Strategic planning for research grant applications

Strategic Consortium Grant

Science Aims: • To achieve a major advance in the fidelity of simulations of the Global Environment by developing an Earth System Model with unprecedented resolution • To perform a ‘Grand Challenge’ multi-century simulation with the new Earth System Model, thus providing the NERC and wider UK science community with a unique resource for studying mechanisms of climate variability and change on t...

Strategic Planning for Islamic-Iranian City

Strategic Planning of Cooperative Research Networks

1 Fernando Rizzo, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, CP38008, Gávea, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 22453-900, Brazil, [email protected] Abstract  The development of cooperative research networks requires the collaboration among partners with different visions about the timing and goals of a research project. In some cases, even competi...

Strategic Planning for the National Bridge Stock of Iran

The National Bridge Stock of Iran consists of about 330,000 bridges, of which around 50% are older than 30 years. Since 2010, Iran Road Maintenance & Transportation Organization has started implementing a comprehensive Bridge Management System in order to manage this aged stock efficiently. To predict future conditions of bridge stock, a heuristic numerical method is presented. This methodology...

Strategic Planning for

2 3 " If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts: but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. "-Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) " The only certainty is that everything is uncertain. "-Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) A riddle about decisions under uncertainty A minister of transport had to choose between two major railway designs, both of which had a v...