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Collaborative Research Training is an integral part of each GSAS Session, offering GSAS Scholars hands-on, early career experience in international team building, project planning, proposal writing and inter-cultural communication.

GSAS Research Training consists of:

  • Formation of Global Research Teams
  • A Global Research Challenge
  • Project Planning
  • Project Implementation

 

View Research Gallery for examples of GSAS Projects.

 

Formation of Global Research Teams

 

GSAS forms Global Research Teams to conceive and implement new research to address critical Global Challenges.

GSAS Teams are well-balanced with respect to research capabilities, discipline, gender, and national origin. Team formation is based on complementary expertise and research interests. In keeping with the GSAS mission of advancing major innovation in critical areas, GSAS organizers try to create novel teams of researchers who might not otherwise work together. This fresh approach to global team building produces exciting new projects and provides valuable collaboration experience for GSAS Scholars.

Teams are formed several months before each Session to enable Scholars to begin collaborating immediately.

 

Global Research Challenge


The Global Research Teams are challenged to develop a detailed collaborative research plans related to the Session theme including:

  • Rationale for Proposed Research

  • Team Strengths / Synergies

  • Complementary Tasks

  • Equipment / Facilities

  • Projected Applications / Prototype Product

  • Technology Transfer Strategies

  • Budget

  • Intellectual Merit

  • Broader Impact

These plans ultimately form the basis for full-fledged funding proposals.

Project Planning

Project planning begins online, several months before the Session. Scholars and Fellows create research profiles, communicate and share information over this Online platform.
  • At the Session, Scholars continue their project planning with mentoring from GSAS Fellows.
  • At the end of the Session, Teams present their plans for review by a panel of GSAS Fellows and members of potential research host institutions.
  • After the Session, research plans are expanded into full-fledged project proposals to be reviewed by potential research hosts.

Project Implementation

The most promising projects are selected for implementation at GSAS host institutions. GSAS Research Teams may spend from several months to a year at research host instututions, depending on the requirements of their projects.  The first GSAS project was hosted by the Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan (ITRI).