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GRANT APPLICATION TASK
This task allows students to gain some familiarity with interdisciplinary work without engaging strictly in a course of interdisciplinary research or problem-solving. Students learn to justify interdisciplinary work and plan for it.
This task is most suitable for:
Interactions
Mixed (interdisciplinary) groups
Degree of Integration
Interdisciplinary
Problem structure
Open-ended problems
Skill targets
Interdisciplinary problem-solving
What are Grant Application Tasks?
Students are given the task of writing an interdisciplinary joint project application which mimicks the way funds are allocating for interdisciplinary research or problem-solving projects. As such students should 1) justify the overall goals of the project – including why interdisciplinary work is required 2) assign and develop work-packages for the groups 3) explain their methodological choices 4) explain how results will be evaluated 5) explain social impact. Students might be asked as a team to an interview process as in common in grant application processes.
Ready-made Resources
Below you can find the link to materials used at the University of Twente in the ATLAS Bachelor programme, a liberal arts programme run at the University College Twente. Students undertaking this programme shape their own educational trajectories by choosing their own courses from across the university.
Description of a research proposal task for students based on “Living in Extreme Environments”
Further Reading
Description of paper by Cole et al.:
Cole, K. E., Inada, M., Smith, A. M., & Haaf, M. P. (2013). Implementing a Grant Proposal Writing Exercise in Undergraduate Science Courses To Incorporate Real-World Applications and Critical Analysis of Current Literature. Journal of Chemical Education, 90(10), 1316-1319.
