Funding Opportunities

Funding Opportunities

This is an archive page, listing the types of funding opportunities that were available for ACTOR collaborators and student members.

• Strategic Project Funding - Note that this funding is no longer available.

  • The purpose of ACTOR Strategic Project Funding was to encourage innovative research and/or pilot projects by members of the ACTOR project, for research in line with ACTOR's mandate, that could lead to external funding opportunities, joint publications, musical compositions/premieres/recordings, new modules for the TOR, and/or other public presentations of ACTOR research.

    • Deadlines

      • Round 1: September 15, 5pm EDT

      • Round 2: March 15, 5pm EDT

• Research-Creation Funding - Note that this funding is no longer available.

  • The purpose of ACTOR Research-Creation Project Funding was to encourage innovative research-creation projects by members of the ACTOR project that could lead to external funding opportunities, joint publication, musical compositions/premieres/recordings, new modules for the TOR, and/or other public presentations of ACTOR research.

    • Deadlines

      • Round 1: September 15 @ 5pm EDT

      • Round 2: March 15 @ 5pm EDT

• Collaborative Student Project Grant - Note that this funding is no longer available.

  • The purpose of the ACTOR Collaborative Student Project Grant was to support research in line with ACTOR’s mission to bring the musical use of timbre to the forefront of scholarship, practice, and public awareness as well as to provide students with funding for the summer period and encourage interinstitutional collaboration among students in the ACTOR partnership

    • Deadline

      • Annually on February 1st @ 5pm EST

• Student Exchanges - Note that this funding is no longer available.

  • Student members and postdoctoral collaborators of ACTOR were eligible to apply for funding for an exchange program between ACTOR partner institutions.

    • Deadline

      • Round 1: October 15 @ 5pm EDT

      • Round 1: April 15 @ 5pm EDT

• Student Presentations - Note that this funding is subject to funding availability.

  • Student members of ACTOR were eligible to apply for funding for an opportunity to present an ACTOR-related project at the yearly ACTOR Workshop.

    • Deadline

      • February 1st @ 5pm EST

• Satellite Meeting Funding - Note that this funding is no longer available.

  • The purpose of ACTOR Satellite Meeting Funding was to stimulate visibility of ACTOR at international conferences and stimulate interest in the project.

    • Deadline

      • No deadline, always open