BILATERAL NETWORK GRANTS

1. Title: BILATERAL NETWORK GRANTS2. Awarding Authority: Royal Society of Edinburgh, GB Email: InternationalAwards@theRSE.org.uk. (Sasha Carcassonne)3. Contract type: Service contract4. Description: Strengthening co-operation between excellent researchers and practitioners in specified location on the theme of ‘Revival, Resilience and Recovery: Cultural and Arts Sectors post-Covid-19.’The arts and wider cultural sectors are vital to Scotland’s and Ireland’s revival, resilience and recovery. They provide spaces for discussion, debate, divergence, convergence and exchange. Theatre, music, and film, for example, have the power to bring people together in a collective experience for a moment, an evening, a lifetime even, while visual and oral arts and literature offer audiences an opportunity to reflect on ideas or experiences that differ from their own or challenge existing scenarios and situations.The Royal Irish Academy (RIA) and the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), with the support of the Scottish Government Office in Ireland and the Department of Foreign Affairs, are pleased to invite applications for the Ireland-Scotland Bilateral Network Grants.The ambition of the Ireland-Scotland Bilateral Network Grants is to strengthen cooperation and learning between excellent researchers, academics and practitioners in Scotland and Ireland within the theme of ‘Revival, Resilience and Recovery: Cultural and Arts Sectors post-Covid-19.’OBJECTIVETo strengthen co-operation and learning between Scotland and Ireland through bilateral funding for joint projects;To foster partnerships/networks within and beyond academia;To encourage the initiation of new partnerships and/or the development of existing partnerships;To contribute to policy discussion in Ireland and Scotland in the specified thematic area.APPLICANT ELIGIBILITYThe grant is open to academic researchers working in partnership with the cultural and arts sectors.In each application, the lead applicant must be a full or part-time academic in any discipline and a tenured and/or salaried staff of a higher education institution (HEI) or research institute (RI) in Scotland or Ireland. In addition, lead applicants must be on open-ended, continuing, or fixed-term contracts which extend beyond the end date of the envisaged grant period. The grant cannot be used to extend an applicant’s contract.Each application must include a partner in the other country, i.e. those with a lead applicant in Ireland must have a co-investigator in Scotland and vice versa.Application partners may come from any area of research and practice within the area of culture and arts.Each application may have several partners/co-investigators across both countries if appropriate to the project.5. CPV Code(s): 73000000, 73100000, 799521006. NUTS code(s): UKM, UKM7, UKM75, UKN7. Main site or location of works, main place of delivery or main place of performance: Ireland/ScotlandLocation: All Scotland ,Northern Ireland8. Reference attributed by awarding authority: Not provided.9. Estimated value of requirement: Not provided.10. The deadline is 11.6.2021 (12:00).11. Address to which they must be sent: For further information on the above contract please visit Web:’q%3D’type%3D1412. Other information: For further information, please contact awarding authority email or visit TKR-2021511-EX-1610679# funding opportunity# COVID-19