EDA to Hold Series of Webinars for Potential 2016 Regional Innovation Strategies Program Applicants
Potential Regional Innovation Strategies
Program Applicants:
EDA plans to release the Federal Funding
Opportunity (FFO) and begin
accepting applications for the 2016 round of Regional
Innovation Strategies (RIS) Program funding on April 25, 2016; the application
period will be open for 60 days.
In this 2016 round, a total of $15
million in Federal funding is available to create and expand
cluster-focused proof-of-concept and commercialization programs and early-stage
seed capital funds through the i6 Challenge and the Seed Fund Support (SFS)
Grant competition, respectively.
EDA will host a series of webinars April 19-21, 2016, to encourage
all potential applicants to think about their strategies for developing regional
opportunities, partnerships, and approaches by sharing the RIS Program’s high-level
objectives. OIE staff will provide an overview of the Program and its
objectives and RIS grantees will provide real-world
highlights of their RIS projects, including the problems they set out to
solve and the activities, outputs, and impacts that their RIS grants have
supported. Each webinar will end with a
Q&A session that will be open to all participants but that will focus on
specific categories of applicants or geographies as noted below. EDA
will host the webinars at the following times:
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April 19 at 2:00pm EDT (with a Q&A
focused on HBCUs and community colleges): join this webinar;
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April 20 at 3:30pm EDT (with a Q&A
focused on smart cities): join this webinar; and
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April 21 at 2:00pm EDT (with a Q&A
focused on rural communities): join this webinar.
Additionally, EDA will host a post-launch
webinar on May 5, 2016,
at 2:00pm EDT. During this
webinar, EDA staff will present a detailed overview of the 2016 RIS FFO and
will take questions from attendees.
In order to ensure that you are able to
connect to the webinar, please click the appropriate link above 15 minutes
before the webinar begins.
To stay up-to-date on the latest RIS news,
please sign
up for EDA’s newsletter.
Thanks and best,
EDA’s Office of Innovation and
Entrepreneurship
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Office of Innovation and
Entrepreneurship
Economic Development Administration
U.S. Department of Commerce
e: oie@eda.gov
o: +1 202 482 8001
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