In the beginning of the year ChatGPT blew to world away – and continues to do so. The level of complexity of the feedback from ChatGPT made it clear for all that here we are dealing with a ground-breaking technology that will have a major impact on development of society. Very quickly after the launch of ChatGPT the number of posts on the impact on grants proposal writing exploded In my LinkedIn feed. Because indeed this technology will have a huge impact on the proposa-based funding system and whoever is employed and involved in it. A couple of my LinkedIn contacts started digging into the technology, shared their findings and discussed the implications for the whole system.

So, I decided that it is time for a debate panel in The Grant to discuss the technology, the implications and the possibilities for grants proposal writing and the whole EU funding system. I invited the two independent consultants Kristjan Zemljic and Georg Melzer-Venturi and Director of Innovation at EIT Urban Mobility Gareth Macnaugton into the virtual podcast studio to have a discussion about this extremely hot topic.

First, Kristjan shares with us how CHatGPT works and what he has done to work WITH the technology and use all the good things of it and turn it into his advantage. Then we move into a discussion about the implicaTIONS for proposal writing. How will this affect the huge grants consultancy business and does it even matter anymore if ChatGPT does a better job? And finally we will dig into how this will influence the whole proposal-based funding system and reflections on how the EU Commission might deal with this new technology in their future calls and evaluation system design.