JOURNALISM AI INNOVATION CHALLENGE, SUPPORTED BY THE GOOGLE NEWS INITIATIVE

Application Deadline: 10 October 2024 [23:59, GMT].

LOCATION: Multiple Regions

The JournalismAI Innovation Challenge, supported by the Google News Initiative, aims to fund projects/tools from these news publishers to help fight misinformation and disinformation, experiment with new formats across mobile, video and audio and identify ways to grow subscription and support diverse forms of revenue.

ELIGIBILITY:

Government-owned entities or entities affiliated/owned by a political party are not eligible to apply.

Eligible applicants must have a verifiable digital presence (such as a website primarily providing journalistic content) and have been in full operation – and active with recent content – for at least 12 months preceding the call for applications

Eligible applicants must be able to launch, implement, and measure the impact of the grant on their organisation within a maximum nine (9) month period.

This is not a reporting or storytelling grant and funding must not be used to report and produce stories primarily. Eligible ideas will use AI to focus and develop solutions for these thematic areas:

Help fight misinformation and disinformation

Experiment with new formats to engage new and existing audiences across mobile, video, audio.

Identify ways to grow subscriptions and support diverse forms of revenue.

You are willing to share business insights and openly collaborate with other grantees, as well as track results throughout and submit a short report of your performance at the end of the programme.

BENEFIT:

Grants will be awarded as follows:

10 ideas will receive $250,000 each

25 ideas will receive $50,000 each

Organisations will express which amount they are applying for in the application form.

Applicants may work on an existing proof-of-concept or submit an entirely new idea that they would like to develop into a working prototype by the end of the programme. (Please refer to Application Terms and Conditions for details)

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BRITISH COUNCIL SCOTLAND SGSAH EARTH SCHOLARSHIPS

Application Deadline: Friday 1 November 2024, 12pm GMT

LOCATION: United Kingdom

The British Council Scotland SGSAH EARTH Scholarships 2025 is a program run by SGSAH with funding from the British Council to enable international research collaborations between PhD and Early Career Researchers and Scottish HEIs and Scotland-based academic mentors, and external organizations, thematically focused on environmental arts and humanities and their interdisciplinary connections. 

ELIGIBILITY:

The Programme is for PhD and early career researchers (ECRs) registered at or graduated from any non-UK university who are working within the environmental arts and humanities to come to Scotland to work with an academic mentor and access networks and resources of a host HEI (Higher Education Institute) in 2025.

All applicants must be currently registered for a PhD, or graduated with a PhD, which broadly falls under Arts & Humanities subject areas. These subject areas are detailed by the AHRC. Research proposals must also fall into Arts & Humanities subject areas. For any interdisciplinary PhDs, at least 50% of the project must fall within Arts & Humanities disciplines. The programme strongly encourages research project proposals that have interdisciplinarity approaches beyond the Arts & Humanities.

For the purposes of the Programme, ECRs must be within 1 year of notification of award of their PhD (under exceptional circumstances this can be extended to 2 years – see the scheme Guidelines for full detail).

BENEFIT:

Applicants will benefit from the following;

Full financial support, including travel, accommodation, and living expenses.

Research funding for international collaborations in environmental arts and humanities.

Access to mentorship from top Scottish academics and cultural organizations.

Opportunities for international research exchanges with Scottish universities.

Involvement in interdisciplinary research across STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics).

Expansion of professional networks and career development.

Focus on addressing the global climate crisis through innovative research methods.

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