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EMF: Design of and Application for Third-Party-Funded Projects

09/30/2026 9:00 AM Clock - 5:00 PM Clock
10/01/2026 9:00 AM Clock - 5:00 PM Clock
Attendance:
Presence event 
Event location:
  • Raum 4100
Event Organizer:
  • Graduate Academy
Category:
  • Workshop
Target groups:
  • Doctoral candidates
  • Post-graduates
  • 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, use of AI
  • 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.

Please bring:

  • laptop
  • up-to-date academic CV (digital copy only)
  • (a preliminary) idea for a research project
  • optional: written abstract of your research idea (max. 0.75 pages).

Additional Terms of Use: With your registration, you accept the use of specified platforms/tools and the possibly necessary provision of specified data (name and email address). Additionally, the guarantee of the technical requirements is made by the participants themselves.

More information about this event

Event location:

Raum 4100
Universitätsverwaltung
Mönchebergstr. 19
34109 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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Speakers:

Dr. Nina Felgen
Universität Kassel

Dr. rer. nat. Nina Felgen (M.Sc.) has been with the Research Support team since March 2021, specialising in national funding including the Hessian LOEWE initiative. She has advised on numerous DFG project grant proposals as well as several large coordinated projects. Before going into funding advising, she was a doctoral researcher at the Institut für Nanostrukturtechnologie und Analytik (INA), receiving her doctorate in the field of Technical Physics at U Kassel, and, as manager of the scientific center CINSaT, coordinated successfully the grant application for the continuation of the center.

Dr. Anna Bauer
Universität Kassel

Dr. phil. Anna Bauer (M.A., MPA, Dipl. DaF) joined U Kassel's Research Support in October 2022 and advises on national and university-internal funding. Prior to that, she worked as a researcher in two DFG projects at U Marburg ("Hethitische mythologische Texte" and "eDiAna") and was a doctoral researcher at U 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.

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To join this event you have to be registered as a participant of the program "Entwicklung und Management von Forschungsprojekten".

Non-participants of the program can attempt to join the event as well. The organizer will review and either accept or deny your application.

EMF Kassel (intern) Only for registered users
Booking possible from 16.10.2025, 12:00 until 24.09.2026, 23:59
100,00 €
EMF Kassel (extern) Only for registered users
Booking possible from 16.10.2025, 12:00 until 24.09.2026, 23:59
500,00 €

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