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REJECTED Proposals

This section lists my impressive yet still incomplete lists of failures obtaining research grants thrughout my academic years... I mostly left out the applicants' names due to obvious reasons.

Rejections overview

Rejections facts

ULEI Rejections: 32
ULEI Cancellations: 3
UU Rejections: 42
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Total rejections: 74

Versus my successes

Grants: 24
Collaborations: 19
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Total successes: 43

2024 [ ^ ]

Healthy Society: OP STOOM: OPschalen van Spraakgestuurde Technologie voor Ouderenzorg Op Maat (LUMC).
LDE Opschalingsproject, Thema: Duurzame zorg voor gezondheidsbevordering met geavanceerde datatechnologie. Remark: grant total: 50K EUR. Reason: Out-of-scope, wrong procedure. url
AINed: ZALAZ, EUR 1.5M (LIACS).
AiNed Learning Communities 2024. Zorg AI Life Long Learning Accelerator voor Zuid-Holland. Understand the development and application of AI in healthcare; data privacy & management, AI ethics & regulation, problem solving, collaboration, continuous learning. AS COORDINATOR. Remark: grant total: 4.2M EUR. Researcher(s): 1 PhD student, 1 postdoc/program manager, project office.
Horizon Europe: All4Mind, EUR 1.4M (LUMC).
HORIZON-HLTH-2024-STAYHLTH-01-two-stage (Staying Healthy (Two stage - 2024)). Remark: grant total: 12M EUR. Requested(s): 1.5 PhD students.
Horizon Europe: DEEPSAFE, EUR 712K (LUMC).
HORIZON-CL4-2024-DATA-01-01 (World leading data and computing technologies). Remark: grant total: 10M EUR. Requested(s): 2 PhD students.
Erasmus+: AIESAH, EUR 280K (LIACS).
ERASMUS-EDU-2024-PI-ALL-INNO (Partnerships for Innovation - Alliances). Remark: grant total: 4M EUR. Requested(s): 1 PhD student.
ZonMW: NLPQ, EUR 110K (LIACS).
Pandemic preparedness. Optimizing Natural Language Processing for Efficient Clinical Data Collection during pandemics. Remark: grant total: 350K EUR. Requested(s): 1 postdoc.
Horizon Europe: TESTAI, EUR 435K (LIACS).
DIGITAL-2024-AI-ACT-06-TESTAI (Pilot action for the establishment of future Union Testing Facilities in AI). Remark: grant total: 1.45M EUR. Requested(s): 1 PhD student, 1 postdoc.
Horizon Europe: SANDBOX, EUR 225K (LIACS).
DIGITAL-2024-AI-ACT-06-SANDBOX (Cloud, data and artificial intelligence). Remark: grant total: 1.45M EUR. Requested(s): 1 postdoc.
Horizon Europe: euDTN, EUR 810K (LIACS).
HORIZON-CL3-2023-CS-01-01 (Increased Cybersecurity 2023). AS COORDINATOR.. Remark: grant total: 9M EUR. Requested(s): 1 postdoc, 1 PhD student.
LUF: Beyond the Surface (LUMC).
Preproposal LUF Gratama Jubilee Gift 2025. Pre-proposal. Beyond the Surface: Examining the Complex Interplay of Self-Harm and Suicide in Adolescents and Adults with an Autism Spectrum Disorder.

2023 [ ^ ]

ZoNMW VICI: REBOOT (LUMC).
Rebooting Dutch healthcare into an open patient-empowering ecosystem. Pre-proposal. AS COORDINATOR.. Remark: Totaal: 1,5M EUR. Submitted: 13/03/2023.
NWO ENW XL: UNWIND (LIACS).
Unwinding the pathways leading to resolution of states of severe mental disruption in psychiatry. Pre-proposal UMCU/Psy, CWI/MI. Keywords: Psychiatry, natural language processing, federated learning, anytime-valid statistics, change-point detection. Remark: 300K/1.6M EUR. Submitted: 14/9/2023.
NWO-TTW Perspectief: SARAMediR (LIACS).
Reducing the administrative burden in healthcare: Speech and Action Recognition for Automated Medical Reporting. Pre-proposal lead UU. Remark: 250K/4.5M EUR. Submitted: 13/11/2023.
NWA-ORC: SPRING (LUMC).
Shared decisions about Personalised care using Routine data IN the GGZ. Lead: VU. Remark: 5-10M EUR. Interviewed: 13/06/2023.
NWO DoelmatigheidsOnderzoek: LessPPI (LUMC).
Using a data driven approach to identify what behaviors need to change to reduce PPI overprescription: a preparation study. Voorbereidende studies ronde 2 SA 2022. Submitted: 11/2022.
Groeifonds: Preventie Promotor (LUMC).
Economische groei en gezondheidswinst door afname van overgewicht. Remark: 600M EUR in 10 years. Submitted: 02/2023.
LUF: Behind the Numbers (LIACS).
Unveiling Privacy Concerns of Students and Staff Regarding Analytics Based on Personal Learning Data. KIEM proposal. Lead: FWN/LIACS ism FSW/ICLON, LUMC/PHEG, LLInC. Remark: 10K EUR. Submitted: 2023.

