Resources for general information

Note that this is not a checklist. Depending on the funders' requirements the relevant topics need to be addressed. The collective knowledge on these topics for a specific grant opportunity are incorporated into annotated guidelines and presentations, that can be found in the funding calendar.

As this list tries to be suitable to finding information for all non-scientific parts of the proposal as required by different funders, some topics refer to a document or page named differently. This is because funders have come up with different names for the same topic or make subdivisions within a topic that may not be obvious.

• Budget
• Communication
• Data management
• Dissemination
• Ethics
• Exploitation
• Gantt chart
• Pert diagram
• Gender
• H-index
• Impact
• Impact factors field and journals
• Intellectual Property
• Knowledge utilisation
• Open access publications
• Open access to data
• Partner information Universiteit Leiden
• Project management
• Public procurement of equipment
• Public outreach
• Research integrity
• Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)
• Valorisation

Information in annotated guidelines

The collective knowledge on these topics for a specific grant opportunity are incorporated into annotated guidelines and presentations, that can be found in the funding calendar.

Funder goals

As explained in funding types, the drivers for funding organisations to fund research can be very diverse. Are societal problems or economic advancement the main drivers? If so, make sure you make a connection in your proposal between the research you propose and how your research results may contribute to achieving the future goals as outlined by the funder. The evaluators can only judge proposals on what is written within them, not properly addressing expected impact will cost you lessen the chance of being granted funding.

Funders' standards

Funders request information on ethics, project and data management etc. to make sure you are following not only institution and industry standards but also the funders' standards when undertaking your research. Many funders have separate ethics review panels and expect applicants to clearly describe their compliance with the requirements of the funder. In H2020 there are a set of cross-cutting priorities which need to be addressed, and specific rules you must comply with. Read annotated agreement pre-award project design for more information on this subject.

The final evaluation

Are all of these issues really taken into account in the final evaluation? It depends on the funder. In Horizon Europe this is made very clear: equal weighting is given to scientific excellence, impact and the implementation of your project evaluation criteria Horizon Europe. For NWO this is a little less clear. However, we do know particularly committees who value knowledge utilisation highly for instance.

The grant advisors regularly analyse both European evaluation reports and NWO review reports and committee comments to identify good practice when preparing these sections of the proposal. They also invite evaluators and committee members to speak about their experiences at events. The analyses and feedback from evaluators and committee members is incorporated into annotated guidelines and presentations which can be found in the funding calendar.