
Course date: 07 December 2018
- 07 December 2018
Location: OWR-29
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Workshop Writing Succesful Grant Proposals
A One-Day Practical Workshop including a pre-workshop assignment (which is obligatory!).
If you are interested in this course, you can register here. We will inform you once we organize this course again.
Organization
The Postgraduate School Molecular Medicine organizes together with ZonMW this one-day Workshop.
Introduction
Writing
a research proposal to apply for a grant requires skill. You are
bidding for what is a limited amount of public funding, and you need to
convince the funding agency that it is precisely your project, which
should be awarded a grant. You need to show that your project will be
successful and, more importantly, you need to demonstrate that your
project will be finished on time. You also need to persuade the agency
involved that you – you, and not the hundreds of competitors and rivals -
are the one for the job.
Aim of the workshop
This
workshop aims to give you the background and tools you need to write a
successful grant proposal. Experts/speakers from various backgrounds
will give you information and tips on how to structure your proposal. We
will also look at some of the following questions:
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What does a reviewer look for in your proposal?
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How do you "sell” your project to him or her?
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Why is it so important that your abstract is well-written, well thought out and interesting?
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What happens if you are rejected first time around?
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How do you re-write your proposal?
The
focus of this training day is on practice rather than theory (though
we’ll touch on some theoretical matters). You will be divided into two
groups, and will receive feedback on the abstract of your own proposal,
from two experts and your peers. We have chosen to focus on the abstract
relating to your proposal, because once you have written your abstract
you are half-way writing your proposal: writing a clear and interesting
abstract forces you to think your project through carefully, and to
structure your thoughts and the text. Reviewers start by reading the
abstract relating to a proposal.
Completing the preliminary assignment before the workshop is obligatory for participating in this workshop!
Practical Exercises (feedback on participants’ abstracts)
The two practical exercises in the program will be done in groups of 8
participants. Two teachers, Prof. Dr. Frank Grosveld and Dr. Joy
Burrough, will coach both groups. Prof. Dr. Frank Grosveld will look at
the content of your abstract; Dr. Joy Burrough at the way your abstract
is written (the English). The program consists of the following four
parts:
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Reading the abstracts (with the help of a projector)
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A
short presentation of each summary by its own author, followed by a
discussion of the summary. The teacher and all of the participants give
the author suggestions for improvement.
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The
author takes notes as he/she receives feedback. The same person must
then incorporate at least three of the points raised in a revised
version of the abstract.
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Writing down the conclusions of sheets to present in the whole group.
The
aim of this exercise is not only to give participants practice in
constructing abstracts relating proposals and justifying them, but also
to provide them with the skill to accept constructive criticism
professionally.
Participants
This workshop is open to PhD students and postdocs of the MolMed Postgraduate School and other
schools and universities who are writing or about to start writing a
grant proposal for a grant program, such as "Veni” (NWO) or any other
funding body. Because of the practical nature of the workshop, a maximum amount of 16 participants can take part.
Obligatory!
To participate in the workshop, it is necessary that you complete the pre-workshop assignment in order to participate.
Preliminary Assignment:
before the workshop starts, you are asked to do a practical assignment
in order to prepare yourself for the workshop. As you will be working
with this material during the workshop, this assignment is compulsory.
Please make sure to reserve enough of your time to compose the text on
beforehand: (at least) 2 days! Should you not complete the assignment in
time, you will unfortunately not be able to take part in the workshop.
Think of your research proposal and answer the following three questions in one sentence:
2) Then,
bearing the answers to these questions in mind, write a 250-word
summary (abstract) of your research proposal. Please follow the
instructions below carefully. Please closely read the included
guidelines for reviewers JDRF/NIH before you start writing. They will
give you an idea of how reviewers read grant proposals.
Divide up your summary into the following sections:
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Title
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Background.
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Hypothesis
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Aims
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Methods
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Expected results and impact/relevance
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The environment should also be made evident in the project/abstract
So essentially: "Why me and why now".
If
possible, make sure to make it explicit what each paragraph is about.
So if you are describing the aim of your project, say, for instance:
"the aim of my project is to…."
ECTS
This course including homework and preparations is 0,5 ECTS.
Attendance fees
The subscription fee of non-commercial participants for the Course is € 200,00.
All participants from the research schools MolMed and MGC receive a discount of 100 % and pay € 0.
Due to the expensive nature of this course, we cannot give discounts for PhD-students and others.
REGISTRATION
Please make sure to send your assignment to the teacher, Joy Burrough, and to Sharesma Ghiraw, Secretary of the Postgraduate School Molecular Medicine, at: j.burrough@telfort.nl and molmed@erasmusmc.nl at last Friday 30 November 2018.
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