Workshop on Funding and Proposal Development

Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) Vytautas Kavolis Transdisciplinary Research Institute invites researchers to a workshop on developing a successful grant application for various funding programs.

Date – 15 May 2024 at 10:00 AM (Lithuania time).
Duration of the workshop – 2 hours (2.5 academic hours).
Language – English.
Format – online workshop via MS Teams.
Please register to the workshop here. All registered participants will receive MS Teams link to the workshop a few days before the event.
Trainer: Dr. Kemal Ahson, Managing Consultant of Lifeworld Ltd.

About workshop

The aim of this workshop is to assist researchers in the preparation of applications to public funding bodies.

Topics to be covered:

• Studying your funding source;
• Reading guidance;
• ‘Excellent’ research;
• Developing the project plan and content;
• Developing a partnership and peer-to-peer support;
• Developing a cost structure;
• Knowledge exchange and impact

More about the instructor:  Dr Kemal Ahson has spent the last two decades in various roles in academia, government, and industry. Currently – split between London and Helsinki – he is the Managing Consultant of Lifeworld Ltd (www.lifeworld.info). On a practical level he has raised over €400 million through contracts and funding. His research interests include examining arts-based pedagogies, the public engagement and participation in science and technology, exploring the use of ‘space’ and ‘place’ in different economic contexts, doing ‘imagined geographies’ through travelling theories’, and the ‘radical otherness of children’. His PhD, from University College London (UCL), examined innovation in biotechnology – in economic, epistemological, geographical, and ontological terms.

The training will be moderated by dr. Gintarė Pocė, head of project activities of the V. Kavolis Transdisciplinary Research Institute.

For more information about the workshop, please send an email to vki@vdu.lt.

These trainings are one of the activities of the project “Strengthening of R&D activities of the Vytautas Kavolis Transdisciplinary Institute of Social and Humanities Sciences (SOCMTEP)”. The project is financed by the Lithuanian Science Council and the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports of the Republic of Lithuania, contract no. S-A-UEI-23-13 (12/27/2023). Funding program – “University Excellence Initiative” (No. V-940).