Deadline: 18-Jun-21
The Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs’ (OES) Office of Science and Technology Cooperation at the U.S. Department of State (DOS), have announced this Notice of Funding Opportunity (-NOF0n) for the Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) activities in Ukraine.
The goal of this cooperative agreement is to utilize GIST to strengthen the capacity of science and technology innovators and entrepreneurs Ukraine and the innovation ecosystems in which they operate.
GIST aims to strengthen Ukraine economy and form stronger U.S. business connections. Specifically, GIST in Ukraine aims to:
- Identifies and recruits the most talented diverse S&T entrepreneurs in Ukraine.
- Connects American businesses and experts with global innovators.
- Catalyzes participants’ success and boosts the confidence of participants through training, networking, and program structure.
- Promotes GIST participants’ innovations and stories to the public as role models for entrepreneurship and youth.
- Reinforces the role of American and scientific values, including integrity, ethics, merit-based competition, transparency, and scientific rigor.
- Engages participants, mentors, prominent U.S. entrepreneurs, and others to support GIST, to educate entrepreneurs, and to become and remain part of the broader GIST Network community.
- Ensures women and other underrepresented groups are well represented (experts, judges, participants, and mentors).
- Assembles participant/event information and updates to support the identification of gaps and the monitoring and evaluation of the ecosystem.
- Delivers activities that address skill and resource gaps in priority entrepreneurial ecosystems.
Funding Information
- Funding Amount: $1,920,688 USD
- Number of Awards: 1
- Award Date: September 2021
- Project Completion Date: September 2023
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligibility is limited to U.S. non-profit/nongovernmental organizations subject to section 501 (c) (3) of the U. S. tax code, foreign not-for-profit/nongovernmental organizations, U.S. and foreign educational institutions, and public international organizations.
- Technically eligible submissions are those which:
- arrive electronically to www.grants.gov or https://mygrants.servicenowservices.com by the designated deadline;
- have heeded all instructions contained in the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), including registrations, length and completeness of submission; and
- do not violate any of the guidelines stated in the solicitation and this document.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=333260