The University Community Service and Environmental Affairs Committee organized  in cooperation with Egyptian Knowledge Bank, organized a workshop on Sunday 9^th 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%).

The University Community Service and Environmental Affairs Committee conducted a workshop in collaboration with The Egyptian Knowledge Bank (EKB) and Elsevier.

The workshop entitled “Overview of Scival” was held on  Sunday the 15^th of July 2018 and was introduced by Dr. Yahya Eissa, customer consultant, Research management, Elsevier, and Dr Mohamed Amir, regional manager, Elsevier. The objectives of the workshop were were o explaint what is scival, the use of scival, how scival works, how we access Scival and Scival modules.

A total of 40 Staff members and teaching assistants from all university faculties attended the workshop.

The instructor was rated excellent by 9.1% of the participants, very good by 66.7%, and good by 21.2%.

Researches off the Ground

In cooperation with Egyptian Knowledge Bank, a workshop was held on Monday 24th of September 2018 entitled “Logical Manuscript Structure” introduced by Dr. Lea Gagnon, Editorial Development Advisor, Ph.D. from the University of Montreal.

The workshop focused on manuscript structure that help researches from all fields to improve the quality of their manuscripts.

Strategies were given o how to efficiently draft a manuscript and collaborate with international coauthors. Faculty members as well as teaching assistants from all faculties attended the workshop.
The instructor was rated excellent by (72.2%) of the participants, very good by (22.2%), and good by (5.06%).

On Wednesday the 18^th of July, 2018, the University Community Service and Environmental Affairs Committee conducted a workshop in collaboration with the Egyptian Knowledge Bank  (EKB) and Clarivate Analytics.

The workshop entitled “Quality in Research” was introduced by Consultancy Services and Client Education (MENA team). The topics covered by the workshop were how to define your research subject area, what to read and what to cite, research methodology, what, where and why to publish, and when not to publish, and lastly when one should think of filing a patent.

A total of 25 Staff members and teaching assistants from all university faculties attended the workshop.

The instructors were rated excellent by60% of the participants, very good by 30%, and good by 10%.