An International Training Program on "INFORMATION":
STIMULATE
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Scientific and Technological Information
Management in Universities and Libraries:
an Active Training Environment
(Edition 9)
Announcement

Information about this training program can be found on the WWW starting from:
http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/itp/
The program is planned to take place mainly in
Brussels, Belgium, for 3 months, May June July in 2009:
Language used is English.
Our motto is
"Helping educators and innovators to advance knowledge and to enrich lives"

Context and evolution of the program:
The initiative has been approved by the Flemish
Interuniversity Council (VLIR) and is sponsored
by the Belgian Government (the directorate named
DGOS since December 2002). This fits in a series
of similar international training activities that
have been organized since 1991, named MIST 1, 2,
3, KNOW-HOW, and STIMULATE 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.
This initiative is aimed primarily at persons
with a university degree (Bachelor or Master),
who work in universities, information and
documentation centres, and libraries, including
of course university libraries, and who have a
few years of practical experience.
The term Active Training Environment in the title
of the training program reflects our wish to
create an environment in which each participant
is stimulated to get involved actively, supported
by the lecturers and the infrastructure provided
by the training program. This fits well into the
general, worldwide trend away from "teaching" to "learning management".

Aim / goal of the training program:
This International Training Program offers a
stimulating learning environment to information
experts in the area of science and technology,
who are in the early phase of their career. The
aims are to sharpen their skills in collecting,
storing, retrieving, presenting and managing
information. This can be of great benefit to the
teaching and research activities going on in
their institute and to the further development of
their organisation and region.
This initiative corresponds well with the basic,
general aim of all the International Training
Programs that are supported by VLIR: to train
young scientists and professionals from
developing countries in a domain that is relevant
for the further development of the country, and
to stimulate the participants to transfer their
increased knowledge and skills to their
colleagues and other stakeholders in their home country.

More specific objectives of the training program:
-- to provide participants with a clearer view on
the importance of information in general and for
their environment in particular, and on how to manage information:
summarised: "Management in libraries and information centres"
-- to learn the participants to cope with modern
technology, in view of the increasing importance of ICT;
summarised: "Information and communication
technology for libraries and information centres"
-- to guide them in retrieving information that
is publicly accessible on an international scale:
summarised: "Information retrieval/searching"
and
-- to learn them to store, organise, present,
manage, publish information resources at
personal, institutional, regional or national level:
summarised: "Information architecture"

After being actively involved in this
International Training Program, every participant
will have improved the ability
-- to appreciate and explain the importance of
access to information for their organisation
-- to present information to users and potential
users, using appropriate information technology
-- to train interested persons in the use and
management of information, using appropriate presentation techniques
-- to contribute to the planning of the (further)
development of an information service
-- to communicate through the Internet with users
of information, information providers, colleagues,…
-- to apply quantitative methods in decision
making related to information systems and services
-- to retrieve information from the Internet
-- to store information for later retrieval and
access by potential users, using information technology

Contents of the program:
3 months means about 10 weeks or about 50 days.
During about 3 days per week for 10 weeks = 30
days, the participants will be guided by professors and other experts.
During the other 2 days per week for 10 weeks =
20 days, they will work on tasks=assignments as
individuals or in groups, and their reports will
be presented and discussed afterwards, again
guided by professors and other experts.
The sessions are organised in such a way that
--the first month = introduction level,
--the second month = intermediate level, and
--the third month = more advanced level.
Thanks to this approach and organisation, it may
make sense to participate exceptionally during
only one or two of the three months, depending on
expertise. However, the available scholarships
are granted only to persons who will participate for the full three months.
To start with, the participants are offered an
orientation tour of the University and the
University Library. Then some of the following
subjects are covered. Of course, due to the
limited available time, not all the mentioned
subjects can be discussed in each training
program, but a SELECTION will be made by the
organisers. The concrete content of each training
program depends on the availability of suitable
expert lecturers from Belgium and from abroad
during the period of the training program. As
soon as possible, the concrete schedule is made
available through the WWW site of the program.

