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DOS-KAZ-ALM-AEECA-2024-002: Go Viral Festival & Network

Closed Closed August 5, 2024 Opportunity DOS-KAZ-ALM-AEECA-2024-002 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$637,499
• Award floor$600,000
• Expected awards1
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

The following organizations are eligible to apply: • Not-for-profit organizations • For-profit organizations • Civil society/non-governmental organizations

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past AEECA/ESF PD Programs awards averaged $83,527; this notice allows up to $637,499 per award.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

A. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Executive Summary: The U.S. Department of State's Consulate General in Almaty, Kazakhstan announces an open competition to implement Go Viral, a program aiming to diversify Central Asia's economy by developing emerging talent in youth 18-35 in entrepreneurship, culture, technology, creative industries, and media. By establishing a comprehensive experiential curriculum and fostering an interactive educational environment with expert-led sessions, we envision the program will nurture regional talent, facilitate knowledge exchange, and foster regional interconnectivity. Additionally, the program will organize at least one regional festival to showcase participants' achievements and maintain an extensive network of industry professionals to ensure ongoing collaboration and support. This effort seeks to drive economic diversification, enhance regional interconnectivity, and integrate U.S. expertise into Central Asia's development. Background: Past project activities: Go Viral began in Almaty, Kazakhstan in 2017, inspired by the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas, aiming to empower a new generation of voices and ideas in Central Asia. While Central Asia is home to thousands of energetic young innovators in business, media, culture, and technology, they lacked a platform to share their ideas, a mechanism to network with partners across the region, and an opportunity to engage with leading practitioners from the United States and Eastern Europe. Go Viral sought to address this need by creating, facilitating, and sustaining connections among regional influencers, innovators, and creative people to share ideas, help achieve their goals, and solve problems important to them and their communities. In the past four years, the annual festival has grown and evolved, along with the network, strengthened by an increasing number of country-specific events throughout the year in all five Central Asian countries. The project brings together people who are influencers, entrepreneurs, tech experts, creative professionals, and media specialists to share their knowledge, come up with new ideas, and make important connections during the events. The festival's collaborative environment helps people from different fields learn about each other and work together, creating exciting partnerships across fields and countries.

Category: Arts, Business and Commerce, Community Development, Education, Employment, Labor and Training.

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