Opportunity Information: Apply for EPA G2017 P3 Q4
The 14th Annual P3 Awards is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) student-focused grant competition that funds early-stage research, development, and design projects aimed at solving real-world sustainability problems, with this particular round centered on water. The program sits under EPA's People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) Award Program and is built around the idea that strong sustainability solutions should advance all three pillars at once: improving quality of life (people), supporting economic viability and practical adoption (prosperity), and protecting natural systems and resources (the planet). The competition is meant to push student teams to apply solid scientific and engineering principles to create innovative, workable concepts rather than purely theoretical ideas, and to frame those concepts in ways that respond to real technical needs while moving communities and industries toward long-term sustainability.
This opportunity is offered as a discretionary grant (CFDA 66.516) within the EPA's environmental funding portfolio. The funding instrument is a grant, and the agency expected to make around 25 awards. Individual awards have a ceiling of $15,000, which typically signals that EPA is supporting proof-of-concept work, prototyping, pilot testing, design validation, stakeholder engagement, and other foundational steps that can demonstrate feasibility and set a project up for later scaling. Because it is a national student design competition, the core applicants are generally student teams working through an eligible institution or partner arrangement, with the formal eligibility rules summarized broadly as "Others" and clarified in the announcement's eligibility section. In practice, programs like P3 usually require that students play the central leadership role in developing and executing the proposed work, with faculty or institutional support serving as mentorship and administrative oversight.
The timeline included an announcement creation date of December 6, 2016, with an original closing date of February 3, 2017, and a note that additional closing date details were provided in the formal announcement (Section IV). That kind of language is often used to address submission windows, deadlines for different phases, or contingencies such as late submissions, clarifications, or separate dates for optional materials. Applicants were expected to use the EPA P3 Student Design Competition website and the official notice for full program details, including requirements for proposal format, evaluation criteria, and submission mechanics.
At its core, the competition is looking for proposals that connect sustainability to practical water challenges and demonstrate credible pathways to real-world impact. Strong projects under this theme generally articulate the specific water problem being addressed (for example, water quality, water treatment, water reuse, stormwater, access and equity issues related to drinking water, infrastructure challenges, or resource recovery), explain the scientific or technical approach behind the design, and show how the idea will be tested or validated within the relatively small award size and student project timeframe. The P3 framing also implies that proposals should go beyond technical performance alone and address who benefits, what economic or operational constraints exist, and how environmental outcomes will be measured or improved. In short, this grant opportunity is designed to help student innovators take a sustainability concept focused on water and turn it into a defensible, science-based design with clear human, economic, and environmental value.Apply for EPA G2017 P3 Q4
- The Environmental Protection Agency in the environment sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "14th Annual P3 Awards: A National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing on People, Prosperity and the Planet - Water" 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 Dec 06, 2016.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Feb 03, 2017 See Section IV of announcement for additional close date information.. (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 $15,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 25 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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