1. Management in libraries and information centers:

Statistics to support decision making for
information science and for library management.
Business plans for libraries and information centers.
Using spreadsheets in the management of libraries and information centers.
Collection development.
Consortia of libraries for the acquisition of
electronic journals and databases.
Scientific writing methods.
ISBD = International Standard Bibliographic Description.
Formats for computer-based cataloguing; MARC formats.
National libraries and national bibliographies.
Knowledge organisation: subject classification
schemes; thesaurus systems, ontologies.
Citation analysis.
Assessing the influence of scientific journals; citations and impact factors.
The bibliometric laws.
Scientometrics.
Architecture of libraries and information centers.
Orientation of information users; relations with information users.
Interlibrary lending and co-operation; document delivery.
Development of a national or regional information network.
The information society.
Cultural aspects of the information society and
information technology transfer.
Copyright; information security; trans-border data flow.
Writing a project proposal (for instance related
to the establishment of an information network).
Conservation/preservation of printed documents.
Conservation/preservation of digital documents.
Informetric aspects of the Internet.
Artificial intelligence and knowledge representation in information science.
Electronic journals: implementation in a library.
Integration of e-learning environments and library services.
Libraries involvement in scientific publishing.
International co-operation projects.

2. Information and communication technology
relevant for libraries and information centers:

Microcomputer systems: evolution of hardware.
Disks for computers.
CD-ROM.
CD-ROM in a local area network.
CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW.
Microcomputer operating systems.
Microcomputer systems: applications software.
Text editing; word processing; desktop publishing.
Presentation of data, using a microcomputer.
Creating charts to present information.
Image processing; graphics file formats; photo/image editing.
Multimedia / Hypermedia.
Data communication; computer networks; Internet.
Internet services.
Client-server systems.
Electronic mail.
World-Wide Web; hypertext and hypermedia.
Data-communications networks and librarians.
Selecting and procuring a computer system;
writing a proposal for a computer implementation.
Providing access to information through public Internet workstations.
Methods for access to databases through Internet:
telnet, http/WWW, Z39.50 and ISO239.50, Open
Archives Initiative - Metadata Harvesting Protocol.

3. Information retrieval/searching:

Introductory concepts about information.
Internet-based information resources: introduction.
Bibliographic databases.
The information industry and the information market.
Online information retrieval and database
searching; search tactics and strategies.
Internet search engines.
Information available free of charge; open access.
Online access databases about books and about journal articles.
Electronic newsletters and journals.
Computer-network based interest groups.
Patent information.
Online systems versus CD-ROM.
Citation searching.
Theoretical and quantitative aspects of information retrieval.
Evaluation of information retrieval strategies and systems.
Evaluating the quality of information sources.

4. Information architecture and digital libraries:

Basic, fundamental, theoretical concepts.
Software packages for local storage and retrieval of bibliographic information.
Introduction to the ISIS software package family
for information storage and retrieval.
The application of ISIS: searching, editing data
in a database, output of selected data to file or
printer; developing a database structure;
indexing data for fast retrieval; ISIS for
Windows; WINISIS; history and future of ISIS; programming in ISIS.
Formats: MARC; application of MARC in ISIS.
Databases (and ISIS in particular) through the WWW.
Downloading of information and record format conversion.
Relational databases.
Library automation.
Online Public Access Catalogues (OPACs).
Archives and records management.
Archives in the domain of science and technology.
Digital archiving.
Institutional document repositories.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS): an introduction.
Developing a web site; HTML, CSS, XML, XSL; intranets; developing an intranet.
Evaluating web sites.
Dynamic web pages.
Developing co-operative community WWW sites; Web contents management systems.
Setting up an electronic newsletter.
Extensions of the classical WWW. (Client-based and server-based).


Study visits:

In addition to the courses taking place at the
university campus, study visits are organised.
A selection from the following possible visits is made:
--to the Royal (National) Library, in Brussels, Belgium
--to the European Patent Office in Brussels, Belgium
--to the Information Service of the Geology
Department of the Royal Museum on Africa, in Tervuren near Brussels, Belgium
--to the inter-university postgraduate school on
information and library science at the University of Antwerp, Belgium
--to the various branches of the university
library of the University of Antwerp, Belgium
--to the library of the Koninklijk Museum voor
Schone Kunsten in Antwerpen / Antwerp, Belgium
--to the historical city library of Antwerpen / Antwerp
--to the public library of Antwerpen / Antwerp
--to the old central library and to the modern
science and technology library of the KUL (university) in Leuven, Belgium
--to the VLIZ marine science information and
documentation centre and to the UNESCO-IOC-IODE
offices, near the sea coast in Oostende / Ostend, Belgium
--to the central library of the University of Gent / Ghent, Belgium
--to the Documentation Department of the KIT (the
Royal Tropical Institute), and to the high school
on libraries, documentation and information, both
in Amsterdam, Nederland / The Netherlands
--to the headquarters of IFLA and to the
National, Royal Library in Den Haag / The Hague, in Nederland / The Netherlands
--to the Institute for Social Studies (ISS) in
Den Haag / The Hague, in Nederland / The Netherlands

