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This summer I released an episode focusing on the hardships of writing proposals over the summer and on the deadline structure in Horizon Europe. It is one the most popular episodes and many people got back to me afterwards thanking me for picking up the subject. Briefly after I picked up a LinkedIn post by the Cypriotic grants consultancy company GrantXperts that flagged that they were running a...

The Grant has finally reached the university world. Under the label The Grant Campus I will also cover this crucial area as I move on. First episode zooms in on the Brussels Office of the Norwegian University for Science and Technology. Many universities throughout Europe have chosen to establish an office in Brussels to get closer to the EU R&D eco-system both decision-makers, influencers and...

The Grant has finally reached the university world. Under the label The Grant Campus I will also cover this crucial area as I move on.  First episode zooms in on the Brussels Office of the Norwegian University for Science and Technology. Many universities throughout Europe have chosen to establish an office in Brussels to get closer to the EU R&D eco-system both decision-makers, influence...

I have reached to the actual proposal writing and now it is time to dig into the Impact section. I am now looking at chapter 2.2 Measures to maximize impact. This is where you describe how you will spread your results, communicate to different segments about your great project and exploit the results for the benefit of your organization, the sector and society. I have invited Director of Europa Me...

I have reached to the actual proposal writing and now it is time to dig into the Impact section. The last two weeks I covered 2.1 Project’s pathways towards impact and now the next two weeks it is time for chapter 2.2 Measures to maximize impact. This is where you describe how you will spread your results, communicate to different segments about your great project and exploit the results for the b...

I have reached to the writing phase in The Timeline Series and will now dig into the Impact section. The Impact section has two distinct sections: one on results and impact (2.1) and one on how to share results and spread them (2.2). I have therefore decided to record two episodes covering 2.1 Project’s pathways towards impact and two episodes covering 2.2 Measures to maximize impact. I have writt...

I have reached to the writing phase in The Timeline Series and will now dig into the Impact section. The Impact section has two distinct sections: one on results and impact (2.1) and one on how to share results and spread them (2.2). I have therefore decided to record two episodes covering 2.1 Project’s pathways towards impact and two episodes covering 2.2 Measures to maximize impact. I have writt...

In my Timeline Series I have reached to the actual writing phase and start of course with the Excellence section. Even though I have written some Excellence sections myself this is not my core expertise and therefor I have invited one of my Advisory Board members onboard to make sure that I cover it right. Private consultant Marie Prouteau has 13 years of experience working with EU funding incl. &...

In my Timeline Series I have reached to the actual writing phase and start of course with the Excellence section. Even though I have written some Excellence sections myself this is not my core expertise and therefor I have invited one of my Advisory Board members onboard to make sure that I cover it right. Private consultant Marie Prouteau has 13 years of experience working with EU funding incl. &...

In this episode I have invited Advisory Board member Marie Latour in to give an introduction to the European Partnerships in Horizon Europe. Marie Latour is the Secretary General for the European Association of Innovation Consultants  She has 20 years of experience working within the EU Brussels community  both in relation to funding and policy.  Marie takes me through the historica...

In this episode I have invited Advisory Board member Casper Ravnsted-Larsen onboard to have a talk about the challenging task to do communication on EU R&D funding. Casper is a journalist currently working for the Danish Trade Union for Social Sciences, Business and Law as a journalist for the membership publication, communicating on research and innovation. He has 8 years past experience from...

In this episode I have invited my third Advisory Board member Katarzyna Kowalska into the virtual podcast studio where we dig into the work of innovation clusters and the role they play in the Eastern European context. Katarzyna is President and co-founder of the UNIMOS Alliance which is a Polish independent agro business innovation cluster for specifically SMEs in the agro-bio-economy sector. Fur...

I have my second Advisory Board member Jonas Hansen onboard for this episode where we dig into SMEs and Horizon Europe. Jonas is project manager in the Danish national innovation cluster for ICT where he facilitates R&D and innovation in especially SMEs in the ICT sector. He has more than 12 years experience working with the EU R&D funding programmes. Jonas has also recently been working f...

In this episode I look at the important things to be aware of before you enter the writing phase in the proposal preparation. The writing process itself is quite complicated and complex and therefore it is vital that you prepare yourself as good as you can before the train is rolling. It can spare you many problems and save valuable time. I go through a handful of things to be aware of including y...

It is time to have a talk about proposal writing during the summer. Nobody ever really talks about this. But we need to, because it is a rough task that is made much more complicated by different holiday calendars, disrupted work flows and general ignorance vis-à-vis the complex challenges that the proposal writers face. The consequences are more than just a lost trip to the beach – anxiety, heavy...

It is time to have a talk about proposal writing during the summer. Nobody ever really talks about this. But we need to, because it is a rough task that is made much more complicated by different holiday calendars, disrupted work flows and general ignorance vis-à-vis the complex challenges that the proposal writers face. The consequences are more than just a lost trip to the beach – anxiety, heavy...

In this episode I dig into the coordinator issue - to be a coordinator and to find a coordinator. I run through who is normally coordinating Horizon Europe proposals. Then I elaborate on the key elements on being a coordinator including the key responsabilities. If you dont have a coordinator I then share with you the approach related to choosing a coordinator among the consortium partners and fin...

In this seventh episode of The Timeline Series I move into the area of completing the comsortium. When the partners agree to join you need to formally get them onboard. Now is also the time where you need to get your practical organisation in place if you haven't already set up your systems. I share how I deal with my organisation when I coordinate these processes. Further, I share how you get fro...

This is the first Advisory Board episode. In the Advisory Board concept I will have a core group of experts that on a regular basis drops by the virtual podcast studio to exchange, discuss and enlighten me and the listeners on issues within grants application.  In this episode I have the first The Grant Advisory Board member Kristjan Zemljic onboard. Kristjan has the independent consultancy c...

In this sixth episode on The Timeline Series I move on to the partner value chain definition and the partner search activities. I run through how to define your partner value chain for your proposal and move on to giving tips for your partner search strategy. Second half of the episode is dedicated to more practical elements on how you reach out to possible partners and how you deal with follow-up...

In this fifth episode of The Timeline Series I give some tips and advice on how to make a strong concept note for your project concept. The concept note is needed to recruit partners to your proposal, but it also serves as the first short coherent written outline of your project concept. I run through the function of the concept note, I give advice on how to structure the document and share some t...

In this fourth episode of The Timeline Series I am digging into the process of developing the basic idea into a full Horizon Europe proposal concept. I will run through overall elements to be aware of to make a good project concept. Second, I will give some advice on how you need to get a team involved before you start this part of the process. In the third - and main - part of the episode I will...

In this third episode of The Timeline Series of the The Grant podcast I will be digging into how to read and analyze the Horizon Europe work programme call texts. When you have identified the specific call, you are faced with a strategic R&D call text where a little bit a guidance is beneficial for the interpretation and analysis before you continue developing the overall project concept.&nbsp...

The is the second episode of The Timeline Series of the The Grant podcast. In this episode I outline ways to identify the concrete funding calls that you will need to match your R&D project ideas.  I will explain the structure of the Horizon Europe Framework Programme and the work programme documents are build up. Secoind, the episode contains information on how to find and identify the c...

The is the first ordinary episode of The Grant podcast. I start building a batch of generic episodes covering each phase of preparing an EU R&D funding proposal from the initial idea is born until submitting the final proposal to the EU Commission. I have labelled this The Timeline Series . Here in the first Timeline Series episode I dig into the basic project idea and what to be aware of when...