Deadline: 31-Jan-23
The Potanin Foundation is seeking applications for the Industrial Experiment Competition.
Target the competition
- Increasing the openness of Russian museum organizations to work with new relevant types of heritage
- Contribute to the growth of awareness of the value of industrial heritage as a cultural and socio-economic resource
- Creation of a favorable environment for the successful development of new areas of museum activity
- Strengthening long-term positive changes – the social effect – from the implementation of the Foundation’s charitable programs
Possibilities
- Support for the implementation of projects is provided to legal entities in the form of grants. The amount of the grant and the duration of the projects depend on the nomination of the museum.
- The presence of an industrial facility is a prerequisite for all nominations / for participation in the competition. The degree of ruin of an object and its modern functional content can be different: from complete ruin to objects that are currently functioning.
- For all three nominations, in addition to the main grant amount, applicants can request funds for fragmentary restoration or conservation in the current state of the industrial heritage object that will be worked on under the project, but not more than 30% (thirty percent) of the maximum grant amount for the relevant nominations.
Competition Nominations
- Industrial start
- Projects to create concepts and roadmaps (plans of events) for the museumification of an industrial facility / industrial facilities.
- Industrial upgrade
- Projects for the development and scaling of existing museum initiatives using industrial heritage objects. Launching new activities in existing creative clusters, residences, new directions of industrial tourism, etc. Inclusion in programs, expositions, routes of previously not included industrial objects or objects of intangible industrial heritage.
- Expanding existing audiences and engaging new partners and/or communities in the conservation and understanding of industrial heritage.
- Plant Museum
- Projects for the development of industrial facilities through their museumification and their inclusion in museum, tourism, educational programs, including work with destroyed / ruined objects.
Award Information
- Grant Fund: 90 million rubles
- Industrial start
- The maximum grant amount is 2,000,000 (two million) rubles.
- Duration: The duration of the project is not less than 12 (twelve) and not more than 18 (eighteen) months.
- Industrial upgrade
- The maximum grant amount is 3,000,000 (three million) rubles.
- The duration of the project is not less than 12 (twelve) and not more than 24 (twenty four) months.
- Plant Museum
- The maximum grant amount is 5,000,000 (five million) rubles.
- Duration: The duration of the project is at least 12 (twelve) and not more than 24 (twenty four) months.
- Industrial start
Eligible Projects
- Industrial start
- Projects may include, but are not limited to:
- Development of various types of project documentation;
- Creation and testing of prototypes of museum projects;
- Conducting research, focus groups, seminars, strategic sessions, participatory design events, etc.;
- Development of project team competencies required to work with industrial heritage;
- Studying the experience of other organizations in the field of museumification of industrial facilities;
- Inviting experts to consult or develop a concept with the applicant organization.
- Projects may include, but are not limited to:
- Plant Museum
- Projects may include, but are not limited to:
- Conservation of a ruined Industrial Age site through incorporation into a larger cultural site or existing tourism infrastructure;
- Preservation and presentation of the intangible history of objects, including objects that have not been preserved in material form: the formation and digitization of archives (private or public), the organization of exhibitions, the creation of multimedia products, printed materials, etc.
- Projects may include, but are not limited to:
Eligibility Criteria
- The competition is open to staff members of Russian museums and organizations engaged in museum activities, located and operating on the territory of the Russian Federation and registered in accordance with applicable law:
- Registered in the organizational and legal form having the word “museum” in their name and / or carrying out museum activities in accordance with the Charter / Regulations:
- Museums: state and municipal (state budgetary, autonomous) and private (non-state) institutions;
- Professional museum or creative associations, or associations created in the form of non-profit organizations;
- Non-governmental non-profit organizations;
- Are independent non-commercial legal entities (that is, they have their own TIN, charter without reference to the charter of the parent organization, current account);
- or structural / separate subdivisions of non-commercial legal entities: departments, departments, branches, representative offices, territorial divisions (they have Regulations on activities, but may not have their own TIN, charter or current account, or have a charter with reference to the charter of the parent organization).
- Organizations must meet the following requirements:
- not be in the process of liquidation, they should not be subject to insolvency (bankruptcy) proceedings, the activities of the organization should not be suspended in the manner prescribed by law;
- Must be registered no later than six months before the deadline for accepting applications for participation in the competition.
- The number of projects from one museum organization is not limited, provided that each project is submitted by a separate applicant.
- Participants of the competition cannot be:
- Individual entrepreneurs (IE) and commercial organizations of any form: business partnerships and companies, business partnerships, production cooperatives, state and municipal unitary enterprises, as well as their separate subdivisions (branches and representative offices);
- Political parties;
- Religious organizations.
- Competition applicants cannot be:
- Government officials,
- Government officials;
- Employees of organizations that are the Fund’s current program partners, specified in non-closed work contracts, paid services,
- Agency agreements with the Fund as responsible executors (contact persons) or members of the project team, and their close relatives;
- Persons specified as project managers in non-closed grant or donation agreements for any programs of the Foundation concluded on behalf of organizations.
Selection Criteria
- Applications
- Integrity: consistency, coherence, literacy of presentation.
- Applicant
- Personal competence and professional achievements;
- Leadership skills and team management experience.
- Project
- Compliance with the objectives of the competition and the priorities of the chosen nomination;
- Relevance to the organization, professional sphere, territory;
- Professionalism of the team: experience, professional achievements, balance of competencies;
- The complexity of the proposed solutions, technologies and methods;
- replicability: the possibility of applying the proposed tools, products and results to other organizations;
- Partnership potential and partnership effectiveness: participation of other professionals and organizations, incl. from other areas of activity; their motivation to participate, balance of roles;
- Risk management: assessment by the team of possible risks and the feasibility of their prevention/mitigation plan;
- Sustainability: the feasibility of developing the project after the completion of support and its viability, incl. the contribution of the organization and attracted resources;
- Realistic budget: compliance of costs with the stated goals and results.
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