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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> ==============================================================================<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">*** <b>CALL FOR <span class="gmail-il">WORKSHOPS</span><span style="text-decoration:underline;color:teal"><ins datetime="2023-09-15T14:45"> </ins></span>AND
TUTORIALS</b>***<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The ICSR 2023 Organising Committee invites proposals for <b><span class="gmail-il">Workshops</span></b></span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration:underline;color:teal"><ins datetime="2023-09-19T16:19">
</ins></span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">and</span></b><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
Tutorials</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> to be held during the 15th
International Conference of Social Robotics in Doha, Qatar, from 4 to 7
December 2023. The ICSR conference is a leading forum where state-of-the-art
innovative results, the latest developments and future perspectives that are relating
to robot and human interactions are presented and discussed. The conference
welcomes original contributions describing technically rigorous scientific and
research advances in the area of social robotics and AI: innovative ideas and
concepts, new discoveries and improvements, novel applications on the latest
fundamental advances in the core technologies that form the backbone of social
robotics and distinguished studies and projects pertaining social robotics and
its interaction and impact in our society. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The theme of this year’s conference is “<b>Human-Robot Collaboration: Sea, Air, Land, Space and Cyberspace</b>”.
The theme emphasizes on all physical and cyber-physical domains where humans
and robots collabo</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white">rate. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINES<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Deadline: <b>October 13, 2023<span></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span class="gmail-il">WORKSHOPS</span>/TUTORIALS PROPOSALS<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:medium;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Participants are invited to hold
<span class="gmail-il">workshops</span> on topics relevant to social robotics. We particularly welcome
creative, innovative and interactive <span class="gmail-il">workshop</span> formats that focus on areas of
active research to generate significant discussion and exchange of ideas
between participants, as well as interactions between established experts and
early-career researchers. We encourage state-of-the-art programs with high
level of interest, impact, creativity and innovation that will attract a broad
and active audience. <span class="gmail-il">Workshops</span> focusing on academia-industry partnership and
technology transfer of robotics research are also welcome, with the aim of
making connections to fields outside of robotics and/or connect academia to
industry.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:medium;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Organisers of approved <span class="gmail-il">workshops</span>
and tutorials will be asked to create and maintain a dedicated webpage, which
will be used to promote the <span class="gmail-il">workshop</span>/tutorial, and disseminate relevant and
updated information.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Proposals should include the following
information:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>●<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Title</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>●<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span class="gmail-il">Workshop</span> duration:</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> indicate full or half day</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>●<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span class="gmail-il">Workshop</span> format</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">: online, hybrid, or on-site, and tutorial or
<span class="gmail-il">workshop</span><span> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>●<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Organisers:</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> name, affiliation and email of the members of
your committee</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>●<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span class="gmail-il">Workshop</span> description and objectives:</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> concise description of the content and
objectives of the <span class="gmail-il">workshop</span>/tutorial<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>●<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Intended audience and Plan to solicit
participation: </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">describe
the intended <span class="gmail-il">workshop</span>/tutorial audience, how you plan to solicit participation:
(i) ahead of the <span class="gmail-il">workshop</span>/tutorial to generate submission and (ii) within the
<span class="gmail-il">workshop</span>/tutorial in encouraging discussions and exchanges between participants<b> </b><span> </span><span> </span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>●<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">List of topics: </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span> </span>a
bullet list of the topics of interest that will be covered by the
<span class="gmail-il">workshop</span>/tutorial<b> </b><span> </span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>●<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">List of invited speakers: </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">list of any invited speakers (if applicable)<b><span> </span></b></span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>●<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Additional information: </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">any relevant information that could not be
captured by the previous sections (e.g. previous <span class="gmail-il">workshop</span> organisation)<b><span> </span></b></span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration:underline;color:teal"><ins datetime="2023-09-15T15:15"><span></span></ins></span></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The primary criteria in the evaluation of <span class="gmail-il">workshop</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> and </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">tutorial proposals will be the timeliness of the topics, the
quality, track record, anticipated level of interest, impact, novelty or
creativity, and technical background of the presenters.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
Submissions should be PDF documents of no more than </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">3</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">
pages, and they should be sent by email to </span><span lang="EN"><a href="mailto:icsr23@qu.edu.qa" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">icsr23@qu.edu.qa</span></b></a></span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span> </span></span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">FUNDING PROGRAMS FOR
COLLABORATION <span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:medium;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The ICSR <span class="gmail-il">Workshops</span> and Tutorials
are ideal venues for attendees to discuss and exchange ideas that can result
into proposals that can be submitted to the programs of Qatar Research,
Development, and Innovation (QRDI) Council for potential funding. Here are some
of QRDI’s programs.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:medium;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);text-transform:uppercase">Qatar
Open Innovation<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:medium;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Qatar Open Innovation (QOI)
program connects strategic entities within Qatar (Opportunity Owners), such as
government agencies and large local enterprises with a global pool of
innovators and technical experts. Innovators stand to obtain funding of up
to USD 100,000 to develop, pilot and test their prototypes in collaboration with
a strategic entity in Qatar. Through the program, innovators also gain
access to new markets, and can obtain support in establishing their business in
Qatar or forming official partnerships to help launch or expand their ventures.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">More details here: </span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://connect.qrdi.org.qa/innovation/p" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">https://connect.qrdi.org.qa/innovation/p</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);text-transform:uppercase">Academic
Research Grants<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">ARG is designed to support investigator-led R&D aimed at
generating new knowledge and furthering scientific understanding in topics broadly
aligned with any of the national RDI priority areas available at (</span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://qrdi.org.qa/en-us/QRDI2030#National-Priorities" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">link</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">). Furthermore, it aims to enhance Qatar’s
reputation and contributions to the global stock of knowledge and contribute to
the enhancement of capabilities of the research talent pool.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Awarded funding
budgets are </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">QAR 900,000 (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">USD </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">246,561) per year, up to 3 years</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">. A</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">t least 80% of the total annual budget and 65%
of the effort should be expended inside Qatar</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">More details here: </span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://connect.qrdi.org.qa/scientific-research/p/opportunities/p/19" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">https://connect.qrdi.org.qa/scientific-research/p/opportunities/p/19</span></a></span></p></div></div></div>