DEVELOPING SUPPORTIVE MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE FOR GRANT-WRITING

1. DEVELOPING SUPPORTIVE MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE FOR GRANT-WRITING TEMPUS QATMI experience of Zaporizhzhya National University

2. establishing transparent quality assurance standards establishing transparent quality assurance standards tool for promotes equal possibilities both for central and provincial institutions Internationalization of higher education equal possibilities both for central and provincial institutions provides financial support

3. The most popular stereotypes concerning grant-writing activity in Ukraine are: treating grant support as “professional begging” denying transparency of evaluation procedures considering grant writing as an activity suitable for research units only

4. Performance gaps of ZNU • lack of awareness and motivation • lack of proper coordination and training for faculty and staff • poor time management (academic overload)

5. Director; Accountant; Grant Coordinators; additional positions that may include business managers, graduate and undergraduate assistants etc. + the most troublesome parts of grant project running – managing budget and reporting deadlines – are being put under control of specially appointed officers _ “multiplehats” problem Structure of units responsible for promoting and coordinating grant-writing

6. consultations and support (including translation services)to groups and individuals willing to submit a project proposal grant support for its own functioning and some activities of International Office Internationalization of higher education on-line database on different means of grant support as well as partner search database experience in project writing via trainings, workshops, seminars and conferences both on local and national level PROVIDING SEEKING CREATING AND MAINTAINING COLLECTING AND DISSEMINATING

7. ZNU Grant-Writing Office Structure • 2 grant coordinators, both of whom can act as translators • a special person in accountants’ office is appointed to provide help to Grant-Writing Office with calculating projects’ budgets

8. Three best practices we’ve borrowed from TEMPUS QATMI experience • personal approach • “every effort counts” • early start: students’ involvement

9. International activities of ZNU: international projects

10. ZNUprojects in in academic year 2010-2011 • Pilot Project “Quality Assurance Office at the Faculty of Journalism” (Carnegy Foundation) • Centre of European Information in ZNU Scientific Library (International Renaissance Foundation) • Swiss-Ukrainian Centre for Children • Pilot Project “Interactive Means of Teaching English in Secondary Schools” (British Council, Cambridge University Press) • Pilot Project “ZNU Grant Writing Centre” (Carnegie Foundation)

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