Preparing work packages and initiating fundraising
Step 6 of 6
Initiate grant writing
Goal: Find the right funding call, if you did not find one before starting, and begin writing a great grant application.
Finding the right funding call: this applies if you did not find one before initiating your project development. See Funding for guidance on funding bodies and on how to write START into your proposal.
Aarhus University's research support units publish advice and tools for writing a grant application.
Content to be supplied by START
The handbook's text for Step 6 and Workshop 6 is still being written: the draft only names the funding call, links to AU's grant advice and has the heading of a first workshop stage (“deconstruct the grant: which context does it fit into”). The handbook names no tools for this step. START will supply the text here.
Workshop 6
How to write a great grant application
- Participants:
- Your core partner group
- 1How to write a great grant application
Related in the handbook
The handbook names no specific tools for this step. These sections support it.
- Finding the right funding body →
Step 6 starts with finding the right funding call, if you did not find one before starting (p. 21). The handbook's funding section starts on p. 26.
- START text for proposals without a PIC number →
A generic text for embedding START's relevance and added value in the narrative part of your proposal (pp. 27–29).
- Funding Readiness Level (FRL) →
FRL 4–6 represents the grant writing process, including communication with the funding body (p. 30).
- Additional usable models →
Some funding bodies require a risk assessment, a competitor analysis or a business case (pp. 22–26).