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Dear Bernd, what a pity. But, the number of 76 submissions is really impressive and therefore success quite a difficult thing. Thanks a lot for your guidance as coordinator through this process. Hope, there will be future opportunities ! All best, Stefan
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<div>Am 30.01.2026 um 10:56 schrieb Mehnert Wenzel <Wenzel.Mehnert@ait.ac.at>:</div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">thank you for guiding us through this process.</div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">It's unfortunate, that it didn't work this time but, as well all know, there are already new calls on the Horizon (pun intended).</div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Let's look forward to the next calls and I'm sure that we can make use of some aspects from this call for the next one.</div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">All the best,</div>
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<font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Von:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>RADIATE <<a href="mailto:radiate-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">radiate-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>> im Auftrag von Bernd Stahl (staff)
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<b>Gesendet:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Freitag, 30. Januar 2026 10:37:17<br>
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<b>Betreff:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[RADIATE] RADIATE</font>
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<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>
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<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></div>
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<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>
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