More culturally oriented guided visits are
organised by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
These may include trips to the old cities of
Brussels, Antwerp, Bruges, Amsterdam, Paris, and to the North Sea coast.

About half of the time, the participants are
guided by experts who are invited to the
university. They use the other half time to solve
problems, to make exercises, to use
microcomputers and the Internet, to prepare discussions, for self study...
Besides the formal, guided course activities, the
participants have access like any regular student at our university
--to several rooms equipped with microcomputers connected to the Internet,
--to the university library which offers printed
material, CD-ROMs and PCs with Internet access,
--to the university restaurant and to sport facilities at low student prices.

Poster session by participants:

Each participant creates a poster to present
information to the other participants of the
training program as well as to other interested
persons who may be present, about
1. the location of their professional organisation/institute
2. the aims of their professional organisation/institute
3. their personal professional function and expertise
4. their professional needs, expectations, wishes, desires, priorities
The posters are shown once in a poster session that lasts for about 1 hour.
This is organised as soon as possible, probably on day 2 of the program.
The hope is that during this session, the
participants can get to know each other better
and they can make interesting professional contacts.
The poster can consist of several sheets A4 or
better A3 size, with printed text and figures and
can contain a leaflet or brochure about their home organisation.
The secretariat of the program will provide
adhesive tape to mount the poster on a wall.
In this way, participants and some professors get
to know each other efficiently and the
participants learn to present information in the
format of a scientific poster.
The poster should not cover more than 1 square meter.
Each participant should collect some supporting
materials like folders, leaflets, photos, maps,
etc… well in advance for inclusion in their
poster and bring these to the program!

Scientific tutorial presentations by participants:

Each participant is expected to present a
tutorial presentation during the program of
maximum 15 minutes, with 10 minutes of questions
and answers plus discussion foreseen. The
audience is composed of the other participants.
The topic of each presentation is one aspect of
their expertise. The aims are the following:
- participants improve their scientific
presentation, teaching and communication skills,
- they share their knowledge with the other participants,
- participants get to know each other better,
- the session may form a basis for possible later co-operation, etc…

Recommendations by participants

Near the end of the program, each participant
completes a presentation supported by slides
managed on computer, with concrete, constructive comments and recommendations
--to the organisers of this training program and
--to the director(s) / manager(s) of their own organisation.

Teachers, professors, experts, resource persons:
The following will be invited. They may
contribute as they did in previous programs, if
their agenda and the limited duration of the training program allow this:
" Collier, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
" Dekeyser, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
" De Keyser, Hogeschool, and Library School, Belgium
" Dell'Orso, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
" De Smet, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium, and INASP, UK
" Egghe, Hasselt University, Belgium
" Goovaerts, Hasselt University, Belgium
" Koninckx, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium
" Holans, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
" Hopkinson, Middlesex University, London, England, UK
" Nieuwenhuysen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium
" Noordermeer, Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium
" Nyssen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium
" Quiroga, University of Hawai, Hawai, USA
" Rousseau, Hogeschool Oostende, Belgium
" Van Audenhove, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium
" Van Borm, ex-director of the university
library, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium

Certificat:
At the end of the program all participants obtain
a certificate stating that they have indeed
participated, with a reference to the full
detailed overview of the program contents on the WWW site of the program.
Several substantial parts of the program are
followed by an evaluation by the responsible
expert of the knowledge and skills acquired by
each participant; this can lead to a certificate
of active and successful participation.

