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For anyone reading this experience and trying to take a broader lesson: don’t. Each subsidy/grant is run by a different board for different reasons and there ar

For anyone reading this experience and trying to take a broader lesson: don’t. Each subsidy/grant is run by a different board for different reasons and there are many who change (at least a couple) evaluators each year so that can change acceptances also. It’s kind of a pain, but applying for funding is like applying for a job: your best bet is to first understand what the current decision-makers are actually looking for (not just what they say they are). To OP: Sorry it played out that way. I would have been disheartened too in your situation.

pier25 3y ago
> your best bet is to first understand what the current decision-makers are actually looking for (not just what they say they are) Difficult to say. Someone close to me has been dealing with grant projects and evaluators in the EU for years now. They think the most probable reason is simply that the evaluators are bureaucrats unfit to evaluate the projects. Lots of money goes to useless projects and the follow-up is very shallow. After I submitted my project, MusicAire opened a call for external evaluators which does support this theory. https://musicaire.eu/open-calls/musicaire-eac-2021-0090-external-evaluation/ https://musicaire.eu/open-calls/musicaire-eac-2021-0090-exte... I'm guessing they received lots of complaints about how they evaluated the projects.