Some call it "research grant bullshit bingo" - you massage the grant contents till you hit the currently necessary bingo combination for getting your grant past

Some call it "research grant bullshit bingo" - you massage the grant contents till you hit the currently necessary bingo combination for getting your grant past gatekeepers of money. In similar vein is padding grants with equipment (including software licenses) that is often secondary to the needs or sometimes even was already available, but which would in turn enable you to work more efficiently on 20 more projects and be passed to institution after grant ended, helping other people. Grant review and acceptance is quite often a question of what's fashionable and thus might get unspoken extra points in evaluation.