Research Funding and Collaboration

The University Community Service and Environmental Affairs Committee organized in cooperation with Egyptian Knowledge Bank, organized a workshop on Sunday 9th of September 2018 entitled “Research Funding and Collaboration”.

This was introduced by Consultancy Services and Client Education (MENA team) and Clarivate Analytics.

The objectives of the workshop were to answer the following questions:

• Who is funding what in a certain research field/country?
• What are the existing possible mechanisms for getting funds for research projects?
• What are the possible practices that help to generate an economic value of the research done?
• How to enhance the researcher’s chances of getting accepted for funding?
• How do funders evaluate funding applications?
• How to enhance the benefits and reduce the risks of collaboration in research.

The instructors were rated excellent by 46.7% of the participants, very good by 40.0%, and good by (13.3%).