Dear Nasrine and all

So sorry to hear this news. Would love to have worked with you. 

My thanks to Nasrine and everyone involved for their hard work and collegiality. Hopefully we can try again. This is an immensely competitive funding mechanism. So it is often a case of "try and try again", not being too downhearted.

Warm wishes
Angharad 

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Subject: [DIVERSE] Re: Decision about the DIVERSE MSCA application
 

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Dear Nasrine,
I was very disappointed for you and your colleagues when I read the letter this morning, you put in tremendous work to get this proposal over the line. I was very disappointed for myself also as I had enjoyed our meetings and was really looking forward to working with this amazing consortium.
I am very happy to support you in this again if you decide to resubmit.
I did note that - Industrial Doctorates (DN-ID): 64 proposals (6.0% of total) and - Joint Doctorates (DN-JD): 82 proposals (7.7% of total)
I just wonder would it be worth looking at a less  competitive stream?
Take care in the meantime and thanks so much for including me.
Best wishes,
Tara




On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 at 12:08, Nasrine Olson <nasrine.olson@hb.se> wrote:

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)

 

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