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opportunity. If you are interested in submitting, please note that ASTC, and
especially the IGLO project considers this as well. Therefore, you might get
in touch and discuss cooperation in this matter.
Best,
Walter Staveloz
NOAA Announces New Funding For Environmental Literacy Projects
Title: Environmental Literacy Grants for Free-choice Learning
NOAA's Office of Education (OED) is requesting applications for
environmental literacy projects in support of free-choice learning. Funded
projects will have a duration of one and five years and will create new, or
capitalize on existing, networks of institutions, agencies and /or
organizations to provide common messages about key concepts in Earth System
Science, for example the Ocean Literacy Essential Principles and Fundamental
Concepts
(http://www.coexploration.org/oceanliteracy/documents/OceanLitConcepts_10.11
.05.pdf).
The proposed mechanisms for delivery of these messages may include public
literacy campaigns, kiosks or traveling exhibits, and/or the revision of
existing programs that would be made available at multiple venues. The
proposed projects should support NOAA's vision which is: an informed society
that uses a comprehensive understanding of the role of the ocean, coasts,
and atmosphere in the global ecosystem to make the best social and economic
decisions. Successful projects should reach significant segments of the
U.S. population at a state, multi-state or national level. The
environmental literacy messages should clearly convey how the Earth system
influences a project's target audience, how the target audience is
influencing the Earth system and how an environmentally literate public can
make informed decisions. The goal of these projects should be to provide
adequate information to move the audience's knowledge beyond basic awareness
while reaching audiences sufficient in size with a message that promotes
such a change. Note: applications for exhibits involving construction of
part or all of a building are not eligible for funding under this
announcement. Formal education projects and projects that focus on
development of new data visualizations and platforms will not be considered
for funding through this announcement.
All projects shall employ the relevant strategies articulated in the NOAA
Education Plan (http://www.oesd.noaa.gov/NOAA_Ed_Plan.pdf). All projects
should be implemented at a state, multi-state or national level and have
evaluations that fully assess the strengths and weaknesses of the proposed
project.
It is anticipated that final recommendations for funding under this
announcement will be made by June 30, 2007, and that projects funded under
this announcement will have a start date no earlier than September 15, 2007.
Pre-proposals are REQUIRED and are due Wednesday, November 29, 2006.
Full proposals are due Wednesday, March 21, 2007.
Visit http://www.oesd.noaa.gov/funding_opps.html for the full announcement
and additional information.
This funding opportunity's ID on grants.gov is SEC-OED-2007-2000859.
Walter Staveloz
Director, International Relations
Association of Science-Technology Centers
1025 Vermont Avenue NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20005-6310, USA
+1 202/783-7200 x118
Cell: +1 202/492 8253
Fax: +1 202/783-7207
www.astc.org
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