Dear all,
Thank you everyone for responding to my doodle. Based on your feedback, Tuesday 21st May at 10:00 CEST seems to be the best option, so please book that slot in your diaries.
Some of you, representing supporting organisations, have contacted me wondering if your presence is also required. You do not have to be there but you are most welcome to join if you so wish. This might be a good opportunity to meet the others in the group and contribute to the conversation and decisions, but purely up to you. We will of course continue to keep you informed.
Looking forward to seeing you again in May and best regards,
Nasrine
From: Nasrine Olson
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Subject: RE: Decision about the DIVERSE MSCA application
Dear all,
Many thanks for your feedback and positive comments (whether to the list or directly to me). It seems that many of us are in favour of improving and resubmitting the proposal.
I suggest that we meet late in May and discuss further steps. To help find a suitable date, please indicated your availability here by end of Wednesday next week (17th): https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/enNZvyYe
Many thanks,
Nasrine
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Subject: Decision about the DIVERSE MSCA application
Dear all,
As many of you would have seen, we have a decision about our application, but unfortunately not the positive outcome that we had hoped for.
I attach both the Decision and the Evaluation Summary Report documents. There are a mix of comments, with the best score awarded to the implementation criteria.
With 920 applications sent to the same call (see below) I had actually anticipated a high risk for rejection, but I had hoped for a higher score. Still, it is encouraging that we have received some very positive comments. Very interested to hear about your thoughts about any potential next steps, should we improve and resubmit, or not? What do you think?
Regardless, for me the idea was great and timely, I have thoroughly enjoyed collaborating with you, and we have formed a wonderful consortium. I also like to add that I personally learned a lot through this process, Thank You Everyone! and specially Nicola and Tara for generously sharing your knowledge and experiences about MSCA applications with us.
Best regards,
Nasrine
Submission statistics
Nov 29, 2023 11:57:26 AM
A total of 1,066 proposals were submitted in response to this call. The number of proposals for each topic is shown below:
- Doctoral Networks (standard DN): 920 proposals (86.3% of total)
- Industrial Doctorates (DN-ID): 64 proposals (6.0% of total)
- Joint Doctorates (DN-JD): 82 proposals (7.7% of total)
Dear all,
A quick reminder to highlight that the deadline for applying for the travel scholarships for the ACM summer school on Accessible and Inclusive Technologies is tomorrow, April 17th. Please ensure your students are aware and apply in time. Thank you!
Nasrine
Dear colleagues
We are organising an ACM Summer School on Accessible and Inclusive Technologies to be held on 24th - 27th of June this year in Birmingham. It is possible for PhD students to seek travel scholarship (limited).
Please attend and/or help us spread the information through your networks.
Here is the Eventbrite page for the summer school:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/acm-europe-summer-school-on-accessible-and-i…
Many thanks,
Nasrine
Programme:
Monday 24th June: Disability innovation and studies, inclusive design
Tuesday 25th June: Inclusive Immersive Technologies and Accessible Games
Wednesday 26th June: Inclusive Multisensory Experiences and Interfaces
Thursday 27th June: Inclusive Futures, Responsible AI and Ethics
Dear all,
As many of you would have seen, we have a decision about our application, but unfortunately not the positive outcome that we had hoped for.
I attach both the Decision and the Evaluation Summary Report documents. There are a mix of comments, with the best score awarded to the implementation criteria.
With 920 applications sent to the same call (see below) I had actually anticipated a high risk for rejection, but I had hoped for a higher score. Still, it is encouraging that we have received some very positive comments. Very interested to hear about your thoughts about any potential next steps, should we improve and resubmit, or not? What do you think?
Regardless, for me the idea was great and timely, I have thoroughly enjoyed collaborating with you, and we have formed a wonderful consortium. I also like to add that I personally learned a lot through this process, Thank You Everyone! and specially Nicola and Tara for generously sharing your knowledge and experiences about MSCA applications with us.
Best regards,
Nasrine
Submission statistics
Nov 29, 2023 11:57:26 AM
A total of 1,066 proposals were submitted in response to this call. The number of proposals for each topic is shown below:
- Doctoral Networks (standard DN): 920 proposals (86.3% of total)
- Industrial Doctorates (DN-ID): 64 proposals (6.0% of total)
- Joint Doctorates (DN-JD): 82 proposals (7.7% of total)
Sorry for double posting if you are on several of my mailing lists.
Dear colleagues
We are organising an ACM Summer School on Accessible and Inclusive Technologies to be held on 24th - 27th of June this year in Birmingham. It is possible for PhD students to seek travel scholarship (limited).
Please attend and/or help us spread the information through your networks.
Here is the Eventbrite page for the summer school:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/acm-europe-summer-school-on-accessible-and-i…
Many thanks,
Nasrine
Programme:
Mon. 24th June: Disability innovation and studies, inclusive design
Tue. 25th June: Inclusive Immersive Technologies and Accessible Games
Wed. 26th June: Inclusive Multisensory Experiences and Interfaces
Thu. 27th June: Inclusive Futures, Responsible AI and Ethics
Dear all,
We have now submitted the proposal, you will find the submitted versions on our google drive folder<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1q31r8wjwmhsVOp4aMz6B4xf4-DSv745k>. We still have a little time in case you notice any major misses, in that case please let us know immediately, otherwise we will keep our fingers crossed and hope that we will get a chance to collaborate again next year.
Thank you everyone for all your valuable contributions and nice collaboration.
Best regards,
Nasrine and Renata
Dear all,
Just a short note to say that tomorrow, at 11:30-12:30 I will give a talk titled “Bridging Sensory Gaps: Innovations for Inclusivity” at DARIAH<https://www.dariah.eu/> as part of their Friday Frontiers series, if you have time and interest, please join us by registering here: : https://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpde-urTkvE9TT68rF0Kf_Vxsqa8YapLhl
Best regards,
Nasrine
About the talk: With an estimated 15% of the world population experiencing some form of disability, have we truly considered what ‘inclusion’ and ‘equal opportunity’ means for all? This talk confronts the reality that most spaces, technologies, and innovations are predominantly designed for individuals with their senses and functionalities intact.
How would you as a person with deafblindness interact with the world – a world filled with navigation and mobility challenges, inaccessible information, and technologies that rely on the senses of sight and hearing? In this talk, Nasrine Olson (PhD, Associate Professor) will introduce the idea behind the formation of the Centre for Inclusive Studies at University of Borås and will present a few projects that have explored ways in which technology can be leveraged to level the playing field.
Dear all,
We now have a Part B1 for your review in pdf format in the main folder. Unfortunately the portal has been down since I tried it early this morning so for now it cannot be uploaded.
I now need your help to also complete Part B2<https://docs.google.com/document/d/18oA_JWrR4V46uvSefi46CFCFEs7NUUVg/edit> , please fill in any missing information and also help cut text related to your own organisations or those of your collaborators. I had seen that Part B2 has no page limits, but had neglected to check further instructions where it is stated that we can include maximum of one page per beneficiary and half a page per AP.
We can play around a little with formatting though (e.g., having a narrow first column and a wider column where the descriptions will be). The font has to be times new roman and the minimum of 9 points (in the tables).
Any help you can provide would be much appreciated.
Best regards,
Nasrine
Dear all,
A few of us (especially Astrid, thank you) have managed to get the proposal Part B1 down to 37 pages. We still need to cut 3 more pages, it would be great if you could all pitch in and cut some texts from your own parts so that nothing important goes missing.
Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dJe6fmSdbhNKtBMqsZRGL2skWYFeiDU9/edit
Thanks,
Nasrine
