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Strategic Project Funding

Please note that this funding is no longer available.

The Strategic Project Funding homepage was a page for information about the application process and links to the application forms for ACTOR’s Strategic Project Funding. Please note that this funding is no longer available. See below for a list of funded projects, or visit the Projects page for all projects, or see the Project Reports of the completed projects on the TOR.

Information Regarding the Strategic Project Funding Application Process.

Please read carefully before beginning/submitting your application!

ELIGIBILTY & INFORMATION

• The Principal Investigator for any proposal must be a regular ACTOR member at an ACTOR partner institution. According to SSHRC policies, ACTOR can only transfer funds to ACTOR co-applicants (i.e., individuals involved in the original grant proposal), who are located at partner institutions. Therefore, collaborators at non-partner institutions are not eligible as principal investigators for this funding.

• The purpose of ACTOR Strategic Project Funding is 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. Projects with an interdisciplinary focus, relevant to the ACTOR project’s mandate, will be given priority.

• Following the Project Director’s announcement at the Y3 Workshop, the Strategic and Research-Creation Project Funding will henceforth support educational projects, i.e., generation of educational tools, planning and realization of online courses, recording of musical examples by student performers, etc.

• Projects that are interdisciplinary and involve two or more ACTOR partner institutions will be prioritized.

  • The project proposal will be evaluated on the following criteria:

    • The nature of the project

    • Originality/innovation

    • Scientific/artistic merit

    • Interdisciplinarity

  • Potential for training highly qualified personnel (priority given to ACTOR student members)

  • Potential beneficial outcomes for ACTOR and its members, such as, but not limited to:

    • Application for grant based on results

    • Evidence that the project will lead to publication or other product

    • Organization of a conference or symposium on the research theme

    • An agreement with an industrial partner for further funding

    • Providing material in a form that can be integrated into the Timbre and Orchestration Resource (TOR).

  • Budget justification

• Proposals will be assessed by the Executive Committee.

• The standard maximum funding for selected applications is $4,000 but funding up to $8,000 is available for larger-scale projects. The Project Description and Budget Justification should clearly explain the use of all funds requested. Requests for amounts larger than $4,000 must be justified as highly impactful.

• Should the project involve external people (e.g., artists) and/or independent students (student members from non-partner institutions), applicants must first verify with the institution receiving funds from ACTOR, if it would be possible to make such payments as it is the responsibility of the recipient institution to cover the project expenses described in the budget justification.

• Successful applicants will be required to submit 1) a project report (online form) and 2) a module item for the Timbre and Orchestration Resource (TOR) as well as a detailed budgetary subaward report at the end of the appropriate fiscal year. The deadline to submit the project report and the TOR module will be 16 months after the submission of the project proposal, i.e., January 31 for projects selected during Round 1 (September) or July 31 for projects selected during Round 2 (March). For more details regarding the content and formatting of your submission to the TOR, please see the TOR Submission Guidelines.

APPLICATION DEADLINES

If a deadline falls on a weekend, applications will be accepted through the following Monday at 4pm.

Deadlines:

• Round 1: September 15, 5pm EDT

• Round 2: March 15, 5pm EDT

APPLICATION PROCESS

• Submit by the deadline by filling in the webform.

• Late or incomplete applications will not be processed.

• The Executive Committee will evaluate all applications based on the selection criteria above.