Funding Support

• Individual strategy for external funding / Identification for funding options – for research groups as well as for individual PIs
• Bibliometric analyses, help for information and interpreting grant calls
• Identification of academic networks, help forming consortia, competitor analysis and more.
• Information and mentoring meetings and courses on good proposal writing, EU funding and more
• NAT-academy to come….

• Grant writing
• Advise on your application – communication, language, structure – best practice guides
• Check whether the application matches the funder’s scope and requirements
• Guidelines for budgets and formalities (in coop with the SPA team – science post award)
• Interview training
• Pre-evaluation services, figures, scoping

• Proposal templates (incl. Gantt and Pert charts)
• Budget template (also for all partners)
• Risk mitigation plans
• Templates to collect relevant information from all Partners
• Branding of the project (pre-award, logo design, home page,…)
• Organizing kick-off meetings (on- and off-line)
• Raising COFUND and Seed money
• Review the application (internal & external)
• Liaise with the PI and their department about any agreed amendments to be made
• Authorise the application on behalf of the University (where applicable)
• Submit the application to the funder (where applicable)

At SDU RIO’s EU Research Support, we are specialised in European strategic funding – mainly the Horizon Europe programme areas II & III. We support you throughout the whole process from idea development to submission.

That includes:

• Introduction to European funding and identification of funding opportunities and specific call

• Background analysis of a relevant call:
  - What are the policies behind the call and who are the key actors?
  - Have similar projects been previously funded?
• Development of concept and project idea

• Consortium building:
  - Identification of partners for your coordinator project
  - Becoming partner in SDU-external consortia
  - Networking via European partnerships

• Process management in the proposal writing phase including facilitation of consortium meetings and collaboration as well as communication with partners

• Application input incl. co-writing of implementation, impact sections and other

• Budgeting and administrative forms.

You can get assistance from us in various ways depending on where you are in your application process. We advise both individual researchers and research groups.

We offer support in your application process:
· Contribute with knowledge about application writing for private foundations
· Read applications for grant support
· Advise on the non-scientific sections, the structure of the application, and impact descriptions.

Maybe you need knowledge on where your research fits in the foundation landscape, or what possibilities there are for your career stage, etc.

We offer a strategic overview:
· strategic sparring so that you get an overview of the external support options available to you.
· assistance for research groups gaining an overview of both their own research and the group's position in relation to other research groups and the foundation landscape.

• Fit with funding opportunity
• Project development and scoping to fit a funding opportunity
• Application structure and how to write a competitive proposal
• Reviews and proposal specific feedback of draft proposals
• Interview training and evaluator responses.

• Individual and group level short and long-term funding planning
• Support to the management in developing funding strategies at individual, group and department level
• Advise on career development and CV building
• Knowledge on the relevant funding-landscape, and it’s trends and developments

• Excellent PI grants, such as
  - Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions (MSCA)– Postdoctoral Fellowships
  -ERC grants
• International consortium grants, such as
  -Horizon Europe Global challenges and partnership calls
  -Danida
  -MSCA Doctoral Networks
• Center constructions and prioritized private foundations, such as
  -DNRF Danish National Research Foundation Chairs and Centers of Excellence
  -Carlsberg Foundation, Velux/Villum, Trygfonden

• External collaboration
• Strategy development
• Professional network
• Commercial activities
• Patents
• Contracts
• Events and conferences
• Collaboration with students

• Advice on career development and CV building
• Funding strategies for researchers, units, departments
• Identification of funding opportunities & information services (workshops, homepage, newsletter)
• Analysis of applicant profiles & funding success rates
• Organization of meetings with funders
• Design of workshops for proposal development and writing
• Individual support during proposal development and writing
• Coordination between collaborative partners and identification of industrial partners
• Grant interview training
• Administrative support (e.g. budget calculation & approval in collaboration with TEK Economy)