Enspire Science's customer testimonials

Thanks a lot for the encouragement, your help and support! It has been a pleasure working together with you.

We are very happy for this outcome, and I would like to thank Shira, Yasmin, Ruthy, and the rest of the Enspire team that helped us. You did an amazing job! 

I would like to highlight the impact score. You did tell us that our impact section was poor, and now it is 5 out of 5. We could not be happier for the help you have provided, and we are grateful that you took on the task when I initially approached you.

Thank you for the work we have done together and for your support and your availability.

Thank you, very much! Your help has been crucial for the application to succeed. I am sure we will be able to rely on your help in the future. 

“The review was a long-term process that took about three months. With the deep evaluation of the project, this was the opportunity to go further in science and identify critical points regarding originality, high risk/high gain and major breakthrough to achieve. Feedbacks were really helpful to improve the project.”

“I am both very satisfied and happy with the assistance and help from ENSPIRE. Writing an ERC grant is completely different from writing a national grant proposal. Despite my large experience, I do not think I would have been able to prepare, without the help of ENSPIRE, the grant according to the requirements of ERC. As a whole, I am very much impressed by the professionalism of ENSPIRE.”

“When you first apply to an ERC grant you are a bit lost, and ENSPIRE support is very clarifying, allowing you to focus on the proper proposal.
There is also advice about what is important and what is not, that I guess is crucial. It is not a normal call, and if you don´t realise that, your chances are even more limited.”

“The service provided was excellent. The advisor was close to my knowledge area, thus his insights were very helpful in shaping the project’s vision and main idea. Besides, he had a thorough technical knowledge of the proposal parts, helping us on completing all expected aspects of it.”

“Enspire’s Deep dive review has been an added value for applying to the ERC call. The help provided by their consultant has been crucial in the process of understanding the call’s rationale and its less intuitive peculiar aspects. I would definitely recommend their services!”

“Working with Sharon was an amazing process. Her feedback was in-depth, detail-oriented, and critical; she just asked the kind of critical questions that I needed to hear in order to improve the application. For a first-time applicant, it was invaluable for me to get a better grasp of ERC criteria such as high-risk and Sharon made sure to remind me of them. I really appreciated the quick feedback and availability especially in the busy last week before the deadline.”

“The feedback has been extremely useful to greatly improve my application. Of course, sometimes the feedback is not what we want to hear, but at the end of the day, that is exactly what I needed to push myself and to not be satisfied. There was so much room for improvement, and that is exactly where Enspire helped me very much.
Thank you Enspire Team!”

“I am very satisfied with the service provided by Enspire Science. I particularly appreciate the role of the consultant that I was working with, who helped me to significantly improve the scientific part of the proposal and to present my track record from the best side. Even if my project is not funded, the process of its preparation was extremely advantageous for my personal development.”

“I received some great comments about improving risk/challenges and hypotheses during writing the proposal.
I found how to connect the methodology with risk and hypotheses.”

” The Deep dive review was excellent in combination with Enspire’s course on preparing for an ERC grant and the extensive online knowledge database. The initial complementary review was very encouraging and already at that stage helped me start to re-formulate my research idea into a more competitive ERC application. The dialogue and sparring provided by the Enspire consultant throughout the writing process were invaluable and although I am still waiting for the initial evaluation, am certain that the initial idea and proposal would not have been competitive enough to progress through this stage.”

“The services of Enspire were of very high quality. The advisors are very experienced, and they were really attentive to detail. They provided me with great guidance in a grant scheme which I had no prior experience with. This helped my application become focused and to the point. The communication was good and frequent and they were there to answer all my questions. I fully recommend Enspire’s “deep dive” experience, I feel it has significantly enhanced my chances of success.”

“The contribution was really good not only in formal issues but also in scientific and technical aspects.”

“Very good interaction, strong criticism (which is good), helped me to shape my ideas about the project, very nice and helpful staff.”

“I received very critical feedback trying to disintegrate my entire proposal. Thanks for that. Only such a feedback is really valuable and helps to improve a proposal.”

“Very helpful indeed, I was not expecting so much.”

“My consultant provided extremely helpful suggestions to sharpen my proposal, focus on the key contributions, identify the main strengths and present them in a suitable manner for the call.”

“I think the quality of the proposal significantly improved thanks to the review. I think the review certainly helped to address some of ERC’s key points. Looking forward to seeing the results to certify if this feeling of improvement becomes a reality or not!”

“I found it extremely helpful to have an extra pair of eyes going through the application and double-checking that everything is fine, e.g. in terms of the formatting and also the budget calculations. There is so much that can be missed at the last minute and it gave me a great deal of peace of mind to know that someone else is going through the application thoroughly. Beyond that, I think the most valuable to me was the guidance I received when it came to fitting my project into the ERC framework. ERC projects are very different in regard to what is expected and it took me some time to understand how to convey, for example, the “high risk – high gain” requirement. I also received important feedback about crucial aspects of the project, such as my hypotheses and research questions, which enabled me to make my research proposal much clearer. Overall, my project has become much stronger and more competitive than it would have been without an Enspire Deep Dive review. Last not least, I highly appreciated the swiftness in responding – literally until the last minute! Thanks Sharon!”

