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23.08.2010

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 & Technology Entrepreneurship Promotion (STEP) project. STEP BPG grant promotes 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 September 23, 2010. At the 2nd stage, complete proposals must be submitted to CRDF via step (at) crdf.org and to the EIF via sophia (at) eif.am by (18:00) local time by September 30, 2010. 

For more information, please see attached BPG Program Announcement. To request all Application package (in armenian and english), please contact Sophia Muradyan, STEP program manager, by sophia (at) eif.am.