STEM Talent Challenge Program (DOC)

• Published date: 17 September 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31289
• Date: 17 September 2020

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Grants alert (cont.)

Deadline: Jan. 12, 2021.

Funds: $39 million total for up to 85 awards ranging

from $150,000 to $3 million.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: NSF said funding supports six types of projects:

(1) pilots and feasibility studies; (2) research in service

to practice; (3) innovations in development; (4) broad

implementation; (5) literature reviews, syntheses or

meta-analyses; and (6) conferences.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 20-607

STEM Talent Challenge Program (DOC)

Scope: The Commerce Department’s Office of

Innovation and Entrepreneurship seeks applications

for the FY2020 STEM Talent Challenge Program

announcement to create and implement science,

technology, engineering and mathematics talent

development strategies that complement their respective

region’s innovation economy, particularly as they relate

to emerging, transformative sectors and future industries

such as artificial intelligence and machine learning,

advanced manufacturing and robotics, space exploration

and commerce, bioscience, quantum information

science, and aqua- and agricultural technologies.

Deadline: Oct. 14, 2020.

Funds: $2 million total for awards of up to $300,000 for

project periods of 18 to 24 months.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; nonprofit

organizations; and state, local and Native American

tribal governments; among others.

Areas: DOC said projects should aim to identify

opportunities in high-growth potential sectors, and

to expand and empower the innovation economy

workforce, including by: engaging regional

entrepreneurs, innovators and the organizations that

support them to assess and forecast current and future

talent needs and to develop collaborative solutions with

work-based programs; connecting highly skilled talent

to highly technical opportunities that foster professional

development and provide continuing advanced skills

training to develop the technical and scientific workforce

entrepreneurs need; and strengthening collaboration

among entrepreneurs, industry leaders and employers,

educational organizations, established corporations

and the public sector to enable better access to skilled

workers and to develop demand-driven workforce

pipelines for the innovation economy.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# EDA-HDQ-

OIE-2020-2006617

Marine Fisheries Initiative (DOC)

Scope: The Commerce Department’s National

Marine Fisheries Service seeks applications for the

FY2021 Marine Fisheries Initiative Southeast Region

announcement for research and development projects

that optimize the use of fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico,

Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and off the

South Atlantic states of North Carolina, South Carolina,

Georgia and Florida.

Deadline: Oct. 23, 2020.

Funds: $2.5 million total for up to five awards ranging

from $25,000 to $250,000.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; nonprofit

organizations; and state, local and Native American

tribal governments; among others.

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