Sentences with phrase «such innovative efforts»

At present, there is simply no way to scale up such innovative efforts because there is no larger market for such «premium» credits as well as no interest from aid agencies.

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Still, cannabis companies have been ramping up their marketing efforts in recent months to get consumers better acquainted with their brands and offerings now, using innovative tactics such as releasing cannabis - inspired but drug - free products and bringing on celebrity investors.

FINMA recognises the innovative potential of such technology and has been supporting efforts in developing and implementing blockchain solutions in the Swiss finance industry for several years.

Until recently he was a founding member and VP of J.P. Morgan Sustainable Finance where he helped develop innovative investment structures such as GHIF (the world's first VC fund for HIV & Malaria Research), Dementia Discovery Fund (a first - of - its kind collaborative effort to accelerate fundamental research in Dementia) and NatureVest, an investment fund focused on nature protection co-developed with The Nature Conservancy.

«As the lead community engagement partner in the Participatory Budgeting (PB) effort in NYC, Community Voices Heard was excited that Citizens Union noted its support today for innovative pilot programs such as Participatory Budgeting.

Normally, new research initiatives announced in the State of the Union address, such as the BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Technologies) neuroscience effort or the Precision Medicine Initiative launched last year, are part of the president's budget request to Congress released a couple weeks later.

And those proposals come on top of existing efforts, such as the precision medicine initiative and the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies initiative.

Major semiconductor players such as Samsung, Intel, Toshiba and IBM are intensifying research efforts in MRAM and the team's innovative technology has received strong interest from the industry.

There is a large effort to increase cross-disciplinary interactions and carry out innovative research that is at the junction of different sciences such as genomics, computing, mathematics, nanotechnology, chemistry, and many other disciplines.

One area under particular scrutiny is education, where funding for programs such as charter and pilot schools, mainstays in the effort to bring innovative teaching...

One area under particular scrutiny is education, where funding for programs such as charter and pilot schools, mainstays in the effort to bring innovative teaching practices into broader use, has long been a political hot topic.

Participants heard from, and discussed with, high - level education policy leaders in an effort to develop an understanding of the policy conditions, such as capacity building, professional development, funding, Common Core - aligned curriculum, instruction, and assessments, etc., that will allow support for innovative approaches, such as those featured in the site visits to schools, to expand.

Because of the small size of many rural districts, launching innovative programs such as early - college initiatives in rural North Carolina or efforts to expand access to Advanced Placement courses in rural Tennessee is «impossible,» he added.

We will support efforts to test innovative K - 12 classroom practices and policies that enable such experimentation.

During a time when large numbers of low - income children are continuing to fall behind academically, however, an innovative approach to educating them with both academics and enrichment such as sports and arts has emerged: expanded learning time as part of school - reform efforts.

In this report, the authors, members of the Teachers Learning Collaborative, present the results of a three - year collaborative effort to create an innovative literacy curriculum framework that would support teachers» dual — and often competing — commitments in literacy instruction: (a) to make sure that all students have the opportunity to learn literacy skills and strategies with texts that are at their instructional level, and (b) to make sure that all students have access to, and instruction with, texts that are appropriate to their age level, even if the students are unable to read such materials without support.

And there are grass - roots efforts, being led by groups such as the Massachusetts Consortium for Innovative Education Assessment, to create such systems.

Innovative efforts — such as Generation Citizen's action civics programming and Judicially Speaking's guest lectures from civics experts — have allowed for small changes to make a big impact on how teachers educate the next generation of leaders.

The Innovative School District — a school turnaround model born out of similar reform efforts that experienced mixed records in Tennessee, Michigan, Louisiana and a few other states — is getting off to a slow start due at least in part to a contentious and very public struggle to select low - performing schools that were willing to undergo such a controversial experiment.

But an innovative effort in Central Florida aims at improving such dogs» prospects for adoption.

The new president will be expected to knowledgeably encourage and embody that leadership both internally, for example, helping to investigate innovative and future - oriented higher education delivery models, and externally, raising Pratt's profile by engaging in critical design and cultural issues of the day, such as ongoing efforts to diversify the professional fields.

In an effort to act as a host to innovative thought and creativity, the DESTE Foundation's core exhibition schedule is complemented by a number of projects, such as the DESTE Prize, awarded bi-annually to a young Greek artist; the Hydra Slaughterhouse Project, which takes place annually on the Greek island of Hydra; and the destefashioncollection, a project that aims to explore the connections between contemporary art and fashion.

City Councilmember Jean Godden I'd like to thank members of the Green Ribbon Commission, which took a break from their efforts today to join this event, which shows the kind of innovative spirit that we've got, and environmental leadership that makes Seattle such a great place.

A less formal approach that focuses on coordinating policies across borders, already under way as the result of some modest progress at the global climate talks, as well as innovative efforts to coordinate technology promotion such as the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) process, may be the best that is possible in the near future.

Recognitions such as the above are testimonial to HUAWEI's efforts to «Make It Possible» for people everywhere to enjoy world - class, innovative technology.

• Hands - on experience in strategizing, developing and delivering effective and innovative digital campaigns • Demonstrated ability to deliver a variety of digital assets such as rich media online ads, micro sites and social media applications • Qualified to handle digital analytics and web metrics along with the ability to generate, analyze and interpret correlating data • Proficient in leading the strategy, development, execution and optimization of paid digital efforts