"launch a pilot project" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the beginning of a new project that tests out an idea or concept. For example, "The company decided to launch a pilot project to evaluate a new customer service protocol."
So in 1997 I approached Gary Wendt, who then headed GE Capital, for money to launch a pilot project.
Off the back of the report, Coram hopes to launch a pilot project that would involve working in hostels, as Williams suggests.
With seed funding from the D-Prize and the SIPA Dean's Public Policy Challenge, the team plans to launch a pilot project reaching 500 homes this spring.
In Finland the newly elected Government is set to launch a pilot project and in the Dutch city of Utrecht Green Councillors and others are leading the way by trialling this bold new policy.
For example, the Fraunhofer and Max-Planck societies said last month they would launch a pilot project to ease the integration of refugee scientists in Germany.
If passed next Tuesday, June 8, Prop 15 will launch a pilot project to give candidates the option to use or reject public money -- to be raised by upping yearly state registration fees for lobbyists from a paltry $12.50 per year to a more realistic $350 -- to run for Secretary of State.
The company launched a pilot project this past year in Erath County, Texas, to demonstrate the concept.
So Bankman launched a pilot project on emotional health among law students.
Cairo has since launched a pilot project to teach children about sexual violence using games and music.
Nokia, the world's largest cell-phone manufacturer, launched a pilot project with Finnish Broadcasting Company and commercial TV channels as well as with mobile service providers TeliaSonera and Elisa.
To demonstrate the technology, Schmehl's team is launching a pilot project in Africa, where a small mobile unit will complement power from solar generation.
