeconomic viability of human activities and territories through the following five action targets: * Marine and coastal ecosystems * Wetlands * Agricultural and forest transitions * Ecological continuities * Biodiversity in cities The program was launched by CDC Biodiversité, a private company with a mission and a subsidiary of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations group. It is also supported by the Nature 2050 Fund; a fund of...

Consolidate the thermalism, mountain and marina sectors

France · FR

Who can apply Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

_________________________________________________________________ 🚩 The funding described in this section complies with State aid regulations and therefore does not include any aid elements. _______________________________________________________________ With tickets ranging from 1 to 15 million euros, the Banque des Territoires offers equity contributions to the following sectors: Thermalism; Mountain; Marinas. Aiming to strengthen these sectors, these measures can be based on consolidation models and by taking stakes in public and private actors, as was notably the case for: La Compagnie des Pyrénées; La Compagne des Alpes.

Be supported in urban development

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays · Entreprise publique locale (Sem, Spl, SemOp)

_________________________________________________________________ 🚩 The funding described in this section complies with regulations relating to state aid and therefore does not include any aid elements. _______________________________________________________________ As part of the Cœur de Ville (ACV) program, the Banque des Territoires offers support and financing solutions for projects aimed at: Renovating open public spaces and parking areas; Developing clean transport and sustainable mobility; Developing renewable energies and energy renovation of buildings; Creating local property companies specialized in commerce or activity; Renovating accommodation, as well as tourist and leisure facilities; Creating digital infrastructures and innovative services; Setting up third-party places for business real estate or support for local businesses; Developing territorial food programs and short supply chains; Treating brownfields; Maintaining local medical services and reception facilities for the elderly. For such projects, the Banque des Territoires can: …

Participate in a call for projects from the Grand Investment Plan

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Intercommunalité / Pays

_________________________________________________________________ 🚩 The funding described in this section complies with state aid regulations and therefore does not include any aid elements. ________________________________________________________________ Banque des Territoires manages the mandate of the Grand Investment Plan 2018-2022 (GPI) on behalf of the State. With a budget of 57 billion euros, it is structured around 4 actions. 1. Accelerate the ecological transition The GPI program includes a call for projects for the City of tomorrow. The objective of these projects? To promote the development of a new way of designing, building and managing cities so that they preserve both the quality of life of residents, social cohesion and the environment. 2. Build a society of skills With the aim of building a society of skills, Banque des Territoires manages several actions and calls for projects: « Territoires d'Innovation Pédagogique » (TIP) to strengthen the capacity of the education system to achieve its objectives; « Sociétés Universitaires et de Recherche » (SUR), a call for expressions of interest to experiment, within higher education institutions…

Be supported in the digital inclusion of the territory

France · FR

Who can apply Commune · Etablissement public dont services de l'Etat

La Banque des Territoires offers support aimed at digital inclusion through 15 territorial Hubs. It is aimed at: Digital inclusion actors: identification as a dedicated actor, training of digital mediators, setting up a digital inclusion project (financial arrangement, search for funding, offer design, etc.), organization of an event dedicated to digital inclusion, information and news on the subject; To local authorities: diagnosis of territorial digital inclusion (actors present, offers, etc.), creation of a public digital inclusion policy, training of agents and organization of dedicated events. La Banque des Territoires' support aims at several objectives: Create synergies between digital inclusion ecosystems: identification of mediation places, evaluation of territorial capacities, study of service accessibility and analysis of their adequacy with territorial needs; Promote the creation or development of digital inclusion projects: training, provision of tools and search for funding.

