Deadline: 15-Sep-22
The Arts Council is seeking applications for its Invitation to Collaboration Scheme 2023.
Focus Areas
Projects that focus on the following areas:
- Public engagement – e.g. arts and health, communities of interest or place, arts and disability, cultural diversity, older people, youth arts, arts and education, hard-to-access communities
- Artists-focused programmes – e.g. arts and disability, international commissioning, supports for artists locally and nationally, arts-residency programmes
- Policy development – e.g. audience development, economic impact, quality-of-life impact, local-authority arts-services development, best-practice models for arts offices and venues, models of regional approaches to collaboration, and new investment models for supporting the arts
Funding Information
- Research and Development Phase: up to a maximum of €30,000
- Project Implementation Phase: up to a maximum of €75,000
- Project Continuation Phase: up to a maximum of €35,000
Eligibility Criteria
- The award is open to local authorities to apply for projects or initiatives that they identify as being of strategic significance to arts development locally, regionally and nationally.
- One local-authority arts service must be the lead applicant. In partnership-based projects involving two or more local-authority arts services, the identification of the lead local authority is at the discretion of the partners.
- Projects may involve a local authority and an arts venue/organisation, a combination of a number of local authorities, arts venues/organisations, and non-arts groups, organisations or agencies.
- Non-arts organisations could be considered partners in a project, on the condition that the project involves two or more arts partners. Non-arts partners could include local or national representative organisations.
- Local authorities that have benefitted from at least three awards in previous rounds could consider partnering with a local authority(s) that has not benefitted from the award to date, should the proposal align with all partner objectives.
For more information, visit https://www.artscouncil.ie/Funds/An-Invitation-to-Collaboration-Scheme/