2022 [ ^ ]

Interreg: NAIN (LUMC).
Nederlandse AI voor het Nederlands. AS COORDINATOR.. Remark: 10M EUR. Submitted: 3/2022.
NWA-ORC: Human-AI in the LooP (LIACS).
Responsible, humane, and acceptable AI for scaling-up and improving online support of helplines: Humane Helpline 2.0. Lead: TUD. Remark: 2-5M EUR. Submitted: 5/2022.

2021 [ ^ ]

NWA/ELSA Lab: ADVANCE-AI (LUMC).
Healthy Society and AI - ADVANCing a healthy society through Elsa and AI. Remark: total: 2.2M EUR. Interview: 3/12/2021.
NWA-ORC: Personalizing Psychiatry Practice (LUMC).
P3 WP leader Data Science. 1 postdoc, 1 phd. Remark: total: 2-5M EUR. Submitted: 10/2021.
NWA-ORC: Humane Helpline 2.0 (LIACS).
Empathic Responsible AI. 1phd. Remark: total: 2-5M EUR. Submitted: 10/2021.
ZonMW: Vroegdiagnostiek van zeldzame aandoeningen (LUMC).
Kennisprogramma Huisartsgeneeskunde/Complexe Vragen. Submitted: 2021.
NWO: NWO-Living with dementia (LUMC).
Person-centred network approach with pro-active technical support of daily quality of life of people with dementia. Pre-proposal. Submitted: 2021.
LUMC-PPP-Match: CIFIT (LUMC).
On-Demand Catalyst Infrastructure for Population Health Management. Submitted: 2021.
NWO: Towards sustainable healthcare (LUMC).
A complex systems approach for a resilient, sustainable, and efficient healthcare infrastructure NWO-Complexity research NWO around COVID-19. Submitted: 2021.
LUMC: BrainBox (LUMC).
Reduction of acutely admitted frail older patients (80+) by homecare monitoring using the BrainBox and the "niet-pluis" app. Theme: Lifecourse. Submitted: 2021.
LUMC Data Analytics Facility: VIP (LUMC).
The Leiden Virtual Patients & Population Dataset - Educating the future Leiden Physician by establishing a new gold standard for Medicine education. LUMC Innovation for Data Analytics, Small-scale Research Proposal, call 1. Submitted: 2021.
Hanarth Fonds: Improving early detection of rare cancers in primary care (LUMC).
Using artificial intelligence to identify clinical signatures of sarcomas. Submitted: 2021.
LUF Impulse Grant: Understanding the constants and changes in concepts of scientific (mis)conduct (LIACS).
Submitted: 2021.
LUF Impulse Grant: Trans-disciplinary Examination of Youth Mental Health via Artificial Intelligence and Big Data (LUMC).
Submitted: 2021.
Health-Holland/Lifestyle4Health-PPS: UP! (LUMC).
Leader Research line 4: data infrastructure. Urgentie op Preventie zetten. Interview: 2021 - canceled...

UU Rejection Memories [ ^ ]

    2019

  1. EUR 200,000: Redesigning Mental Healthcare (REMEHE). (2019/06/06). Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): NWA route, Health care research, sickness prevention and treatment Remark: Preproposal, Grant total: 4.5M EUR
  2. EUR 200,000: Building a patient sensitive framework in psychiatry (PASENPSY). (2019/06/05). Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): NWA route, Personalized medicine, the individual at the centre Remark: Preproposal selected, Grant total: 4M EUR
  3. EUR 25,000: Prevention of readmissions in elderly patients with hyperpolypharmacy (HYPPO). (2019/03/04). Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): ZonMW Goed Gebruik Geneesmiddelen, UA 8 Remark: First round, Grant total: 348K EUR
  4. EUR 200,000: Copilot for patients with comorbid Heart Failure and COPD (COPILOT). (2019/04/01). Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): IMDI, DCVA-IMDI - PI Remark: First round

