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Grants for projects that have various elements; usually collaborative

AHRC JPI Cultural Heritage – Digital Heritage Call

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(Closing Date: 22 June 2017)

AHRC JPI Cultural Heritage – Digital Heritage Call  

The Joint Programming Initiative in Cultural Heritage and Global Change is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity for transnational proposals in the area of Digital Heritage. The Digital Heritage call will support well-defined, transnational, interdisciplinary and collaborative research and development projects that maximize the value and impact of research outcomes by promoting the exchange with policy makers, businesses and commercial enterprises, the broader heritage sector, voluntary and community groups and the general public. 

Max amount: 4.5 million Euros. Applications must be in accordance with the eligibility requirements relevant for the national research teams in the transnational research consortia and not exceed the maximum budgets to be requested therein.

Max Duration: up to 36 months

Start Date or lead time:

Discipline(s): inter-disciplinary research using a wide range of digital methods applied to the creation, exploration, study, understanding, interpretation, presentation, dissemination of tangible and intangible heritage, whether digitized or born-digital. It also includes the use of digital methodologies for the conservation and protection of heritage and for promoting the community engagement with, and use of, heritage.

Applicant status: Each project proposal must comprise of at least three research teams, each based in an eligible institution in a different country participating in the Digital Heritage Call. The maximum number of research teams in a project proposal is five

Application submission: Applications for this call are made via the JPICH website.

Wellcome Trust The Hub Award

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(Closing Date: 7 July 2017)

Wellcome Trust The Hub Award

The Hub Award brings researchers and creative professionals together at Wellcome Collection to work as a collaborative residency.

The Hub, Wellcome Trust

The Hub is a space located on the 5th floor of Wellcome Collection which is home to the recipients of The Hub Award, a grant that supports a group of researchers and other creative minds to collaborate on a project over two years which explores the cultural    and social contexts of health.

Who can apply

Groups of four to six people can apply for The Hub Award. Your proposed project should:

  • bring together people from different professional backgrounds, such as health, the arts and academia
  • be innovative and experimental
  • fit with Wellcome Trust’s strategy.

The award offers a specially designed, flexible space at Wellcome Collection, including quiet spaces, meeting and seminar rooms, and access to a recording studio.

Application Type: You must submit your application through the Wellcome Trust Grant Tracker (WTGT).

Max amount: up to £1 million for a range of activities and research costs, including:

  • salary costs for your group
  • salary costs for collaborators and administrative staff, such as project co-ordinators, extra researchers and resident artists
  • project expenses, such as equipment, materials, travel, events and public engagement activities.

Funding Mode: not fEC please see the Wellcome Trust website for full details of funding

Max Duration: up to two years

Start Date or lead time: between October 2018 and January 2019

Please contact Dr Anne Galliot in the CRD or Stuart Hedley in the Reasearch Office if you are interested in applying

Nordic Culture Culture and Art Programme

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(Closing Date: Application period 18 August – 20 September 2017)

Nordic Culture Culture and Art Programme

https://www.nordiskkulturkontakt.org/en/grants/culture-and-art-programme

The Culture and Art Programme supports Nordic cooperation within art and culture. The general aim is to provide support to innovative projects of high artistic and cultural merit, that promote a multifaceted and sustainable Nordic region. 

About Nordic Culture Point

Nordic Culture Point is an official Nordic cultural institution. The organisation administers three Nordic funding programs, runs a cultural center and library in the heart of Helsinki, and arranges cultural events. The activities create physical, financial and digital space for Nordic culture.

Nordic Culture Point is an institution operating under the auspices of the Nordic Council of Ministers. Further information is available at http://www.kulturkontaktnord.org/en

Application Type: 

Application forms are not available online until the start of the application period. Application forms must be completed online and submitted via your user account. Nordic Culture Point does not accept any other form of application, e.g. hard copy or e-mail.

Projects focusing on cultural and artistic production and creative work. The key word is innovation. This involves the development and trial of new ideas, concepts and processes.

  • The production of works, projects and initiatives that involve a creative process
  • The dissemination of works, projects and initiatives in a variety of contexts
  • Works that create a point where artists, other people involved in culture and audiences can meet

Production-based Activities are any sort of project that revolves around the creative process. Applications are welcome for funding for all phases of the production process: research, production, presentation and distribution. The funding may be used to cover any type of expenditure that is directly associated with the project.

