Paid to research: how to prepare successful funding applications
Objectives:
This seminar supports participants in learning how to adequately prepare their own successful
applications for scholarships, travel grants and research funding (both in Germany and beyond).
Description:
On the first day of the workshop, participants are helped to identify suitable funding sources, to understand what evaluators are looking for when assessing an application, to think strategically
about the formal and informal contacts that the applicant might entertain with the funding body in question and, finally, to prepare the structure underpinning the actual writing of their application.
On the second day of the workshop, participants meet the trainer through a series of one-to-one meetings. Within this context, they have the opportunity to discuss their specific situation, eventual challenges they are facing and possible ways forward to prepare successful applications
through a dedicated tailor-made approach.
Contents in brief:
-Identifying the most suitable funding bodies
-Understanding what evaluators are looking for in an application
-Keeping in touch with the funding body (do’s and don’ts)
-Exploring how to enhance one’s own image to “stick out from the rest”
-Structuring the writing of the funding application itself
Methodology:
-Background theoretical information to bring everybody up to speed
-Practical exercises to learn how to prepare a funding application
-Plenum discussion to share best practice within the group
-Working together with a partner to test one’s approach
-One-to-one session for enhanced tailor-made support
Trainer:
Matteo Garavoglia is Professor and Research Director at Tsinghua University in Beijing and Senior Research Associate at the University of Oxford.