Grant Writing Advanced for Natural and Life Scientists

Description

You will take part in two half day workshop (about 4 hours each) in which the topics are discussed and deepened in exercises. This will be followed by another online event approx. 3 weeks later for the evaluation exercise.

For this, you will be asked to prepare a short “mini-grant application” (3-5 pages + scientific CV) on either a planned project or acting as if you apply for money for your current project. These applications will then be sent to a group of other participants to be evaluated individually before the workshop. In the final session, groups of participants will then join their impressions on the proposals they evaluated previously, acting as a funding panel. You will produce a feedback from to be handed back to the applicant and will also be asked to rank the proposals internally. This will provide extensive feedback for everyone on their applications, but most importantly, will provide a clear impression of the situation and the view of potential evaluators, which is extremely important to have when writing proposals. The tutor will also provide short feedback on the mini grants for each individual participants.

Preliminary work before workshop start: You will be asked to define the aim of the project you plan to write the mini grant on and to write an abstract for the grant application (ca. ½ page).