Development Contracts - "Electric Buses" (PNRR)

Ministero delle Imprese e del Made in Italy · Nazionale

Who can apply Rete d'impresa · Impresa

What it is: A facilitative instrument dedicated to supporting industrial transformation programs for the development of the bus production chain, in order to produce electric and connected vehicles. Hybrid buses are excluded. Who it's for: Companies of all sizes undertaking investment programs consistent with the objectives of Investment 5.3 of the PNRR. "Development of international, industrial, and R&D leadership in the field of electric buses." The development program can be carried out by multiple companies or by a single company. What it provides: Non-repayable contributions and subsidized financing, also in combination. As a result of recent PNRR amendments, 75 million euros are allocated for implementation, within the framework of the M7-I12 PNRR allocation of a total of 100 million. This allocation replaces the one initially earmarked for the measure, amounting to 220 million out of a total of 300, within the framework of measure 5.3 of the PNRR M2C2 "Energy Transition and Sustainable Mobility."

Period: Apr 26, 2022 – —

Tactical Behaviors for Autonomous Maneuver

United States · US

Who can apply Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

**UPDATE 5 APRIL 2024: The proposal submission date has been updated to 24 April 2024. The FOA has been amended to reflect this submission date and include a Question and Answer document based on questions received from interested applicants. Other than the updated proposal submission date in the FOA, the actual FOA Amendment has not been changed. However, the answers provided in the Q&A document are considered part of the FOA Amendment.** **CYCLE 2 UPDATE 20 MARCH 2024 - THE OPPORTUNITY WEBINAR FOR CYCLE 2 WILL BE HELD ONLINE VIA MS TEAMS AT 1500 EDT ON 22 MARCH 2024 AT THE FOLLOWING LINK: https://dod.teams.microsoft.us/l/meetup-join/19%3adod%3ameeting_5fa41fe6fa874484b473d8a6ba7921c6%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22fae6d70f-954b-4811-92b6-0530d6f84c43%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22e9f6fc39-8f22-44e5-8bd0-64f0cde32305%22%2c%22IsBroadcastMeeting%22%3atrue%7d **UPDATE 14 MARCH 2024 - CYCLE 2 HAS BEEN POSTED TO THE ANNOUNCEMENT. PLEASE REVIEW THE UPDATED ANNOUNCEMENT IN FULL FOR SUBMISSION TIME, UPDATED TOPIC, AND FUNDING AMOUNT AND SCHEDULE CHANGES FROM CYCLE 1** TACTICAL BEHAVIORS FOR AUTONOMOUS MANEUVER COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM (TBAM-CRP) Future Army forces will be called upon to operate and maneuver in multi-domain operations (MDO), against a modern and capable peer adversary. The battlefield of the future may impose additional constraints on maneuver forces such as disruption in communication as well as positioning services. To field a highly capable fighting force in this future battlefield, novel tactics and doctrines leveraging nascent technologies in robotics and autonomous systems (RAS) will need to be developed. Teams of RAS will serve an increasingly critical role in the future force to deliver situational awareness, defend key locations or positions, or take point in dynamic and hazardous situations. Resilience to disruptions, failures, or unexpected scenarios, is a key quality for teams of RAS to operate alongside other future Army forces. The US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is focused on developing fundamental understanding and informing the art-of-the-possible for warfighter concepts through research to greatly improve the scope of mission capabilities of teams of RAS, develop robust and resilient approaches to plan under extreme conditions of uncertainty, to learn coordinated strategies for groups of agents to achieve a common objective, all within a complex maneuver environment including adversaries. The Tactical Behaviors for Autonomous Maneuver Collaborative Research Program (TBAM-CRP) is focused on developing and experimentally evaluating coordinated and individual behaviors for small groups of autonomous agents to learn doctrinal as well as novel tactics for maneuvering in military relevant environments. The TBAM-CRP will leverage developments in other internal and extramural programs as well as identify new research directions to find novel solutions to these maneuver problems in analogical simulations representing complex realistic terrain. The Tactical Behaviors for Autonomous Maneuver Collaborative Research Program (TBAM-CRP) will consist of a series of sprint efforts executed with annual program reviews. Each topic will be focused on addressing a different set of scientific areas which will support the research aims of an associated ARL researcher from a related internal essential research program (ERP) or mission-funded program. The TBAM-CRP has been developed in coordination with other related ARL-funded collaborative efforts (see descriptions of ARL collaborative alliances at https://www.arl.army.mil/business/collaborativealliances/) and shares a common vision of highly collaborative academia-industry-government partnerships; however, it will be executed with a program model