Behind Grantivity: method and practice
Grantivity is an independent practice in Berlin. The system does the checking; the conversation about what a finding means for a research group stays with a person.
- Based in
- Berlin
- Works in
- German and English
- Contact
- mail@grantivity.co
Dr. Chris Doering
Chris Doering trained as a designer and holds a doctorate from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Design is where he learned to structure innovation processes and to get people from different disciplines working towards one result.
He then worked in research and international development: at the Fraunhofer Center for Responsible Research and Innovation, on innovation and start-up ecosystem projects with the GIZ in Sri Lanka and Egypt, and on a doctoral programme in eco-social innovation at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Switzerland) with the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad (India).
In all of these roles he saw research groups choose calls under time pressure, and projects shaped to fit a programme while the group’s own line of work and long-term vision dropped out of view. Grantivity is built so that this choice is checked against the programme guidelines before writing starts.
- Certificate “Manager for Public Funding and Fundraising”, emcra, 2026
- Futures Thinking certificate (forecasting, simulation, collaborative foresight), Institute for the Future, 2024
- Chair of the board, Kiezbündnis Klausenerplatz e.V., a neighbourhood association in Berlin, 2025
- Advisory board, German Federal Ecodesign Award (Bundespreis Ecodesign), 2022–2025
Pairing structured data with professional experience
Grantivity is set up to work with a small number of research groups, institutes and grant offices at a time. Every report is read and discussed before it is handed over.
The system is developed and operated in-house. Reports cite their sources so that clients can check them independently.