Opportunity Information: Apply for EPA G2018 P3 Q2
The 15th Annual P3 Awards is an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) student-focused design and research competition run under the People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) Award Program, with this cycle centered on safe and sustainable water resources. The main goal is to support teams proposing practical, technology-based solutions to real-world water challenges by using sound scientific and engineering principles. Projects are expected to move beyond purely conceptual ideas by including plans to research, develop, design, and demonstrate a solution, meaning applicants should be thinking in terms of prototype development, pilot testing, field demonstration, or other credible proof-of-concept activities that show the idea can work in realistic settings.
A defining feature of the P3 program is its "triple bottom line" requirement: proposals must clearly show the intention and realistic capability to deliver benefits across all three P3 pillars at the same time. First, "People" means improving quality of life, health, safety, or equity outcomes, especially for communities with limited resources or heightened vulnerability. Second, "Prosperity" points to economic value, such as affordability, cost savings, local job creation, scalable business potential, or reduced operational burdens for households or utilities. Third, "Planet" requires environmental protection, which can include reducing pollution, conserving water and energy, lowering greenhouse gas emissions, minimizing waste, improving watershed health, or using safer and more sustainable materials and processes. In other words, strong applications typically connect the technical approach to measurable human outcomes, a believable cost or market story, and clear environmental gains rather than treating these as separate or secondary considerations.
The competition is also framed around meeting needs within the United States, with an explicit emphasis on solutions that can help small, rural, tribal, and disadvantaged communities. That focus signals that EPA is looking for designs that are not only innovative but also realistic for under-resourced contexts, such as systems that are low-cost to install and maintain, resilient to disruptions, simple to operate, adaptable to different geographies, and compatible with limited technical staffing or infrastructure. Water topics can reasonably span drinking water safety, treatment and disinfection, contaminant monitoring, wastewater and stormwater management, water reuse, source water protection, or decentralized and point-of-use treatment approaches, as long as the proposal stays aligned with the solicitation's "safe and sustainable water resources" theme and the P3 triple-benefit framework.
From an administrative standpoint, this is a discretionary grant opportunity (not a formula program), offered by the EPA under CFDA 66.516, with an award ceiling of $15,000 per award and an anticipated total of about 20 awards. The funding instrument is a grant, and eligibility is listed as "Others," with the solicitation indicating applicants must consult the "Additional Information on Eligibility" section for the specific eligible applicant types and conditions. The funding opportunity number is EPA G2018 P3 Q2, the opportunity was created on December 22, 2017, and the original closing date was February 7, 2018, with the notice directing applicants to the solicitation's Section IV for any close-date details.
Overall, this opportunity is best understood as seed funding for student teams to develop and demonstrate water-focused solutions that are innovative but grounded in real deployment constraints. Successful proposals generally present a clear problem statement tied to community needs, a technically credible design and work plan, a realistic demonstration pathway, and a persuasive explanation of how the project delivers simultaneous benefits for people, economic prosperity, and environmental protection.Apply for EPA G2018 P3 Q2
- The Environmental Protection Agency in the environment sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "15th Annual P3 Awards: A National Student Design Competition Focusing on People, Prosperity and the Planet - Safe and Sustainable Water Resources" 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 22, 2017.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Feb 07, 2018 See Section IV of solicitation for 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 20 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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