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REMADE announces new deadline for education and workforce development proposals

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The REMADE Institute is pleased to announce a new, extended deadline for Education and Workforce Development (EWD) projects as part of the organization’s fifth Request for Proposals. Letters of Intent and Project Abstracts for EWD projects are now due by 5 p.m. ET on Thursday, July 1, two weeks from today. The original due date was June 3.

“REMADE and our partners are committed to addressing knowledge gaps and training incumbent and emerging workers as the U.S.’s transition to a Circular Economy accelerates,” said Nabil Nasr, CEO of REMADE, a $140 million public-private partnership established by the U.S. Department of Energy.



“In addition, our workforce initiatives increase U.S. manufacturing competitiveness and ensure that our nation’s researchers, engineers, technicians and others stay on the cutting edge.”

REMADE issued its latest RFP last month, representing $50 million in available funding, including $1 million for Education and Workforce Development proposals. These EWD projects must develop short courses to educate, train, and develop incumbent workers in reuse, remanufacturing, recovery, and recycling. EWD topics include:

Efforts are ongoing worldwide to move from today’s linear economy, where we take-make-dispose, to a Circular Economy, where we make-use-reuse-remanufacture-recycle. Conserving resources, reducing energy consumption, decreasing greenhouse gas emissions, and increasing U.S. competitiveness are major components of that transformation. Within a five-year period, REMADE is developing solutions that are capable of:

Companies, universities and organizations that have workforce development projects that might align with the EWD section of REMADE’s RFP can read the detailed RFP here. Request for Proposals.REMADE.

SOURCE: PRNewswire

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