The workshop will be held in English and run for four half days, on January 25 and 26, 2021 from 2:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. and on February 1 and 2, 2021 from 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Developing successful grant applications is an essential skill for a career in research. In this workshop you will learn tools and background information that, on the one hand, will help you to efficiently develop your research idea into a research project which matches your target funding programme and, on the other hand, to write it up in a grant proposal of high quality.

Objectives:

• Get an overview on funding programmes and how you can use them for driving your career as a researcher
• Develop your own idea for a research project proposal into a first work-plan
• Understand how to match your research project to the funding programme in order to increase the potential to be funded
• Understand the basics of budget planning
• Acquire basic skills for formulating objectives, progress beyond the state of the art and impact
• Try out a set of tools to efficiently develop a research proposal.

Methods:

• Presentation of background information
• Applying the RaumZeit toolkit to your own idea for a research project
• Group work
• Feedback from trainer and peers

Please note: Participants who enter the workshop with an idea for a research project will benefit the most from its program. The idea may be newly developed, or you have been thinking about it for quite some time. However, a prior project idea is not a pre-requisite for successfully participating.

We will have optional homework, so please plan additional time between the sessions for further developing your building blocks for a grant proposal.

The workshop is open for KHYS members at KIT who are postdocs or doctoral researchers who are interested in becoming a postdoc. 

The workshop will be held in English and run for four half days, on January 25 and 26, 2021 from 2:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. and on February 1 and 2, 2021 from 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Technical requirements: To participate in this workshop, you need a stable internet connection, a webcam and a microphone. Participants will receive further detailed information regarding the online-platform prior to the workshop.