WASHINGTON, DC–
Higher Education for Development (HED), in cooperation with the U.S.
Department of State, the U.S. Agency for International Development
(USAID), and the U.S. Department of Education, today announced the six
higher education partnerships selected to participate in the Broader
Middle East and North Africa (BMENA) - U.S. Community College
Entrepreneurship Proposal Development Grants competition.
The awards, of up to $60,000 each for a six-month period, will support
collaborating institutions in developing long-term partnerships of not
less than three years to strengthen the capacity of BMENA partner
institutions through the promotion of entrepreneurship.
The selected U.S. institutions and their partnering institutions are:
Central Community College (NE)/Bahrain Polytechnic (Bahrain): Bahrain Entrepreneurship Project
Middlesex Community College (MA)/Bristol Community College (MA)/Ecole Normale Supérieure de l’Enseignement Technique de Rabat/Ecole Normale Supérieure de l’Enseignement Technique (Morocco): Linkages for Entrepreneurship Achievement Project (LEAP)
Washtenaw Community College (MI)/William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan /Al Quds College (Jordan): Integrated Entrepreneurship Training
Nassau Community College (NY)/Monroe Community College (NY)/North Country Community College (NY)/Onondaga Community College (NY)/Al-Kafaat Europa School of Technology (Lebanon): SUNY Community College Consortium
Gateway Technical College (WI)/Ecole Superieure de Technologie, Oujda/Université Mohammed I Oujda (Morocco): Collegiate Entrepreneurship and Collaborative Strategies
Eastern Iowa Community College District/Tulsa Community College (OK)/Sana’a Community College (Yemen): Economic Empowerment through Entrepreneurship
"Partnering U.S. community colleges with technical and vocational
institutions in the BMENA region will provide a valuable model of
successful workforce and entrepreneurship development,” said Tully
Cornick, Ph.D., executive director of HED. "HED is pleased to
support an initiative that will improve the capacity of the BMENA
institutions to contribute to national economic growth by preparing graduates
to start their own small businesses, create new jobs, and fill positions
in growth sectors.”
The partnership proposals developed through these six-month planning
grants will be submitted to HED at the conclusion of the grant
period. HED will, through a peer review process, evaluate the
proposals and rank them for consideration for implementation funding by
USAID.
Higher Education
for Development (HED) program office promotes higher education's
engagement in social and economic development through institutional and
human capacity building in developing countries. Established in 1992 as
the Association Liaison Office for University Cooperation in Development
(ALO), HED assists the nation's six
major higher education associations in partnering
with the U.S. Agency
for International Development (USAID), as
well as other development agencies, donor organizations, and foundations.
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