Unsuccessful research application

I have just been informed - though the decision is not that fresh - that the application for a research project entitled "Environmental Semiotics: Theory and applications in changing culture and environment" failed to get funding. In the application I was included as an Extraordinary Researcher with full work load (research) - though I was later told who would actually be included, and with what kind of role, would only be decided following a positive answer.

The external reviewer noted that

this research has the potential to place the Tartu School of Semiotics within international Environmental Humanities. [...] The proposal is, however, too semiotical in the sense that it lives in its theoretical fields without making too many contacts to practice and concrete problems.

Cf. previous posts:
* Application for research project 2011-2016
* Prospects for further wolf research?

Application for research project 2011-2016

I am involved in an application for the prospective research project "Environmental Semiotics: Theory and applications in changing culture and environment". Timo Maran is the project's Principal Investigator and head. Through the project, which would span over the years 2011-2016 (until I'm 40...), I would have a research position (full work load), with the title 'Extraordinary researcher'. Other scholars involved include Jelena Grigorjeva, Kati Lindström, Riin Magnus, Ene-Reet Soovik, Renata Sõukand and Kadri Tüür.

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If the application proves successful, it will imply that I establish ties to the University of Tartu for the years after I have completed my PhD (beyond my obligations partaking in the research project Dynamical Zoosemiotics and Animal Representations, until 2012).