Funding Day Alnarp

Morning: 09.00-12.00 with a fika break

The morning will begin with a welcome from Ylva Hillbur, Pro Vice Chancellor for Internationalisation, Doctoral Education & Agenda 2030. The following funders will then be invited to give short presentations and to interact with the audience through a Q&A:

• Sten K Johnsons stiftelse
  Lisbeth Barchan, Executive Director

• Stiftelsen lantbruksforskning
  Lina Bengtsson, Research Officer

• Nordforsk
  Bjørnar Solhaug Komissar, Special Advisor

• Stiftelsen Oscar och Lili Lamms Minne
  Margareta Emanuelson, Chair

Lunch

We will reserve a section of the restaurant for those who want to network; however, lunch is at your own expense.

Afternoon: 13.30-16.00 with a fika break

The afternoon session is a hands on workshop (please bring your laptop): AI in grant writing and research administration with Mads Lykke Berggreen. The workshop covers:

• How generative AI actually works — and why that explains both what the tools are good at and when they fail

• Grant writing: from call to draft — making sense of a call, building structure, drafting text without losing your own voice, and using AI as a critical reader of what you have written

• Choice, safety and responsible use: which tasks can go where, why the choice of tool matters more than the choice of prompt, and how to assess a new tool before you use it

• Bias and error sources: where they arise in the models, how they show up in proposals and reports, and how to spot them

NOTE! The exercises are run on material prepared for the workshop — an anonymised call text and a draft proposal — so that no confidential, personal or unpublished material are used. Participants will work on their own laptops, and the exercises are designed to work in any commonly available chatbot, so no specific licence is required. If a step depends on a tool not everyone has, it will be demonstrated by the convenors instead. 

Do not use any sensitive, confidential or secret information when interacting with an AI client. SLU does not automatically provide securities to ensure data shared is safe and secure. Read more about SLU’s guidance on using AI services at work.