APPLY NOW: 

• NEW CALL

• APPLICATION FORM

• DRAFT CALCULATION

Deadline 1: 30 November 2024 (eligible projects will run between 1 January 2025 and 31 October 2025)

Deadline 2: 15 March 2025 (eligible projects will run between April 2025 and 31 October 2025)

Activity funded 

The universities are particularly interested in projects that could lead to larger grant applications to other funders.  We particularly welcome (but do not limit funding to) applications which address the following themes and methodologies: 

• Democratic resilience 

• Imagining the future 

• Environmental Humanities 

• Sensory/ Disability Arts 

• AI and equity 

• Performance/performance research 

• Participatory/community-based research

The University of Oxford and the Berlin University of the Arts invite their researchers, artists and designers to participate in the Oxford – UdK Berlin Partnership initiative in the Arts and Humanities. The initiative is intended to strengthen the ties both between the two institutions and between artistic and academic disciplines, and this is the fourth seedfunding call made by the partners to facilitate interdisciplinary research projects. Proposals for the seedfunding scheme should be jointly submitted by at least one faculty member from each institution (University of Oxford: a salaried faculty member or equivalent at post-doctoral level; Berlin University of the Arts: professors and mid-level faculty – artistic staff, research assistant in tandem with a professor – are eligible to apply).

Colleagues from other partners/ institutions outside the universities are able to participate. Please note, however, that they will have to bear their own costs. The universities are interested in project ideas which have the potential for credible applications to other funders at a later stage.

Eligible projects will run between 1.1. 2025 – 31.10. 2025, with activities taking place in either Berlin or Oxford, or in both. Across all projects, the funding provided by the universities for this funding call is 40.000 €. An extension (cost-neutral) may be possible.

Proposals should be written in English and submitted in both universities by 30 November 2024 (first deadline) or 15 March 2025 (second deadline).

You may also initiate a collaboration through inviting colleagues from the partner university for a lecture, a workshop as part of your regular semester-programme or for a blended learning-course.

Please note:

Applicants from UdK Berlin are asked to provide a confirmation from their college or institute (incl. confirmation on potential financial support, equipment/ room allocation, etc., if activities are taking place at UdK Berlin). 

All funded projects must submit a final report (maximum 3 pages) and a report on expenditure of funds upon project completion. 

Warm invitation

15th November 2024, 12.30–13.30 via Webex-Link

The information event is aimed at professors and artistic and research staff working in tandem with UdK-professors. We will support your search for suitable project partners (professors and mid-career researchers at the University of Oxford).
The info event will take place via Webex and will be moderated by Prof Christine Gerrard (Torch), Anne Renner and Marianne Karthäuser. Registration is not necessary. The presentation will be available online here after the event.

Please feel free to reach out to the below contacts with any queries about the scheme or if you are looking for suggestions for project partners at the other university. 

Further Info:

At Berlin University of the Arts
Marianne Karthäuser/ Julia Warmers/ Anne Renner

Phone:  +49 (0) 30 3185 2163
Email:   seedfunding.oxford_ @udk-berlin.de

At Oxford University

Prof. Christine Gerrard

Email: christine.gerrard_ @lmh.ox.ac.uk and torch@humanities.ox.ac.uk 

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