Call: Participation in Digital Society

About your idea/project:

• It has societal value in the form of general social significance and impact, and it's not intended to serve the interests of a particular person or a particular commercial or political organisation.

• It's aimed at a hard-to-reach group (a group that can't usually be communicated with through schools, libraries, etc). It therefore depends on collaboration with other actors, such as charities and community groups.

• It focuses on a Dutch context, but also has potential added value at the European level.

• It has proven potential, as demonstrated by quantitative indicators, such as number of users, number of sites using the method or number of visitors, possibly supported by qualitative evidence such as user testimonials and efficacy assessments.

• It has co-funding: the selection procedure will attach greater importance to the availability of co-funding than in previous calls.

• It's scalable, as evidenced by details of the parties willing to assist upscaling (based on a model statement of intent provided by SIDN Fund). In this context, 'upscaling' includes, for example, adaptation of existing teaching resources for a new target group.

• It preferably uses a multidisciplinary approach (e.g. involving collaboration between technical personnel and psychologists, or between academics and journalists).

• It preferably has a communication vision and an impact realisation vision.

• It's high quality. We'll assess the quality by looking at the problem outline and the rationale given for the proposed solution.

• It's innovative. You can convincingly show that it involves a new idea, an existing idea applied in a new context, the broadening of access to an existing, promising tool, or a new application of digital technology.

• It's potentially capable of achieving long-term impact in relation to the objectives of the call. You can show how continuity will be assured beyond the project period.

• It meets a real need and is therefore result-oriented. The need addressed by your project must be clearly defined and evidenced. You'll need to show how you identified the need within the target group, who the target group is, and how you can reach them.

• It'll be completed within 2 years of the start date.

About you, the applicant:

• You are a legal entity (or a legal entity currently in formation, which will be in existence by the time of the grant award, if made). A legal entity is, for example, a foundation, an association, a cooperative, a mutual guarantee company, a public limited company, or a private limited company. A pioneering project forms an exception in that regard. Pioneering project proposals may be submitted by individual persons.

• You demonstrably possess the capacity and expertise to successfully undertake the project. Wherever possible, the team itself should possess the required expertise, and not be reliant upon third-party providers. Diversity within the team is desirable.

• You've got a strong contact network.

You won't qualify for funding if your project:

• You want to develop new teaching materials. With this call, our aim is to support interventions and methods that have already been shown to work and are ready for upscaling.

• Your initiative is all about distributing hardware. Hardware distribution is acceptable as a feature of your project, e.g. if paid for by a co-funding organisation, but not as the primary outcome.

• You're developing or refining a website or app, without any substantive innovation of services, functions or processes that support the mission of SIDN Fund.

  You're looking for event sponsorship.

• What you're planning is a standalone media production, e.g. a podcast or video that isn't part of a larger project and/or for which there are no definite distribution and consumption plans.

• Your initiative has a religious or party-political objective.

• Your application relates to structural organisational expenditure, operating costs or personnel costs that aren't directly attributable to a qualifying project.

• The initiative will exclusively benefit one person or business, is a purely B2B initiative, or involves product development for the benefit of a single business.

• The initiative involves the use of innovative technology but does not address a clear societal problem or meet a demonstrable need within a defined target group ('technology looking for a problem').

• You have no clear plans to actively and proactively share results and knowledge.