    2017

  5. EUR 25,000: OUCH! Off-label and Unlicensed medication prescribing in CHildren (OUCH). (2017/10/15). Description: An interactive mobile health system to improve patient empowerment and off-label medication adherence. Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): UU Innovation Fund for IT in Research Remark: Development of the mobile app
  6. EUR 1,950,000: The “Computing Visits Data” Caroussel for Scale-out Knowledge Discovery in Psychiatry (COVIDA1). (2017/09/01). Description: The COVIDA Caroussel concept is a distributed and model-driven knowledge discovery process model for data enrichment, validation, replication and theory-building. Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): Second phase of collaborative research by the UU, TU/e, and UMCU Alliance Remark: Phase 1 in two-stage programme
  7. EUR 400,000: Compute visits data in de GGZ (CVD). (2017/06/03). Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): NWA Startimpuls-onderzoeksprogramma Verantwoorde Waardecreatie met Big Data (VWData) Remark: NWA WP5 Accessibility & interoperability
  8. EUR 0: Using big data to promote medication adherence: empowering patients in their medication-taking behavior (DATA-MAx). (2017/09/05). Description: WP2 leader. Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): NWO Commit2Data programme Remark: Data2Person call; grant total: 1.6M EUR
  9. EUR 0: Clinical decision tools in telemedicine to improve self-management of patients with heart failure (EMPOWER). (2017/05/23). Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): NWO domain Applied and Engineering Sciences (TTW) Remark: Open Technology Programme

    2016

  10. EUR 345,000: EXPRESSO: EXpert based mobile monitoring of PolyphaRmacy for multiple chronic illnESSes in Older patients (EXPRESSO). (2016/05/17). Description: EXPRESSO aims to automate the “structured history taking of medications” (SHIM) in the “Systematic Tool to Reduce Inappropriate Prescribing” (STRIP) to create a machine learning based portable version of the STRIP Assistant. Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): Joint eScience and Data Science across Top Sectors: Disruptive Technologies (DTEC) Remark: Pre-proposal phase
  11. EUR 25,000: CURsus & CURriculum Planning App (CURPA). (2016/01/03). Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): Utrechts Stimuleringsfonds Onderwijs 2016 Remark: CURP V3: van Verduidelijken via Verbinden naar Verrijken
  12. EUR 200,000: Off-label and Unlicensed medication prescribing in CHildren (OUCH). (2016/01/11). Description: Interactive mobile health systems for adherence improvement and side-effects reduction. Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): UU Science faculty

    2015

  13. EUR 287,000: The optimization of polypharmacy in older patients in primary care: Steps back to go forward (StriPrio). (2015/09/28). Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): ZonMW/Goed Gebruik Geneesmiddelen, Open Ronde 5
  14. EUR 3,265,753: Valorisatie van een smartphone applicatie voor de detectie van vroege indicatoren voor psychiatrische aandoeningen en voor translationeel onderzoek naar de oorzaak van deze hersenziekten (B-Happ). (2015/03/30). Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): EFRO - Kansen voor West II
  15. EUR 500,000: Big Data In Psychiatry (ePrint). (2015/06/02). Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): Netherlands eScience Center: Accelerating Scientific Discovery (ASDI)
  16. EUR 746,000: Early Warning of Clinical Health Deterioration (NurseNotes). (2015/06/02). Description: WP2: extraction of early indicators of health deterioration from unstructured patient data such as physician and nursing notes. Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): Open technologieprogramma STW Remark: HTSM2015 call
  17. EUR 30,000: Offlabel app (OLA). (2015/05/25). Type: Competitive award. Financer(s): Mobiles for Good Challenge
  18. EUR 3,857,500: Big Data In Psychiatry (PsyPrint). (2015/05/20). Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): NWO-Groot
  19. EUR 350,000: Changing Health Organisation for Older people: a Systemic experience at European level (CHOOSE). (2015/04/21). Description: WP3: Co-designing the Integrated Care Architecture (CICA). Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): H2020-PHC-2015: Personalising Health and Care Remark: Complete grant total: 4.4M EUR
  20. EUR 1,500,000: The Controlled Capabilities and Characteristics Language for Personalised Process Improvement in Home and Primary Care (C34CARE). (2015/02/02). Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): ERC-StG 2015

    2014

  21. EUR 236,250: TAG: Toward Academic Governance (TAG). (2014/10/31). Description: From Conception to Adoption of Academic Performance Management at Utrecht University. Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): Utrechts Stimuleringsfonds Onderwijs 2014
  22. EUR 75,000: Situationele Procesverbetering en Investeringsbehoefte in Cyber security (SPICY). (2014/10/23). Description: Offerte "investeren in cyber security". Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek- en Documentatiecentrum (WODC)

