Most common is definitely that something doesn’t really seem very relevant to the long-term future (concrete example: “Please fund this local charity that helps people recycle more”). This is probably driven by people applying with the same project to lots of different grant opportunities, at least that’s how the applications often read.
I would have to think a bit more about patterns that apply to the applications that pass the initial filter (i.e. are promising enough to be worth a deeper investigation).
Most common is definitely that something doesn’t really seem very relevant to the long-term future (concrete example: “Please fund this local charity that helps people recycle more”). This is probably driven by people applying with the same project to lots of different grant opportunities, at least that’s how the applications often read.
I would have to think a bit more about patterns that apply to the applications that pass the initial filter (i.e. are promising enough to be worth a deeper investigation).