Click here to view the September 8th webinar featuring Alan Paul, Founder of Giant Angstrom Partners, based in Los Angeles, USA. In this webinar, Alan delves into what is needed to create successful grant applications for large US-government funded convergence projects, particularly focusing with a particular focus on NSF proposals, although the lessons are more broadly useful across other funding agencies, including those outside the US. The slide deck from the workshop is available (PDF 5MB) at this link. The webinar focused on two challenges for convergent research teams: 1) turning researchers into leaders and 2) telling a compelling story of how the team will pull off the project. For the first challenge, Alan shares his model for different leadership requirements for disciplinary, multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research. This is followed by a discussion of methods and tools for creating and sharing meaning within the team. The second challenge focused on budget, governance, training, incentives, infrastructure and evaluation.