Deadline: 11-Nov-21
The Arts Council has announced the applications for an Invitation to Collaboration Scheme to support local-authority-identified-and-led arts development.
The emphasis is placed on supporting local-authority-identified partnerships that respond to their strategic priorities and that focus on developing projects, resources or services that are ambitious and are testing new ground.
Priorities
The Arts Council has identified the following as strategic priorities for support through this award:
- 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, climate action, arts in the public realm, hard-to-reach communities
- Artists-focused programmes – e.g. arts and disability, international commissioning, professional development, supports for artists locally and nationally, arts-residency programmes
- Research and policy development – e.g. public-engagement development, social impact, best practice or new models for local arts development, models of regional approaches to collaboration, and new investment models for supporting the arts
- Projects that involve two or more local-authority arts services
- Projects that have national and/or international partner(s)
- Projects focusing on the development of models of practice and/or action research that can inform and shape future local, regional and national policy development
- The level of cash and/or in-kind investment by the supporting partner(s). This must be a minimum of twenty-five per cent of the cost of the project.
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
Note: if you are applying for project continuation (from a previous successful application), you must outline a strategic rationale for this phase of development – e.g. how it is evolving to an advanced level of development.
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.
- In line with the Public Sector Equality and Human Rights Duty, the Arts Council is committed to ensuring that it takes positive policy measures to promote equality of opportunity for all those living in Ireland regardless of their gender, sexual orientation, civil or family status, religion, age, disability, race or membership of the Traveller Community. Furthermore, the Arts Council notes the ground of socio-economic background as a further basis for which equality of opportunity must be guaranteed. The Arts Council therefore welcomes applications that are representative of the diversity of Irish society, including but not limited to any of the characteristics.
Ineligible
- This scheme is only available to local-authority arts services in the Republic of Ireland including Ealaín na Gaeltachta. Any organisation or individual who does not fall within this category is not eligible to apply.
For more information, visit https://www.artscouncil.ie/Funds/An-Invitation-to-Collaboration-Scheme/