Funding Application Reviews & Resubmissions

With our expertise in non-dilutive funding, we have helped thousands of life science researchers reach their ambitions. In total, we have raised more than €600 million in grants and subsidies for many international companies and academic institutions.

Review your proposals

We created the funding application review service because we understand that not in every case it makes sense to let us develop your proposal completely. The review service is possible for any grant, but a good alternative when you’re applying for an individual grant (eg. European Research Council (ERC) grants), when you’re making a re-submission, or just need some additional expert input (eg. additional market research or consortium handling). This service is available to all clients and for a range of programs, including: Horizon 2020, Eurostars, ERC, ZonMw, NWO, and more. This page is a summary of the service we provide in reviews and re-submissions, please contact us to get in touch with our experts to get more details.

Review: Content

Here we provide an in-text review of the grant application provided by the client and create a separate document with overall explanations and recommendations (if applicable).

Assessment criteria

• Understanding and convincing directed at non-technical experts (language, scientific and technological content, descriptions of business and market)
• Evaluation and suggestions relating to specifics of the call/program
• Suggestions for (additional) information and figures
• Evaluation results from earlier submissions (where relevant)

Process

• (1) Acquisition

Performed by Sales team. Offer proposal completed and signed by client.

• (2) Receipt of draft

Sales team transfers review to a (senior) consultant, who contacts client to run over and agree on timelines, which typically take 3 days. Upon acceptance, consultant receives draft review where it is in principle delivered a minimum of 7 days prior to deadline.

• (3) Review + Reporting

The consultant perform the review, where they include in-track changes and comments and, if applicable, an additional document containing overall explanations and recommendations.

• (4) Delivery to client

Within the agreed timelines, consultant will delivery the review to client for further questioning and specifications. Upon completion, client is here responsible for further processing and submission of the application.

Revision: Content

Review of the grant application provided by the client where outcome of the review is processed to generate a new version of the application.

Assessment Criteria

• Understanding and convincing directed at non-technical experts (language, scientific and technological content, descriptions of business and market)
• Processing of aspects relating to specific areas of the call/program
• Processing of evaluation results from earlier submissions (where relevant)
• Optional additional modules: request for and processing of additional information and figures; writing of specified chapters (e.g. management)

Process

• (1) Acquisition

Performed by the Sales team. The available draft is delivered to a (senior) consultant for early assessment, including a look into: overall completeness, recommendations of figures/chapters to be added, earlier evaluation results, and an estimation of consultant hours to be contracted and spent. Offer proposal completed and signed by client.

• (2) Receipt of draft

Sales team transfers the revision assignment to the consultant, when they will then contact the client to agree on timelines. Time spent on revisions, excluding optional modules, will be 5-7 days with delivery of revision at least 7 days prior to deadline.

• (3) Revision

After the draft is reviewed by a consultant, a call with the client will take place to discuss main revision items and any optional additional items that were agreed upon. After performing the revision, consultant will generate a new version of the application, possibly with the additional agreed-on items.

• (4) Delivery

Within the agreed timelines, consultant will delivery the review to client for further questioning and specifications. Upon completion, client is here responsible for further processing and submission of the application.

Re-submission: Content 

Review of the grant application earlier submitted by Catalyze. Outcome is processed to generate and submit a new version of the application.

Assessment criteria

• Processing of aspects relating to specifics of the call/program
• Processing of (additional) information and figures
• Processing of evaluation results from earlier submissions
• Understanding and convincing directed at non-technical experts (language, scientific and technological content, descriptions of business and market)

Process

• (1) Acquisition

Performed by the Sales team. Sales and client determine whether a new call or program is targeted. Sales will assess whether the requirements of the targeted call/program or project are significantly different (e.g. page count, focus of the call, altered consortium composition). After this, an offer proposal is generated by the Sales team to be signed by client.

• (2) Receipt of draft

Sales team transfers to (senior) consultant. Consultant contacts client to agree on timeliness, where time-in revision are between 3-5 days (excluding extra hours) and consultant will be responsible for re-submission of the application. Consultant will receive and retrieve draft application for re-submission.

• (3) Revision

Consultant will review draft, calling client to discuss main items to be revised and focused upon, and discuss requests for additional information/figures. The consultant will then generate a new version of the grant application.

• (4) Re-submission

Consultant will deliver the revised draft to client (and consortium) within agreed timelines. The client (and consortium) will provide input on the revised draft. Consultant will be then responsible for the submission of the application.

For further information and details regarding pricing, please contact us directly