NEA Research Labs

The National Endowment for the Arts’ five-year research agenda aims to build public knowledge about the arts’ contributions to individuals and society. Through NEA Research Labs, we extend this agenda and its impact by cultivating a series of transdisciplinary research partnerships, grounded in the social and behavioral sciences, to produce and report empirical insights about the arts for the benefit of arts and also for non-arts sectors such as healthcare, education, and business or management. Institutions of higher education and/or nonprofit research and policy organizations may submit applications to be NEA Research Labs.

NEA Research Labs will define their own related agendas; conduct project activities to implement that agenda; and prepare reports and other products or services that will contribute substantively to a wider understanding of one of three areas of special interest to the Arts Endowment:

• The Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation
• The Arts, Creativity, Cognition, and Learning
• The Arts, Health, and Social/Emotional Well-Being

Visit https://www.arts.gov/grants/research-awards/nea-research-labs/program-description for more information.

Deadlines:

• Registration:
  • SAM.gov: No later than March 8, 2021
  • Grants.gov: No later than March 19,2021
• Part 1:
  • Submit to Grants.gov: March 29, 2021
• Part 2:
  • Submit to Applicant Portal: April 1 - 8, 2021