{"id":836,"date":"2017-03-14T13:20:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T13:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/?p=836"},"modified":"2019-09-06T13:54:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T12:54:36","slug":"project-proposal-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/project-proposal-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Proposal workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do you turn a good idea into a feasible digital project, with a realistic aim and scope, manageable time line, and budget to match? That question is facing the people behind the 15 shortlisted ideas for the IT Innovation Challenges 2017 Student round.<\/em><\/p>\n

The IT Innovation Challenges 2017 Student round attracted a record number of ideas \u2013 47 in total. 15 of these have been shortlisted to proceed to the next stage where the people behind the ideas have to prepare a project proposal based on their idea and present this to the IT Innovation Challenges panel.<\/a><\/p>\n

To help with the development of the ideas into projects, IT Innovation Challenges organised a workshop to introduce the teams to the process of preparing and writing their project proposals. After an introductory presentation, the projects were invited to start working on their project plans and make use of the opportunity to link up with the people who were there. \u2018Collaboration\u2019 is one of the criteria<\/a> on which the project proposals will be assessed so it was encouraging to see how the teams talked to each other, shared ideas, and exchanged information. The IT Innovation facilitators and staff from IT Services were also available, ready to help anyone who wanted to talk about any aspect of their project.<\/p>\n

The project teams now have until mid-April to prepare and write their project proposals, addressing the following questions:<\/p>\n