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India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) announces its Arts Research Programme...Request for Proposals

April 2, 2015 4:51:04 PM IST
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IFA's Arts Research Programme supports scholars, researchers and practitioners to undertake research into the various histories and expressions of artistic practices in India. It seeks to foster wider perspectives, understandings, interpretations and engagements in the arts.

Proposals are invited across the arts and humanities from researchers and practitioners who are interested in undertaking research projects that could investigate marginalised or relatively unexplored areas; who intend to create spaces for dialogue between theory and practice; who offer new readings/frameworks of artistic practices; and who use interdisciplinary approaches to break new conceptual ground, among other things.

IFA specifically encourages projects in Indian languages other than English, so as to contribute to discourse in particular language contexts

Research projects should have clear research objectives, in-depth background survey, critical research questions, rigorous methodologies and specific outcomes that will be shared in the public domain. The outcomes could be books, essays, films, etc.

Who can apply?

The programme is open to proposals from scholars, researchers and practitioners across disciplines.

You are eligible to apply if you are an Indian national, a registered non-profit Indian organisation, or have been resident in India for at least five years.

If you are applying on behalf of an institution, please include background information on the organisation as well as the memorandum of association/trust deed, annual reports, and audited statements of accounts for the past three years.

Application Process

You may choose to write your proposal in any Indian language including English. The IFA staff would be glad to answer your questions regarding this programme. You can approach the IFA to discuss your ideas or send a draft proposal for suggestions and comments.

Your proposal will be assessed with the help of external evaluators and all decisions on grants made by IFA will be final.

Please include the following in your proposal, so it is not considered incomplete:

a. The content of the proposal should have clear research objectives,in-depth background survey, critical research questions, rigorous methodologies and specific outcomes;

b. Supporting material, if any, which gives a sense of your work;

c. Your bio-data;

d. A detailed budget breakdown that explains how funds will be used.Please also mention funds anticipated from other sources, if any; and

e. Your address, telephone numbers,and e-mail address

Duration of the Project

Your project may have a minimum duration of one year and a maximum duration of one year and six months.

Budget

You can request for support up to Rs 4 (four) lakh.

You may budget for an honorarium of Rs 12,000 per month, subject to a maximum limit of Rs 1,44,000, for the entire duration of the grant. Please note that the total grant amount is inclusive of the honorarium.

Deadlines

You can send your draft proposal by email but your final proposal, including your bio-data, supporting material, should be in hard copy only.

Draft proposals should reach no later than May 31, 2015

Final proposals should reach no later than June 30, 2015
No supporting material will be sent back to the applicant.

General Information

a. IFA funds will cover only project-related personnel costs, activities and travel, and can provide for modest equipment hire and materials, if necessary. Please ensure that each budget category pertains to a specific item of project-related expenditure

b. If you are an individual, please budget for an accountant upto Rs 3000 only

c. Please do not budget for institutional overheads, building costs and infrastructural development. We do not support buying of equipment either, but if you must buy equipment for the project, you must return it to IFA after the project is completed.

d. If your proposal is short-listed, you may be requested to respond to questions that arise out of the evaluation process

e. The selected grants will be announced in October 2015

Please address your application and all other communications to:

Tanveer Ajsi
Programme Executive, Arts Research
India Foundation for the Arts,
'Apurva' Ground Floor, No 259, 4th Cross,
Raj Mahal Vilas 2nd Stage, 2nd Block,
Bangalore-560 094.
Phone: 080-2341 4681 / 82

Translations of this circular will be available in other Indian languages on request and can be downloaded from www.indiaifa.org



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