This is the first Advisory Board episode. In the Advisory Board concept I will have a core group of experts that on a regular basis drops by the virtual podcast studio to exchange, discuss and enlighten me and the listeners on issues within grants application.

In this episode I have the first The Grant Advisory Board member Kristjan Zemljic onboard. Kristjan has the independent consultancy company Global Disruption together with his partner. Kristjan has been working with EU R&D grants application for more than 10 years in different connections, but now primarily works with high-tech SME's and incubator organisations.

We have a nice in-depth talk about how to develop your idea into and full project concept. We depart from The Grant timeline episode on the topic and dig into the details on which tools we use, how we prefer to approach the content discussions with teams and clients and how to arrive at the strong concept in the end. The episode contains lots of advise and reflections on this crucial part of the proposal preparation.

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Time codes:

• 00:15:35: Overall – how to prepare yourself and attacking the process to make a good concept
• 00:34:30: How to use Power Point, Google Drive etc as idea development canvas tools shaping the technical project structure
• 00:53:00: Work package structure – IPR, Communication/Dissemination/Exploitation, Project management, Life Cycle Assessment etc
• 00:57:30 : Concept tool in steps to work with the core partner
• 01:02:30: Call requirements check up vs. the project concept
• 01:06:45: The toughest challenge