OPEN CALL FRESH PERSPECTIVES #4

The Creative Industries Fund NL is inviting makers and designers from the creative industry to submit proposals together with a social or knowledge partner, aimed at jointly tackling an urgent challenge. With the Open Call Fresh Perspectives the fund encourages designers with a good concept to partner with a renowned company, organization or knowledge institute. Submissions can be done until 15 April, 2020.

Every year, the fund supports hundreds of talented makers and designers in the development of their professional practice. These makers’ research and experiments are often in the starting phase of the design chain. Knowledge and methods are freely combined there and often lead to new insights, concepts and prototypes. The fund has noted a strong need among makers and designers to further develop and make these studies applicable outside of their own discipline or profession. However, decisiveness by a strong external party to turn ideas into results is often lacking. At the same time, the fund sees that organizations and businesses can benefit greatly from the fresh perspectives that designers have when it comes to different complex challenges. Too often, a designer is involved too late or not at all in the process, however.

The goal of this call is to bring designers and parties with a strong societal or knowledge position together. From this partnership, the fund challenges the parties to develop innovative, surprising solutions for today’s design challenges.

Call setup
The Creative Industries Fund NL has made € 260.000 available for this call. The maximum contribution per project is € 40.000, and will be granted in two phases.

Depending on the challenge, the results of the partnership may take different forms. Examples could be a product, intervention or service. It’s possible to work together with international partners. However, the project must center a predominantly Dutch interest.

Submission
The application can be submitted no later than 15 April, 2020 via the Creative Industries Fund NL online application environment. Select the “Open Call Fresh Perspectives” round.

For more information about this open call and how to apply for it, visit the Creative Industries Fund NL website.