    2013

  23. EUR 8,934,514: big DAta Flow NExt generation applications (DAFNE). (2013/04/16). Description: On processing BigData and needed skills for on-demand development of future more sophisticated applications on DataFlow Computer architectures. Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): FP7 Objective ICT-2013.4.2 - Scalable data analytics Applicant(s): 42 participants. Remark: Funding scheme: Large-scale integrating project (IP)
  24. EUR 75,000: What's up? (What's up?). (2013). Description: Using the smartphone to longitudinally monitor adolescent social behavior in real life. Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): Utrecht University Seed Fund Remark: Seed fund for UU strategic theme Dynamics of Youth
  25. EUR 561,471: Patient preferences of medication, appropriateness and costsavingsafter a polypharmacy optimization advice with use ofthe RAPP tool and the digital STRIP-assistant (STRAPP). (2013/06/17). Description: Tevredenheid van patiënten na medicatie advies met behulp van RAPP of STRIP-assistant.. Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): ZonMW/Goed Gebruik Geneesmiddelen, Open Ronde 2 SA
  26. EUR 315,315: Effect of the ICT-system STRIPassistant on the quality of andtime to perform a medication review (STRIPassistant). (2013/01/14). Description: Effecten van het ICT-systeem STRIPassistant op de kwaliteit en uitvoeringstijd van medicatiereviews. Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): ZonMW/Goed Gebruik Geneesmiddelen, Open Ronde 2 PI
  27. EUR 25,000: HC-Investigator: A cell screening analysis platform for high content data (HC-Investigator). (2013/02/27). Type: Competitive award. Financer(s): NGI Venture Challenge Remark: Spring 2013 competition

    2012

  28. EUR 631,708: The Systematic Tool to Reduce Inappropriate Prescribing(STRIP) decision support system applied by generalpractitioners and pharmacists in older patients usingpolypharmacy (STRIP-DSS). (2012/04/24). Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): ZonMW/Goed Gebruik Geneesmiddelen, Open Ronde 1
  29. EUR 390,000: Scientific Big Climate Data Analysis in the Cloud (ClimateCloud). (2012). Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): eScience Open Call for Converging Sciences
  30. EUR 345,272: Beter Voorschrijven (BeterVoorschrijven.nl). (2011/08/22). Description: POMP: een beslissingsondersteunend kennissysteem in de eerstelijnszorg. Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): Fonds NutsOhra
  31. EUR 175,000: Beter blijven door beter voorschrijven met STRIPA (STRIPA). (2012/05/09). Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): New Venture businessplancompetitie, Finaleronde 3
  32. EUR 75,000: Samen beter voorschrijven in de eerstelijnszorg (POMP). (9/2012). Type: Competitive award. Financer(s): Zorgvernieuwingsprijs

    2011

  33. EUR 199,272: Beter Voorschrijven (BeterVoorschrijven.nl). (2011/09/29). Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): STW Valorisation Grant - Round 15
  34. EUR 447,026: Polyfarmacie Optimalisatie Methode Platform (POMP). (2011/04/26). Description: POMP: Een beslissingsondersteunend kennissysteem in de eerstelijnszorg. Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): AgentschapNL SBIR Preventie door sectoroverstijgende initiatieven, Fase 2
  35. EUR 247,000: Linguistic Knowledge Discovery in Dutch language variation databases (LIKE). (2011/01/04). Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): NWO Vernieuwingsimpuls
  36. EUR 146,732: Optimaliseren van polyfarmaciebeleid in de eerste lijn doormultidisciplinaire samenwerking van zorgverleners (POM-DSS). (2011/08/25). Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): Op één lijn - derde oproep tot indiening van praktijkprojecten

    2010

  37. EUR 245,000: Linguistic knowledge discovery in Dutchlanguage variation databases (LINKDIS). (2010). Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): NWO Vernieuwingsimpuls
  38. EUR 241,250: POMP (POMP). (3/2010). Description: realiseren internetplatform rondompolyfarmacie optimalisatie in ouderenzorg. Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): Fonds NutsOhra

    2009

  39. EUR 245,000: Linguistic knowledge discovery in Dutchlanguage variation databases (LINKDIS). (2009). Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): NWO Vernieuwingsimpuls Remark: Made it to the interview round.
  40. EUR 225,000: Prescribing Optimalisation Method Platform (POMP). (2009). Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): ZonMw Doelmatigheidsonderzoek Farmacotherapie
  41. EUR 8,000: ISMIR conference funding (ISMIR). (2009). Description: For the 11th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2010). Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): KNAW Congressubsidiefonds

    2008

  42. EUR 495,491: Disease Management and Self Management in the Obesity Chain (DMSMOC). (2008). Type: Competitive funding. Financer(s): ZonMw Diseasemanagement Chronische Ziekten

Canceled [ ^ ]

NWO: GenHealth (LIACS).
Research Infrastructure (RI): national consortia round 2023-2024. Pre-proposal.
AINed: CARE (LUMC).
AiNed ELSA Labs 2024. Creating AI Responsibly.
Horizon Europe: DustPredict (LUMC): xxK EUR (x PhD candidates).
HORIZON-MISS-2024-CIT-01-02 (RIA). Zero Pollution Cities call. Saharan Dust Impact in Population Health. Remark: total grant total: 5M EUR. Deadline: 11-02-2025. url