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Seven deadly sins that kill your grant proposal

Digest Created on 12 Jul 2014 by Sven Hendrix

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How to get more funding? Avoid these mistakes to write more succesful grant proposals!

Writing grant proposals in life sciences is tedious, evaluating grant proposals is even more tedious. Quite often the reviewers end up with a small number of outstanding proposals and a huge number of excellent proposals which have to be ranked based on tiny differences in quality.

Therefore, reviewers are very, very grateful if you show one of the sins described below because they provide perfect justifications to kill your grant proposal.

During the last 5 years I had to evaluate hundreds of grant applications for national and European funding organizations. I spent many hours in commissions to discuss biomedical grants. I realized that there is a number of mistakes which are made again and again. Let me help you to avoid these mistakes and increase your chance to get more funding.

How to write better grant proposals

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References

http://www.smartsciencecareer.com/sins-grant-proposal/

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