Deadline: 3-Jun-22
The U.S. Mission to India is offering grant opportunity for Esports 4 Youth: Engaging Gamers through Esports Club.
Project seeks to establish a chain of well-managed Esports Clubs across the American Spaces in India to engage with Emerging Voices (EVs), primarily in the age group of 13-24 years, on key U.S. government priorities such as STEM education, gender equality, and English language learning, and to promote studying gaming related college majors in the United States, and help develop an esports culture in India.
The proposed chain of American Spaces Esports Clubs India will provide a common platform for gaming, creative learning in the areas of STEM, and building leadership skills. These clubs will offer Indian youth an opportunity to game for good and shoulder club responsibilities as content developers, creative directors, tournament organizers, shout casters, marketing directors, stream producers, game designers and many more, offering opportunities to practice their crafts, expand their creative skills and improve their communication and leadership abilities. This immersive hands-on engagement would act as the precursor to help Indian youth identify their future aspirations and interests that would connect them with gamers in the United States and expose them to the esports culture of the U.S.
Goal: Reinforce shared values and people to people connections across regions. This will be done through competitive game play, the exchange of ideas, information, values, systems, traditions, beliefs, and other aspects of culture through engaging emerging voices.
Objectives
- Establish a chain of American Spaces Esports Clubs and train American Spaces staff to run and manage the clubs in a strategic and professional way.
- Establish an India-wide chain of American Spaces Esports Club to engage with the Indian gaming community and offer them a common platform for collaborative gaming and learning.
- Train American Spaces staff in running and managing esports club independently after the grant period.
- Promote esports culture in India
- Promote healthy and purposeful gaming
- Use esports as a tool to promote game design studies in the U.S. universities as well as to generate awareness about the available esports scholarship opportunities in the U.S. universities.
- Organize and participate in gaming tournaments to cross-network gamers in India with those in the U.S.
- Enhance English communication skills and leadership skills of the Indian youth.
Funding Information & Duration
- Estimated Award Ceiling (Maximum): USD 150,000
- Estimated Award Floor (Minimum): USD 125,000
- Length of Project Period: 12 months
Eligibility Criteria
- The following organizations are eligible to apply:
- Not-for-profit organizations
- Civil society/non-governmental organizations
- Think tanks
- Public and private educational institutions
- Individuals
- Public International Organizations and Governmental institutions
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=339644