2025 Institute of Education Sciences (IES): National Center for Education Research (NCER): Research Training Programs in The Education Sciences

Overview

 Through the Research Training Programs in the Education Sciences Grant Program, IES aims to prepare individuals to conduct rigorous and relevant education research that advances knowledge within the field and addresses issues important to education policymakers and practitioners.

Purpose of Program: 
Research Training Programs in the Education Sciences (ALN 84.305B). Under this competition, NCER will consider only applications that address one of the following topics: 
• Early Career Development and Mentoring Program for Education Research 
• Pathways to the Education Sciences Training Program 
• IES will not accept FY 2025 Pathways Training Program applications that include institutions that received an FY 2021 Pathways Training grant award or served as a partner institution on an FY 2021 Pathways Training grant award. 
• Predoctoral Interdisciplinary Research Training Program in the Education Sciences
 • IES will not accept FY 2025 Predoctoral Training Program applications from institutions that received an FY 2020 Predoctoral Training grant award. 
• Methods Training for Education Researchers

Limitation: ASU may submit only one (1) application to these Programs: Pathways Training Program and Predoctoral Training Program.

ASU may submit one or more than one application to the IES FY 2025 Research Training Programs in the Education Sciences competition so long as you meet the following requirements:

• An institution may submit multiple applications to the Early Career Development and Mentoring Program so long as the Principal Investigator (PI) is different for each application and there is no overlap in mentors.
• An institution may not be the applicant or the partner on more than one application to the Pathways Training Program.
• An institution may not submit an application to the Pathways Training Program, or be a partner on an application, if it is the grantee or partner on an FY 2021 Pathways Training grant award.
• An institution may not submit more than one application to the Predoctoral Training Program.
• An institution may not submit an application to the Predoctoral Training Program if it received an FY 2020 Predoctoral Training grant award.
• An institution may submit multiple applications to the Methods Training Program so long as the applications are substantively different from one another and have no overlap in key personnel.

Letter of Intent due December 12, 2024 
We strongly encourage you to submit a Letter of Intent (LOI) on the IES Peer Review website (https://iesreview.ed.gov/LOI/LOISubmit). If you do so, a program officer will contact you regarding your proposed project.
Estimated Range of Awards: The size of the awards will depend on the scope of the projects proposed. The estimated range of awards varies by topic: 
•    $200,000 to $400,000 (total) for the Early Career Development and Mentoring Program for Education Research. 
•    $800,000 to $1,700,000 (total) for the Pathways Training Program. 
•    $3,000,000 to $5,000,000 (total) for the Predoctoral Interdisciplinary Research Training Program in the Education Sciences. 
•    $400,000 to $800,000 (total) for the Methods Training Program.