Roadmap of JISC Grant Funding Opportunities

JISC have a timetable of calls for future funding opportunities for the new academic year at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/futurecalls/grant.aspx

The calls will cover the following areas and will be released at certain points during the year:

• Institutional Innovation: Lifelong Learning & Employer Engagement Release: October 2008. Start: March 2009. Duration: 2 years.
• Business and Community Engagement (BCE) and Organisational Support Activities
• CRM to support Business and Community Engagement
• Student lifecycle relationship management Release: March 2009. Start: July 2009. Duration: 9-12 months.
• Identity Management Toolkit Release: October 2008. Start: January 2009. Duration: 18 months.
• Repository Innovation: Systems and network service Integration Release: November 2008. Start: February 2009. Duration: up to 2 years.
• Repository Start-up and enhancement Release: November 2008. Start: February 2009. Duration: 2 years.
• Repository & digital resources interoperability demonstrators AND rapid innovation projects Release: November 2008 and March 2009. Start: January/February 2009 and March 2009. Duration: 3-6 months.
• Repository Preservation environments Release: November 2008. Start: February/March 2009. Duration: 18 months.
• Pathfinder projects: In automatic metadata and/or text-mining Release: November 2008. Start: February/March 2009. Duration: 18 months.
• Learning and Teaching Innovation Grants Release: Open & ongoing call for 3 years with fixed assessment points. Next assessment point January 2009. Duration: 1 year.
• Virtual Research Environments (VRE) Phase 3 Release: November 2008. Start: April 2009. Duration: 2 years.
• Million Books Challenge Release: November 2008. Start: February 2009. Duration: 1 year.
• JISC-NEH Transatlantic Digitisation Release: January 2009. Start: April 2009. Duration: 18-24 months.
• Institutional Skills and Strategies Release: February 2009. Start: May 2009.