> 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 c

> 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.