OpportunityTitle: AEIF 2021
CategoryExplanation: Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Alumni
Description: AEIF provides alumni of U.S.-sponsored and facilitated exchange programs with funding to expand on skills gained during their exchange experience to design and implement innovative solutions to global challenges facing their community. Since its inception in 2011, AEIF has funded nearly 500 alumni-led projects around the world through a competitive global competition. The U.S. Mission to Italy will accept public service projects proposed and managed by teams of at least two (2) alumni from across Italy. The Mission will choose up to one proposal per Consular district as represented by the Embassy in Rome and the Consulates in Milan, Naples, and Florence to submit to the Department of State in Washington, DC, for further consideration. (see: E. Review and Selection Process.) Competitive proposals will support the following goals: Countering disinformation Diversity and inclusion: targeting marginalized communities and promoting participatory democracy. Countering gender-based violence STEAM (Science Technology Engineering, Arts and Math) Innovation and design in sustainable development
GrantorContactEmailDescription: italyalumni@state.gov
GrantorContactText: PA Italy