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?
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.
Many calls for grant proposals demand an interdisciplinary project, for example to tackle a specific societal challenge. But how do you ensure that your proposal includes all correct disciplines in a meaningful way? And what does it mean to lead a consortium with all these different experts you don’t usually talk to?
The new Innovative Health Initiative is not merely a continuation of its predecessor, the Innovative Medicines Initiative. Rather, the scope of this joint undertaking will be expanded to include novel commercial sectors, and there will be more focus on prevention and early detection.
Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) calls for proposals are slightly different compared to ‘regular’ Horizon RIA or IA calls. Make sure you are aware of the specifics of IMI proposals before you start!
Consortium meetings are an essential – and fun – part of grant proposal preparation. Since they require effort and time of all your busy collaborators, please do them (and yourself) a favor and make sure your consortium meeting is well prepared.
