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GUIDELINE FOR THE PREPARATION OF TRAINING PROPOSALS

(Please fill out in English and click the appropriate grey boxes)

UNU/BIOLACPriority Areas (Choose one)

1 Emerging and neglected human, animal and plant diseases

2 Environmental microbiology: Metagenomics as a bioprospection tool for bioremediation

3 Renewable sources of energy (industrial biotechnology)

For the biennium 2018-2019, UNU-BIOLAC is seeking to empower young scientists to make use of Big Data as a knowledge-enabling strategy to traverse across the above priority areas.

If your application does not fit in the above priority areas, please provide a brief justification/motivation in support of your proposal. Particular regional needs will be considered

Specific fields

  1. Title of the training proposal:
  1. Name and Address of the training host Institution:
  1. Name, Title and Institutional Affiliation of the training course Coordinator:
  1. Expected Commencement and termination Dates:
  1. Objectives of the Training:
  1. Course Description (Present a summary of content and specify the target audience. Attach more detailed information, if necessary).
  1. Organization of training (indicate modalities of instruction to be used – lectures, laboratory sessions, visits, etc., resource persons to be involved including those that may be invited from abroad, language of instruction).
  1. Collaborators (please include Full Name / Position / Institution / Phone / Fax / E-mail address and area of expertise, attached short CV’s)
  1. Identification and Selection of Trainees: (indicate the extent to which these functions will be delegated to the institution hosting the training and how the training opportunity will be targeted to a small number of core institutions in accordance with the UNU strategy for capacity-building)
  1. Expected output (indicate reports, proceedings or training manual that will result from the training).

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  1. Estimated Budget (list the main budget expenditure items related to the training and identify all source of funding):

ESTIMATE BUDGET (Example)

ITEM / USD
  1. Air Tickets and taxes (For 10 students) UNU-BIOLAC
/ 6000
  1. Lodging and foods (for 15 persons) UNU-BIOLAC
/ 5000
  1. Laboratory manuals and materials UNU-BIOLAC
/ 2000
  1. Professors and internationa invited speakers lodging (Host Institution)
/ 2500
  1. Printed support material (Host Institution)
/ 1500
Total Expenditures / 17000
Source of funding: UNU/BIOLAC / 11000*
Counterpart funds Host Institution / 6000

Counterpart funds:

Important Notice: UNU-BIOLAC will privilege budget funds mostly oriented to the students’ mobilization, and exhorts course coordinators not to charge registration fares.

*UNU/BIOLAC will fund courses up to 15000 USD and will not consider proposals with no counterpart funds.

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