Social and cultural activities planned:

- Poster presentation by each participant to the
other participants and to invited guests, about
information management in their home institute,
on the same evening as the welcome reception with
drinks and appetizers, early in the program.
- Evening with the opportunity to learn more
about beer tasting and to taste some of the
world-famous Belgian beers and some Belgian food; with beer tasting contest.
- Tasting contest: various types of chocolate produced in Belgium.
- Two photography contests.
- Farewell gathering with drinks and snacks. (final evening of the program)
Furthermore the participants can join some of the
many activities at the university and in
Brussels, which are organized by others.

Participation, registration=tuition fee:

Grants=scholarships:

Participation is free of charge (!) for 12
participants from selected developing countries.
Those participants who receive a scholarship are
selected by the Steering Committee of the
program, by VLIR (the Flemish Inter-university
Council) section for University Co-operation
VLIR-UOS, and by DGOS. They also receive a return
flight ticket plus a scholarship to cover the
costs of transport from the airport upon arrival
to their room, accommodation, health insurance
during the stay in Belgium, transport in Belgium,
and finally transport from their room to the airport.
The ideal participant applying for a grant is
younger than 40 years, and will be able to apply
what has been learned directly in a professional
scientific or technical environment afterwards.
The detailed forms that are needed to request a
grant=scholarship should be available through the
Internet starting from November preceding the
Program, from the WWW site of VLIR-UOS concerning
scholarships http://www.scholarships.vliruos.be/
Applications for a scholarship must be received
before the end of January! (and NOT before the
end of February as in previous years up to 2005).
If you have requested a grant=scholarship for an
earlier version of this program and you did not
receive one of the scholarships, then you can
send a complete, new request following the most
recent procedure and using the most recent official forms.
Priority countries are selected by the government
of Belgium, NOT by VLIR, NOT by the academic
organisers of this program and the list changes
over the years. The following is copied from the VLIR-UOS WWW site in 2008:
Only residents of developing countries on the
VLIR-UOS' List of Developing Countries are
eligible for a scholarship. The Belgian
Directorate-General for Development Cooperation
(DGCD) decided to modify, as of 2008, the country
list applicable to university corporation for
development activities. Only 41 countries still
remain on the list. Please check carefully
whether your country of origin is on the list.
The geographical spread of students is a factor:
50% of the participants in an ICP or ITP must
come from Sub-Saharan Africa. Efforts will be
made to ensure equal representation.
Candidates must reside in their country of origin
when they apply and when the programme starts, in case they are selected.
Latin America:
Bolivia
Brazil
Colombia
Cuba
Ecuador
El Salvador
Guatemala
Haiti
Nicaragua
Peru
Surinam
Africa:
Algeria
Benin
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
DR Congo
Ethiopia
Guinea
Ivory Coast
Kenya
Madagascar
Mali
Morocco
Mozambique
Niger
Rwanda
Senegal
South Africa
Tanzania
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Asia:
Bangladesh
Cambodia
China
India
Indonesia
Palestinian Administrative Areas
Philippines
Vietnam

Normal registration without scholarship from VLIR:

Besides the persons who receive a grant from the
Belgian Government through VLIR, 8 persons can
participate after paying a registration=tuition
fee that is small in comparison with similar programs.
The costs mentioned do NOT include air travel,
transport in Belgium, meals and accommodation,
but do include transport from the airport upon
arrival, welcome reception, health insurance,
printed study materials, study visits, social activities.
-To participate during the full period: 2400 Euro
-Exceptionally, persons who cannot participate
for the whole period can nevertheless participate
during 2 months only (1800 Euro) or during 1
month only (1000 Euro). It makes sense to attend
for instance the first month or the first two
months only. It makes less sense to participate
only during the second or the third month, as
introductions to some activities or topics may be missed.
-To participate to particular items selected from
the program: 30 Euro per half day.

To register and pay the registration=tuition fee,
send the form (see below) by classical mail or by
private courier, together with an international
bank transfer / bank cheque / bank draft, payable to
University Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 BRUSSEL, Belgium,
with no need for any bank account numbers.
If however this simple procedure is NOT suitable
for you, then you can transfer the required sum
of money to the following bank account of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel:
Fortis Bank located at Warandeberg 3 in B-1000 Brussel, Belgium,
account number 001-0686459-66 or IBAN = BE07 0010 6864 5966
and do not forget (!) to mention as a remark:
for internal account VOPA21 BIBLINK3 University
Library STIMULATE International Training Program
The money received by the Vrije Universiteit
Brussel financial department must be transferred
internally; this transfer takes about 1 week,
which means a delay in the registration procedure, which is better avoided.
(Without your remark, the money may be not retraceable and lost.)
Realize that some bank transfer costs are
involved and that these should be paid besides
the requested participation fee that is transferred.

