An Approach to Research Teams Teaching "as you go" for High-Quality Grant Proposals Writing Based on the Experience of ITMO University

This work is devoted to teaching writing and submitting grant proposals "as you go", which allows our university to involve new research teams in a full cycle of grant activity rapidly and keep win rate at the level of approximately 20%. This course, which is called "Effective grant proposals writing and submitting training "as you go"!", available for every research team of our university. This course is for teams that have participated in external grant competitions less than three times. We have been teaching this course since 2010. We evaluated the effectiveness of the course based on the assessment of the probability of rejection of 613 grant proposals written during the training. The evaluation showed that if there was no course, the number of winning proposals could decrease for more than 70%.