We know from experience that starting to write a grant is very challenging. Procrastination is always around the corner during this process.With this course we want to provide you with some easy ‘handles’ and ‘basic principles’ you need to consider when developing your grant application. For most of these topics we have provided some easy-to-capture tips and tricks.  We asked researchers from various VIB labs to share their Top Tips. To make sure you capture what you’ve learned, you can test your knowledge in different exercises.Please be aware that this is a basic course – developed for junior (PhD) researchers writing their first grant application – as well as for the people assisting these junior researchers during the writing process. The course is envisaged as a general grant writing course. Although the course has a broad scope and is not focused on a specific type of grant, we do make some references to the FWO PhD fellowship application template.Moreover, the course is focused on grant writing and not on the interview part. However, when you are invited to an interview for your grant application, we do have several options available to coach you at this stage of the process.