# Focus Sessions

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**College of Agriculture**\
 **International Research Academy 2023-24**

**Session 1: Welcome**

- Welcome to the Academy and plans for the program
- Introduction of participants
- Introduction of potential mentors
- Participants complete the mentor selection form
- Introduction of concept note requirement
- Select times for future meetings and DC trip
- International trip – where and when

**Session 2: Motivation and payoff (panel discussion)**

- Why do international work? What is the motivation? What is the reward?
- How did you get started?
- Types of international work (research, capacity building, etc.)
- What would you do differently?
- International trip planning
- Washington, D.C. planning

**Session 3: Finding partners**

- How to find international partners – Government agencies, World Bank, universities, CGIAR Centers, NGOs (Gates, CRS)
- How to identify international opportunities
- IPIA’s role in the college

**Session 4: International proposals and grants**

- Writing a research grant with an international collaborator: Panel
  - Pre-awards office – budget preparation
  - Post-award office – working with international institutions
  - Challenges and opportunities with international collaborators

**Session 5: Agreements**

- LOIs/MOUs and hosting visiting scholars

**Session 6: Sabbaticals and short-term assignments**

- Fulbright/BARD/other bilateral

**Session 7: Campus connections**

- PARI-GDI
- Global Partnerships and Programs
- GEPP
- LASER PULSE (Yuehwern Yih)

**Session 8: Pre-travel orientation**

- Washington, DC
- International pre-departure

**Session 9: P&T**

- How does international work help with P&T?
- How to document impact?

**Session 10: Concept notes**

- Presentation of concept notes (3 presenters) – feedback from all 10 mentors. The concept note is not the end but the beginning.

**Session 11: International Travel**

**Session 12: Concept notes**

- Presentation of concept notes (3 presenters) – feedback from all 10 mentors. The concept note is not the end but the beginning.

**Session 13: Wrap-up**

- Next steps
- Assessment and feedback