We offer recurring grant writing courses on “How to prepare successful grant proposals” to doctoral students, researchers and scientific collaborators.
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EDOC course for PhD students
This 1-ECTS course is offered each autumn and gives PhD students guidance on the fundamentals of proposal writing as well as hands-on composing their own proposal, including peer-review exercises.
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Course for Postdocs
This lecture aims to guide EPFL postdocs and staff scientists in finding appropriate funding opportunities and provide bascis of grant writing. Complementary sessions allow to write a ready-to-submit proposal, and to give and receive feedback from peers.
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Self-learning e-course
This self-paced e-course provides practical advice on narrative grant writing, through video lectures and interviews with EPFL grant coaches, communication specialists and professors.
- Roundtable on preparing collaborative proposals: Funders increasingly emphasize collaborative approaches to research projects. The process of writing such collaborative proposals might seem like a daunting and overwhelming task to researchers. Join us and talk with experts with a track record in securing collaborative proposal funding.
- On-demand courses: we offer customized grant writing courses for groups of EPFL researchers (for example as part of training programs, workshops or retreats). Please contact us directly with your request!