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STEM-ENT-FY24-ARM-8: Promoting STEM Education and Youth Entrepreneurship

Closed Closed March 28, 2024 Opportunity STEM-ENT-FY24-ARM-8 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$300,000
• Award floor$175,000
• Total funding$475,000
• Expected awards3
• 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)

Not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/non-governmental organizations, from Armenia and the United States. Higher education institutions from the United States and Armenia. Foreign Public Entities based in Armenia.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past AEECA/ESF PD Programs awards averaged $83,527; this notice allows up to $300,000 per award.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

Executive Summary The U.S. Embassy in Armenia advances U.S. interests by helping Armenia succeed as a secure, prosperous, and democratic country, at peace with its neighbors, and more closely integrated with the Euro-Atlantic community. A key objective of U.S. Embassy Yerevan Public Diplomacy Section is to support Armenia’s economic resiliency and inclusive economic growth. We do this by supporting initiatives that foster entrepreneurship skills training for Armenian youth and advancing U.S. Armenia higher education partnerships in the STEM education and entrepreneurship fields. This results in citizens better prepared to contribute to Armenia’s economic growth, particularly in the burgeoning information technology (IT) sector. For this funding opportunity, the Public Diplomacy Section aims to fund to initiatives that support U.S.-Armenian higher education cooperation in STEM learning and social entrepreneurship, and youth entrepreneurship skills training for Armenian youth, leveraging U.S. models and expertise. Two (2) separate projects are set forth in this NOFO to support individual and institutional capacity-building in the key areas of U.S.-Armenia higher education cooperation in STEM and social entrepreneurship, and youth entrepreneurship. Background STEM fields have become promising areas that are positively impacting various sectors of the Armenian economy and continue to grow vigorously. In the coming decades, STEM job creation is expected to outpace non-STEM job creation significantly, highlighting the importance of STEM knowledge to the economy. Developing U.S.-Armenian higher education connections in entrepreneurship and STEM fields to increase the capacity of students and faculty in Armenia and the uptake of STEM careers becomes more urgent every year as demand for these talents rise. Connecting the technical and analytical skills of STEM disciplines with the innovative, problem-solving focus of business and entrepreneurship fields are critical to supporting Armenia’s economic resiliency and inclusive economic growth. This project will contribute to the U.S. Embassy’s priorities by empowering youth to address social problems, collaborate with peers globally, and become active contributors to inclusive economic growth.

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