adapted from the Scalable, Adaptive, and Resilient Autonomy (SARA), which established a new paradigm for collaborative research. Some key properties of this new approach are described below: • TBAM-CRP sprint topics will be offered on a two-year cycle. Proposals will be solicited for a possible two-year period structured as a first-year pilot followed by a second-year option where the option may be awarded based upon progress assessed at an annual review. The FOA will be amended annually to identify a specific problem statement and scope for that specific cycle. The topics for each cycle will be chosen to address the long-term program goal. • Five new topics (Cycles 1-5) are expected in FY22, 24, 26, 28, 30. Each topic will be carefully chosen based on the previous accomplishments in the prior cycle(s), the development of new technologies and capabilities in the broader research and development communities, and the Army’s evolving needs for future capabilities. • For each topic, funding will be provided to those Recipients selected under a cooperative agreement (CA). • Enhanced Research Program funding from ARL or Other Government Agencies (OGAs) may become available during a cycle which provides a mechanism for growth and enhancement within the TBAM-CRP. A proposal should not include any discussion of the Enhanced Research Program. Recipients receiving a CA will be notified and provided details if the opportunity for Enhanced Research Program funding becomes available during their award period of performance. • There is no limitation on the place of performance, although on-site collaboration at ARL facilities and with ARL researchers as well as with other Recipients are encouraged. Research outcomes in this program must, at the very least, be demonstrated in sophisticated simulations of relevant environments. Together with ARL collaborators, these results may be adapted for higher TRL experimentation on surrogate platforms at ARL test facilities such as the Robotics Research Collaboration Campus (R2C2) at Graces Quarters, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. • Recipients will be furnished with access to the ARL Autonomy Stack software suite as well as all relevant simulation tools and multi-agent learning support. • Recipients will be provided with information about the current state of the Autonomous Systems Enterprise (ASE) with an overview of developments in the associated collaborative research alliances including Distributed and Collaborative Intelligent Systems and Technology (DCIST), Scalable, Adaptive, and Resilient Autonomy (SARA), as well as internal ARL essential research programs including the AI for Maneuver and Mobility (AIMM), Emerging Overmatch Technologies (EOT), and Versatile Tactical Power and Propulsion (VICTOR). Capabilities demonstrated in simulation should reflect significant appropriate developments. This midpoint review is expected to take place as a mini symposium where Recipients can share results with one another along with the ARL community to foster further collaboration. • At the end of the second year, a capstone demonstration will be executed by those Recipients receiving an option to their award in a set of simulated relevant environments, either those environment scenarios provided by the Government and other program performers, or optionally of a specific environment developed by the Recipient to exhibit their developed capability. Any system level capability demonstration that can be made with the internal ARL collaborator or description of capability development and program contribution can also be made at this time. These system demonstrations are expected to coincide to foster further integration and adoption with related internal research programs as well as partner organizations from within the DEVCOM, other Army and DoD service branches and agencies, in addition to other government agencies. Proposals that follow the requirements of the FOA will be evaluated in accordance with merit-based, competitive procedures. These procedures will include evaluation factors and an adjectival and color rating system. A review team, consisting of a qualified group of Government scientists and managers will evaluate the compliant proposals and provide the results of that evaluation to the decision-maker for the Government. Relevant internal research program materials approved for public release and contact information will be provided to potential proposers during introductory presentations to help facilitate identification of collaboration between proposers and individual ARL researchers or internal research programs. Additional connections to ARL programs can be identified during the proposal review process. Eligible applicants under this FOA include institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations, and for-profit organizations (i.e., large and small businesses) for scientific research in the knowledge domains outlined throughout this Funding Opportunity. Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDC) may propose as well, with effort as allowed by their sponsoring agency and in accordance with their sponsoring agency policy.