Transferable Skills Course: Proposal Writing

  • Start: May 3, 2018
  • End: May 4, 2018
  • Speaker: Science Craft
  • Dr. Brian Cusack, Dr. Babette Regierer
  • Location: MPI-MG
  • Room: seminar room 2
  • Host: Kirsten Kelleher
Transferable Skills Course: Proposal Writing
This workshop enables life scientists to write grants and fellowships that get their research funded.
Participants learn how to:
  • View proposal writing as a competition in a marketplace of research ideas and as an instrument for career advancement.
  • Develop and sell a research idea by matching it to the goals of the targeted funding body.
  • Convince reviewers of the relevance and importance of the research idea.
  • Develop a work plan with milestones, deliverables and contingency plans.
  • Understand reviewers’ reading behaviour.
  • Engage the reviewer to advocate on their behalf to the review panel.
  • Comply with formalities and manage timelines and deadlines.

Please register by contacting kelleher@molgen.mpg.de!


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