Overlapping applications in Courses of Thai and India

Exchange of list of applicants: It is recommended that applicants living in India should apply for ICGEB and Thai for Thai

Agreement on Countries covered by each regional Center - List of countries to give prior consideration

Students studying in other countries outside region: guideline to accept students returning home within 6 months after training. Letter of the Institution is needed

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Standardization of the training Courses

Core Course

• Materials and software should be developed and used in all training sites

•To have facilitators rotating among the four sites

•To have two types of training courses: basic and advanced. These courses can be organized in alternative years

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Sustainability

• Commitment of support

This is the most important factor. More funding might be needed to further develop existing sites to handle advanced courses, while establishing new sites to handle basic courses.

• Networking and on-line service:

Networking of the 4 Centers. Apart of sharing teaching material and softwares, networking can lead to opportunity for research collaboration

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Support

•Logistic and interaction of WHO/TDR and course organization - Ahmed Bellaham is our contact

•Definition of WHO/TDR short term and long term commitment with regional Centers and trainees developments

•Budget for the center

•Fellowships for graduation programs

•Grants for the youg researchers

•Career developmental grant

Identification of other Agencies for Bioinformatics funding

Courses

•Training Courses address different public/clients, depending on the immediate training needs in the region and upon the experience and structure of the training center

•The target public should be defined at the planning stage of future courses

•Accordingly, the course should be adapted: content, duration, facilitators, etc.

•Levels

•Train basic or advanced users

•Train the trainer

•Train developers

•Train project managers

Networking

•Exchange of training material, facilitators and expertise

•Between the regional training Centers for exchange of experience, evaluation and planning

•Between regional centers and the regional network (development of bionformatics in the region, research cooperation)

•Interaction between the regional networks

Follow-up of the students

•Return visits of trainees to the Centers (two months?)

•Visits of trainers to the new sites under development

•Fellowships

•Graduation Programmes