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Absolutely our pleasure best of luck! Thanks so much for reaching out. 

Next week, I'll drop an email to arrange a catch-up for when I'm back from maternity leave but will let you guys focus on getting this over the line!

All the best,
Matthew

From: Sassi, Franco <f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk>
Sent: 15 April 2026 2:29 PM
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Subject: RE: A-Z-Health Bid
 
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Thank you, Matthew. Greatly appreciated, given the time frame.

 

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Sent: 15 April 2026 15:05
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Cc: Dominique Allwood <Dominique.Allwood@imperialcollegehealthpartners.com>; zhealth-mgmt <zhealth-mgmt@imperial.ac.uk>
Subject: [Z-health-Mgmt] Re: A-Z-Health Bid

 

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Hi Franco and Jack,

 

Please find attached updated text for the bid. I've put an estimate of 4k recruitment.

 

Given the timeframes and lack of explicit engagement, I think it's less risky for us as an organisation to focus on 12-18 year olds and this is much more of a "captive" market given the law around school attendance. For the 19-25 yo segment, there is a greater risk of drop outs etc. so I feel less confident giving a recruitment number.

 

Process points:

  • Added text is highlighted in blue pages 15-16
  • I've added in a few references so you can see sources but I note that they are not in the referencing style of the document. Other countries have not included references so feel free to delete but I wanted to give you the choice
  • Word count is slightly longer than others at 475 (inc references),  445 (ex definitional acronyms and references)
    • This is longer than the longest example Ukraine, which is 410
    • If you want me to get to a specific word limit e.g. 400 just let me know and I'll do it. 

 

 

Let me know if you need anything else. 

 

All the best,

Matthew

 


From: Sassi, Franco <f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2026 10:49 AM
To: Matthew Chisambi <Matthew.Chisambi@imperialcollegehealthpartners.com>; Giulia Calì <gcali@isinnova.org>; Olney, Jack J <jack.olney@imperial.ac.uk>
Cc: Dominique Allwood <Dominique.Allwood@imperialcollegehealthpartners.com>; zhealth-mgmt <zhealth-mgmt@imperial.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: A-Z-Health Bid

 

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Indeed, the 25% is allocated separately. 7300 is in line with what we had envisaged before receiving your estimate, so we can put back your time effort to a level that is in line with that of other partners with similar roles. Thank you for clarifying this.

 

From: Matthew Chisambi <Matthew.Chisambi@imperialcollegehealthpartners.com>
Sent: 15 April 2026 11:29
To: Sassi, Franco <f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk>; Giulia Calì <gcali@isinnova.org>; Olney, Jack J <jack.olney@imperial.ac.uk>
Cc: Dominique Allwood <Dominique.Allwood@imperialcollegehealthpartners.com>; zhealth-mgmt <zhealth-mgmt@imperial.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: A-Z-Health Bid

 

Hi Franco,

 

It's probably the 25%. If I strip these out, it's 7,300 EUR. Is that more in line? If not I can revisit underlying costings. 

 

All the best,

Matthew


From: Sassi, Franco <f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk>
Sent: 15 April 2026 10:22 AM
To: Matthew Chisambi <
Matthew.Chisambi@imperialcollegehealthpartners.com>; Giulia Calì <gcali@isinnova.org>; Olney, Jack J <jack.olney@imperial.ac.uk>
Cc: Dominique Allwood <
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Subject: RE: A-Z-Health Bid

 

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Thank you, Matthew. I look forward to receiving your further inputs. Just a quick check on the average monthly rate you have submitted, which is the highest in the project. Have you correctly estimated the balance and proportions of junior and senior staff that will be involved? Have you excluded indirect costs (that are accounted for separately in the EU budget form)? The overall budget will be the same, but if the monthly rate is high we have to allocate fewer person months to ICHP, which may look odd to reviewers. Thank you for checking this. Franco

 

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Sent: 15 April 2026 10:30
To: Giulia Calì <gcali@isinnova.org>; Olney, Jack J <jack.olney@imperial.ac.uk>; Sassi, Franco <f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk>
Cc: Dominique Allwood <Dominique.Allwood@imperialcollegehealthpartners.com>; zhealth-mgmt <zhealth-mgmt@imperial.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: A-Z-Health Bid

 

Sorry slightly later than planned. Please find attached. 

 

Jack/Franco, I'll reply on the substance separately by midday. 

 

All the best,

Matthew

 

 


From: Matthew Chisambi <Matthew.Chisambi@imperialcollegehealthpartners.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2026 5:27 PM
To: Giulia Calì <
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Cc: Dominique Allwood <
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Subject: Re: A-Z-Health Bid

 

Thanks all, confirm receipt, will get to this by 9am tomorrow.

 

 


From: Giulia Calì <gcali@isinnova.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2026 11:14 AM
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Subject: R: A-Z-Health Bid

 

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Dear Matthew, 

 

following Jack’s email, I kindly ask you to complete the attached form.

 

The initial section is required in order to register your organisation in the EU Funding & Tenders Portal and to structuring the budget. From page 2 onwards, you will be asked to provide additional information about your organisation, which we will subsequently upload to the relevant section of the Portal (Part A).

 

Please kindly submit the completed form at your earliest convenience, as we are approaching the proposal submission deadline.

 

Do not hesitate to contact me should you have any questions.

