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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 30 Jan 2026, at 10:37, Bernd Stahl (staff) <Bernd.Stahl@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Dear RADIATE consortium<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Unfortunately, our proposal has not been successful. The aspect of the evaluation we failed was Quality and Efficiency of the Implementation. If you look at the text, it is actually not too bad, but they marked us under the threshold.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">There were 76 submissions for six possible project, so it was always going to be very competitive.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">At this point I can only thank you once more for your contribution to the proposal and let’s hope for more luck some other time.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Bernd<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(152, 30, 50); border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Bernd Carsten STAHL</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background: white;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(152, 30, 50); border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Professor of Critical Research in Technology</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background: white;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(152, 30, 50); border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><a href="https://www.responsible-digital-futures.org/"><span style="color: blue;">Responsible Digital Futures Group</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background: white;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(152, 30, 50); border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><a href="https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/computerscience/"><span style="color: blue;">School of Computer Science</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background: white;"><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(152, 30, 50); border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><a href="https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: blue;">UNIVERSITY of NOTTINGHAM</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background: white;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(152, 30, 50); border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background: white;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(152, 30, 50); border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;">T: +44 7952 875 862</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background: white;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(152, 30, 50); border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;">E: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:Bernd.stahl@nottingham.ac.uk"><span style="color: blue;">bernd.stahl@nottingham.ac.uk</span></a></span><u><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background: white;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(152, 30, 50); border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0cm;">W: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/computerscience/people/bernd.stahl"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/computerscience/people/bernd.stahl</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background: white;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-responsible-technology?utm_campaign=STMJ_1713435535_CALLP_OA&utm_medium=DSPL&utm_source=DSPL&dgcid=STMJ_1713435535_CALLP_OA"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;"><span id="cid:image001.jpg@01DC91CA.89927390"><image001.jpg></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><span id="cid:44CAE118-2833-4380-A360-1DF765DF8612"><101296996_RADIATE_ESR.pdf></span><span id="cid:4C1AF86B-4D6B-412D-9DDC-B3EBA8D4D494"><Rejection decision Information Letter (4).pdf></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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