There is no formal deadline. However, we
recommend you to register as early as possible,
because "first come, first served": the arrival
of your participation fee determines who can
participate. Furthermore the later a participant
is registered, the more difficult it becomes to
find cheap and suitable accommodation.

There is NO need to "apply" prior to the
registration, to request permission to
participate or to be accepted, from the
organizers of the program or from their
universities. Also there is no age limit. The
decision to participate to the program is to be
made by the person who is interested and NOT by
the organizers. This is like participating to a conference.
Invitation letters can be sent on request if
needed, but in principle only when the
participation = registration fee has been
received. This announcement is in fact an invitation.

It is a waste of time to ask the organisers of
the program about sponsors besides VLIR mentioned above.

Didactic materials and notebook pc:

Every participant who receives a
grant/scholarship from VLIR-UOS receives next to
his/her monthly grant/scholarship a lump sum of
about 280 euro from VLIR-UOS for the purchase of
didactic materials (e.g. books needed for a
course, printed course notes, cost of study visits, use of a notebook pc).
Each participant who receives a scholarship from
VLIR-UOS pays a lump sum of 150 euro to the
program organisers for the didactic costs, durin
the first week of the program. For participants
who are participating without a VLIR-UOS
grant/scholarship this cost is included in the registration (=tuition fee).
Because computer applications are important in
the program and because the schedule is online
and because communication is organised through
the internet, it is obligatory that every
participant uses a notebook=laptop pc with a
wireless network card=component=interface (WIFI)
during the program. Each participant should bring
a suitable bag to carry and transport the pc
safely during the program; ideally this should
not look like a special pc bag to avoid theft.
Access to a notebook pc can be arranged as follows:
OPTION 1:
The participant brings a notebook pc. In this
case it is important that the participant should
try to bring the official purchasing papers for
the notebook pc, so that in the case that a
technical problem arises, the participant in
question can go to an official dealer for
technical support and so that the pc can be
exported and imported through the customs at the airports without problem.
OPTION 2:
The participant can not bring a pc. In this case
he/she informs the program organisers as soon as
possible and well in advance of the start of the
program. Then the program organisers will try to
provide a notebook pc which can be rented for the
whole duration of the program. Rental cost for
three months is 130 euro. Guarantee is 400 euro;
this sum is refunded to the participant after
returning the notebook pc in good condition at
the end of the program. The notebooks provided by
the program organisers are suitable for all the
tasks required during the program. The provision
of a notebook pc by the program organisers cannot
be guaranteed, as there is only a limited number
of notebook pc's which the program organisers
have available. The participants that inform the
program organisers first concerning their need to
rent a notebook pc have priority to the others.
If the participant prefers not to rent but to buy
a notebook pc during the first week of the
program, then this can also be arranged, with
assistance of the program organisers.
OPTION 3:
The participant cannot bring a notebook pc and
the program organisers cannot provide one for
rent. In that case, the participant has to buy a
new notebook pc during the first week of the
program, with assistance of the program
organisers, in a shop freely chosen by the
participant. Of course in this case the
participant should have the needed funds
available (minimum 600 euro at the time of writing this text).

Medical insurance:

Participants are covered during their stay by a full medical insurance.
This costs about 40 Euro per month.
This is formalised as soon as possible after
arrival in Belgium, with the secretariat of the program.

Accommodation:

The organisers of this program normally book in
advance a single, cheap, basic room with access
to a shared kitchen, as accommodation for each
participant, unless a participant writes us that
he/she wants to take care of accommodation
personally, for instance by staying with a friend
or by renting a room that offers more luxury.
Participants pay for their accommodation directly
to the person or organisation providing
accommodation in Brussels, as soon as they arrive
in Belgium. If we can book many weeks in advance,
then we can normally find basic accommodation for
about 300 Euro per month, meals not included;
however, a late receipt of the
registration=tuition fee forces us probably to book a more expensive room.

