The Department of Transportation is soliciting applications for its 2025 Highway Construction Training Program (HCTP) to award highway construction workforce development grants.
Donor Name: Department of Transportation
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/17/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The purposes of the HCTP are to:
- Develop, test, and review new curricula and education programs to train individuals at all levels of the transportation workforce; and
- To implement the new curricula and education programs to provide for hands-on career opportunities to meet current and future needs.
FHWA may consider the extent to which the project will:
- Develop new curricula or education program to meet the specific current or future needs of a segment of the transportation industry, States, or regions.
- Provide for practical experience and on-the-job training.
- Be oriented toward practitioners in the field rather than the support and growth of the research community.
- Provide for new curricula or programs that will provide training in areas other than engineering, such grants as business administration, economics, information technology, environmental science, and law.
- Provide programs or curricula that train professionals for work in the transportation field, such as construction materials, information technology, environmental science, urban planning, and industrial or emerging technology.
- Demonstrate the commitment of industry or a State DOT to the program.
Funding Information
- The total amount of funding available for awards under this NOFO is up to $4,226,781.
- Individual awards under this NOFO will not exceed $300,000 per award.
Project Period
The award period of performance is anticipated to be 1 to 2 years from the execution of a grant agreement with the FHWA.
Eligibility Criteria
- In accordance with 23 U.S.C. 504(f), eligible Applicants are educational institutions and State DOTs.
- For the purposes of the HCTP, “educational institutions” means any public or private secondary school, or any institution of vocational, professional, or higher education operated or directly supported by the United States; operated or directly supported by any State or local government or by a political subdivision of any State or local government; or approved by a State agency or subdivision of the State, or accredited by a State-recognized or nationally recognized accrediting body.
- The term “State DOT” means the “department, commission, board, or official of any State charged by its laws with the responsibility for highway construction.” 23 U.S.C. 101(31).
For more information, visit Grants.gov.