Recently, a seminar was held at the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute Department of International Cooperation, where a new ICD web service "Information Platform of Opportunities for International Project Grant Programs (" International Mosaic ")" was presented.
"Information Platform of Opportunities for International Project Grant Programs" (https://intermozaika.kpi.ua/) is an interactive multimedia environment of service type for organizers of international project-grant activity of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, heads of master's educational programs and guarantors of educational-scientific programs of PhD, leaders of acting scientific groups of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and scientists - authors of project offers, students and postgraduates. This resource is also a convenient tool for those who have decided to start an international project grant activity and have a choice: where to start?
The developers of the information platform "International Mosaic" systematized information from domestic and foreign sources, summarized the experience of project activities of universities in different countries and the experience of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.
"International Mosaic" provides information on opportunities for financial support of scientific and technical, educational and organizational activities of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute units through the possibilities of international project grant programs, contains information and teaching materials and tools for authors of international project proposals, in particular for those just starting this work.
Information units ("mosaic elements") are data about the proposals of international project-grant programs with the possibility of direct access to the websites of these programs, to current ads, with access to teaching and support materials, to on-line consultations, to the rubric " Typical questions and answers of the authors of project applications ", to Telegram-channels of ICD, national contact points of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute of the EU Program" Horizon 2020 ".
According to the structure, the "International Mosaic" is a database of donor organizations from different countries, to which Ukrainian researchers, teachers, young scientists, students and graduate students have the right to apply in the process of international project-grant activities, as well as information on how to use their financial assistance for the development of the university and for its own scientific and pedagogical activities.
Sections of "International Mosaic" contain normative documents, information-methodical and educational materials, characteristics of funds, programs, competitions, grants; these sections are developed and supplemented by specialists of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute Department of International Cooperation and by the users of the "Information Platform".
Remarks and recommendations on improving the content and functionality of the created web resource were actively discussed at the seminar.
We hope that the new ICD initiative - "Information Platform of Opportunities for International Project Grant Programs (" International Mosaic ")" will be useful and interesting for its target audience.