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Keeping a funding pipeline between awards
Most strong teams do not chase one grant. They maintain a sequence.
Mix fast and slow routes
A pipeline gets stronger when it combines a few slow, high-value applications with smaller or faster-moving calls that can bridge people, data, or preliminary work.
This reduces the pressure to force every idea into the biggest programme available.
Let one proposal feed the next
Good pipelines are cumulative. A challenge call can support pilot work, a project grant can deepen the evidence, and a larger consortium bid can scale what is already believable.
That sequence is often easier to fund than a single giant leap.