Simons Collaborations in Ecology and Evolution

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Life Sciences Home Life Sciences Funding Vision Statement (LOI) Available

August 4, 2025 Vision Statement (LOI) Deadline

October 16, 2025 Invitation to Submit Full Proposal

February 2, 2026 Full Proposal Deadline

April 15, 2026 Award Notification

February 1, 2027 Funding Start Date

April 1, 2027 Inquiries

lifegrants@simonsfoundation.org Technical Assistance

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Monday, Friday, 9:00 a.m., 5:00 p.m. Eastern time Office Closures

August 29, 2025, and September 1, 2025 Simons Collaborations

The Simons Foundation seeks to create strong collaborations and foster the cross-pollination of ideas between investigators, as these interactions often lead to unexpected breakthroughs. Towards this end, in 2012 the foundation launched a new collaborative funding model, the Simons Collaborations, which funds groups of investigators, often from different disciplines, to work together on a timely and important problem. To date, Simons Collaborations have been launched in and across our Life Sciences, Mathematics and Physical Sciences and Neuroscience divisions.

Their goal is to bring together groups of outstanding scientists to address topics of fundamental scientific importance, with a focus on fields in which significant new developments have created novel opportunities for exploration. Call for Vision Statements for New Ecology & Evolution Collaborations

The Simons Foundation’s Life Sciences division is now seeking vision statements to identify new, emerging breakthrough areas of ecology and evolution that are poised for high-impact funding by the Simons Foundation. We are interested in idea-generating research that focuses on basic principles of ecological and evolutionary dynamics, especially their interface, and that may be overlooked or too risky for other funding organizations. To enable bold, cutting-edge and innovative research, each collaboration will be funded for five years, with the potential of one renewal.

We will prioritize cross-disciplinary collaborations that integrate levels of scale, for example from genes to species to communities _,_ from local to global processes, or across ecological and evolutionary time scales. We are particularly interested in projects that cut across boundaries, whether these boundaries entail fields and subfields, diverse methodological approaches and/or the geographical regions from which investigators work. We expect that outstanding collaborations will catalyze impactful conversations by bringing together unique combinations of expertise to generate fundamental understanding of the genetic, ecological and evolutionary factors that shape the dynamics of organisms and/or the communities in which they are embedded.

Investigators in a Simons Collaboration are expected to openly share data, code, analysis pipelines, protocols and reagents. We expect proposals to include investigators at multiple levels of seniority and across academic disciplines.

Vision statements should clearly outline the big idea and hypotheses that the proposed collaboration will address, including…

Topic areas: General and Cross-cutting R&D, Life Sciences and Health, Agriculture and Food, Circular Economy and Sustainability.

Funding amount

This grant provides Varies in funding.

Deadline

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis; there is no single fixed deadline.

Who can apply

This opportunity is open to the following applicant types:

• Not specified by the program.

Eligibility

The program did not publish a separate eligibility statement. See the official opportunity page for the full eligibility criteria.

Agency

Simons Collaborations in Ecology and Evolution is administered by Simons Foundation (Simons), listed via Simons Foundation.