Published: 23 Jun 2025 13 views
The major goals of K Awards: A Path to Success is to orient attendees to grant-writing and grant-strategizing for successful K applications, including how to position their research and themselves to engage reviewers. Participants will work with CareerVolt workshop leaders with a proven track record of helping applicants improve and position compelling K applications. Attendees will learn about different K award mechanisms, how K’s are unique from R’s, and strategies to maximize each K award component. They will gain an understanding of the goal of the K award program, which is critical for maximizing funding success.
This workshop will take place in two parts: a required online, asynchronous web-based course (~5 hours total) followed by the livestream, 6-hour online training on September 4, 2025. Participants will be given access to the web-based course about three weeks before the live training.
By the end of the workshop, participants will be familiar with the following topics:
One round of written feedback for a Specific Aims page will be made available to all attendees for up to 2 months after the workshop, at no additional cost.
This workshop targets researchers who have submitted or will be submitting a K award application or are thinking about submitting a K award application within six months to one year from the workshop date. There are a few requirements to attend this training:
*Hands-on activities will use participant aims pages, and we therefore request that all participants respect the confidentiality of other attendees. Any participant who prefers not to share their research ideas may create a mock aims page to use during the training.
Summer 2025: The K Awards Training combines a 5-hour web-based, asynchronous training with a 6-hour livestream, online training (11hrs total). Prior to the livestream training on September 4, 2025, participants are required to complete a self-paced, web-based course. Once the asynchronous portion is complete, participants will attend a livestream, remote training on September 4, 2025 from ~10:00am - ~4:00pm EDT.
Please note: This training was originally schedule for July 10, but has been postponed to September 4.
Each attendee must register using this form. Registration is first come, first served, so you must complete registration and receive a confirmation email to guarantee your spot in the training. The registration form collects 1) basic demographic information 2) specific details on the attendee's expertise in the training topic 3) credit card payment information.
If paying by an alternative method (invoice/check, wire transfer, internal transfer) you will need to input a Columbia code to complete registration. See training website below for how to obtain that code if needed. The Columbia discount for active CU employees will automatically be applied when using your work email on the registration form.
For more details visit Columbia University Training Webpage
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