Exploring the potential for use of AI to help researchers improve their research funding relevance and performance

Researchers and scientists face globally, and parallel to their core research activities, increased pressure to successfully lead or participate in fundraising activities. The field has been experiencing fierce competition with success rates of proposals falling dramatically down, while the complexity of the funding instruments and the need for acquiring a wide understanding of issues related to impacts, research priorities in connection to wider national and transnational (e.g. EU-wide) policy aspects, increases discomfort levels for the individual researchers and scientists. In the paper we suggest the use of transdisciplinary AI tools to support (semi-)automation of several steps of the application and proposal preparation processes. (Abstract)