Travel for Collaboration—Description of Activities
You should make sure to include the following information in your description of activities:
· Laboratory and researcher(s) that you propose to visit
· The background of the research project (i.e., on what does it build)
· Objectives of the research and hypotheses to be tested
· The strategy for accomplishing the project and specific techniques and methodologies that will be used
· Time frame for the proposed project
· The intellectual merit of the research: How will it advance some field of inquiry in biodiversity of ciliates and how will it contribute to multidisciplinary research on biodiversity of ciliates? (at least 2 of the 3 dimensions of biodiversity must be addressed in this part)
· Any other benefits to science or development of resources (e.g., perfection of new techniques or methodologies; new structures for data-sharing)
· The benefit(s) to the researchers: Will this project generate published research papers or is it intended to be the preliminary research for a major grant proposal? If the latter, briefly discuss the nature of the research that will be proposed and to which funding agency the proposal will be submitted.