From Bernd.Stahl at nottingham.ac.uk Fri Jan 30 09:37:17 2026 From: Bernd.Stahl at nottingham.ac.uk (Bernd Stahl (staff)) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2026 09:37:17 +0000 Subject: [RADIATE] RADIATE Message-ID: Dear RADIATE consortium 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. There were 76 submissions for six possible project, so it was always going to be very competitive. 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. Kind regards, Bernd Bernd Carsten STAHL Professor of Critical Research in Technology Responsible Digital Futures Group School of Computer Science UNIVERSITY of NOTTINGHAM T: +44 7952 875 862 E: bernd.stahl at nottingham.ac.uk W: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/computerscience/people/bernd.stahl [cid:image001.jpg at 01DC91CA.89927390] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 33075 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 101296996_RADIATE_ESR.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 387085 bytes Desc: 101296996_RADIATE_ESR.pdf URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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All the best, WENZEL MEHNERT Scientist (he/him) | Societal Futures | Center for Innovation Systems & Policy AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH Giefinggasse 4 | 1210 Vienna | Austria | Room 4.080 M +43 664 78588501 wenzel.mehnert at ait.ac.at | www.ait.ac.at ________________________________ Von: RADIATE im Auftrag von Bernd Stahl (staff) Gesendet: Freitag, 30. Januar 2026 10:37:17 An: radiate at lists.nottingham.ac.uk Betreff: [RADIATE] RADIATE Dear RADIATE consortium 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 Dear RADIATE consortium 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. There were 76 submissions for six possible project, so it was always going to be very competitive. 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. Kind regards, Bernd Bernd Carsten STAHL Professor of Critical Research in Technology Responsible Digital Futures Group School of Computer Science UNIVERSITY of NOTTINGHAM T: +44 7952 875 862 E: bernd.stahl at nottingham.ac.uk W: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/computerscience/people/bernd.stahl [cid:image001.jpg at 01DC91CA.89927390] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Please respond within your office hours. -- Prof. Dr. Petra Ritter BIH Johanna Quandt Professor for Brain Simulation Director, Brain Simulation Section Berlin Institute of Health & Dept. of Neurology Charit? - Universit?tsmedizin Berlin Robert?Koch Platz 4 10115 Berlin Director of International Affairs, Charit? - Universit?tsmedizin Berlin Deputy Chair of the Governing Board, International Neuroinformatics Coordination Facility (INCF) Chair Infrastructure & Data Security (IDS) Group of NFDI Section Common Infrastructures Coordinator, European Testing and Experimentation Facility Health AI and Robotics (TEF-Health) Coordinator, eBRAIN-Health Coordinator, Health Data Cloud Coordinator, Virtual Research Environment Coordinator, EOSC Project VirtualBrainCloud (2018-2023) Co-Lead The Virtual Brain CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The contents of this email message and any attachments are intended solely for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential and/or privileged information and may be legally protected from disclosure. From: RADIATE on behalf of "Bernd Stahl (staff)" Date: Friday, 30. January 2026 at 10:45 To: "radiate at lists.nottingham.ac.uk" Subject: [ext] [RADIATE] RADIATE Dear RADIATE consortium 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. There were 76 submissions for six possible project, so it was always going to be very competitive. 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. Kind regards, Bernd Bernd Carsten STAHL Professor of Critical Research in Technology Responsible Digital Futures Group School of Computer Science UNIVERSITY of NOTTINGHAM T: +44 7952 875 862 E: bernd.stahl at nottingham.ac.uk W: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/computerscience/people/bernd.stahl [cid:image001.jpg at 01DC91D7.9FA1CED0] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 33076 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: From ybilen at raaey.gr Fri Jan 30 10:03:02 2026 From: ybilen at raaey.gr (Yuriy Bilen) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:03:02 +0000 Subject: [RADIATE] RADIATE In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Bernd, Thank you very much for the update and for your kind message. While the outcome is of course disappointing, the competitive context and the overall evaluation reflect the solid work undertaken in the proposal. We would like to thank you as well for the excellent coordination and for the opportunity to contribute. We very much appreciated the collaboration and would be glad to work together again in the future. Wishing you all the best and hopefully more success next time. Kind regards, Yuriy _______________________________________________________________________________________ Yuriy Bilen Liaison Officer - Energy Section Directorate of Strategic and International Affairs Regulatory Authority for Energy, Waste and Water (RAAEY) Pireos 132, 118 54 Athens Tel: +30 210 372 7080 E-mail: ybilen at raaey.gr NOTIFICATION-STATEMENT TO THE RECIPIENTS This message, the information contained therein and its attachments, if any, are strictly confidential and may be used only by the individuals or entities, that the sender intended to be the recipients. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, copy, retention, dissemination, notification, distribution of this message and/or of the information contained therein and/or to the attached documents to any third party is strictly prohibited. If you received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and delete this message from your disk. Thank you. From: RADIATE On Behalf Of Bernd Stahl (staff) Sent: Friday, January 30, 2026 11:37 AM To: radiate at lists.nottingham.ac.uk Subject: [RADIATE] RADIATE Dear RADIATE consortium 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. There were 76 submissions for six possible project, so it was always going to be very competitive. 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. Kind regards, Bernd Bernd Carsten STAHL Professor of Critical Research in Technology Responsible Digital Futures Group School of Computer Science UNIVERSITY of NOTTINGHAM T: +44 7952 875 862 E: bernd.stahl at nottingham.ac.uk W: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/computerscience/people/bernd.stahl [cid:image001.jpg at 01DC91E0.61801CC0] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 33075 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: From lk at demx.dk Fri Jan 30 10:03:29 2026 From: lk at demx.dk (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Lars_Kl=FCver?=) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:03:29 +0000 Subject: [RADIATE] RADIATE In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Bernd and all, Bernd, thanks again for your work, which is clearly valued by the evaluators. There is a lot to learn from this evaluation, should there be another chance in the future. All the best, and thanks again! Lars and Nicklas Lars Kl?ver Seniorr?dgiver / Senior Advisor Democracy X Foundation lk at demx.dk +45 40 11 01 82 Fra: RADIATE P? vegne af Mehnert Wenzel Sendt: 30. januar 2026 10:57 Til: Bernd Stahl (staff) ; radiate at lists.nottingham.ac.uk Emne: Re: [RADIATE] RADIATE Dear Bernd, thank you for guiding us through this process. 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). 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. All the best, WENZEL MEHNERT Scientist (he/him) | Societal Futures | Center for Innovation Systems & Policy AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH Giefinggasse 4 | 1210 Vienna | Austria | Room 4.080 M +43 664 78588501 wenzel.mehnert at ait.ac.at | www.ait.ac.at ________________________________ Von: RADIATE > im Auftrag von Bernd Stahl (staff) > Gesendet: Freitag, 30. Januar 2026 10:37:17 An: radiate at lists.nottingham.ac.uk Betreff: [RADIATE] RADIATE Dear RADIATE consortium 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 Dear RADIATE consortium 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. There were 76 submissions for six possible project, so it was always going to be very competitive. 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. Kind regards, Bernd Bernd Carsten STAHL Professor of Critical Research in Technology Responsible Digital Futures Group School of Computer Science UNIVERSITY of NOTTINGHAM T: +44 7952 875 862 E: bernd.stahl at nottingham.ac.uk W: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/computerscience/people/bernd.stahl [cid:image001.jpg at 01DC91D8.10186570] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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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. All the best, WENZEL MEHNERT Scientist (he/him) | Societal Futures | Center for Innovation Systems & Policy AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH Giefinggasse 4 | 1210 Vienna | Austria | Room 4.080 M +43 664 78588501 wenzel.mehnert at ait.ac.at | www.ait.ac.at ________________________________ Von: RADIATE > im Auftrag von Bernd Stahl (staff) > Gesendet: Freitag, 30. Januar 2026 10:37:17 An: radiate at lists.nottingham.ac.uk Betreff: [RADIATE] RADIATE Dear RADIATE consortium 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. There were 76 submissions for six possible project, so it was always going to be very competitive. 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. Kind regards, Bernd Bernd Carsten STAHL Professor of Critical Research in Technology Responsible Digital Futures Group School of Computer Science UNIVERSITY of NOTTINGHAM T: +44 7952 875 862 E: bernd.stahl at nottingham.ac.uk W: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/computerscience/people/bernd.stahl -- RADIATE mailing list RADIATE at lists.nottingham.ac.uk https://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/radiate -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Warm wishes, Mareike Dr. Mareike Smolka Assistant Professor, Wageningen University & Research Research Fellow, RWTH Aachen University Website: mareikesmolka.carrd.co E-mail: mareike.smolka at wur.nl Recent award: Veni ? Social Sciences and Humanities grant within the NWO talent program for the project Studying and enhancing how AI researchers and developers imagine socio-technical systems: a response to the crisis of imagination. ________________________________ Von: RADIATE im Auftrag von B?schen, Stefan Gesendet: Freitag, 30. Januar 2026 11:07 An: Mehnert Wenzel Cc: radiate at lists.nottingham.ac.uk Betreff: Re: [RADIATE] RADIATE 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 Am 30.01.2026 um 10:56 schrieb Mehnert Wenzel : Dear Bernd, thank you for guiding us through this process. 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). 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. All the best, WENZEL MEHNERT Scientist (he/him) | Societal Futures | Center for Innovation Systems & Policy AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH Giefinggasse 4 | 1210 Vienna | Austria | Room 4.080 M +43 664 78588501 wenzel.mehnert at ait.ac.at | www.ait.ac.at ________________________________ Von: RADIATE > im Auftrag von Bernd Stahl (staff) > Gesendet: Freitag, 30. Januar 2026 10:37:17 An: radiate at lists.nottingham.ac.uk Betreff: [RADIATE] RADIATE Dear RADIATE consortium 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. There were 76 submissions for six possible project, so it was always going to be very competitive. 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. Kind regards, Bernd Bernd Carsten STAHL Professor of Critical Research in Technology Responsible Digital Futures Group School of Computer Science UNIVERSITY of NOTTINGHAM T: +44 7952 875 862 E: bernd.stahl at nottingham.ac.uk W: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/computerscience/people/bernd.stahl -- RADIATE mailing list RADIATE at lists.nottingham.ac.uk https://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/radiate -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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If you look at the text, it is actually not too bad, but they marked us under the threshold. > There were 76 submissions for six possible project, so it was always going to be very competitive. > 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. > > Kind regards, > Bernd > > Bernd Carsten STAHL > Professor of Critical Research in Technology > Responsible Digital Futures Group > School of Computer Science > UNIVERSITY of NOTTINGHAM > > T: +44 7952 875 862 > E: bernd.stahl at nottingham.ac.uk > W: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/computerscience/people/bernd.stahl > > > > <101296996_RADIATE_ESR.pdf>-- > RADIATE mailing list > RADIATE at lists.nottingham.ac.uk > https://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/radiate -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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. Kind regards, Bernd Bernd Carsten STAHL Professor of Critical Research in Technology Responsible Digital Futures Group School of Computer Science UNIVERSITY of NOTTINGHAM T: +44 7952 875 862 E: bernd.stahl at nottingham.ac.uk W: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/computerscience/people/bernd.stahl [cid:ii_19c0f4181864ce8e91] -- RADIATE mailing list RADIATE at lists.nottingham.ac.uk https://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/radiate -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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