[Adminsysters] Your grant request was not awarded

Mon Apr 17 23:27:46 CEST 2023

hi natacha,

thanks for sharing this. i also recently applied to NLnet for a grant 
for UpStage, in collaboration with mur.at & artists in graz. we didn't 
get it, but we did get some helpful feedback & i also came to understand 
that they are most interested in funding very technical stuff. our 
application was based around a technical need but it was not such an 
essential thing and there was also a large artistic / training component 
which they were not interested in funding.

i don't know if we will apply again to NLNet - it was good in that the 
application process was not too onerous, & there was good communication 
& feedback, but UpStage is fundamentally an arts project, even if we are 
making the technology for it, & i'm not sure how we could meet the criteria.

if there is a meeting about this i will try to join (if the time 
difference works as i'm still in nz).

  h : )

On 18.04.23 02:20, natacha wrote:
> Dears,
>
>
> I unfortunately had not followed the list for a while, end as I open 
> the folder to see where people are at in systerserver I see this 
> rejection e-mail.
>
> As some of you might know petites singularités is part of the NGI0 
> consortium as we do mentoring. In the previous 4 years it was only 
> hellekin working but since january I have decided to join also (mainly 
> because there are other feminist structures that have entered and I 
> hoped it would make a change.)
>
> This does not mean we have any impact on which projects are decided 
> for, quite the contrary Nlnet handles the consortium in an autocratic 
> way and it is very difficult to act upon anything, or even get to have 
> any information (we only see the accepted applications).
>
> But still we are struggling us and a handful of other partners.
>
> In all cases as mentors it is our role to support people in the 
> process of writing their application and in the past 4 years we have 
> supported a number of projects into successful granting. So please if 
> people from this community want to apply to NGI0 funding do ping me 
> and we can have a chat and give counsels about how the grant demand 
> should be presented.
> As a bottom line, only super technical projects are accepted, we are 
> advocating that they consider funding projects that would be more 
> community geared but it is like shouting in the void. So I will use 
> this case (as much as other rejection cases) to make my point again 
> .... and... again.
>
> If people want to know more about those issues and the functioning of 
> the NGI0 grant,  I would be happy to join a meeting one of those days 
> and talk about it.
>
>
> Warm regards
>
> natacha
>
> p.s.: Obviously what is talked here stays here.....
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 4/15/23 18:27, michiel at nlnet.nl wrote:
>> Dear Mara,
>>
>>
>> we have identified the projects we will be further investigating for 
>> the latest NREN open call. I'm sorry to have to inform you that your 
>> project "Feminist sysadmin handbook" (2023-02-003) unfortunately was 
>> not among those selected.
>>
>> This in no way means that we do not see the value of the work you 
>> proposed. We get many more excellent proposals than we can grant with 
>> our limited means, so competition is extremely tough. There are 
>> unfortunately many talented independent researchers, developers and 
>> community leaders that need funding. In addition to that, the 
>> specific scope and rules of play of each call pose (sometimes 
>> artificial) limits in our selection that mean excellent projects 
>> leave empty-handed - because they just do not fit well enough within 
>> a certain fund.
>>
>> Again, we are very sorry that we cannot offer you support for your 
>> good efforts. We hope you are not discouraged, and are able to secure 
>> funding elsewhere for the project, for instance from any of these 
>> organisations:
>>
>> https://NLnet.nl/foundation/network.html
>>
>> or through other calls from the Next Generation Internet:
>>
>> https://www.ngi.eu/opencalls
>>
>> And do trust that we have your funding need and the outline of your 
>> project in the back of our head from now on, and so we might come 
>> back to you if an opportunity arises (unless you asked us to destroy 
>> your contact details in the application form, in which case we will 
>> do so).
>>
>> If you should have any questions, please let us know. And in case you 
>> have another good project in mind in the future, do not hesitate to 
>> submit again!
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> on behalf of NLnet foundation,
>>
>> Michiel Leenaars
>> Strategy Director
>> +31 20 8884252
>>
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