Deadline: 7 June 2018
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is currently seeking applications for its Research and Development Program with an aim to support projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources.
These challenges include the need to find better ways to preserve materials of critical importance to the nation’s cultural heritage from fragile artifacts and manuscripts to analog recordings and digital assets subject to technological obsolescence and to develop advanced modes of organizing, searching, discovering, and using such materials.
Funding Priorities
- Planning and Basic Research
- planning and preliminary work for large-scale research and development projects; and
- stand-alone basic research projects, such as case studies, experiments, or the development of methods, models, and tools.
- Advanced Implementation
- the development of standards, practices, methodologies, or workflows for preserving and creating access to humanities collections; and
- applied research addressing preservation and access issues concerning humanities collections.
Funding Information
- For Planning and Basic Research projects, the maximum award is $75,000 for up to two years.
- For Advanced Implementation projects, the maximum award is $350,000 for up to three years. In the narrative applicants must specify which level of funding they seek.
Eligibility Criteria
- U.S. nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, state and local governmental agencies, and federally recognized Native American tribal governments are eligible to apply.
- Eligible organizations include institutions of higher education.
- Individuals and foreign and for-profit entities are not eligible to apply.
How to Apply
Applicants can apply via given website.
Eligible Country: United States
For more information, please visit NEH.