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!