Argonne’s Office of Strategy and Innovation is accepting pre-applications for Cohort 5 of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Lab-Corps program.
Technologies that fall within the following DOE Offices’ respective mission spaces may be eligible for Cohort 5: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Office of Fossil Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy, Office of Science and Office of Environmental Management.
Interested Argonne researchers are asked to submit pre-applications by Sept. 12, 2016, to Diego Fazi, Argonne’s Innovation Program Coordinator. Pre-applications should include the following:
- Name(s)
- Contact info
- Division
- Proposed project name
- Argonne invention number
DOE will be issuing an official call for Cohort 5 applications in mid-September. Applications will be accepted for 30 days after the call is announced.
The Lab-Corps program is a specialized training curriculum aimed at accelerating the transfer of clean energy technologies from national laboratories into the commercial marketplace. The program focuses on establishing a set of proven training methods that will equip DOE laboratory researchers with a better understanding of the commercialization process.
Eight DOE laboratories were selected to participate in the $2.3 million Lab-Corps program. In Lab-Corps, entrepreneurial teams work to identify private sector opportunities for commercializing promising sustainable transportation, renewable power and energy efficiency technologies.
Lab-Corps is managed by DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, with support from Brookhaven National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories. The additional five participating national laboratory sites are:
- Argonne National Laboratory
- Idaho National Laboratory
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Through Lab-Corps, the national laboratories test innovative models and gather metrics to identify best practices that support potential full-scale implementation of the Lab-Corps program across the entire DOE national laboratory space.
For a full list of potential application areas, or to learn more about the Lab-Corps program and apply, visit Argonne’s Lab-Corps webpage.
For additional information, contact Diego Fazi at ext. 2-5796.