Grant Writing Workshop
The Road to Competitive Funding: Tools, Perspectives, & Processes
In this workshop we boost participants’ chances of obtaining competitive funding by providing training that is immediately applicable in their working environment. We focus on project management, communication, as well as the writing itself.
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Workshop Summary
Title: The Road to Competitive Funding: Tools, Perspectives, & Processes
Target audience: Postdocs & senior PhDs
Format: In-person and Online (in three half-day sessions)
The workshop provided an excellent summary of techniques to maintain a very important top view of one’s proposal during the preparation process
Workshop Goals
The goal of this workshop is to boost participants’ chances of obtaining competitive funding by providing training that is immediately applicable in their working environment. One of the key messages is to understand grant preparation, not just as a writing task, but as a Project Management and Communication task. At the end of the workshop, participants will have acquired a set of practical tools and concepts to facilitate the grant writing process, giving them a competitive advantage.
Workshop Content
- Developing your scientific idea
- Charting the grant landscape
- Analysing the call
- Organising and connecting your ideas
- Dealing with key sections for success
- Reverse planning for preparing and submitting
Workshop Style
This is an interactive workshop with extensive elements of partner work, exercises, group discussion. We use innovative training methods and proven didactic techniques, and place special emphasis on sharing and learning from the participants’ own expertise and experience. To increase impact and applicability, we work with real-life cases from the participants whenever possible. We may ask participants to reserve time for individual preparatory work before the workshop
Our Trainers
All our trainers are scientists with many years of experience as researchers and scientific communicators. Please refer to our teams page to have a more detailed look at the trainers.
Comments from Past Participants and Organisers
The workshop provided an excellent summary of techniques to maintain a very important top view of one’s proposal during the preparation process
What I liked most was the way they presented the information – with cards and handwritten slides – and the continuous
interactions with other members of the group.
It has been very useful and stimulating. The grant writing process is a project management task and writing is a very small part of it.