I have been struggling with this proposal. The documents being circulated are generally low quality, and the organization, running on Teams, is not friendly. So, I propose we make a decision on whether to go forward, and how.
My struggle is that I don’t really understand what they want to do in practice. The docs are very abstract. “Resilience to climate change” covers too much ground. However, today they presented a breakdown into WPs. So, my contribution is this: I wrote a 2 pages proposal on what we could do in there. From now on:
- Please Ivan and Nica review. This is not necessarily large-scale ethno (at least not in the WP3 task, but it could be in the WP4 one).
- Then send to whoever the PI is (I am thinking Amineh and Leen) and negotiate.
- On the basis of the agreement on what to do, Ivan prepares a budget, and then we need to negotiate that.
- If everything checks out, we can then continue. If not, we disengage.
BUT
- I do not have the time to participate in weekly calls, only provide writing support, so you guys need to make a decision if you are willing to be in them.