The cost of living in Belgium:

According to previous participants and in
agreement with the grants provided by VLIR-UOS,
1100 Euro per month should be enough to cover all
expenses, including accommodation, local
transport, food… In Belgium, tap water available
free of charge is safe and healthy, suitable for drinking.

Total cost:
An estimate of the total cost to participate can
of course be made by adding all cost factors
which include probably the following:
registration=tuition fee, travel, accommodation,
food and drinks, medical insurance, taxi at
arrival, local transport mainly in Brussels,
study materials, use of a notebook pc, taxi at departure.
Some of these are mentioned and explained above.

How to contact the academic organizers?

E-mail (Internet): stimulate at vub.ac.be (or in
case that this does not seem to work, to Paul.Nieuwenhuysen at vub.ac.be)
(change at in @ when you want to use an address)
Fax 32 2 629 2693 (or 2282)
Tel. 32 2 629 2629 or 32 2 629 2429 or 32 2 629 2609
Telex 61051 vubco-b
Classical mail:
STIMULATE-ITP (or Paul NIEUWENHUYSEN), University
Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, BELGIUM

However, correspondence about scholarships should
not be addressed to the academic organizers, but
to VLIR-UOS as explained elsewhere in this text.

Location:

The training is mainly organized at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
The main campus is located south of the older
centre of the city of Brussels, and can easily be
reached by Metro (subway), tram and bus.
Information about Brussels (and Belgium) can be
found through the WWW; see for instance:
http://wikitravel.org/en/Brussels
http://www.agenda.be/ about events going on in
Brussels (in French and in Dutch)
http://www.disgruntled.ca/writings/brussels/
offers information on Brussels and some photos,
based on the experience of living there for some time
http://www.eric-maerschalck.be/Brussels/bruxelles.php?log=NO
offers photos made in Brussels
http://www.eupedia.com/belgium/brussels.shtml
http://www.ilotsacre.be/site/en/default_en.htm
offers an interactive map and photos of Brussels
http://www.interknowledge.com/belgium/
http://www.jack-travel.com/
http://www.sievers.nl/visitbrussels/ shows some photos made in Brussels
http://www.timeout.com/brussels/
http://www.trabel.com/brussel/brussels-touristattractions.htm
http://www.use-it.be/
http://www.virtourist.com/europe/brussels/index.html
http://www.visitbelgium.com/

Interesting trips are possible to places in
neighbouring countries like The Netherlands and
France. Therefore, participants should try to
obtain also a visa for those countries (a so called Schengen-visa).

Program and Steering Committee:

The course director is Dr. Paul Nieuwenhuysen,
professor full-time at the Vrije Universiteit
Brussel and guest professor at Universiteit
Antwerpen, Science and technology librarian of
the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/nieuwenhuysen/professional/
An official, formal Steering Committee is
composed of members from the co-operating universities in Flanders:
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Universiteit Antwerpen
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
This Steering Committee supervises the
organisation, the program and the budget. This
committee reports formally to VLIR.

This version is dated 2008-10-15


____________________REGISTRATION FORM_______________________
to STIMULATE, University Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 BRUSSEL, Belgium
I want to participate. Therefore I send this as a
letter AND I pay the registration=tuition fee as
described in the announcement of the
International Training Program on INFORMATION.
(So the following is NOT the form to request a scholarship/grant.
Use this form only when you pay the registration=tuition fee.)
a. Family name (surname): ...............................
(married female participants please fill in
maiden-name as well as name of husband)
b. First or given names (according to your official passport): ..............
Personal address: ...................................
.....................................................
Country:.............................................
Electronic mail address
Telephone, fax, telex:

Date of birth: Place of birth:
Nationality: Sex: male / female

Present employment:
a. Name and address of employer: .................
...............................................
...............................................
b. Since: ../../..
c. Position - function - specialization
d. Telephone, fax, telex and/or e-mail of the employer:

Education - studies:
Name of institute Degree Date





Knowledge of English: writing: ........ speaking: ........ reading: .......
Have you been abroad earlier? Please specify:


Duties that you will carry out after returning to your country:
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Please book a room for me OR
Do NOT book a room for me; I will take care myself of accommodation

Date and signature:………………………………………….

Please include a recent photograph, as this will
simplify identifying you upon arrival.