Acu-Ebsu Research Workshop

s ability to deliver quality teaching and to respond to its obligations towards society and national development, in terms of generating knowledge that fuels industries and technology transfer.
• The quality of research output determines the credibility of any university.
• Research involves finding a suitable research topic, defining the research hypothesis/questions and designing methods to answer the questions
• Incidentally, the skills required to do this is lacking among academics in Nigeria, necessitating the need to sharpen them in order that we can contribute towards the development of Nigeria.
• There is little or no form of academic mentoring in our universities and this must change

Why Participate in this Workshop?
• Our immediate communities, the state and the nation are faced with diverse problems. Universities are looked upon to solve these problems and drive development through research results
• Incidentally, African universities are at the lowest ebb in world research.
• The level of research consciousness, especially on fund raising, through proposal writing is also very low. Yet we live in a world of competitive grant application. For example, N10 m is allocated to every university annually for research. At the Federal level is another 3 billion naira and N6b specifically for agricultural research have been earmarked since 2009. Yet not many researchers tap into it. Other donor agencies abound at the international scene.
• Most academics in our universities are either unaware of opportunities that are available or are afraid to key-in to benefit.
• Striking data reveals that:
a) 10 % of academics have attended research proposal writing workshop
b) Less than 15 % have written fundable proposals
c) Less than 2 % have ever received local and/or international grants for research

Attend this workshop and change all these for yourself, your University and the Nation! Date: 21st-23rd June, 2016
Venue: Ebonyi State University Abakaliki
Program Highlight:
Day 1 – Opening ceremony and Mentoring Seminars
Day 2 & 3 – Research methods and processing seminars

Resources Persons are drawn Nationally and Internationally.