Writing Successful Grant proposals

At the end of the course, you will:

• Be able to choose the correct funding scheme for your grant proposal. (know that some schemes are more structured than others);
• Understand what you can do to learn everything you need to know about the organization you want to apply for a grant;
• Know what organizations give out grants;
• Understand that you need to check your eligibility;
• Be able to create a realistic planning for writing your proposal in accordance with the deadlines from your chosen funding scheme;
• Gain insight in bad/weak examples of formulated big ideas;
• Be able to clearly articulate your big idea where the grant proposal is based on (in three sentences).
• Know what elements there are in a proposal (and which elements are specific for a certain grant);
• Understand what information should be contained in the elements;
• Understand what parts are included in the narrative, determining your own subheadings to include and on what parts you will spend your time;
• Be able to create an outline of the break of the work in work packages;
• Identify common pitfalls in writing a grant proposal and replace these with smarter writing examples.
• Understand the most common formats used in the PI section;
• Understand what to include in the personal statement;
• Change your CV points into a compelling personal statement;
• Understand what elements to include and combine everything to a compelling abstract;
• Understand why you need to incorporate graphics and charts into your grant proposal and how you can do that.
• Understand how to come up with a budget (top-down vs. bottom-up);
• Be able to think about the knowledge utilization part (reason and what to include);
• Understand how to write a rebuttal;
• Know what steps you can take to wrap up your proposal.

• To have a (basic) idea of what you want to ask funding for
• An academic background
• Sufficient proficiency in English reading and writing (B1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference)