From coe-mass at wits.ac.za Tue Oct 19 12:47:11 2021 From: coe-mass at wits.ac.za (#Dept-coe-mass) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 10:47:11 +0000 Subject: [CoE-MaSS-FocusArea-NumApplied] Call for CoE-MaSS Focus Area Proposals for 2022 Message-ID: Dear CoE-MaSS Focus Area Members, Apologies for multiple postings if you belong to more than one Focus Area. The Centre is now accepting proposals for funding for Focus Area activities for 2022. You are invited to submit your Proposals to the Centre as follows: 1. A narrative overview of your event (please use the template provided; max 3 pages; narrative to be written in plain language - please avoid jargon for the purposes of this application) must include the following clearly outlined sub-headings: * organiser, collaborator and the responsible finance officer's details * event details (e.g. conference, training activities, workshops, research symposium, research school, research writing retreat, seminar series, other) * beneficiaries of the event/training (i.e. please specify, for example, only postgrads, or postgrads & postdocs, or early-career academics, etc) * expected academic outputs (e.g. research publications, abstracts in conference proceedings, etc) * envisaged outputs beyond academia (e.g. social media, inclusion of citizen scientists, community engagement, school visits, exhibits, layman articles, Science Spaza Rural Science Club Newsletter on your event topic, or none) - Please remember that the CoE-MaSS can work with you to co-create these types of resources * an alternative model should the covid pandemic suddenly not permit face-to-face gatherings at the planned time (e.g. defer, hold in online format, etc) 1. A budget - please use the template provided and add/delete rows as needed to customise your budget. Please ensure that Rand values are summed correctly. Some general reminders in preparing your proposals: 1. The Centre's Mandate supports 5 main KPAs. Please write your narrative to address/highlight one or more of these KPAs. Reference to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs; attached pic refers) is also encouraged, where possible. 2. Any staff member from any CoE-MaSS Node working in any of the 12 Focus Areas may prepare and submit one, or many, Focus Area Proposal(s) for consideration. 3. Each Focus Area must hold at least one Focus Area research/training event per annum, but can hold more as per the need of the Focus Area and its postgrads, postdocs and staff members. 4. Collaboration across CoE-MaSS Node Institutions is encouraged. Please make use of the unmoderated Focus Area mailing lists to possibly find others in your Focus Area that might be interested in collaborating in your event/training activity. See reminder of the list email addresses below. Please avoid spamming the lists unnecessarily - perhaps send out a call to collaborate, and then take the discussion offline with those that are interested. 5. Events that are co-funded are encouraged (i.e. funded partly by CoE-MaSS, and your Institution or a private corporate or NGO, for example) 6. Please ensure that you run your idea passed your FAC & JFAC first so that they are aware of your intentions and can confirm for you whether your idea falls within the research scope of your Focus Area. When the 2022 budget is considered, your FAC & JFAC may need to support certain applications over others, if funding is limited due to the number of requests that we receive, so it is best to get them on board with your idea upfront. 7. Submit your application to CoE-MaSS at wits.ac.za and CC both your FAC and your JFAC by noon on Monday, 6 November 2021. Late submissions will unfortunately not be accepted. All unmoderated CoE-MaSS Focus Area mailing lists addresses end with @lists.wits.ac.za: * CoE-MaSS-AlgTop * CoE-MaSS-EducRes * CoE-MaSS-GraphTheory * CoE-MaSS-Industry * CoE-MaSS-LifeSci * CoE-MaSS-MathPhys * CoE-MaSS-MILE * CoE-MaSS-NumApplied * CoE-MaSS-NumberTheory * CoE-MaSS-OpAlg * CoE-MaSS-Statistics * CoE-MaSS-Symmetries Please avoid spamming these unmoderated lists unnecessarily - perhaps send out a Call for Collaborators, and then take the subsequent discussion offline with only those that are interested. Please do not reply-to-all unnecessarily - if you only need to reply to one person, please kindly do so. Please feel free to contact the Centre on 011 717 6161 or at CoE-MaSS at wits.ac.za if you have any queries relating to your Application that your FAC/JFAC cannot answer. Thank you very much. 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