What about methods?

We will not write you a textbook on methods. However there are some points you must address.

You must give a full and good description of the methods you will use and how you will use them
You must argue that they are suitable and the best for your problem and match your work plan
You may need to defend your choice of method. This gives you a good opportunity to show that you know competing methods and that you have made a conscious choice. The text can be used also for the SoA section.
Your method may be the most valuable asset in the proposal, it being unique, new, better more efficient, above SoA etc. Write about this.
If your project is interdisciplinary and involve several partners you must show that the method(s) used are compatible and suitable across the full field of research and partners.
- We often see evaluator comments on method use that leads to results that are not comparable or make inconclusive results.
You must know your statistics. If not, seek help when you write the proposal. Too many proposal fails because of:
- missing statistics
- wrong use of statistics
- too small datasets to conclude
- incompatible datasets (brought in by different partners)
- inconclusive results
If you need to access registers and database ask for help and check that data will be available in a useful form. If you will combine data from several registers and bases this is even more important.