Graduation Project Financial Guidelines

Submission Deadline, Dec., 15th, 2022

Eligibility

The fund is only offered to senior (last year)
students in Egyptian public and non-profit
educational institutes.

Selection Criteria

• Each submitted project is evaluated based
  on its relevance to telecommunications,
  impact, originality, writing quality and the
  team competency.

• The funded projects should adopt
  prototypes as a final deliverable.

Funding Process

• Financial support is disbursed ONLY for the
  approved items:

Hardware and specialized software.

Printing the final report for a maximum
amount of 500 L.E.

• Typically, a project will be funded by an
  amount up to 50,000 LE after being
  evaluated by a group of experts. Therefore,
  special consideration should be given to
  apply for promising projects with justified
  expenses.
  
• Students are encouraged to use the tools
  already purchased by NTRA in previous
  years and stored in the faculty.
  
• Internet purchases are only approved for
  items that are not available locally and in
  this case an invoice is requested.
  
• NTRA holds the right to reject an unjustified
  invoice.
  
• The project proposal should be submitted
  using the posted template.
  
• For submitted proposals, an estimate of the
  budget should be included. For accepted
  projects, the exact budget Excel file should
  be submitted along with the invoices.
  
• Submission Deadline, Dec., 15th, 2022. The
  final decision will be announced before Feb.
  15th, 2023.
  
• After the graduation project day, a faculty
  notification letter should be submitted
  confirming that all non-consumable tools
  have been delivered to the department
  inventory for re-use by graduation projects
  in coming years.

• The allocated budget will be granted as a
  bank transfer issued to the project
  supervisor who in turn will reimburse the
  students team. Such a bank transfer will be
  issued upon receiving the required
  documents and after the graduation day.
  
• The project team members must provide a
  stamped and signed document indicating
  the principal supervisor of the project, his
  affiliation, and then names of the team
  members.

NTRA’s Funding Process Proposed Tracks

• Value Added Telecom Services
  – Telecom Applications in Verticals Sectors
  – Industry 4.0 Applications and Services
  – Energy Savings:
  – People with Disabilities
  – Location Based Services
  – Billing Monitoring
  – Security Applications
  – ….
• Telecom Applications in Verticals Sectors
  – Agriculture and Irrigation
  – Environment and Climate change
  – Electricity and Energy
  – Traffic and Transportation
  – e-Education
  – e-Health
  – ….
• Industry 4.0 Applications and Services
  – Digital Communication Services
  – Intelligent Applications
  – Smart Cities Applications & Service
  – Smart Cities Applications & Service
  – Robotics and Autonomous Systems
  – Data Related Service
  – …
• Energy Savings:
  – Energy Harvesting,
  – Low Power Communication
  – …

(You can still submit your own ideas)

Submit your proposal online at rd@tra.gov.eg. More information is available on the NTRA website
https://www.tra.gov.eg/en/industry/research-and-development.