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Proposal Writing Day
Writing successful research proposals is one of the basic skills in today’s research world. The writing of research proposals, however, differs significantly from writing journal articles. Research papers communicate that you have achieved tremendous things in the past. Good proposals persuade readers that your future work has the potential to achieve ground-breaking scientific, economic, societal and humanitarian impact.
Proposal writers often find themselves asking questions like:
- Where should I start?
- How can I stimulate the creative process?
- How can I write convincing introductions and abstracts?
- How can I sell my research idea well without promising too much?
- Who am I writing for and what reviewers especially pay attention to?
- How can I shape the proposal best to the call?
This workshop presents some answers to these and other questions and gives you the opportunity to ask and discuss your individual questions (Q&A Session; One-on-one coaching). Furthermore, experts from WU and research funding agencies will provide you with helpful hints on how to improve your proposals. They will allow you to look behind the scenes of research funding agencies and their reviewing processes.
Target Group
You should consider joining if
- you would like to work on your proposal intensively to push your writing process
- you already have chosen the funding call but you are not sure where and how to start, advance or finish your proposal
- you want to fit your proposal to the target readers’ expectations
- you want to try out some practical creative writing tools
- the idea of escaping your daily routine for one day has a certain appeal for you
Objectives
The Proposal Writing Day
- helps you to target your proposal towards a specific funding scheme
- helps you to identify the most important messages of your proposal
- helps you to improve your proposal writing skills
- provides you with easy-to-use creative writing exercises
Methods
Participants of the Proposal Writing Day will benefit from a variety of different formats and methods:
- Writing Tasks
- Short presentations
- Panel Discussion
- One-on-one coaching
- Q&A session
- Etc.
Location, Date and Time
Wednesday, 19 June 2019, 09.00 am - 06.00 pm
All registered participants will be informed of the location by email one week before the event.
Fees and Registration
This workshop is open to a limited number of participants. The registration deadline is 5 June 2019.
Please note that you should notify us before the registration deadline if you are unable to attend the workshop. Otherwise the full fee will be charged.
Please let the Personnel Development and Planning Office know if you will not be attending. There are often waiting lists for the workshops, and this will give one of your colleagues the chance to attend. In addition, if we can fill the vacancy with someone from the waiting list, no cancellation charges will apply for you.
To sign up for this workshop, please click "Register" at the bottom of this page. For any further information please contact Elke Rittersbacher (elke.rittersbacher@wu.ac.at, Ext. 4448).
The course fee is €20.
Trainers & Experts
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Michael Huter, Ph. D.
Michael Huter, Ph. D. will guide you through the structured writing sessions. He is an experienced writer, editor and publisher and gives seminars on academic writing and scholarly communication regularly. Mr Huter was editorial director of Facultas and held various positions in national and international publishing organisations. |
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Mag. Reinhard Sefelin, M.Sc.
Inputs on research funding, proposal writing and One-on-one coaching. He is the head of WU’s research service centre and successful applicant at national and international level.
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Xenia Ulrich M.A. Inputs on research funding, proposal writing and One-on-one coaching. She is expert in the field of European and International programs and in particular in Horizon 2020 und Erasmus+.
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Guest Speakers:
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