The Digital Research & Development Fund for Arts and Culture is looking to support arts and cultural organisations across England who want to work with digital technologies to:
• expand their audience reach and engagement and/or
• explore new business models
A key element of the fund is partnerships between arts and cultural organisations and technology providers (by which we mean any creative, media or technology company including other arts and cultural organisations with relevant technology know-how) that can provide technology services to arts and cultural organisations.
Specifically, we want to invite arts and cultural organisations to submit projects that test digital propositions around audience reach/ engagement and new business models that are of interest to the arts and cultural sector.
As such, the projects need to produce research/data that other arts and cultural organisations value highly and, possibly, new products/services that can be used by other organisations.
The sum total investment into programme activities for the arts and cultural sector in England will be worth £500,000 over 2011/12. The fund will consider a range of projects - small and large - however, no one project should exceed £100,000.
Deadline for submission: Midnight on the 2 September 2011
The Digital Research & Development Fund for Arts and Culture is a partnership between the Arts Council England, Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and NESTA.