Respected Participants, Guests and Facilitators

Heartiest Congratulations and Welcome to this virtual training course of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU). Recently, The ACU has created an opportunity for the member institutes (universities) to organize and deliver training for their early career researchers, including doctoral candidates. 10 awards are offered this year among the member institutes to equip researchers (faculty members) with essential skills to enable them to succeed in their careers. They are:

·  Athabasca University, Canada

·  Daffodil International University, Bangladesh

·  Durham University, UK

·  Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology (JOOUST,) Kenya

·  Kenyatta University, Kenya

·  Rhodes University, South Africa

·  The University of Sydney, Australia

·  University of Exeter, UK

·  University of Leeds, UK

·  University of Nairobi, Kenya

We are fortunate that we have won this award from Bangladesh. We have selected an important topic entitled "Grant Proposal Writing" for this professional development training.

Hope everyone will find this training enjoyable, useful and praiseworthy.

Sincerely,

Professor Dr. Md Kabirul Islam

Director of Division of Research 

DIU