The Funded Scientist: an online 4-day training to write research proposals

In these 4 days of FREE training, you'll learn:

The 2 traps that are stopping brilliant scientists like you from even submitting big grants, and how to avoid them
The 5 mindset shifts to stop writing your next grant proposal like a scientific paper and instead lead it like a business CEO
The 4 elements of the grant writing system our clients implement, so you can immediately take action
And all sprinkled with specific examples, implementation exercises and co-working time so you can truly focus and write 🎊

You're a scientist who plans to submit one or several grants this year and KNOW that you need a different approach than what you've been doing. No more rushing before the deadline and sleepless nights.

You plan to apply to the big calls (ERC grants, Marie Curie, Veni-Vidi, Vici, Ambizione, etc), and you know you cannot write those big grants like you write the smaller ones.

You've written grant proposals before, but you're not happy with your success rate, and you're committed to learning new skills in funding acquisition.

You want to get funded, but you have so many things on your plate that you cannot even think about it. And yes, you wish you had an "excuse" to block time for thinking about that grant.

If you nodded once after reading this, first know you’re not alone. And this bootcamp will help you with a new approach to your grant writing!

These sessions are 2-hour co-working sessions in Zoom, where in silence you'll be writing your paper or grant proposal, and implementing what you learn in the classes. The sessions are facilitated by me, Alison or Judy; our amazing editors 🥰

All to create that accountability to block time for writing, while surrounded by a like-minded community of scientists 🙌🏼 The schedule of these focus sessions is:

Monday 19th, 15.00-17.00
Wednesday 21st, 16.00-18.00
Thursday 22nd 9.00-11.00

All this is to give you that boost of motivation to not stop writing!

Hi, I’m Ana Pineda, PhD and I help academics like you to focus and write. I've taken everything I've learned from more than 15 years of doing research and helped thousands of scientists with their writing and productivity so they can feel confident with their work. Through my courses, writing retreats, and free materials like this, we follow a mindful approach to getting things done. The things that matter to you!

My mission is to make this world better by helping scientists to have a more productive, more creative, and happier research life. Should we start?

More people like you to supervise PhDs, postdocs and train future generations of scientists who put people first.

More people like you to model what it means to do amazing science AND be a human who has a life and prioritises that.

More people like you who felt like they didn't belong in academia. Maybe for being a woman, a neurodivergent person, or a foreigner.

Yes, I want more people like you in academia, and with money.

And I've learned a few things about getting money I'd like to share with you!

The Funded Scientist

Kick off your 2026 full of focus and write with a new business approach to grant writing

In these 4 days of FREE training, you'll learn:

By Ana Pineda, PhD.

I focus and write

For whom is the FREE training?

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This will be our 4rd Bootcamp, and more than 3000 people have joined so far (+ thousands more in our free classes). I asked them in what ways the BootCamp had helped them, and here are some of their answers:

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