Successful public engagement programs should engage the public in their own design and development.
The Biosecurity Engagement Program (BEP) [ 12] seeks to engage biological scientists and combat biological threats worldwide by providing assistance to improve biosecurity and biosafety, conduct cooperative research, and improve infectious disease detection and surveillance.
The U.S. Department of State's Biological Engagement Program (BEP) received congressional appropriations of $27 million in fiscal year 2009 to engage scientists internationally on issues related to disease surveillance and detection, biosafety and biosecurity.
What role do employee engagement programs and intrapreneurship have to play in scaling up sustainable innovations?
While a third of companies have established some form of engagement with suppliers on sustainability performance, just 14% have formal supply chain engagement programs in place.
Of these funds, $13.4m will be used to fund community engagement programs, and the remainder will be directed towards countering the threat of extremism posed by fighters returning from Syria and Iraq.
Shifting mindsets has been a key government priority since last August, when Abbott announced the government would spend $13.4m on "strengthen[ing] community engagement programs" to stop the flow of young people to Iraq and Syria.
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Though perhaps not only for books: In recent years, Barnes & Noble College has been offering engagement programs to bring students into its bookstores nationwide, like "V.I.P. shopping nights," for students who want help in the textbook aisles or advice from peers, and "de-stress events," where students can spend time coloring, or play with puppies.
But after the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, regional experts and officials said, engagement programs in Uzbekistan emerged as a case in which cooperation, at least for the short term, appeared to have reaped a strategic benefit, allowing different political cultures to align their interests in a tense time.
