Successful grants are essential to survive in research. Considering the importance of grants, it is surprising that we are commonly not trained to write proposals, instead only for writing research papers. Some, who are lucky among us, have at least some understanding of writing for a general audience, but mostly we only learn how to write for our expert audience specifically. The proposal writing process requires skills way beyond the ability to work out a research idea in detail. Hence, for an excellent grant proposal in this course, we will explore: