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09/07/2009 - Digital Media Fund Accepting Applications
Digital media companies in Scotland are invited to apply for grants from a new £1.5 million funding programme.
The Digital Media IP Fund, jointly provided by Scottish Enterprise and the Creative Scotland Innovation Fund, offers grants ranging from £10,000 to £375,000 to help creative firms develop non-broadcast, interactive content.
Funding can cover up to 50% of the total eligible costs, with eligible projects including:
- Computer-aided social networks.
- Peer-to-peer technologies.
- Mobile media.
- Collaborative knowledge networks.
- User-generated content.
- Global online content.
- Imagined/alternative life networks.
- Interactive learning and leisure.
Grants are not available for the development of feature films or conventional broadcast television programmes.
The fund has been launched as part of a £5 million Innovation Fund for Scotland’s creative sector being brought in to mark the planned establishment of industry support body Creative Scotland.
Speaking at a special creative industries seminar last month, Culture Minister Michael Russell said:
“There is a huge wealth of creative and artistic talent in Scotland and I am hugely ambitious for what the new body will be able to do for, and with, our diverse creative community. Creative Scotland will achieve a much more co-ordinated support for Scotland's creative talent.”
For further information about the Digital Media IP Fund, visit the Screen Scotland website (opens a new window)
Source: Scottish Screen, 01/07/2009
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