When applying, one of three types of project must be selected:

  • Pre-project
    A pre-project is research to clarify the conditions for completing a larger project. Funding for a pre-project does not automatically lead to funding for the main project. Pre-projects are eligible for full funding up to €13 000.
  • Pilot project
    A pilot project is a trial of a larger project on a smaller scale. The maximum duration of a pilot project is one year. Funding for a pre-project does not automatically lead to funding for the main project. The maximum grant available to a pilot project is €40 000 and the maximum contribution from the Nordic Culture Point is 75 % of the total project budget.
  • Project
    A project must have a clear time frame and budget. A project may last up to three years. The maximum grant available to a project is €100 000 and the maximum contribution from the Nordic Culture point is 50% of the total project budget.

Discipline(s): Arts and cultural studies

Applicant status: Funding is available to the arts and culture sectors, whether professional, amateur or voluntary. Individuals, groups or organisations, associations and institutions

Collaboration/ Partnership: Yes

Wellcome Trust Investigator Awards in Humanities and Social Science

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(Closing dates: Preliminary Stage Applications 4 July 2017 no later than 5pm. These are assessed for eligibility, suitability and competitiveness. If suitable, they will invite you to submit a full application.)

Wellcome Trust Investigator Awards in Humanities and Social Science

https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/investigator-awards-humanities-and-social-science

These awards offer flexible funding support to researchers in established posts at all career stages working on important questions of relevance to health.

You can apply for an Investigator Award if you’re a researcher at any stage of your career, for example a newly appointed lecturer, a mid-career researcher, or a senior or emeritus professor. You must hold an established post.

If you’re at an early stage in your career, you should be able to show that you can innovate and drive advances in your field of study and demonstrate considerable potential. Your research, funding and training track records should be good relative to your career stage.

If you’re a mid-career or senior researcher, you should have achieved more in terms of:

  • the originality and impact of your research
  • your track record in gaining research grant support
  • your success in training and mentoring others.

Senior researchers should be internationally recognised as leaders in their fields.

You should also have a statement of commitment from a senior member of your organisation and a relevant research project.

Application Type: You must submit your application through the Wellcome Trust Grant Tracker (WTGT). 

Max amount: £300,000 to around £1 million. The award covers the costs of carrying out the programme, such as:

  • research expenses
  • research or teaching buy-out leave
  • conference and meeting costs

You can also apply for public engagement funds to involve the public in your research and inspire learning.

Max Duration: Up to five years

Discipline(s): Social Science and Humanities 

Collaboration/ Partnership: Joint applications are welcome where a project will benefit from the complementary expertise of two researchers. Please contact The Wellcome Trust for advice before you apply.

Heritage Lottery Fund

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The Heritage Lottery Fund offer a range of different grant programmes with grants from £3,000 to over £5 million. They take a wide-ranging view of Heritage and support all kinds of projects, as long as they make a lasting difference for heritage, people and communities. In assessing applications, they take account of the outcomes for heritage, people and communities that projects will achieve.

Funding schemes include:
  • Sharing Heritage: Explore your community’s heritage with a grant of £3,000–£10,000. Applying through this programme is straightforward, with a short application form and a quick decision.
  • Our Heritage (£10,000-£100,000): An Our Heritage grant can help you protect and share the heritage you care about. Your project could focus on anything from personal memories and cultural traditions to archaeological sites, museum collections and rare wildlife.
  • Heritage Grants (over £100,000): This programme is for larger heritage projects of any kind. With our help you could set up an archaeological dig, help people learn long-lost traditional skills, look after rare species and habitats, and much more. Applications go through a two-round process.
  • Young Roots: Apply for a grant of £10,000-£50,000 to help young people aged 11 to 25 to explore their heritage, from green spaces, museums, and historic sites to language, local memories and youth culture.
  • First World Ward Then and Now: Explore the heritage of the First World War with grants of £3,000–£10,000. This programme has a short application form, and is suitable for everyone, including first-time applicants.
  • Skills for the Future: The Skills for the Future programme helps organisations deliver paid training placements to meet skills shortages in the heritage sector and to help diversify the workforce. Grants range from £100,000-£750,000.
  • Heritage Enterprise: The cost of repairing a neglected historic building is often so high that restoration simply isn’t commercially viable. Heritage Enterprise makes such schemes possible by funding some of the repair costs with grants of £100,000 to £5million.
  • Start-up Grants: Start-up Grants can help in the early stages of planning your activities. This programme will be closing on Wednesday 27 July at 5pm. From 28 July you will be able to apply for a grant of £3,000-£10,000 for activities currently supported through Start-up Grants through the new Resilient Heritage programme.
  • Townscape Heritage: The Townscape Heritage programme helps communities regenerate deprived towns and cities across the UK by improving their built historic environment. Grants range from £100,000 to £2million.
  • Parks for People: Parks for People funding helps to conserve the heritage that makes both historic parks and cemeteries special. And it gives local people a say in how they are managed in the future. Projects improve people’s wellbeing and knowledge of their area, and make communities better places to live, work and visit. Grants from £100,000-£5 million.
  • Lanscape Partnership: Landscape Partnership schemes put heritage conservation at the heart of rural and peri-urban regeneration. Local, regional and national organisations work together to make a real difference to landscapes and communities for the long term. Grants from £100,000-£3 million.
Explore the HLF and its funding schemes further at:
https://www.hlf.org.uk/looking-funding/what-we-fund
 

