R&D MAP Creative Content Exchange pilot: Early Adopters fund
Arts and Humanities Research Council
What it funds
Word limit: 550 In plain English, provide a summary we can use to identify the most suitable experts to assess your application. We usually make this summary publicly available on external-facing websites, therefore do not include any confidential or sensitive information. Make it suitable for a variety of readers, for example: opinion-formers policymakers the public the wider research community Guidance for writing a summary Clearly describe your proposed work in terms of: context the challenge
Who can apply
This opportunity is open to UK-based organisations with standard or non-standard eligibility. The criteria for non-standard eligibility is that your organisation must be one of the following: charity non-governmental organisation government department third sector organisation social enterprise other educational establishment (for example, a college that does not usually undertake research activities) You will need to go through checks before being given funding. You can apply for funding before these checks take place. We may ask you to start the checks before your application is successful. This is a targeted support fund designed to accelerate the onboarding of early content providers to the CCE platform. For this phase of the pilot, we are particularly targeting content from large cultural organisations, including but not limited to, galleries, libraries, archives and museums. ‘Content’ includes all and any content ( for example, video, audio, images, text or mixed media) and data sets.
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