Before the course – Application

• The courses last usually 1-3 days and tend to occur in underserved areas of the world.
• They are usually attended by 50-200 people, including trainees, pediatric nephrologists, pediatricians, nurses and other health professionals. Other formats can also be proposed.
• Examples of course formats include hands-on training courses, regional courses that are repeated at different locations during the year, and small group retreats with an experienced IPNA tutor.
• The “IPNA teaching course program” does not sponsor general meetings of regional, national or international societies or larger congresses on specific topics. Applications for pre-congress and post-congress courses are discouraged, but can be accepted if the congress takes place in a second or third world locations and if the course is clearly identified as an “IPNA-sponsored course”.
• IPNA will only cover speaker expenses during the duration of the course.
• IPNA support cannot be used as a source of income for the main meeting. If speakers are invited to give additional lectures at the main meeting, the additional costs must be cover by the congress organization.
• For courses two or more days in duration, the budget is limited to $7000 USD. For a one-day course, the budget is usually $5000 USD or less, but may be increased to $7000 USD if there is convincing justification.
• IPNA sponsorship can only be used to pay for travel and accommodation of speakers that are active IPNA members, for educational material, or to promote attendance of young trainees.
• Food and beverages cannot be included in the budget.
• All IPNA Teaching Courses are nonprofit.

Various measurer are applied when evaluating the applications received:

• Economic development of the country: Favor those at most need; Gross national Income per capita (GNI) as defined by World Bank – dividing countries into low, lower middle, upper middle, high income levels https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/906519
• Audience size: The more participants, the better
• Audience type: IPNA should invest most in educating/training practitioners and trainees
• New TC site: New TC site with no IPNA sponsored TC at this site in last 5 ys
• Enduring materials for TC participants/others: TC materials available after the TC to participants and others provides more value than one that is not