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Preparing for group interviews to get that grant

Neeltje Peters — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 08:00:34 +0000

Hooray, your consortium is invited for the interview stage! The only thing standing between you and the money is showing your combined enthusiasm, expertise, vision, and collaboration… Sounds easy, right?

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Writing your grant proposal for multiple audiences at once

Neeltje Peters — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 08:26:58 +0000

Know your audience! This is a key rule in any writing, and grant writing is no exception. Writing your grant proposal tailored to your audience becomes especially challenging when there are different types of readers that will evaluate your work. How to make sure all types of readers understand and, more importantly, value your plans?

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How to benefit from proposal evaluations (even if they are unfair…)

Neeltje Peters — Tue, 14 May 2024 09:00:57 +0000

Receiving evaluation reports for proposals that didn’t make the cut to get funded can be quite frustrating. Like with reviewer comments, evaluations from the grant committee can come across as unfair, uninformed, or just (too) harsh. Still, there often are important clues in these reports to be able to improve your next grant proposal.

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New ERC curriculum vitae format provides more flexibility

Linde van Ittersum — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 14:05:25 +0000

In the 2024 work programme, the ERC format provides more flexibility in describing the applicant’s CV. Scientific excellence remains the sole evaluation criterion. However, you are now free to highlight those aspects in your CV and track record that you find most relevant to show how your profile matches the proposed research.

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Writing an ERC proposal: What to put in section B1 versus B2?

Linde van Ittersum — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 13:41:37 +0000

So, you’ve decided to write an ERC proposal to fund your groundbreaking research idea! Your idea is novel, timely, and substantially goes beyond the current state-of-the-art. How to write the two scientific parts of your proposal? What information should go in section B1 versus B2?

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ERC online administrative forms… Prepare in advance

Linde van Ittersum — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 15:12:04 +0000

It would be wise to prepare the online administrative forms well in advance of the deadline. While the forms are really not that complex and filling them will only take up as much as an hour of your time maximum, they might have implications for the evaluation of your proposal. So, it is not really the task to do when you feel brain-dead from working on your proposal. Here are some things to consider when filling them out.

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