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Writing a good grant proposal

Writing a good grant proposal. Department of Computer Engineering Kyung Hee Univ. Dae-Young Kim. Contents. Approaching a proposal Criteria for a good grant proposal Major criteria Secondary criteria Common shortcomings Conclusion. Approaching a proposal. The first thing to do

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Writing a good grant proposal

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  1. Writing a good grant proposal Department of Computer Engineering Kyung Hee Univ. Dae-Young Kim

  2. Contents • Approaching a proposal • Criteria for a good grant proposal • Major criteria • Secondary criteria • Common shortcomings • Conclusion

  3. Approaching a proposal • The first thing to do • Read the advice offered by your funding agency • Two vital facts • Programmed managers and panel members • Won’t be expert • You must write your proposal for their benefit • See tens or hundreds of cases for support • You have one minute or less to grab your reader’s attention • Two Golden Rules • Ask lots of people to help you improve your proposal • Rewrite it until they understand • Make sure that the first page acts as a stand-alone summary of the entire proposal

  4. Criteria for a good grant proposal • Major criteria • Does the proposal address a well-formulated problem? • Is it a research problem, or is it just a routine application of known techniques? • Is it an important problem, whose solution will have useful effects? • Is special funding (resources of a well-found laboratory) necessary to solve the problem? • Do the proposers have a good idea on which to base their work? • Does the proposal explain clearly what work will be done? • Is there evidence that the proposers know about the work that others have done on the problem? • Do the proposers have a good track record, both of doing good research and of publishing it?

  5. Criteria for a good grant proposal (cont’d) • Secondary criteria - for best judgment • An applicant may deserve to be placed ahead of well-funded one • Existing funding provides evidence of good track record • Keep a strong research team together • Balance between different research areas • Evidence of industrial interest in a proposal, and of its potential for future exploitation • Recommendations of Technology Foresight

  6. Common Shortcomings • It is not clear what question is being addressed by the proposal • The question being addressed is woolly or ill-formed • It is not clear why the question is worth addressing • The proposal is just a routine application of known techniques • Industry ought to be doing it instead • There is no evidence that the proposers will succeed where others have failed • We have an ideas • We have a good track record

  7. Common Shortcomings (cont’d) • A new idea is claimed but insufficient technical details of the idea are given for the committee to be able to judge whether it looks promising • The proposers seem unaware of related research • Related work must be mentioned • The proposed research has already been done • The proposal is badly presented, or incomprehensible to all • Lack of realism may reflect a poor understanding of the problem • The proposal is too expensive for the probable gain • The proposers institution should be funding it

  8. Conclusion • We hope that you write better grant proposals and hence to be more successful in obtaining funds for your research

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