MERU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY P.O, Box 972-60200 - Meru-Kenya. Cell phone: +254 712 524293, +254 799 529958, +254 799 529959 Website: Email: INTERNAL MEMO To: _ Staffs and postgraduate students Ref: MU/1/39/10 Vol.3 (167) From: Director, RICE Date: 21* March, 2023 ‘SUBJECT: CALL FOR CONCEPTS FROM MUST FACULTY STAFF AND POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS RICE has organized a symposium that will connect and empower enthusiastic and proactive researchers, innovators and practitioners from Meru University to work together on new ways to solve complex global challenges. By putting collaboration and interdisciplinary thinking at the heart of development, it aims to catalyze creative solutions that deliver impact and build a global lasting community with integrity at its heart, equipped to achieve a sustainable and inclusive society. This highly interactive and curated symposia will bring together academics, MUST staff and policymakers around a single topic related to the SDGs in a welcoming and inspiring format. Attendees will be encouraged to participate and network with others during this interactive event and build partnerships that are diverse and collaborative. This symposium will be a great forum to share knowledge both internally and externally. After the symposium, seed grants of up to KES 150,000 over one year will be awarded to successful bids from the symposia, led by a Senior MUST faculty researcher and designed to strengthen synergy developed at the symposia, These projects must be led by the needs of the community and adaptive to the nuances of the specific challenge that it aims to address. Are you MUST staff or Postgraduate student with a research concept and interested to Participate inthis symposium, please. apply via_—stthe _—ilink: hitps://forms.gle/I6m77bNMwcNToWs¥8 Amos Omamo, Ph.D DIRECTOR, RICE MUST is SO 9001:2015 and ISO/IEC 27001:2013 CERTIFIED