SBI – Department of Systems Biology and Bioinformatics
Faculty of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
University of Rostock
Ulmenstrasse 69 | 18057 Rostock
Germany
+49 381 498-7571
olaf.wolkenhauer@uni-rostock.de
In this seminar I would like to share my experiences as an applicant and reviewer for DFG, BMBF and EU applications.
My experience is necessarily limited and subjective. I would not even claim to be particularly successful myself. The spirit of this seminar is to share what “I wish someone would have told me that.”
The target audience are postdocs, young professors and PhD students in the natural sciences. The format of the seminar is not a lecture, but a discussion with hopefully many questions from the participants.
We are trained to generate scientific results but we are not told how to communicate our work effectively. To help myself and others, I analysed grant proposals as a particular form of communication shares elements with other forms, including publications, posters, websites etc. Once we realise this, we can identify guiding principles that help us not only to structure and write a grant proposal but, in the process, also improve our actual research through the writing of a grant proposal.
Why do I offer this seminar? (i) Because I find it difficult to write successful applications. (ii) Because I was elected to the DFG review panel Fundamentals of Medicine and Biology, and I can reward the trust I have received in this way. (iii) Because as a young scientist I would have liked to get help for this important part of my work.
Location: Ulmencampus - Building 3 - Room 410