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Challenge Projects

New Modalities of Experience for the Creative Industries

Challenge Projects offer an opportunity for creative and cultural organisations to bring forward challenges relating to their work that require innovative, data-driven solutions.

Applications for Round 2 Challenge Respondents are now open and close on Monday 24th February. Find out more about all of our Round 2 Challenges below.

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Challenge Holders

Potential applicants can come with unformed or semi-formed challenges that can be co-designed with the Creative Informatics team. Applications should respond to one of the following R&D priorities:

  • Developing access to and engagement with new audiences and markets
  • Developing new modalities of experience
  • Unlocking the value of archives and data sets
  • Exploring new business models for the creative industries

Challenge Respondents

Once challenges have been set, applications will open for Challenge Respondents. Up to £20,000 is available to support successful research and development proposals that answer the Challenge. Respondents can be SME’s, teams or individuals that have the skills to answer one of the selected challenges, using data (from the Challenge Holder and/or from other sources) and data driven approaches and technologies.

How it works

Read the Guidelines

Download Guidelines (PDF)

Download Challenge Respondent Application PDF (for reference only)

Download Challenge Projects Pipeline

Our second round Challenge Holders are Edinburgh International Festival, Jupiter Artland, John Byrne Award, Historic Environment Scotland, and Edinburgh Science.

Jupiter Artland

An interactive tool for audience engagement.

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Historic Environment Scotland

New viewpoints for Scotland’s historic sites.

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Edinburgh Science

A data-driven approach to interactive fundraising.

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John Byrne Award

Creating dynamic user ‘journeys’ that encourage civic debate.

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Edinburgh International Festival

Virtual working spaces for festival venues

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Round 2 applications for Challenge respondents are now open. Applications must be submitted by 5pm on 24 February 2020. Please refer to the Challenge Project Guidance before submitting your application which contains information on eligibility criteria and selection process.

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TIMELINE

  • 20.01.2020
    Call 2 Applications open
  • 24.02.2020
    Call 2 Applications close
  • 09.03.2020
    Panel meets to select successful applicants
  • 16.03.2020
    Applicants informed of decision

APPLICATIONS

Open calls for Challenge Project applications will happen twice a year in April and October. The application and awarding process for Challenge Projects involves two separate selection processes:

  1. Selection of up to 5 appropriate challenges to take forward.
  2. Selection of an appropriate response to each selected challenge to take forward and fund.

A selection panel will be put in place for both selection processes, with Challenge Holders forming part of the panel for the second phase of selection, where responses to their challenges are reviewed.

DATES

12.04.19ROUND #1

Applications open for the first round of Challenge Projects.

09.10.2019ROUND #2

Applications open for the second round of Challenge Projects.

FIND OUT MORE

If you require any further information on the application process for Challenge Projects, or have any questions about your application, please contact the Creative Informatics team.

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