Reached out again on August 12.

Actually wrote to Joris Pekel, their data collaborations person, on the 14th.

Joris wrote back!

I am not the best person to have a saying about this, but I am going to forward your message to a couple of my colleagues. We usually are not really in thew position to sponsor with money because we are a fully European Commission funded project, but something like travle might be an opportunity. I'll let you know!

I'm going to close this. Please update T142945 when you hear back.