EMF: Design of and Application for Third-Party-Funded Projects
- Attendance:
- Presence event
- Event location:
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- Zentrum für umweltbewusstes Bauen (ZUB)
- Event Organizer:
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- Graduate Academy
- Category:
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- Workshop
- Target groups:
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- Doctoral candidates
- Postdoktorand:innen/Postdocs

Event language: English
How do you turn an idea into a fully-fledged research grant? This workshop will take you through the process of developing your idea into a project, finding suitable funding, and preparing a well-structured proposal. Teaching formats include presentations, individual, partner and group work, and recurring rounds of feedback.
Qualification Outcomes
- Finding research funding
- Reading and understanding funding calls
- Developing a project: work programme, finances etc.
- Writing funding proposals: structure, style, purpose
- Cross-cutting topics: diversity, data management, data protection, ethics
Methods
Trainer input, individual and group exercises, group discussions, presentation, reflection, feedback
Requirements
Participants have fully or nearly completed their PhD phase and now have an idea for a postdoc research project, for which they wish to write a grant proposal.
If you’ve already got a research project in mind, it’s good to have a written abstract on hand (max. 0.75 pages).
More information about this event
Event location:
Zentrum für umweltbewusstes Bauen (ZUB)
Raum 0150
Gottschalkstraße 28a
34127 Kassel
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Event Organizer:
Graduate Academy
Contact:
Christiane Zwingers
University of Kassel
Research and Graduate Research Office and Graduate Academy
0561 804 3241
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Lecturers:
Dr. Anna Bauer
University of Kassel
Dr. phil. Anna Bauer (M.A., MPA, Dipl. DaF) is a fulltime adviser at University Kassel’s research office. Anna supported numerous projects from initial idea to grant stage with various national funding organisations and advises mainly on national and university-internal funding. Prior to that, she worked as a researcher in two DFG projects at the University of Marburg and was a doctoral researcher at the Universities of Göttingen and Marburg, where she received her PhD in Historical Linguistics. Her position as DAAD Lecturer for New Zealand in Auckland entailed funding advising for researchers and students regarding support from the DAAD and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Dr. Nina Felgen
University of Kassel
Dr. rer. nat. Nina Felgen (M.Sc.) joined the research funding team in March 2021 and specialises in national funding, including the Hessian LOEWE initiative. She has advised on numerous DFG project proposals as well as several large coordinated projects. Before joining the funding advisory team, she worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Nanostructure Technology and Analytics (INA), completed her doctorate in technical physics at the University of Kassel and successfully coordinated the application to continue the centre as head of the CINSaT scientific centre.