Description

WEBINAR RECORDING: https://usda-fs.wistia.com/medias/9fugwd94se

This outreach of interest (OOI) functions as an outreach mechanism to cultivate relationships and connect with potential partners. This OOI is intended to solicit responses to explore future projects meeting the needs and interests of potential partners through partnership agreements within legislative authority with USDA Forest Service.

USDA Forest Products Laboratory would like to advance the commercialization of sustainable cellulose nanomaterials into new markets and applications to drive a new forest sector industry

This OOI is our effort to expand our network of research partners, including those from diverse and underserved backgrounds. We believe that the best ideas and applications for this new material can come from any background or industry, and we will be most successful if we draw from a more diverse pool of researchers with background. Our partnerships will leverage the diverse backgrounds to better understand new markets and opportunities and accelerate the commercialization of these materials.

Your submission signals an opportunity for USDA Forest Service to explore with you your ideas/projects/programs and potential partnership opportunities. USDA Forest Service is committed to fostering a strong, collaborative partnership that benefits our forest product development efforts and develops new uses and markets for our residual forest biomass.

This OOI is non-funded and non-competitive. The intent of this OOI is to gauge your interest, feedback and/or your proposed projects ideas and concepts.The Forest Service is looking for partners to work on funded projects.The Forest Service is looking to find partners to work on projects that are funded.

·Forest Service will hold a live informational webinar: September 25, 2024 at 2:00pm CT. Forest Service staff will outline OOI details and host a Question & Answer session for potential applicants. Registration:Webinar registration | Microsoft Teams.

·The webinar will be recorded for subsequent viewing. A link to the recording will be posted in grants.gov under opportunity number: USDA-FS-R11-2024-11-06-WFCR and can be found at the following website: www.fs.usda.gov/working-with-us/grants, after September 30, 2024.

• How to Respond to this OOISubmit SF 424, Narrative Statement, and the attachment form through grants.gov or the opega@usda.gov. Submissions should be in .pdf or .doc format. Section VI: Forms section of this document includes forms for your use. For other feedback, use the grants.gov “attachments” form.
• Grants.gov submission is preferred.A grants.gov applicant account is required for submitting interest through grants.gov Home | Grants.gov. See Grants.gov organization registration page for registration guidance.

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