Nesta is offering grants of up to £15,000 to projects that demonstrate creative ways of engaging members of the public in issues relating to innovation policy
1. We welcome applications from organisations based anywhere in the UK, including universities and research organisations, charities, public sector bodies, community organisations and companies. We will not fund individuals.
2. We are interested in ways in which the public can influence decision making. We are not looking to fund projects that focus solely on communication of research, such as science festivals or events, videos or other media.
3. Nesta can only fund projects which advance our charitable objects for public benefit. Nesta's charitable objects include advancing industry, commerce and social enterprise which relieves poverty, relieves unemployment, advances health, advances environmental protection or improvement and sustainable development, or advances citizenship or community development, through encouraging and supporting innovation. This call is designed primarily to address this charitable object.
4. The outcomes of your project will need to be made public/published openly as a condition of funding. We will work with you to prepare this in a format suitable for publication on the Nesta website. You must keep accurate records of your expenditure of the grant and comply with Nesta’s monitoring requirements.
5. We will consider applications for projects that have additional funding, although all proposals should demonstrate the added value of Nesta funds and clearly show what the Nesta-funded component of the project is.
Proposals will be evaluated according to the following criteria and weighting: