Deadline: 15 September 2023
The Media Cymru Development Fund offers up to £50,000 for Wales based individuals and businesses to research and develop (R&D) innovation-driven projects that demonstrate clear potential for a tangible product, experience or service in the media sector.
Media Cymru is looking for ideas that have long term economic benefits for the media sector in the Cardiff Capital Region (CCR) or Wales.
Media Cymru is particularly interested in projects which focus on:
- Virtual production
- Placemaking and tourism related content
- Immersive storytelling
- Extended reality technologies (augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed reality etc.)
- Tools that support environmentally sustainable media production, distribution and consumption
- Developing tools to improve the production process
- Gaming
- Tools that encourage the development of new and inclusive business models within the media sector
- Bilingual or multilingual production.
Projects should consider the four pillars of Media Cymru:
- Growth: to drive economic development through research, development and innovation (RD&I)
- Global: to increase international awareness of the media sector in Wales and encourage international collaborations
- Fair: to create a fair, equal and diverse media sector
- Green: to significantly reduce the negative environmental impact of the media sector.
Eligibility Criteria
- With all their activity they are keen to reach the widest audience possible to ensure they hear the best ideas. They recognise that too often, R&D investment circulates around networks which are not representative of their wider community in its social and cultural diversity. They aim to change that pattern and are working to address these structural imbalances in their organisation and in the wider sector. They also hope to inspire transformative and inclusive lines of R&D that will challenge existing ways of producing and thinking.
- They welcome applications from all different sizes and types of organisations including micro-businesses, sole-traders, freelancers and partnerships.
- Your company or practice is based in Wales
- You have a R&D idea
- You are in the media industry, or your idea directly benefits the media industry
- You are able to dedicate time and effort to complete a R&D project between October 2023 and October 2024
- They will only accept one application per enterprise as a project lead. However, your organisation may be listed as a supporting team member on up to three applications.
For more information, visit Media Cymru.
