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By Gordan Vurusic

Gordan Vurusic is a new Training Coordinator with the GradGrants Center for the 2003/04 academic year. He comes from Croatia and is a PhD student in the Political Science Department specializing in international relations and comparative politics. He likes to say that he started to study political science out of a personal frustration. During the war in his home country, Croatia (1991-1995), he developed a desire to understand those domestic and international political processes that caused the war, but he also wanted to contribute to solving the conflict. Because of his political interests he pursued the career of Political Advisor for conflict resolution with the Croatian Government (1992-1995).

After the war, Gordan has pursued graduate education in political science on the international level. In the past four years he has lived in the Czech Republic, Hungary, the Netherlands and the United States, pursuing his graduate degrees and working as a visiting fellow and researcher. During his academic career he won over $80,000 in grants from US and international grant-giving institutions. For all those grants he had to write grant proposals that were golden matches between the interests and purposes of the grant-giving institutions and his search interests. In the course of grant-writing process, he has learned that the most important thing about grant proposals is that proposals should match as closely as possible prerequisites of particular grants, as well as policies, interests and missions of particular granting agencies. Moreover, grant proposals need to be clear and capture the attention of the selection committee members who are not necessarily familiar with the subject matter of research described in a grant proposal.

Come visit Gordan at the GradGrants Center. He can help you get those lucrative grants for your education and research.