 

Thank you for your cooperation.

 

Kind regards,

Giulia

 

 

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Da: Olney, Jack J <jack.olney@imperial.ac.uk>
Inviato: martedì 14 aprile 2026 11:39
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f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk>; Matthew Chisambi <Matthew.Chisambi@imperialcollegehealthpartners.com>
Cc: Dominique Allwood <
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Oggetto: Re: A-Z-Health Bid

 

Dear Matthew,

 

Whilst you are working on this, I'm including my colleague Guilia Cali who is supporting the administration of the proposal. Guilia, please can you request the admin info from Matthew for ICHP. According to the EC portal I see they have a PIC of 949202231.

 

Regards,

Jack


From: Sassi, Franco <f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk>
Sent: 13 April 2026 17:28
To: Olney, Jack J <
jack.olney@imperial.ac.uk>; Matthew Chisambi <Matthew.Chisambi@imperialcollegehealthpartners.com>
Cc: Dominique Allwood <
Dominique.Allwood@imperialcollegehealthpartners.com>
Subject: RE: A-Z-Health Bid

 

Hi Matthew,

 

Just to clarify, we would be happy for you to coordinate the implementation of either intervention (12-18 or 19-25 age group).

 

The information we need for the proposal is the same as we have included for other countries (I think it starts on page 13 of the attached version). Do you think you can get reasonably close to that level of detail?

 

Any questions, please, let us know.

 

Franco

 

From: Olney, Jack J <jack.olney@imperial.ac.uk>
Sent: 13 April 2026 18:23
To: Matthew Chisambi <Matthew.Chisambi@imperialcollegehealthpartners.com>
Cc: Sassi, Franco <f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk>; Dominique Allwood <Dominique.Allwood@imperialcollegehealthpartners.com>
Subject: Re: A-Z-Health Bid

 

Hi Matthew,

 

Thank you for developing this document for us. It is very helpful.

 

In return, I am attaching the full proposal in its current draft form.

 

As outlined in my earlier message we are looking to partners to implement one or both of our two intervention packages, aimed at either 12-18 or 19-25-year olds. We spoke about you focusing on the younger age group, but do you see potential to look at the old age categories too?

 

On numbers, I see in the budget you mention it's difficult to calculate costs in the absence of an indicative scale. However, are you able to estimate how many schools you might reasonably be able to recruit? We need to insert credible numbers in our proposal and put forward a plausible plan. For context, our partners in other countries are implementing interventions at quite a large scale (several thousand children) as we will need to ensure we are able to evaluate each intervention and have enough power to say something meaningful from large sample sizes.

 

If you are able to provide some additional (ball-park) details that would be very much appreciated.

 

Regards,

Jack

 


From: Matthew Chisambi <Matthew.Chisambi@imperialcollegehealthpartners.com>
Sent: 13 April 2026 15:56
To: Olney, Jack J <
jack.olney@imperial.ac.uk>
Cc: Sassi, Franco <
f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk>; Dominique Allwood <Dominique.Allwood@imperialcollegehealthpartners.com>
Subject: Re: A-Z-Health Bid

 

Hi both,

 

Huge thanks for the discussion on Friday. 

 

As agreed, please find attached a proposal that provides a bit more thought into how we might join the consortium bid based on the documents you have shared. 

 

I believe the executive summary can be the basis for the text you may wish to include in the bid documentation. 

 

I look forward to hearing your thoughts on the attached. Although as you'll see it's quite assumption driven given timeframes and lack of familiarity with the Horizon bid processes. 

 

In terms of cohort I've focussed on CYP MH as that is known and confirmed but as mentioned Childhood Obesity is a potential priority that we could expand to. We should get further clarity on this in a few weeks. 

 

All the best,

Matthew

 


From: Olney, Jack J <jack.olney@imperial.ac.uk>
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2026 11:21 AM
To: Matthew Chisambi <
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Cc: Sassi, Franco <
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Subject: Re: A-Z-Health Bid

 

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Thanks, Matthew.

 

Perfectly reasonable question to ask - we are keen to move forward with your inclusion and after just discussing with Franco we would be able to allocate between 400 to 500k EUR to ICHP.

 

Regards,

Jack


From: Matthew Chisambi <Matthew.Chisambi@imperialcollegehealthpartners.com>
Sent: 13 April 2026 10:54
To: Olney, Jack J <
jack.olney@imperial.ac.uk>
Cc: Sassi, Franco <
f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: A-Z-Health Bid

 

Thanks Jack,

 

As agreed, working on getting something across to you today. Just to help with the budget side of things is there a ballpark figure that you had in mind? As there's no budgetary information in what was shared - I was hoping to base off a similar intervention. 

 

No worries if not, but given proximity to deadline just might help avoid a loop. 

 

All the best,

Matthew

 

 


From: Olney, Jack J <jack.olney@imperial.ac.uk>
Sent: 10 April 2026 5:20 PM
To: Matthew Chisambi <
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Dear Matthew,

 

It was very good to meet you this morning.

 

As discussed, I'm attaching an overview of our European proposal, A-Z-Health, along with descriptions of our two intervention packages. Whilst there is limited time left before the deadline, we are keen to explore whether we might be able to implement some interventions in the UK via ICHP.

 

Keen to hear your thoughts on this after you've read the attached.

 

Regards,

Jack