Christoph Brox – April 19, 2004
Session 1: June 3, 2004: 90 min. + 90 min. (morning)
Session 2: June 7, 2004: 90 min. + 90 min. (morning)
The session will provide theoretical background of applying for funding opportunities. Afterwards, the students will use this knowledge in practical work: They write and present a funding proposal for the implementation of the Latin-American Research Organization GILA (Geographic Information in Latin-America). Besides the teaching aspect, we ask the summer school participants for supporting GILA implementation by ideas and input for the next planned realization step.
The basic ideas and concepts for the Latin-American research organization GILA were elaborated in the eduGI.LA project. A model for a GILA business model and a partner for cooperation could be the European research organization AGILE (www.agile-online.org).
Ongoing first steps for implementation are partner acquisition and a foreseen workshop on the Brazilian conference GeoInfo 2004 (see White paper, http://edugi.uni-muenster.de/eduGI.LA/downloads/2100_wp_agile_cooperation_draft_8_11_03.pdf). The students’ task is to apply for funding of the implementation of this new organization for a two-year period after this kick-off workshop.
We foresee the following four 90-minutes lessons:
The teacher’s presentation will include the following topics:
Afterwards, the students will prepare the following Round Table.
Students execute the moderation of a fictitious kick-off meeting of project partners. Available teachers of the summer school will attend this round table. The goal of the “kick-off meeting” is to decide about the targeted funding program (alternatives based on students’ preparation) and key issues of the proposal. By discussion with attending teachers the students will have the opportunity to gather sufficient input for a proposal.
As a preparation for the following lessons, two groups of students (~ 15 per group) work out two presentations for applying for project funding. Within these two groups, there are three sub-groups of 5 students, working on
The lesson will include a 45 minutes students’ presentation of the targeted conference project to a fictitious funding organization and a discussion of form and content of this presentation (Group I, 15 minutes per sub-group).
The lesson will include a 45 minutes students’ presentation of the targeted conference project to a fictitious funding organization and a discussion of form and content of this presentation (Group II, 15 minutes per sub-group).
After the sessions, Group I and Group II provide each a written elaboration of the presentation in form of a proposal, which will be examined by the teacher.
Successfully applying for funding opportunities is a key qualification of GI professionals. The goal is that students completing this teaching unit, should be able to answer the following questions:
Required readings:
Software requirements: -
URL: see above
Hardware requirements for all sessions: Beamer
Hardware requirements for preparation/homework of students: Computers with internet access