Securing Funding Successfully - Getting Started with Third-Party Funding II: National Funding for Technology Transfer: This course is designed to teach the core skills of securing external funding and drafting grant proposals, which are necessary to finance research projects and support academic staff. To this end, the individual aspects of the application process and the associated procedures will be presented and illustrated with examples. Particular attention will be paid to the details that highlight the application’s eligibility for funding and to areas where difficulties or formal errors frequently arise. The goal of the course is to enable participants to write eligible applications.