DOE Announces Upcoming $54M Grant Program for New Workforce Partnerships
Eligible applicants: higher education institutions. Applications are due: NA
Announcement Type: Notice of Intent and Request for Information (applications are not yet open)
Opportunity: Industrial Assessment Centers and Building and Training Assessment Centers
Overview and Eligible Uses: This opportunity is an early notification that applications to host new Industrial Assessment Centers (IACs) at trade schools, community colleges, and union trade programs will open in the near future. DOE is currently collecting information from stakeholders interested in helping establish new IACs with the purpose of publishing a list of interested parties and encouraging them to team up to submit joint applications.
DOE will also soon open applications for Building Training and Assessment Centers, a new program established by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. BTACs will provide “workforce training to support energy efficiency improvements and emissions reductions in commercial and institutional buildings.” BTACs can be based at institutions of higher education and the workers they train will focus on upgrading K-12 school buildings, small business, non-profit, and other small commercial facilities.
This announcement comes in parallel to DOE’s $18M funding opportunity announcement to create up to five Centers of Excellence across the country’s 37 existing IACs based at four-year universities.
Amount: DOE anticipates issuing 30-65 awards worth $150,000 to $300,000 for new IACs at trade schools and community colleges, for a total of up to $35M in funding, and plans to issue 1-15 awards worth $150,000 to $3M for new IACs at union trade programs, for a total of up to $10M in funding.
DOE intends to issue 5-10 awards worth $315,000 to $633,000 for new BTACs, for a total of up to $9M.
Award Type: Cooperative agreement
Eligible Applicants: Accredited community colleges and trade schools, union trade programs, and institutions of higher education. Applicants are encouraged to build coalitions across academia, industry, National Laboratories, Manufacturing USA Institutes, Manufacturing Extension Partnerships, community-based organizations (CBOs), labor unions, and technical disciplines.
Key Dates: The funding opportunity announcement will be posted in February 2023
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