Grant Proposal Writing (workshop)
Grant Proposal Writing (workshop)
- new dates!
- Start: Jul 2, 2026
- End: Jul 3, 2026
- Speaker: Brian Cusack and Babette Regierer
- Dr. Brian Cusack comes from Cork, Ireland and received his Ph.D. in Genetics from Trinity College, Dublin in 2007. During his Ph.D. Brian received the kind of mentoring that he continues to consider as the gold-standard for graduate students. After completing his first postdoc at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, Brian conducted post-doctoral research in evolutionary genomics at the Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin. In February 2012, together with Rick Scavetta, Brian co-founded Science Craft in Berlin. Since then Brian has provided high-level training workshops for more than a thousand researchers throughout Germany as well as in Norway and China.
- Location: University of Konstanz
- Room: Mon K503, Tue ZT1201
- Host: IMPRS
- Contact: imprs@uni-konstanz.de
This workshop takes a practical approach to teaching researchers in the life sciences how to apply for third-party funding. The workshop can be tailored to the specific funding needs of the workshop participants.
Through examples and relevant exercises as well as class discussions, each participant learns how to develop their funding idea by matching it to the goals of a targeted funding program. As a starting point, the workshop uses participants’ written outlines of their own funding ideas in the format of a short “mini-proposal” (2 pages).
Group exercises help participants not only to structure proposals that comply with funding agency requirements but also to write proposals that reflect the reading behaviour of reviewers. The interactive nature of the workshop is designed to pool the experience, ideas and opinions of the instructors with those of the students in order to enhance the learning experience for all participants.