Thursday 22 May 2025
12:00pm - 14:00pm
STEAMhouse, 4 Belmont Row, Birmingham B4 7RQ
Find out about the funding opportunities available to West Midlands-based freelancers, micros & SMEs working in the creative tech space.
CreaTech Frontiers is a £7.2 million, five-year initiative funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to boost innovation and growth across the West Midlands’ creative industries. Led by Birmingham City University in collaboration with Coventry University, the University of Birmingham, the University of Warwick, and the Royal Shakespeare Company, CreaTech Frontiers will support collaborative R&D in creative applications of technology, from immersive to virtual production, screen, performance, gaming digital heritage, etc.
Foundations Funding Call
WHO CAN APPLY?
- Freelancers, micro-businesses and SMEs based in the West Midlands region
(Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands county, Worcestershire)
- Two or more freelancers, micro-businesses or SMEs are welcome to apply separately and mention their collaboration on the application form
WHAT DO WE OFFER?
- Workshops and mentoring
- Free access to the createch labs and other core partner resources
- Academic support for R&D – 5-10 days with EXPLORE grants and 10-20 days with EXPERIMENT grants
- EXPLORE £5k
Development of initial ideas for innovative content/products/services and introduction to collaborative R&D. Testing your ideas for human-centred applications of creative technologies.
- EXPERIMENT £10k
Development of existing concepts/prototypes for innovative content/products/services through collaborative R&D. Progress your concepts, projects or prototypes for human-centred applications of creative technologies.
The total budget of this initial call is £250k for 30-40 grants.
