Rīga Stradiņš University (RUS) is organising an interactive grant writing training online. It is funded by the project “Consolidating the capacities of EATRIS-ERIC for Personalised Medicine (EATRIS-PLUS)”.

This will be a one-day, interactive online training on grant writing. Marie Güntel from ttopstart will put the FFWD methodology (Fit, Framework, Write, and Develop) into practice dividing the day into four sections. Each of these steps will start with a short intro after which the group will transfer to interactive breakout sessions. During these sessions, participants will have time to get feedback from their peers and the trainers on the main parts of their proposal, or discuss cases and examples.

About the trainer

Marie Güntel, Consultant at ttopstart, studied biotechnology at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany and the Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden and has a degree in Medical Biotechnology. She came to the Netherlands to undergo an internship at the Leiden University Medical Center where she studied the influence of the microbiota on the formation of colon cancer. Driven by her passion for science, she stayed in the Netherlands to pursue her PhD research at the Amsterdam University Medical Center. Here, Güntel studied how epigenetic programs regulate the cardiac myocyte response after myocardial infarction. At ttopstart, she has gained extensive expertise in writing European funding proposals and in-depth knowledge of European funding systems such as Horizon Europe, IHI, ERC, etc.