Grant Application Writing

Graduate Studies Support Program

This workshop is part of the Graduate Studies Support Program of Berlin University Alliance. For an overview of all Graduate Studies Support Program events, click here.

Objectives
Successful grant proposal writing is a fundamental basis to fund a career in research. There are plenty of national and international funding programmes with different funding schemes. Each scheme has its individual context and thematic focus, eligibility and funding rules, submission and evaluation process, and evaluation criteria. Thus, the detailed features and aspects of a successful proposal in one funding scheme are naturally differing from those of a successful proposal in another funding scheme. However, the process of how to work out these details is a common denominator to the different funding schemes. It requires skills way beyond the ability to work out a research idea in detail.

Content

• how to develop your idea for a project into a sound work programme
• how to match it to the requirements of the funding programme and
• how to facilitate the communication with the reviewer by presenting your complex ideas in an easy-to-understand way.
• Besides, you will obtain a lot of background information on different funding programmes, evaluation processes and potential pitfalls.
• Participants can get individual feedback on their proposal with respect to the workshop contents once they have written the first draft any time after the workshop.

Technical and other requirements for a successful participation
Workshops in a virtual room have their own technical challenges. Please make sure, that you have prepared an idea for a research project, for which you have not written a grant proposal yet. If you do not have one you can work on your current research project.