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11.08.2009

U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation, the Ministry of Economy of RA and Enterprise Incubator Foundation is glad to announce new round of Business Partnership Grants (BPG) within Science & Entrepreneurship Promotion (STEP) project. STEP BPG promote research and development (R&D) partnerships between companies (Company) and teams of researchers/scientists (Technology Team) to develop new commercial opportunities of economic benefit to both parties. 

STEP BPG projects are limited to a maximum of 12 months.  The grant amount is $15,000 per each grant.  Preference will be given to projects with at least 10% company cash contribution and to newly-formed partnerships. 

Proposal submission consists of 2 stages.

At the 1st stage written proposals should be submitted to EIF for revision of accuracy and correspondence to eligibility requirements.

Deadline for submission of written proposals is 28 September , 2009. 

At the 2nd stage, complete proposals must be submitted to CRDF via the Electronic Proposal Submission Web Site (EPS) and e-mailed to the EIF by (18:00) local time by  5 October, 2009. 

For more information, please see attached BPG announcement and Application Form or contact Sophia Muradyan, STEP program manager by [email protected]. 

BPG announcement