Help with funding applications
As a researcher, you can find various types of help and advice for funding applications. Experience shows that the right advice and sparring leads to better and more successful applications. The department management team had established the following local guidelines:
- Funding applications with budgets in excess of DKK 300,000 must be submitted to the department head and the deputy head of department for research. They may subsequently appoint a reviewer for professional sparring. There is a deadline of 14 days (10 working days) before the application deadline.
- All applications must be registered in ReAp - including information on the outcome of the application (also rejections).
- Budgets must be reviewed by the business controller.
- Budgets should strive for full funding.
Register your grant application in ReAp
All departments require registration.
What is ReAp?
ReAp (Research Applications) is an online system for registering grant applications.
Why should I register grant applications?
It is a requirement from AU's audit, but registration also provides institute leaders with an overview of the institute's applications.
When you register grant applications, you contribute to providing:
- an important overview of the institute's future financial situation
- information about success rates with various funds
It is helpful for both institute management, the finance department, yourself, and your colleagues.
Which applications should you register?
All grant applications must be registered, regardless of the amount requested.
Especially for the Department of Clinical Medicine: Fund applications under DKK 100,000 do not need to be registered.
You should register in ReAp when you:
- create a new application
- have received a response to your application (both approval and rejection)
Help with ReAp
Contact the secretariat leader at your institute if you need assistance.
Thank you for registering your grant application.
As a general rule, all expenses must be covered in an externally-financed research project.
It is therefore important to include overheads and indirect costs such as i.e. cost of workload reduction, laboratory technician/biomedical laboratory scientist, administration/secretarial assistance, AC-TAP, use of CORE facilities, rental costs etc. However, it may be necessary to accept co-financing, e.g. for own salery, support or equipment. Contact Lene Baad-Hansen for an overview of standard prices to use when drawing up a budget for the foundations that do not provide overheads.
See the guidelines under the heading "The budget".
The Research Support Office must be involved in all phases of applications that fall under the FP7 and Horizon 2020 programmes.
Contact both the Research Support Office and the head of department in plenty of time before you begin on an application. In cases where the applicant is the coordinator, the Research Support Office must be contacted no later than two months prior to the application deadline and preferably earlier.
It is mandatory to use peer review in applications to the European Research Council and The Innovation Fund Denmark. Please consult deputy head for research and talent for further information.
- The Research Support Office assists with all phases of the application (except for AU foundations).
- Consider secretarial support for the coordination and collection of material, layout and proofreading.
Special information for PhD students
PhD students and researchers below assistant professor and postdoc level must use the supervisors to ensure the quality of research applications. In addition, they are encouraged to make use of these offers:
- Ask for help from HE Finance who can help to prepare budgets based on standard rates for salaries and other expenses. If you are interested in this, please contact okonomicenterhealth.okoplan@au.dk.
- Use the Research Support Office's electronic toolbox containing tips for e.g. the project description and tools to present a CV and budget in a clear way.
In exceptional cases, if there is an application from a PhD student with major strategic importance for the department, the department head can contact the Research Support Office and make a special agreement.
Find foundations
The purely odontological foundations award only limited funding. It is therefore recommended that you send interdisciplinary and broader applications (e.g. "child", "pain", "infection", "group") if the specific project allows. See also Research Professional.
See current calls at the Health website.
You can also contact the Research Support Office for advice about foundations that match your project.
Read more about how to make foundation applications: Advice and tools for your foundation grant proposal