Finally! After many trials and tribulations, long nights and intensive discussions we submitted the application for a Marie Curie Excellence grant today. The grant is worth approx. 1.4M€ and would fund a small group of scientists and me for 4 years. I'm happy to have this one off my chest. It is a great project and it would be a dream to get it funded, but the bureaucracy around the application was mind-numbing!

I'm excited to write the next proposal now and am confident that one of them will fly.