<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body><div>Dear all,</div><div><br></div><div>Please find a letter attached. I hope it helps! Shoud you need that I modify the text, please let me know. </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Marcos. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><p>April 4, 2024 at 4:42 PM, "Christian Schaffner" <<a href="mailto:c.schaffner@uva.nl?to=%22Christian%20Schaffner%22%20%3Cc.schaffner%40uva.nl%3E" target="_blank" tabindex="-1">c.schaffner@uva.nl</a>> wrote:</p><blockquote><div lang="en-NL" vlink="#96607D" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>
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</div><p><span lang="EN-US">Dear Lorena & Marcos,</span></p><div>
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</div><p><span lang="EN-US">Both </span><span lang="NL"><a href="mailto:andreas@huelsing.net" target="_blank" tabindex="-1" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;text-decoration:none'>@Andreas Huelsing</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US">
and I are trying to convince our Dutch university administration that our doctoral students
<a href="mailto:g.c.muuss@uva.nl" target="_blank" tabindex="-1" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><span style='font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;text-decoration:none'>@Gina Muuss</span></a> and
<a href="mailto:s.ritsch@tue.nl" target="_blank" tabindex="-1" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><span style='font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;text-decoration:none'>@Ritsch, Silvia</span></a> do not have to fill in time sheets for their QSI PhD projects.</span></p><div>
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</div><p><span lang="EN-US">This was mentioned in our meeting with the EU project officer. However, our universities are used to require time sheets for all EU projects.
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</div><p><span lang="EN-US">Could you as project coordinator send us an (official-sounding) email confirming the statement of our PO that time sheets are not required for our students? That could be a big help for us to convince our administrations.
Thanks a lot in advance!</span></p><div>
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</div><p><span lang="EN-US">I would not be surprised if other doctoral candidates and their supervisors have the same issue as well. That’s why I am CCing all QSI beneficiaries. Any precedents of other QSI doctoral students not required to fill
in time sheets would already help us.</span></p><div>
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</div><p><span lang="EN-US">Best regards,</span></p><div>
</div><p><span lang="EN-US">Chris</span></p><div>
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