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The Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� fund for IT innovation in research has a new call for proposals. This fund provides a small grant (<25kE) for researchers of Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� who have innovative ideas for applying IT in research. 

The Advisory Council of the Research IT innovation programme will select the best proposals. This Council consists of professors from each of the faculties.

“Funding helped us explore the interaction between crowd technologies and cultural heritage”

In 2018 eight request were granted, and in 2017 six innovative research proposals have been awarded financial support. One of them was ‘Collaborative crowdsourcing tools for sustaining intangible urban heritage, by dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou. Lykourentzou explains: “The funding from the university for this interdisciplinary project has helped us explore how technology can be coupled with large-scale citizen participation to digitize and preserve intangible cultural heritage, which is an integral part of the heritage of future generations, and which otherwise would be lost. It has also helped us create a viable prototype to achieve the above. This prototype can help municipalities across the Netherlands to involve their residents in gathering their city’s urban cultural heritage, and in the long run to also promote their local tourist industry.”

Submit an application before 2 February 2020

Do you want to submit an application or want to know more about the criteria? For more information, go to the IT innovation in research website.