You made it past the first round. What to expect and how to prepare for a grant interview.
Evaluators of many of the most important personal grant schemes use a two-step approach for evaluating proposals. First the written proposals are evaluated and ranked, after which a first cut is made. Those who make it through to the next phase are then invited for a personal interview in front of a panel of experts. After this session, you will know why interviews are used, how best to prepare and how you can present yourself to the best of your ability to obtain your personal grant.
About Claudia Nicolaije
Senior Adviseur Life Sciences, Evers + Manders Subsidieadviseurs
Claudia Nicolaije is a biomedical scientist with a PhD in Molecular Medicine from the Erasmus MC. She has been a grant consultant at Evers + Manders Subsidieadviseurs for the last 8 years. Here she actively collaborates with individual scientists and consortia to obtain funding for their innovative research and technological developments. Specialized in Life Sciences, she combines her scientific background with excellent writing and process management skills to construct successful ZonMw, NWO, ERC, Marie Curie, FET and H2020 proposals. Claudia also provides grant writing courses for young scientists, both through Evers + Manders and university support programs, focusing on individual grant opportunities for early career scientists.
Claudia Nicolaije
