APRU Doctoral Students Conference

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• APRU Doctoral Students Conference
• and
• APRU Enterprise Business Plan Competition
• Extra Chapter Challenge

Prof Liew Ah Choy Director, International
Relations Office
Raphael Funwa IluyomadePhD Candidate Chair of
2006 APRU DSC
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7th APRU Doctoral Students Conference (DSC)

• Hosted by NUS from 17 21 July 2006
• Theme
• Inventing the Future Trends, Perspectives and
  Enterprise from the Pacific Rim
• New Initiative
• APRU Enterprise Business Plan Competition
• Extra Chapter Challenge (ECC)

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APRU Doctoral Students Conference (DSC)

• Organised by APRU Doctoral Students Network (DSN)
• a self-governed graduate student organisation
• Aims to bring doctoral students in the Pacific
  Rim together for intellectual and social
  interactions
• Papers presented address a range of topics
  grouped under an annual theme

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Extra Chapter Challenge (ECC)

• New initiative spearheaded by APRU Enterprise
  Coordinating Group (AECG) and APRU DSN
• A business plan competition to encourage doctoral
  students to create value from their graduate
  student research
• Open to doctoral students in any discipline at
  APRU universities
• Top 3 participants will win prize money of about
• US 20,000

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ECC Guidelines

• Must be doctoral students
• Business proposals must relate to dissertation
  research
• Students submit a 2 - 4 page proposal/letter of
  recommendation
• Each university to announce its selected ECC
  participants

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ECC Guidelines

• Students submit 25 - 30 page final proposal to
  ECC Organising Committee
• Competition commences at NUS on 17 July 2006
• Top 3 winners announced on 21 July 2006

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Recommended Financial Support for ECC

• About US 6,000 per student
• Covers a 4-month stipend, or one term, to work on
  the project
• Includes a travel award
• covers airfare and registration fee to attend the
  final ECC competition in Singapore

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7th APRU DSC and ECC Tentative Program
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7th APRU DSC and ECC

• Registration fees waived for DSC
• ECC participants pay a subsidised amount of
• US 260
• 6 nights of free lodging at NUS residence
• No. registered for DSC 104
• No. registered for ECC 6
• For more information, log on
• http//www.fas.nus.edu.sg/APRU/

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• Encourage your
• doctoral students
• to join the
• 7th APRU DSC and ECC
• at NUS
• from 17 21 July 2006 !

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• THANK YOU