Carnegie Mellon University
At Facebook, we are passionate about connecting people with the businesses they care most about. One of the ways that we do this is through the products we build. To foster further innovation in the digital advertising space and to deepen our collaboration with the academic community, Facebook is pleased to invite the academic community to respond to this call for research proposals on ad experiences. We are interested in supporting research to help us deepen our understanding of people’s ad experiences on Facebook and Instagram. A few examples of topics of interest for this RFP include, but are not limited to, the following:
Facebook will grant awards of up to $50K USD per awardee to fund projects of up to one year in duration. This RFP challenge is open to applicants from academic institutions worldwide. This includes individual researchers addressing a well-defined problem, or multiple university departments collaborating with a diverse set of skills to solve a more complex multi-disciplinary challenge. We encourage proposals of diverse perspectives from emerging scholars and researchers around the world studying these issues.
Carnegie Mellon University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Clemson University
Applications Are Currently CLosed
*Note: Technical reviews took longer than expected, so we have not yet notified submitters of their proposal status. We will send email notifications to all applicants as soon as we can.
Award recipients will be invited to visit Menlo Park, California to discuss their findings/insights with the Facebook team in 2020. Please budget travel for one PI to attend as a part of the proposed project budget.
We encourage the winners to openly publish any findings/insights from their work. Successful awardees will be also listed on the Facebook Research website.
For additional questions related to this RFP, please email academicrelations@fb.com.