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  • From: "Aurelia J. Schultz" <aurelia AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: ccafrica AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [ccAfrica] Fwd: [cc-affiliates] Getting your CC project funded
  • Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:24:12 -0800

Hello All,

Hope you are all doing well.  I wanted to make sure everyone had the opportunity to hear about the new free course being offered for those who want to find funding for CC projects.  Please see Jane's email below.

Best,
Aurelia

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From: Jane Park <janepark AT creativecommons.org>
Date: Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:54
Subject: [cc-affiliates] Getting your CC project funded
To: cc-affiliates AT lists.ibiblio.org
Cc: Jonas Öberg <jonas AT ffkp.se>


Hi all,

We are teaming up with Jonas Öberg at CC Sweden to help you obtain funding for your CC related projects. We are supporting Jonas as he runs a free and open online funding course on the Peer 2 Peer University in April, and we especially invite CC Affiliates and friends to participate! There is no financial cost to take the course. Please see below Jonas' invitation to apply. Please reply all, or directly to Jonas (copied) and myself if you have any questions.

Best,
Jane

Are you interested in writing a proposal to get funding for your Creative Commons project?

If so, you might be interested in the course “Getting your CC project funded” which we will run starting in April. The course is meant for those working with, or wanting to work with, finding funding for Creative Commons projects. Through a series of workshops and seminars, you will be taken through the steps from an initial idea to having a finished project proposal that can be submitted. You provide the idea -- we provide the guidance to turn this into a proposal that can't be refused.

The course will run over 10 weeks and provide, aside from the workshops, individual mentoring and a series of peer and expert reviews of your proposal. By the end of the 10th week of the course, you will have received a final review of your project proposal. Based on the comments received from that and previous peer and expert reviews you can then proceed to submit your proposal to a funding body and hope that they will think your project as exciting as we do!

During the course of the project, you will also be assisted individually in identifying and finding funding bodies relevant for your application, as well as necessary collaborations that might be needed for your proposal.

We intend to run the course at P2PU and expect to be able to accept around 15 applicants from the CC Affiliate Network. If there are outside applicants, they might also be accepted to the course: what matters most is that the applicants have interesting ideas to work on, and can spend enough time to actually write a complete proposal during the course. Applicants are expected to spend around 5 hours per week on the course during the period 18 April to 12 June, plus additional time (up to about 15 hours per week) on your own, writing and researching your proposal. There is no financial cost to take the course.

Though only 15 participants will take the course this time around, the entire course, material, and other information, including the proposals which you write in the course, is open for anyone to follow on the P2PU platform under a CC BY-SA license.

If you are interested in participating in the course, you can read more at the P2PU page (Official sign-up opens 31 March):
http://p2pu.org/general/getting-your-cc-project-funded

And at the Creative Commons wiki:
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Funding_Course

If you already have experience from applying or reviewing project proposals, we would also love to hear from you. In order to be able to work with proposals written in other languages, we would like to recruit some external reviewers, and you could form part of this team. Some students will also need help finding funding bodies relevant for their projects. If you have experience from funding bodies within your area, you can contribute with your experience to students with ideas matching those funding bodies.

We look forward to hearing from you, and expect to have a very fun and exciting course come April. One that will hopefully lead to a dozen or more Creative Commons projects. The one navigating the course for Creative Commons is Jonas Öberg who can be reached at jonas AT ffkp.se. Jonas is a lecturer at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden during the day and works with Creative Commons Sweden, as well as Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland during evenings and nights.

Jonas and Julia Velkova at Internet Society Bulgaria will serve as expert reviewers for proposals completed as part of the course. Jonas has worked as a reviewer for the European Commission, as well as authored and co-authored numerous proposals for the European Commission and several Nordic cultural foundations. Julia has worked with and authored projects for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Open Society Institute, European Commission and Internet Society in her work for the Internet Society Bulgaria.

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Jane Park
Education Coordinator
Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/about/people/#janepark

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Aurelia J. Schultz (Miss), Counsel
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Please note: the contents of this email are not intended to be legal advice nor should they be relied upon as, or represented to be legal advice.


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