{"id":1775,"date":"2013-01-28T23:58:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T07:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.villagelab.net\/?page_id=1775"},"modified":"2014-01-30T20:56:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T04:56:18","slug":"open-solicitation-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.villagelab.net\/how-will-it-work\/open-solicitation-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Open & Targeted Solicitations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Projects<\/span><\/h2>\n

Solicitations for these research, development and demonstration grants (RD&D) flow in two ways. \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1) \u00a0Open Solicitations<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/b>tap into the wisdom and cutting edge work already being done in the network and originate in the ecovillages and other sustainability projects and are brought to the Guild Boards.\u00a0 These open solicitations are reviewed and supported in the context of the RD&D framework that each Guild area has established with this very framework being generated by a two-way breathing process from the communities to the Guild Boards and back again \u2013 thereby providing the sustainable communities movement with central coordination while bringing forth the collective wisdom of the whole.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2) \u00a0Targeted Solicitations<\/span>\u00a0flow from the Guild Boards to communities for specific RD&D projects the Guild Boards see as essential.\u00a0\u00a0This ensures that the leaders and holders of Guild knowledge drive a systematic RD&D program in specific areas of sustainable living. \u00a0This also provides the opportunity to do RD&D projects across several communities – perhaps studying the cross-cultural or cross-climatic context and applicability and replicability of any given solution or research subject.<\/strong><\/p>\n

See the Examples Graphic<\/strong><\/a> and Examples Chart<\/strong><\/a> for further clarification.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

. . . \u00a0here goes an invitation to Ecovillages to contact us with prospective projects . . . . a work in progress<\/p>\n

Submit your Research, Development, and\/or Demonstration Projects.<\/h3>\n

Do you live in a “gaia village” of some kind and have a project you would like supported? \u00a0We have two types of solitications –\u00a0“Targeted Solicitations” and “Open Solicitations”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

See the\u00a0Project Examples Chart<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to see the types of projects GVF is interested in supporting.<\/p>\n

Open Solicitations Criteria:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Required:<\/strong><\/p>\n