COSPAR Capacity Building Program Call for Workshop Proposals

An important COSPAR activity is the Capacity Building Program, which consists of about three training workshops in developing countries each year for young space scientists, together with a related scheme of 5-10 COSPAR fellowships. Substantial grants are available for each workshop.

This Assembly presents an ideal opportunity for participants and Commissions to begin discussing ideas for proposals, from which a selection is made by a sub-group of the Panel on Capacity Building (PCB). Proposals may be submitted at any time and are evaluated as received. Members of the Panel are available to help (re)write proposals so that they best meet the goals of the program. Feel free to contact Panel members to discuss the best strategy before submitting a proposal. Given limited human and financial resources, in consultation with the organizers it may be necessary to schedule workshops later than the timeframe initially proposed. The time from proposal to workshop is on average about a year, so start the process well in advance.

Full details of this program may be found at: https://cosparhq.cnes.fr/events/cospar-capacity-building-workshops/

The program objectives are quite specific and it is important that proposals should be consistent with them. The description of the program includes information on the selection criteria.

Proposals/queries may be addressed at any time to the members of the Panel on Capacity Building:

• Juan Carlos Gabriel (juan.carlos.gabriel@gmail.com) - Chair

• Diego Altamirano (d.altamirano@ soton.ac.uk)

• Dieter Bilitza (dbilitza@gmu.edu)

• M. Chantale Damas (mdamas@ qcc.cuny.edu)

• Denise Perrone (denise.perrone@ asi.it)

• Randall Smith (rsmith@cfa.harvard.edu)

• Z. “Bob” Su (z.su@utwente.nl)

• Mpho Tshisaphungo (mtshisaphungo@sansa.org.za)