Course: Funding and Project Support

	RSC ILT Funding and Project Support RSC East Midlands provides a range of services to support you in finding and bidding for funding and running learning technology development projects. If you are in the East Midlands region and want support with this contact Ben Williams at your RSC: ben.williams@rsc-em.ac.uk For details of this service, see the links below:

1	RSC support RSC Flyer - Funding support PDF document More detail on the RSC Funding and Project Support service Word document

2	Some key sources of funding for innovation in education You can find out about the latest funding opportunities in the RSC East Midlands Website News section, here: http://news.rsc-em.ac.uk/ or by subscribing to one or more of the RSC and JISC mailing lists relevant to your area of interest. Details here: http://www.rsc-em.ac.uk/mailinglists.asp JISC JISC continues to provide funding for research and development in a wide range areas in further and higher education.You can find details of current funding calls here: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities.aspx. There is also a useful funding roadmap which provides advance notice of forthcoming funding calls: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/futurecalls/grant.aspx JISC project funding is restricted to HEis and "FE Colleges that teach HE to 400+ FTEs provided it can be demonstrated that the bid supports the HE in FE agenda". JISC funding is not available for other providers such as WBL, Adult Learning or Specialist Colleges LSIS Current funding opportunities form the Learning and Skills Improvement service can be found here: http://www.lsis.org.uk/WorkingWithLSIS/Opportunities/funding-Opportunities/Pages/default.aspx Higher Education Academy The Higher Education Academy list of sources of funding for HE and HE in FE. http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/funding The European Social Fund This tends to be for larger collaborative projects and can involve a longer application process, but it's worth keeing an eye on: http://www.esf.gov.uk/

3	Some useful advice on producing an effective bid Why you? A presentation on bidding, by Prof. Mark Styles Powerpoint presentation Bid writing advice, from Sarah Knight at JISC Powerpoint presentation Feedback on previous JISC HE in FE bids Word document What was it like to bid for JISC funding? Lynne Brandt from Derby College Powerpoint presentation A guide to bidding for JISC funding file If you are proposing to develop open source software as part of a project, OSSWatch offer bidding and project advice specific to this. Details in the OSSWatch newsletter below: OSSWatch bidding and Open source PDF document