Dear Nasrine and Arthur
Thank you for your efforts so far in the proposal and in keeping everyone involved. I admire the way you do this!
I am always open to participating in a project surrounding assistive technology and people with deafblindness. However, Bartiméus cannot
play a greater role in this than I did in the previous application. I can imagine that you first get to work on the application with a group of dedicated researchers. And that you later contact organizations such as Bartiméus for participation as associates.
That's fine as far as I'm concerned.
Good luck with thinking, organizing and writing!
Mijkje
Mijkje Worm
(zij/haar)
gedragsdeskundige
Onderzoek & Behandeling
Expertisecentrum Beperking in horen en zien (doofblindheid)
Bartiméus | Oude Arnhemse Bovenweg 3 | Postbus 87 | 3940 AB Doorn
06 - 18 47 19 51
werkdagen: maandagochtend, dinsdag, donderdag en vrijdag
Van: Nasrine Olson <nasrine.olson@hb.se>
Verzonden: maandag 10 juni 2024 22:23
Aan: diverse@lists.sunet.se
CC: Arthur Schievelbein Theil <Arthur.Theil@bcu.ac.uk>
Onderwerp: [DIVERSE] Towards a new MSCA proposal
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Dear all,
Thank you, everyone, for contributing your notes to
this document. I noticed that no one has responded to Q1 to volunteer as the coordinator. Not to worry, I have had a productive conversation with a very good colleague, Arthur Theil, active at Birmingham City University, who has graciously agreed to lead
our efforts.
Arthur and I reviewed the suggestions for the direction of the new proposal and have added a new track:
Inclusive Living Across Different Ages (Learning, Working, Ageing). We plan to discuss this further at our next meeting with those interested.
This topic too offers the opportunity to develop a multidisciplinary, multi-sectoral proposal, including areas such as policy development, haptics and other technologies, AI, participatory design,
etc, etc. We have not ruled out other ideas and believe a collective brainstorming session would be beneficial before a final decision about the theme of the proposal is made. We like to finalise the choice of topic very soon so we can begin preliminary work
before the summer break.
If any of you are interested to join this effort, please respond to the following doodle:
https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/aK5oBjrd
Even if you cannot attend the suggested dates but would like to be involved, please let us know. We plan to create a new mailing list for this application, so it's important to identify who should
be included in follow-up communications.
Thanks and regards,
Nasrine
From: Nasrine Olson
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2024 3:06 PM
To: diverse@lists.sunet.se
Subject: friendly reminder and some info on acceptance rates
Dear all,
Following the notes below, thank you everyone who has added notes to our shared document or has sent in comments via email. This is a gentil reminder about sharing your views in
this document by answering the three questions put there.
The most important question to answer is Q1, since we cannot proceed if we do not have a coordinator for this year’s proposal.
Considering that there will be a coordinator, then we would need to elaborate the topics proposed in Q2 further too, to help decide the next steps.
While here, I also like to share the following information with you regarding a point that was raised by Astrid:
There were in total 1066 MSCA-DN applications which ended up in 128 funded applications, which equals a 12% success rate.
920 of these 1066 applications were standard doctoral networks, of which
113 were funded, resulting in a 12% success rate.
64 of the applications were Industrial doctoral network, of which
8 were funded, resulting in a 12.5 % success rate.
82 of the applications were Joint Doctorates, of which
7 were funded, resulting only in a 8.5% success rate.
According to this the standard doctoral network and the industrial doctorate had almost the same success rate with only slightly higher rate of acceptance for DN-ID
(but of course with considerably fewer accepted project in total). So in the light of this, I think we should go with DN-ID only if we think that DN-ID format suits our proposal better than an ordinary DN.
I will review the document mentioned above by late tomorrow to see if we have any suggestions for a coordinator. If so, I will contact you again to set the further steps in motion.
Best regards,
Nasrine
From: Nasrine Olson
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2024 9:50 AM
To: diverse@lists.sunet.se
Cc: Karen Nowé Hedvall <karen.nowe_hedvall@hb.se>
Subject: Notes from yesterday's meeting
Dear all,
Thank you everyone who could make it to our meeting yesterday, it was nice seeing you all. Here is a recap of what was discussed for
those of you who could not make it to the meeting.
As you know we received positive comments, but the proposal was rejected with a score of 73%. The rejection was not a surprise considering
the high number of submissions, but the low score means that we cannot resubmit the same proposal again this year. So, the main question for yesterday’s meeting was:
The general view in the meeting seemed to be that we should do both. We have formed a very nice and strong consortium that provides a good foundation for development
of a new application.
Another topic of discussion was that since the standard Doctoral Network (DN) are highly competitive, perhaps we should opt to go for an Industrial Doctorate (DN-ID)
proposal.
The submission statistics were:
- 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)
Based on this line of thinking, a few further questions arose.
A few ideas came up already as listed in
this document.
It was decided that we all take until the end of next week and think through potential directions and add some notes about our ideas in the
shared document.
It would be great if we could find topics that interest us all, but this is not a must. Furthermore, there may be a topic for which
we do not have the right expertise in the current consortium. This is also fine as we could approach others with the right profiles.
If you wish to create mind maps on
Miro,
we can use the same page as before, feel free to create new separate spaces on same page. I have also archived our earlier documents on
Google Drive
and have created a new subfolder for our new proposal.
I have placed the call in the same folder. Please feel free to use these as you deem fit.
Please add your thoughts to the document above by the end of next week (end of May) to help us decide what the next steps should be.
Best regards,
Nasrine
-----Original Appointment-----
From: Nasrine Olson
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2024 12:15 PM
To: diverse@lists.sunet.se
Subject: Follow up on DIVERSE MSCA application
When: 21 May 2024 10:00-11:00 (UTC+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna.
Where: Online: https://hb-se.zoom.us/j/4384884661
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