R&D MAP Creative Content Exchange pilot: Early Adopters fund (Grant)
UK Research and Innovation, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
What it funds
Apply for funding support to accelerate onboarding of early content providers to the Creative Content Exchange (CCE) platform, including legal, technical and operational support to prepare the content.The CCE Challenge is developing a platform aimed at creating a trusted marketplace for selling, buying, licensing and enabling permitted access to digitised cultural and creative assets.The full economic cost (FEC) can be up to £125,000 for up to nine months’ duration (end date 30 April 2027). UK R
Who can apply
Who is eligible to applyThis 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:charitynon-governmental organisationgovernment departmentthird sector organisationocial enterpriseother 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.Who is not eligible to applyIf you received funding from the ‘Launch Partners Fund: (invite-only)’ opportunity, then you are not eligible to apply for this funding opportunity.Interna
How to apply
Click here to start application on the UKRI Funding Service: https://funding-service.ukri.org/OPP1289/apply/1316We are running this funding opportunity on the new UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Funding Service so please ensure that your organisation is registered. You cannot apply on the Joint Electronic Submissions (Je-S) system.The project lead is responsible for completing the application process on the Funding Service, but we expect all team members and project partners to contribute to the application.Only the lead research organisation can submit an application to UKRI.To applySelect ‘Start application’ near the beginning of this Funding finder page.Confirm you are the project lead.Sign in or create a Funding Service account. To create an account, select your organisation, verify your email address, and set a password.Answer questions directly in the text boxes. You can save you
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