Workshop Tentative Schedule
17-19 November,2006

Friday 17 November

Registration

9:00-9:30 am

Session I 

9:30-11:30 am

• Opening Statement (CSSP)
• BA/CSSP Research Grants brief
• Workshop program & functioning

Break

11:30-2:00 noon

Session II

2:00 – 3:30 pm

• Research & Development (R&D)
• What is a proposal?
• Research process brief

Break

3:30-4:00 pm

Session III

4:00 - 5:30 pm

• How research is funded?
• Steps taken by funding agencies

Session IV

9:30- 11:30 am

• Research paradigms

Break

11:30-12:00 Noon

Session V

12:00 am - 1:30 pm

• General considerations before writing a proposal
• Basic components of research proposals

Break

1:30- 3:00 pm

Session VI

3:00 - 4:30 pm

• Basic components of research   prposals
• Research budget

Vista Tour

4:45-6:00 Pm

Sunday 19 November

Session VII

9:30 - 11:30 pm

• Bibliotheca Alexandrina electronic resources introduction & orientation

Break

11:30 -12 Noon

Session VIII

12:00 - 1:30 pm

• Litreture search
• Proposal writing style
• Engineering ethics

Break

1:30 - 3:00 pm

BA Tour

5:15- 6:15 pm

• Self evaluation and peer opinion
• General review and discussion