“I immensely benefitted from working with Sharon Alon. She was extremely helpful throughout the whole process. She was both very professional and kind. She managed to bring me to develop my project and formulate my ideas without ever putting pressure on me, which I truly appreciated. She always made relevant and thorough comments on both parts B1 and B2 of my project. Her review of the administrative part of my application (Part A) was also extremely useful, especially towards the end of the process when the pressure started to be very high. She was always available to help me to revise and improve my application until the very last minute and she always communicated in a composed and non-stressful way, which is precious for any researcher in the early steps of a research project.”

“To me, the most valuable aspect of the whole process was having someone ask the right questions and evidencing unclear passages of the proposal. It is so easy to take things for granted and omit important explanations when you are so deep into the research. A fresh but expert opinion is always welcome. Also, the gentle but constant reminder of partial deadlines was very helpful.”

“I was extremely satisfied with the deep dive service provided by Enspire, and by Sharon Alon, who was my consultant for the application. Her feedback was detailed and helpful, and based on a thorough understanding of the requirements of the grant program.”

“The important details are clearly emphasized which can have a dramatic effect on the success of the proposal.”

“The customization of the feedback to my proposal and the availability of the adviser was very good.”

“Let me think about the research idea in a very critical way.”

“Really helpful in many aspects such as understanding the expectations and requirements for a successful ERC grant,  pushing me forward to explore new directions for quantitative analyses which I think really improved the grant, emphasizing how important it is for me to be the most suitable person to do the research and advising me on many issues, including strategic issues regarding how the grant would be met with my competitors, which was very helpful.”

“The consultant had a deep knowledge about ERC priorities and what the reviewers value and don’t value. As an applicant, one learns what is important, what is less important and what is not important.”

“The feedback was constructive and concise. Also, the consultant’s scientific background was excellent, so that there was also very good feedback on how to improve the proposal on the scientific level.”

“Very intelligent and to the point. I felt like the team understood not only the document but the work itself and helped me present its significance much better than I would otherwise have done.”

“I was impressed on how I was assisted at all levels, ranging from the details of text formatting, till the definition of the core idea and overall proposal structure. I was feeling as I had somebody very experienced in my Institute constantly available for feedback on all points. Eventually, I could really see the proposal improving week by week.”

“The consultant was very available and always able to discuss any point or question I had.”

“The team was incredibly helpful: always available to answer my questions with great kindness and professionalism. Writing the project was rather counterintuitive for me, and they provided me with all the necessary tools for succeeding in formulating the project the way I envisioned it. They both respected my proposal and my idea – heard my voice – and were implacable regarding the formal issues. They seemed to know exactly what are the rules for writing the proposal as it should be written for the ERC reviewers to at least give it a fair chance. I definitely want to thank them for the hard and engaged work.”

“Thank you for the great feedback on my ERC proposal! Your comments were extremely helpful in focusing and structuring the proposal.”

“Initiating and managing a Horizon 2020 collaborative project is an extremely complex task. The team worked hand-in-hand with us throughout the proposal preparation and team building. Their experience was indispensable for building the consortium and writing the proposal.”

“I just wanted to say thank you once again, for the support in getting through this (very) challenging and intense hurdle or preparing an ERC grant application.”

“I wish to highlight your valuable contribution in shaping up my project proposal. It is highly appreciated.”

“ERC writing was very different than the kind of writing I was used to. Your helpful input on my proposal was critical and clearly helped me to successfully convey my research to the ERC.”

“Applying to ERC is highly challenging, more than any other grant. Working with you was very fruitful, as your contribution to the process was essential to my success.”

“Your guidance and assistance was instrumental for my success in the ERC Interview in Brussels.”

“We have heard only positive feedback from our researchers about your ERC training session. They mentioned several times that they like how professional you come across and that you de-mystify the ERC and gave them the hope that they can also win one.”

“Your valuable inputs have helped me to crystallize my research hypothesis and adapt it to ERC requirements… You gave me real-time advice and supported the entire writing process. The scientific idea was positioned much better thanks to your involvement. You also helped me a lot by taking care of all parts allowing me to focus on the scientific part.”

“Thank you for you support and guiding during the preparation and writing of my ERC proposal. It is helpful to have someone who had so much experience with European grant system to offer guidance and direction. I sincerely appreciate your efforts and availability during the holidays to answer any question I had and to help me tie up the proposal as best as possible.”

“Your team was great in helping me align my research idea to the ERC criteria and to shape a robust scientific proposal. Through the several revisions, I was able to turn my initial draft to a consistent hypothesis-driven project, strictly conforming to the rules of science.”

“As a social scientist, I found your guidance and assistance in shaping my ERC hypothesis and application focus to be very helpful and valuable, especially in the field of Constitutional Law. The assistance was absolutely timely, the given suggestions sharp and consistence. They gave me an invaluable help in framing my project.”

“I have been working with Enspire Science on an ERC application. The team was helpful, professional, organized and knowledgeable, while keeping a pleasant and friendly attitude. I am confident that the help enhanced my application.”

“Your advice was invaluable in strengthening my ERC application – not only in improving the way it was framed but also in pushing me to develop and refine some of its core research questions.”

“I was extremely grateful to have this assistance during the writing of my application. They were always available and provided regular support and detailed feedback on my draft documents. Their advice really helped me to not only understand the unique requirements of the ERC, but also pushed me towards developing a much stronger application than I would have delivered if I was left to work on my own.”