Policy Academy on Strengthening Your State's Manufacturers

Funded by NIST MEP and organized by SSTI and the Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness (CREC), the Policy Academy for Strengthening Your State's Manufacturers is designed to help states build upon existing strategies, leverage available resources, and spur creative new ideas about how to address major challenges or leverage opportunities around the manufacturing sector. Through a customized and collaborative experience, the Policy Academy will help teams of four-to-ten members representing a cross-section of policymakers and practitioners from relevant state agencies and stakeholder groups to identify best practices, partnerships, and policies to strengthen the manufacturers in their states.

This request for proposals covers the second of two academy cohorts, with up to eight states selected. All states are required to engage a Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program (MEP) Center on their proposal team.

On May 8, the organizers held an informational conference call to discuss the Policy Academy: view the recording

The downloadable RFP includes application guidelines. The deadline to submit a proposal is June 7, 2019

If you have any question, please contact Jonathan Dworin at SSTI at 614.901.1690 or by email at dworin@ssti.org.