Donald has over thirty years’ experience in applied R&D, business development, public funding and grant proposal writing. Offering my personal expertise/service to help you go the final mile in writing a winning EU proposal. Assisting with the proposal development process and detailed reviewing/editing of interim and final drafts.
My EU research grant funding activity spans across university and consultancy sectors in Ireland, UK and Spain, resulting in an in-depth knowledge of Irish, UK and EU research funding systems. I have written and supported on successful funding proposal submissions in biotech, agri-food and health thematic areas.
My early career in the food industry sector extended over 20 years in technical R&D and commercial business development roles primarily within the Ingredients area.
CILLNUA INNOVATION FUNDING – SERVICES
My service offering includes:
- Research & Innovation funding and grant proposal writing support activity targeted to SMEs, large enterprises and universities for national and EU programmes.
- R&D grant proposal writing/editing/reviewing.
- Project concept screening Go/No-Go evaluation (free service)
- Collaborative research, consortium development, partner search/linkage/brokerage.
- Funding strategy – project scoping, funding scan, programme mapping and alignment.
- Support offered across agri-food, bioeconomy, environment and biotech areas.
I offer a Proposal Editor support service model based on close and early engagement with the coordinator for provision of a comprehensive proposal writing support function.
Ideally, I prefer not to position myself as a “proposal writer” – I feel, generally, the primary writing is best coming from the coordinator/consortium – but I help to frame it to the required template structure and shape/edit it to present a clear coherent story, while also ensuring all guidelines and evaluation criteria are addressed appropriately and any gaps are identified. This will take the form of detailed review/feedback/edit of multiple draft iterations across all relevant proposal sub-sections.
In this way, I provide specialist input and added-value that will align and complement the existing in-house proposal development resources (scientific and research management), thereby maximising chances for success.
My preferred approach is to focus my input on this in-depth writing support rather than the project manager role for the proposal development process. I will interact primarily with the coordinator and their internal support team, who in turn will work closely with the consortium partners and project-manage the entire proposal development process.
Likewise, I seek to provide support during the proposal preparation pre-award phase and generally don’t put myself forward as a project partner for project management or communication & dissemination roles during the project implementation phase.
My overall objective in the support I provide is to hit the “sweet spot”, taking on an already good quality draft proposal provided by the coordinator/consortium and helping to refine and reshape into a great final proposal!
Donald has over thirty years’ experience in applied R&D, business development, public funding and grant proposal writing. Offering my personal expertise/service to help you go the final mile in writing a winning EU proposal. Assisting with the proposal development process and detailed reviewing/editing of interim and final drafts.
My EU research grant funding activity spans across university and consultancy sectors in Ireland, UK and Spain, resulting in an in-depth knowledge of Irish, UK and EU research funding systems. I have written and supported on successful funding proposal submissions in biotech, agri-food and health thematic areas.
My early career in the food industry sector extended over 20 years in technical R&D and commercial business development roles primarily within the Ingredients area.
CILLNUA INNOVATION FUNDING – SERVICES
My service offering includes:
- Research & Innovation funding and grant proposal writing support activity targeted to SMEs, large enterprises and universities for national and EU programmes.
- R&D grant proposal writing/editing/reviewing.
- Project concept screening Go/No-Go evaluation (free service)
- Collaborative research, consortium development, partner search/linkage/brokerage.
- Funding strategy – project scoping, funding scan, programme mapping and alignment.
- Support offered across agri-food, bioeconomy, environment and biotech areas.
I offer a Proposal Editor support service model based on close and early engagement with the coordinator for provision of a comprehensive proposal writing support function.
Ideally, I prefer not to position myself as a “proposal writer” – I feel, generally, the primary writing is best coming from the coordinator/consortium – but I help to frame it to the required template structure and shape/edit it to present a clear coherent story, while also ensuring all guidelines and evaluation criteria are addressed appropriately and any gaps are identified. This will take the form of detailed review/feedback/edit of multiple draft iterations across all relevant proposal sub-sections.
In this way, I provide specialist input and added-value that will align and complement the existing in-house proposal development resources (scientific and research management), thereby maximising chances for success.
My preferred approach is to focus my input on this in-depth writing support rather than the project manager role for the proposal development process. I will interact primarily with the coordinator and their internal support team, who in turn will work closely with the consortium partners and project-manage the entire proposal development process.
Likewise, I seek to provide support during the proposal preparation pre-award phase and generally don’t put myself forward as a project partner for project management or communication & dissemination roles during the project implementation phase.
My overall objective in the support I provide is to hit the “sweet spot”, taking on an already good quality draft proposal provided by the coordinator/consortium and helping to refine and re-shape into a great final proposal!
Donald Mc Donagh
Grant Proposal Writer
Cillnua Innovation Funding Services
- donald@cillnua.eu
- +353 870696132
“The art of grantsmanship will not turn mediocre science into a fundable grant proposal. Good writing will not save bad ideas, but bad writing can kill good ones.”
J. KRAICER, MD
