When you click the link "Add a Project" for your profile, you will be taken to a form which allows you to create a new project that becomes associated with your profile. See Creating new content for more information on adding content to the site. A "project" is a special content type in the system that has several features:

1. Membership
   Other users may join your project, meaning that they may post content that is added to the project, including documents, blog entries, and comments. You can control how users join your project by designating whether the project is open (accepts new members automatically), moderated (you must approve new members), invite-only (only users you invite may join) and closed (no-one may join OR leave the project).
    
2. Document ownership
   A project may "own" documents. That is, content created under the auspices of a project will be associated with that project and will be listed when users navigate to the project. A project therefore resembles a mini-website. Content created for a project may be marked as public (viewable by everyone) or private (viewable only by project members).

The project you add will be added to a list that other users may browse. Once at least one project has been added, your link title in the "User pages" block changes to "Research and Projects", and becomes visible to other users.

To add more projects to this list, click the link labeled "Add another project" above the list.

Having added a project to your profile, you may want to add a research summary. In the screenshot above, please note the link labeled "Create your research summary." Clicking this link will allow you to add a summary which will be displayed above the list of your projects, as shown below: