University of Louvain, Avenue Mounier, 73 B-1200, Brussels, Belgium.
Editor-in-Chief Clinical Nutrition, USA; Center for Translational Research in Aging & Longevity, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4253, USA.
Clin Nutr ESPEN. 2023 Oct;57:73-76. doi: 10.1016/j.clnesp.2023.06.009. Epub 2023 Jun 15.
In this education paper, we want to give some advice to aid in successful scientific grant writing. Besides defining an important research hypothesis and how to support this hypothesis, there are also technical aspects in grant writing that need to be fulfilled. Therefore, read carefully the requirements before starting to write the proposal. You must also determine what skilled people, equipment and consumables are needed in order to reach your research goal. It is advised to develop a timeline with the key milestones (background, partnership, budget, writing, peer-evaluation, submission). Spend enough time on the summary, title and acronyms, in order to make them attractive to the reader. The research objectives must be SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-Sensitive), not DUMB (Diverse, Unmeasurable, Mediocre and Basically-Unachievable). In the end, understand that also non-experts will review your grant and therefore they should be able to understand what your goals are, but also at the same time add sufficient details of your proposed methodology to convince the experts.
在这篇教育论文中，我们想提供一些建议，以帮助您成功撰写科学资助申请。除了定义一个重要的研究假设以及如何支持该假设外，资助申请的撰写还有一些技术方面的要求需要满足。因此，在开始撰写提案之前，请务必仔细阅读要求。您还必须确定为了实现研究目标需要哪些熟练的人员、设备和消耗品。建议制定带有关键里程碑的时间表（背景、合作伙伴关系、预算、撰写、同行评估、提交）。花足够的时间在摘要、标题和缩写上，以使它们对读者有吸引力。研究目标必须是 SMART（具体、可衡量、可实现、现实、有时限）的，而不是 DUMB（多样化、不可衡量、平庸且基本上无法实现）的。最后，请明白，即使是非专家也会审查您的资助申请，因此他们应该能够理解您的目标，同时还需要提供足够详细的拟议方法，以说服专家。