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AHRC Highlight Notices

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Summary of Highlight Notices

Highlight notices are intended to stimulate proposals under specified themes /strategic priorities in order to rapidly advance thinking or collaboration in these areas. Highlight notices are offered as opportunities within existing AHRC research schemes and are therefore assessed under the same criteria and assessment process.

Highlight notices are applied for a set period of time, for example 12 months, and the descriptions are usually intended to guide inquiry rather than prescribe individual research topics.

Proposals relevant to the highlight notice can be submitted at any time while the highlight notice is in existence. All proposals will be assessed on their quality and individual merits according to standard scheme criteria. Although proposals addressing the highlight notice will not be given priority in the assessment or ranking of applications, supplementary funding may be made available to support additional highly rated applications addressing the highlight notices that may not have otherwise been funded under the existing scheme budgets. As a result, applications addressing highlight notices may have an increased chance of funding, but only if they fully meet the excellence criteria for the scheme and high international standards of scholarship, originality, quality and significance as judged through peer review.

If your proposal is funded under a highlight notice, you will be expected to produce a short report at the end of the award summarising the outcomes of the work undertaken and the potential for the future development of the topic of the highlight notice. For example by highlighting potential innovative new multi-disciplinary research, partnership, international links, researcher development, or knowledge exchange opportunities.

Current Highlight Notices

Follow-on Funding for Impact and Engagement Scheme: Creative Economy Highlight Notice

The AHRC has identified the creative economy as an area of strategic importance as evidenced by our Delivery Plan 2016-20. The AHRC has established and supported a number of knowledge exchange and research initiatives which have enriched and supported growth within the creative economy. During the last spending period (2011-2015), the AHRC spent circa £100m on research related to creative economy interests.

Arts and humanities research plays an important role in accelerating innovation within the creative economy, and the AHRC is committed to supporting and strengthening these collaborations. To achieve this, the AHRC are launching a highlight notice in our Follow-on Funding for Impact and Engagement (FoF) scheme. The aim of the highlight notice is to encourage applications exploring innovative ways to enhance engagement with the creative economy, and maximise opportunities for impact within the creative economy.

Proposed activities must enhance the value and wider benefit of the original research and/or knowledge exchange project, and clearly demonstrate how they will deliver significant economic, social, cultural and/or policy impacts for the creative economy.

AHRC welcomes proposals which build upon existing, or nurture new partnerships in the creative economy either in the UK or internationally, and which have strong potential to deliver impact.

Highlight notices are intended to stimulate proposals addressing strategic priorities or emerging research areas in order to encourage innovation, new thinking and/or the development of collaborations in these areas. Highlight notices are offered as opportunities within existing AHRC research schemes, although in this case highlight applications will be considered through a different assessment process to other FoF applications.

The application form for highlight applications is available in Je-S.

For full details and application form please follow the link below:

http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/funding/opportunities/current/follow-on-funding-for-impact-and-engagement-scheme-creative-economy-highlight-notice/

Leverhulme Major Research Fellowships

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(Closing Date: 11 May 2017 )

Leverhulme Major Research Fellowships

Providing replacement teaching costs over two or three years, to allow academics in the humanities and social sciences to focus on a specific piece of original research. 

