I want to share some “exercises” that may foster your creativity and enhance your grant writing ability.

These exercise are just hints for your personal reflection and consolidation of some concepts. They are optional and not graded.

Please note that you can can perform these exercises on a notebook or a pepar. If not specified otherwise, you don't need to post your answers in the course forum.

EXERCISE 1: “WITH NEW EYES”

Take something that you have in your room (any object) and imagine making a project proposal about it, identifying: what is innovative about your idea, what problem/pain you are solving, what benefits you will bring to society, what the target of the “product/service” could be or how you would advance the state of the art.

You can make either a market-oriented proposal or a research proposal. Since it is a brainstorming exercise (focused on the invention of arguments rather than on arrangement, style etc.) it is enough to take a few notes about your ideas.

EXERCISE 2: “IF YOU LISTEN TO ME…”

Based on something you are really working on or that you have really worked on in the past, try to list all the benefits of the development of your idea (for the field of research, for society….).

What good would it bring?