Call for Proposals – R10 Humanitarian Technology Project / Activities
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- Posted in Announcement, Humanitarian activities
Humanitarian Technology Committee encourage you to have Humanitarian Technology activities in your section and invite you to apply for funding through an on-line application, which can be accessed through the following link.
Link to the form :
Terms and Conditions
- Funding for a particular section is limited to a maximum of US$250, the remaining fund if required can be availed from IEEE Organizational Unit (OU). Since funding is limited, a selection panel will review all proposals and select few based on the quality of your proposal.
- Mandatory requirement: Policy of Section matching fund:
For Large Section, R10 will cover up to 50% of the total expenses
For Medium Section, R10 will cover up to 75% of the total expenses
For Small Section, and R10 will cover 100% of the total expenses
- Topics:
- Community Engagement Workshop with at-least 60% attendance from community people in the event.
- SIGHT Summit(s)
- Workshops/Technical Sessions on topics such as Social Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation, Humanitarian Technology, Disaster Management Technologies etc.
- Student contests such as Solar Lamp design contest, green energy project exhibition etc.
- Educational Workshop for local farmers, fishermen or community people etc.
- Basic Health related projects for underserved communities
- Other than mentioned above, must be prior approval from HTA Committee.
- Grant amount should be expensed upon
- Project/Activity Material Costs
- Event space/hall/location rental charges
- Recipient of support fund should submit activity reports and expense reports within 1 month after completion of the project(s).
- The selected project/activity shall be submitted detailed report to R10 Newsletter.
- Timeline
- Call for Proposals Initiated: 17th April 2017
- Deadline for Proposals: 26th May 2017
- Selected Project Announced: 6th June 2017
- Project Implementation Phase: 8th June 2017 to 27th October 2017
- Amounts Reimbursed: By 30 November 2017
- Contact
Parkash Lohana
R10 Humanitarian Technology Activities Coordinator
parkash@ieee.org