The conference accepts proposals for other activities, including awards, exhibitions, poster sessions, short courses, workshops, debates and panel discussions. The proposed activities should be directly relevant to practitioners, researchers and educators in the area of “structures and architecture”.
The conference organizers will review the various proposal submissions and contact proposers about the status of their contributions before 30 June 2009.
Workshops / Short Courses
The conference encourages the proposal of pre-conference workshops / short courses (one to three days) on topics related to “Structures and Architecture”.
Prospective short course organizers should consider the following items prior to submitting the proposal:
- Each course should have a specific title and clearly defined objectives;
- Short courses should be designed to achieve specific educational goals for a target audience. In general, short courses that include in-depth technical discussion of current research results will not be approved. The appropriate place for the latter detailed discussion is a technical session at ICSA2010 conference.
- A short course should comprise coherent tutorial presentations of a single topic addressed to ICSA2010 attendees who are not necessarily specialists in that topic;
- Short courses shall be offered by a single expert, or by a well-coordinated team of two experts, hereinafter referred to as the instructor(s).
The short course proposal should include the following:
- Topic, theme, and detailed schedule;
- Instructor(s) (Provide your full name, title, affiliation, address, photo and email address);
- A definition of the prerequisites and learning objectives for the short course;
- Method of presentation;
- A description of the material to be distributed to students, which shall be limited to the equivalent of 400 slides, for a full-day short course, printed no more than two slides per side of a sheet of A4 paper;
- Desired schedule for the short course.
- Proposal form 
- Terms and conditions 