These awards enable well-established and distinguished researchers in the humanities and social sciences to devote themselves to a single research project of outstanding originality and significance, capable of completion within two or three years. Candidates should state explicitly what the proposed outcomes of the award will be. Fellowships are particularly aimed at those who are or have been prevented by routine duties from completing a programme of original research.

Max amount:

The Fellowships fund the salary costs (normally starting at the most junior point of the lecturer scale at the institution concerned) of an individual to undertake the normal duties of the applicant for the duration of the Fellowship.

A Major Research Fellow may also request research expenses up to an annual maximum of £5,000. If such funds are required they must be requested as part of the application procedure.

Max Duration: 2 – 3 years

Discipline(s): Humanities and social sciences

Applicant status: Applicants must be employed by a university or other institution of higher education in the UK. They should be able to demonstrate scholarship at the highest level, but they need not already be of professorial standing.

Application submission: Applications to be submitted online via Leverhulme Trust Grant Application

Leverhulme Research Leadership Awards

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(Closing Date: Next round to be announced in Spring 2019

Leverhulme Research Leadership Awards

The aim is to support talented scholars who have successfully launched a university career but who need to build a research team of sufficient scale to tackle a distinctive research problem. This creates an opportunity for the development and demonstration of research leadership; that is, for the direction of a modest team or group, whose research may significantly change the established landscape in a particular field of inquiry. Each institution is limited to one bid only.

 

Once a university has selected their chosen candidate, they should provide the Trust with the applicant’s name, departmental affiliation and email address. Access will then be granted to the Trust’s online Grant Application System.

Max amount: The awards will be for a sum of between £800,000 and £1 million

(i)    Salaries for research staff

At least 75% of the resources requested must be used to provide funding for research staff (research assistants; postgraduate students).

There will be no provision for replacement teaching or overhead expenditures, nor for the salary costs of the Principal Applicant.

(ii)    Associated research costs

These can be included up to a maximum of 25% of the total budget. This percentage is a maximum and not a target. The following are examples of such eligible costs:

  • Technical, computing, clerical staff costs.
  • Travel and subsistence costs directly related to the research activity. These can include conference attendance provided that such attendance can be shown to make a direct contribution to the research project.
  • Consumable costs.

Max Duration: Over 4 – 5 years

 

Applicant status:

  • Eligible institutions are universities in the UK.
  • Eligible applicants will have held a university post for at least two years but will not yet have developed their academic career such that the trajectory of their research contribution has become firmly established.

AHRC São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)

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(Closing Date: No Deadline)

AHRC São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)

In 2009 Research Councils UK (RCUK) and FAPESP, the Research Council for the State of São Paulo, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to welcome, encourage and support proposals that may cut across our national boundaries and involve international collaborative teams. This agreement was renewed in September 2012 and the current agreement will run until 31 December 2015.

The MoU provides for a ‘Lead Agency Agreement’ whereby the relevant UK Research Council will receive and assess collaborative proposals from eligible institutions on behalf of both organisations. FAPESP nominated experts will be involved with the peer review and decision making processes throughout. For further information see the RCUK/FAPESP Memorandum of Understanding.

For all routes of the research grants scheme you must submit an application through the cross-council Joint Electronic Submission – (Je-S) System. If you need any assistance to use the system, please contact the JE-S helpdesk on 01793 444164 or on JesHelp@rcuk.ac.uk.

In addition, the following guidelines apply: AHRC-FAPESP Collaborative Funding Guidelines (PDF)

Costs: AHRC will accept proposals with a total full economic cost (fEC) of between £50,000 and £1,000,000 under the standard route, or £50,000 to £250,000 under the early career route for the UK component of the project. If the application is successful, the AHRC will contribute 80% of these costs.

FAPESP will accept proposals of up to the equivalent of £1,000,000 for the Brazilian component of the project; bringing the total of the whole proposal up to an equivalent maximum of £2,000,000. Please note, only the UK component is costed under fEC.

Transnational teams (UK and São Paulo-based researchers) are invited to apply directly to the AHRC under the Research Grants Scheme. For more information please refer to: 

Max Duration: 60 months

Discipline(s): Arts and humanitites

To discuss this further please contact Dr Anne Galliot in the CRD or the Research Office.