Preparing Funding Applications / 26-6-FA-1

Content

This workshop supports participants in learning how to adequately prepare their own successful applications for scholarships, travel grants and research funding (both in Germany and beyond).
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. 

Key topics:

• 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.

Participation

Doctoral researchers (all disciplines) of the Berlin University Alliance.

Before booking a workshop: please make sure that you can attend for the entire duration to receive a certificate. Check our terms and conditions.

• Need to cancel your participation? : possible up to 14 days in advance
• Log into your DRS account on our booking platform www.drs.fu-berlin.de
• Click on "My course list"
• Choose the course in question andgo to "course details"  
• Click on "cancel booking". 

Further Information 

Doctoral programs calculate credit points based on the number of work units earned through workshop participation.
Each work unit represents 45 minutes of workshop time, and 8 work units equal 0.5 credit points.
For mini workshops (less than 8 work units), credits are calculated proportionally based on the work units.
Please note: To be eligible for credit transfer, you must accumulate enough work units from short workshops.
For example, attending two 3-hour workshops results in 8 work units (2 workshops x 4 work units each), which equals 0.5 credits.

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Workshops free of charge at the BUA partner institutions: Graduate Studies Support Program.

BUA-module on Research Integrity: You can take the module online at your own pace, free of charge, and earn a certificate upon completion.
Further information under:https://www.berlin-university-alliance.de/en/commitments/promoting-talent/projekte/gwp/index.html.