2030 Fast Grants

The 2030 Fast Grants provide rapid research-to-impact seed funding to enable urgent, impact-oriented climate research. The grants are issued by Cornell Atkinson and The 2030 Project to mobilize Cornell researchers to pursue ambitious climate action projects. Projects span topics such as AI for climate, nature-based climate solutions, and low-cost climate monitoring technologies. Awards support short-term, high-impact research projects led by eligible principal investigators and co-principal investigators at Cornell.

Research-to-impact seed grants to support rapid, high-impact climate research projects.

All PIs and CoPIs must meet Cornell’s principal investigator (PI) eligibility criteria.

Apply via the Request for Proposals issued by Cornell Atkinson and The 2030 Project; applicants must follow the RFP process and Cornell PI eligibility requirements.