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Workshop: Grant Proposal Writing

Successful writing of grant proposals is key to a career in science. In this workshop you can learn how to design and communicate your project idea convincingly and what is important for different funding bodies.

When

Feb 05, 2026 from 09:00 to 12:30 (Europe/Berlin / UTC100)

All dates

Feb 05, 2026 from 09:00 to 12:30
Feb 06, 2026 from 09:00 to 12:30
Feb 12, 2026 from 09:00 to 12:30
Feb 13, 2026 from 09:00 to 12:30

Where

Online

Contact Name

Contact Phone

0641-99-18300

Attendees

Researchers with no or little experience in grant proposal writing

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At a Glance

  • Session 1: Thursday, February 05, 2026, 09:00 - 12:30
  • Session 2: Friday, February 06, 2026, 09:00 - 12:30
  • Session 3: Thursday, February 12, 2026, 09:00 - 12:30
  • Session 4: Friday, February 13, 2026, 09:00 - 12:30
  • Online
  • Researchers with no or little experience in grant proposal writing
  • English

 

Course Description

 

Motivation and 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.

Therefore, this workshop focuses on

a) how to develop your idea for a project into a sound work programme,

b) how to match it to the requirements of the funding programme and

c) how to facilitate the communication with the reviewer by presenting your complex ideas in an easy-to-understand way.


To achieve this, we will try out the RaumZeit Toolkit for designing and communicating your research project convincingly by working on your own research project. This may be a new idea for a real grant proposal or your current research project.
Besides, you will obtain a lot of background information on different funding programmes, evaluation processes and potential pitfalls.

Furthermore, all participants will get the opportunity to receive individual feedback of the trainer on their first grant proposal in German or English language. 

 

What you need to bring

To participate sucessfully in the workshop, bring an idea for an own project and some time to spare to work on it between the workshop sessions. 

 

The Trainer

After obtaining her PhD in Astrophysics, Dr. Sabine Preusse, decided to quit academia in 2006 and move on to the project management of European Funded Research projects in the Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum. Besides writing grant proposals and being a project manager in the field of production technologies, she further trained herself as a business economist (IWW) and a professional business trainer. With this she founded her own company RaumZeit e.K. Coaching Training Beratung in 2011 and is now (also as a professional business coach) supporting researchers of all levels and disciplines in grant proposal writing, the implementation of research projects, dissemination and exploitation of project results, and Open Educational Resources. Since 2011 Sabine Preusse has given more than 150 two-day workshops on grant proposal writing and more than 80 coachings with respect to grant proposal writing, design of research projects and career for young researchers, postdocs and professors.

 

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