Grant Proposal Preparation Phase
How to write an excellent grant proposal? Preparing a budget. Writing a data management paragraph. How to publish future results open access. When to think about ethics or privacy. Getting the right signatures. Submitting your proposal at the funders.
This timeline guides you through the whole application writing process, additional requirements for submission and intermediate evaluation steps. For submission you may need the correct institutional registration numbers, an account, a signature or other administrative information.
Research funding support
Leiden University registration numbers
Practical submission process
Writing an excellent grant proposal takes some skill, which increases with the complexity of the grant. Your local research office is your first stop, expert grant advisors (GO-LU) can be consulted as a second line of help. In case of complex coordination, a writing team of support staff will be formed.
Basics of grant writing
Writing for an individual grant
Writing an application for a collaborative grant 🔐
Exploring the budget in an early phase with your local project controller helps you to shape your project. The project controller also makes sure that your final budget is in order.
Financial administration
Project control: procedures and guidelines
Open access publishing is required by most funders. Check this, you need to allocate budget for this.
Open access: funding
Open access
If you are planning on buying equipment or buying services from other parties like consultants from the grant, you need to take into account procurement rules. It is obligatory to consult with the procurement office.
Procurement rules
Data management is mandatory for NWO and EU. Start with your local data steward to guide your through this process from data management paragraph to a data management plan. The Centre for Digital Scholarship provides expert advice.
Data management in grant applications
In some projects, privacy of data and/or other ethical considerations play a role. An expert team of data privacy officers, data stewards and ethical officers help you think this through and guide you through the formal process.
EU Ethics review
A good research project also covers the potential impact it has on society, economy and/or the research community and a plan for communicating about the results to stakeholders.
Societal impact
Your research in the media
Some grants have an additional evaluation stage where you will be asked to react to comments of reviewers in the form of a rebuttal or will be invited for an interview.