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BETO has a mission to help transform the Nation's renewable and abundant biomass resources into cost-competitive, high-performance biofuels, bioproducts, and biopower. In FY 2021, BETO is focusing on broadening participation-related topics for its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) & Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) funding opportunity. The topic titles are:
- Small Business Bioenergy Technologies Increasing Community Partnerships: This subtopic encourages submission of innovative research proposals from bioenergy small businesses to develop a community-scale preliminary design package of their products and/or processes and engage community stakeholders to assess desirability and feasibility of the small business’ proposed design.
- Cultivating a More Competitive Bioeconomy through Strengthening Small Business Workforces: This subtopic solicits proposals that pilot a research-driven workforce development program or tool that can be widely applicable for the bioeconomy, establishing a partnership with business experts in bioenergy and/or inclusive workforce development.
To learn more about these “Broadening Participation in the Bioeconomy” topics, please register for BETO’s SBIR/STTR Topics webinar and hear directly from the DOE Topic Manager. The webinar will include a Q&A session; comments and questions are welcome. Register here.