<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'arial black',sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px">Bilateral workshops between Egyptian and UK researchers. Call for application is now open until 28 Sept 2015.</span><br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'arial black',sans-serif;font-size:small"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.05pt"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'arial black',sans-serif;font-size:small"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.05pt">This element of the Newton Researcher Links is designed to provide
financial support to bring together a UK/Egypt/South African trilateral cohort
of early career researchers to take part in workshops focussing on building
links for future collaboration and enhancing the researchers’ career
opportunities. The programme is supported by UK, Egyptian and South African
government funding and forms part of the Newton Fund </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px"><br></span></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'arial black',sans-serif;font-size:small">​<a href="http://www.britishcouncil.org/education/science/newton">http://www.britishcouncil.org/education/science/newton</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'arial black',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;font-family:'arial black',sans-serif;margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.05pt">Each workshop will be coordinated by three Leading Researchers<a href="file:///C:/Users/Dr-Mohamed/Downloads/guidelines_for_trilateral_workshop_grants_call_v1.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class=""><span class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;letter-spacing:0.05pt">[1]</span></span></span></a>, one from each country,
and will focus either on a specific research area or on an interdisciplinary
theme (for example ‘Sustainable Cities’). Workshop coordinators can identify up
to three additional Leading or Established Researchers¹(one from each
country) to be involved in the workshop and act as mentors, but the remaining
participants must be researchers at an earlier stage in their career.</span></p>

<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;font-family:'arial black',sans-serif;margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.05pt">Proposals in any discipline/multidisciplinary area will
be accepted (including from the natural sciences, social sciences, arts and
humanities).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;font-family:'arial black',sans-serif;margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.05pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;font-family:'arial black',sans-serif;margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.05pt">Workshops may be specific to a particular field of
research or interdisciplinary in nature. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;font-family:'arial black',sans-serif;margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.05pt">They should focus on one of the following five
themes:</span></p>

<p class="" style="font-size:small;font-family:'arial black',sans-serif;margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0.05pt">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">        
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.05pt">Water management</span></p>

<p class="" style="font-size:small;font-family:'arial black',sans-serif;margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0.05pt">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">        
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.05pt">Healthcare</span></p>

<p class="" style="font-size:small;font-family:'arial black',sans-serif;margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0.05pt">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">        
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.05pt">Agriculture/food production</span></p>

<p class="" style="font-size:small;font-family:'arial black',sans-serif;margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0.05pt">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">        
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.05pt">Renewable energy</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;font-family:'arial black',sans-serif;margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.05pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol;color:red;letter-spacing:0.05pt">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">  </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="letter-spacing:0.05pt">Satellites and remote sensing</span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;font-family:'arial black',sans-serif;margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.05pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;font-family:'arial black',sans-serif;margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.05pt">It is expected that workshops will predominantly take
place either in Egypt or in South Africa.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;font-family:'arial black',sans-serif;margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.05pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;font-family:'arial black',sans-serif;margin-bottom:12pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.05pt">Workshops should take place between 1^stFebruary
2016 and 31^stJanuary 2017.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="letter-spacing:0.0666667px">I find this is excellent opportunity to propose a workshop so who is interest to contribute in this initiative?</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.05pt">for more information, kindly see the attached documents</span><br></p>

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<p class=""><a href="file:///C:/Users/Dr-Mohamed/Downloads/guidelines_for_trilateral_workshop_grants_call_v1.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9pt"><span class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">[1]</span></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB">For an indication of profiles for
the different categories of participants, we suggest applicants refer to the European
Commission document <i>‘Towards a European
framework for research careers’</i> (</span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/pdf/research_policies/Towards_a_European_Framework_for_Research_Careers_final.pdf">http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/pdf/research_policies/Towards_a_European_Framework_for_Research_Careers_final.pdf</a></span><span lang="EN-GB">). </span></p><p class=""><span lang="EN-GB">According to the categories in
this document, we would suggest that coordinators and mentors should be at ‘R4
– Leading Researcher’ level or ‘R3 – Established Researcher’ level, and early
career participants at ‘R2 –Recognized Researcher’ level or at the beginning of
R3 level.</span></p>

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</div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'arial black',sans-serif;font-size:small">​</div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div>Thanks & Regards</div><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium">Rania Elsayed Ibrahim, PhD. Computers & Information</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium">Researcher,</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium">Division of Scientific Training & Continuous Studies,</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium">National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences, Cairo, Egypt.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;direction:ltr"><i>23, Joseph Tito St., ElNozha El-Gedida, Cairo, Egypt.                  </i></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;direction:ltr"><i>P.O.Box: 1564 Alf-Maskan       </i></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;direction:ltr"><i>Tel:  (202) 26225832, 26251200      </i><i><span lang="AR-EG" dir="RTL"></span></i></p><i><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Fax: (202) 26225832  </span></i></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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