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THE 2020 GIRL RISING STORYTELLING CHALLENGE (500 USD PRIZE)

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  To know more about this programme and to apply follow this link   https://mystory.girlrising.org/  Girl Rising is looking for diverse stories of how individuals, groups and organizations are working to support racial justice, gender justice, access to education or simply helping their communities in this challenging time. You can tell   one of the following stories: A story about yourself - Share a story that demonstrates what you have been doing to advance gender equity and/or racial justice, or to meet a need in your community. A story from your community - Share a story that demonstrates what a person/people have been doing to advance gender equity and/or racial justice, or to meet a need in the community. A story about a group or organization - Share a story about how a group or organization that you know is taking action to advance gender equity and/or racial justice or to meet a need in the community. All stories will be part of our online ...

UNITAR Social Entrepreneurship Training Programme for Women 2020

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   Deadline: September 6, 2020 Applications are open for the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) The UNITAR Social Entrepreneurship Training  Programme for Women aims to empower women with the knowledge and skills of entrepreneurship and mentor them to develop self-led entrepreneurial initiatives and solutions (social or commercial) that will harness digital technologies to address socio-economic challenges in their respective countries. The target audience are passionate and potential entrepreneurs from the Horn of Africa including members of Small and Medium Enterprises, government agencies and academic institutions. This programme is open only for women from Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Sudan. . Application Process To apply for this programme, you will need to complete the below steps: 1.    Create a SurveyMonkey account (if you don't have one already) 2.    Complete the Eligibility Criteria Survey 3.   ...

WRITING A REVIEW ARTICLE? THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

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WHAT IS A REVIEW ARTICLE? It is a critical, constructive analysis of the literature in a specific field through summary, classification, analysis and comparison. It can also be said to be a scientific text relying on previously published literature or data. The striking thing in a review article is that new data from the author’s experiments are not presented rather a critical evaluation of the data available from existing studies   is done. Review articles can identify potential research areas to explore next and sometimes conclusions are drawn from the existing data. WHAT IS THE FUNCTION OF A REVIEW ARTICLE? I need to mention that review article can also be called a   literature review, the main objective is critical evaluation of previously published research on a topic of interest. Therefore review article helps to Ø     Organize literature Ø     Evaluate literature Ø   Synthesize literature Ø     Identify patterns and tre...

Call for postdoctoral fellowship in Spain - Science by women

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The Mujeres por Africa/Women for africa foundation is launching the 6th call for fellowship of the programme Science by Women, which will select 19 senior African Women scientists to be integrated in 19 top research Spanish centers in the following areas    health and biomedicine  agriculture and food security  water  energy climate change Each of 19 spanish research centers will host one senior woman researcher with at least three years of post-doctoral experience for a six month fellowship. Applications will be subjected to a rigorous  selection process, evaluating the academic merits and leadership of the applicants as well as the scientific quality and expected impact of their research projects. Selected candidates will receive training and integration in dynamic, multidisciplinary and highly competitive working team, where they will be able to develop their research project and acquire complementary skills, empowering them to transfer their research pr...

10 TIPS ON HOW TO WRITE A SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE

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A scientific paper is a written and published report describing original research results. I need to mention that a research     is not complete until the results have been published and understood. As the saying goes knowledge not shared., is   knowledge lost, therefore scientific publication is a sure way of disseminating information obtained through research. Your scientific paper should have the following  TITLE A good title is defined as the fewest possible words that describe the contents of the paper. Note that an   improperly titled paper will get lost and will never be read. It needs to be Informative, specific, Concise and Understandable. To get a good title for your scientific paper, you can do the following ·          Make a list of the most important keywords ·          Think of a title that contains these words ·       ...