 It depends on what you name a crisis I think if you yes we have we have had several crisis big ones and smaller ones if I look at how things are normally going and then things are changing due to something so there's a structure and the structure structure is changing then we you can name it already a crisis I think and yes we have many of those but also one or two big crisis where we needed to change the whole application or something like that so yes we have many many small and a few bigger ones one of the bigger crisis that we had is that we needed to change a partner in our partnership due to lack of understanding together and we didn't see a good qualitative partnership running when this partner stayed included in the partnership and so we needed to stop the collaboration with this partner and we talked with this partner beforehand to to discuss several times the issues that were going on but then didn't find the solution so as lead partner together with the partners the other partners in the partnership we made a decision to stop the collaboration with this one partner then informed also the national agency and asked them what do we need to do how to solve this can we do something else that that we still forgot so do you have some recommendations about how to because I expect that say they have the NA know more about different solutions than we do because they have faced more partnerships already with probably some crisis so that's what one of the things that we have done and then the whole procedure starts with finalizing the partnership with one partner and starting with a new partner so two streams of communication are starting so one finishing part and one starting part and also that didn't combine really because it took quite a while before we could start with a new partner so we lost there I think for four months of having no partner doing the work so it infects the partnership and the quality of the things that we wanted to succeed with all the other organizations in Europe who are working with strategic or cooperative partnerships we also faced the COVID situation where in projects in partnerships where we planned a lot of traveling and meeting with each other to grow the partnership couldn't happen including one training that we would have had physically in in in a country we changed that to an online training which we were not used to do yet as much as the physical trainings so that had a lot of extra work time budget in it that we needed to to solve fine solutions for but the the very positive thing that came out is that we saw how beneficiary the online trainings can be and that we still one of the things that we still have from that crisis is that due to the online training that we created we have now also a lot of videos produced that we still can use during in the next projects that we still have to inform other partners people we work with and so we gained also a lot about this crisis so that is one of the things because of the crisis you need to think out of the box and that's helpful so we always try to see the opportunities that it also bringing always before we start with an application we also talk about what are the risks that we can face in this partnership and how can we solve them is there kind of management structure to to proceed to have an overview of the risks that that are happening talking about so in our projects we all always have online monthly meetings with the partners so talking or checking in these monthly meetings what the the risks are and that is one thing find a way to evaluate the risks that are happening so to see the things that we have been doing to solve were they the right things and what can we learn from it for next situations and then sharing that with partners so you can also in next application rounds or next situations learn from it and do it in a better way what I realize for me personally is that for me the relationship is important and the openness is in communication I always try to think about is this a situation that I need to share with partners already do I bother partners already with the crisis situation and when do I share the crisis at which moment but then when you share the crisis it is very helpful when the partners are also responding in a way that is helpful and so coming with solutions for me it's also good to hear that I have approached the situation in the right way or did my best that's really a personal thing probably but yeah for me the communication and the relationship is the transparency the finding the balance hearing from partners how they would solve the crisis and then doing it together so in an agreed circumstance is helpful so that you all agree about this is how we're going to solve it these are the solutions these are the things that will not happen due to the due to the crisis and we all agree with that because it will influence situations in a bad way and in a positive way the communication is open and effective so not blaming but but helping each other to find the solutions and also say for this case in this situation for our organization it will work out in situation ABCD and for the other organization in a different way so creating understanding what the effect will be for different organizations and then probably each organization can also find their own solution but then if you know it from each other that's helpful when you understand you can also find this this common this common solution that is that can be a win-win or a synergy for all our partners involved