The AHRC Creative Communities programme is pleased to announce the Community Innovation Practitioner (CIP) Awards 2025-2026.
EOI applications have now closed.
The awards will provide innovative funding for cross-sector research partnerships to host a Community Innovation Practitioner (CIP) from 1 September 2025 to 30 August 2026. Up to 10 CIP awards will be offered at £75k (100% fEC). Each CIP will be embedded in existing collaborative cross-sector research projects in devolved contexts and committed to capturing knowledge about co-creation and the roles of communities and partnerships in growing new cultural research, development and innovation (RD&I).
The Community Innovation Practitioners (CIP) Awards 2025/2026 opened with an initial call for expressions of interest (EoI). Successful EoI applications will be invited to progress to a full application in Spring 2025.
Events
The Creative Communities team hosted a webinar to discuss this funding opportunity and answer questions on 13 November 2024. This event included an introduction to the Creative Communities programme, the research to date, and the objectives of the CIP Awards. This was followed by a group question and answer session, which was not recorded.
Following the webinar, a recording of the event is available on the AHRC Creative Communities website or via our YouTube channel.
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