Deadline: 30-Sep-22
The U.S. Embassy in Montenegro is requesting proposals for Media Innovation Lab Creative Collective that provides a creative, collaborative space where media professionals, designers, technologists, and others can come together to develop localized tools and projects that will help tackle challenges facing digital media across the Balkan region.
The Lab will strive to spark cross-sectoral thinking and provide an opportunity for participants to form connections with professionals they wouldn’t normally have an opportunity to meet. Lab participants will work together to solve real problems!
Theme
- The Lab theme: Digital Security.
Funding Information
- Also remember that it will need to be done quickly (ideally within 3-6 months) and within the $5,000 USD limit.
Eligible Projects
- Innovation and Development:
- Mobile applications
- Tools
- Analytics
- Threat detection
- Incident management
- Knowledge and Learning:
- Webinars or short, interactive and educational formats
- Small scale creative e-learning trainings and/or workshops
- Research paper and/or study
- Podcast series
- Advocacy:
- Social media campaigns
- Direct advocacy
- Projects can take on issues such as, but not limited to:
- Digital security literacy
- Digital security awareness
- Cyber attacks
- Digital security and gender
- Digital media vulnerabilities
- Data encryption
- Data theft and breach
- Social media fraud
- Creating science-based data sets for reporting
- Reaching new audiences (Youth, diaspora, new Internet users, etc.)
Geographic Focus
- Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia or Serbia
Eligibility Criteria
- They encourage teams of individuals, freelancers, and professionals who are passionate about media, such as journalists, editors, NGO representatives, IT developers, and designers to come up with innovative ideas. They strongly encourage partnerships with media outlets or media organizations for joint applications, and to include young and creative professionals in each team.
- You can apply as an individual for a fellowship or as a part of a team of no more than five people. It doesn’t matter if you have worked together before or you have just met, but they encourage groups to reflect a diverse set of skills and interests (ex. media professionals, designers, technologists).
- If you are an individual with an idea, they encourage you to apply! You don’t have to have everything sorted out –they can provide assistance and guidance in finding experts as potential team members.
- They are looking for individuals and teams that bridge nationalities, specialties, and sectors: BMAP Forward actively encourages partnerships across borders of all kinds.
- Also think about potential partnership with non-media and non-traditional actors (e.g., private business entities, NGOs, social influencers, digital rights activists).
- Applicants’ teams need to be gender balanced.
- The formal applicant should be a resident or a media outlet or an NGO registered in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia or Serbia, but individual team members don’t have to be employees of these organizations and outlets or residents of the country of registration. Be as diverse as you would like!
For more information, visit https://me.usembassy.gov/open-call-for-proposals-and-ideas-media-innovation-lab-creative-collective-digital-security/
