The U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities’ Division of Preservation and Access is pleased to announce the release of the 2024 Notice of Funding Opportunity for the Research and Development grant program.

Application Deadline: May 21, 2024
Optional Draft Due: April 9, 2024
Maximum Funding: Tier I awards up to $100,000 for one to two years; Tier II awards up to $350,000 for one to three years

Funding supports the following activities:
-Planning for larger-scale project
-Discrete research projects such as case studies and laboratory experiments
-Applied research
-Development of standards, protocols, practices, methodologies, or workflows for preserving and creating access to humanities collections
-Topic or area study in heritage preservation and access using convenings, surveys, or other qualitative and quantitative modes of investigation

Projects may produce any combination of the following: laboratory datasets, guidelines for standards, open access software tools, workflow and equipment specifications, widely used metadata schema, convenings, publications, online resources, or other products.

More information:  https://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/research-and-development 


ABOUT THE PROGRAM

The Research and Development program supports projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources.  These challenges include the need to find better ways to preserve materials of critical importance to the nation’s cultural heritage—from fragile artifacts and manuscripts to analog recordings and digital assets subject to technological obsolescence—and to develop advanced modes of organizing, searching, discovering, and using such materials.

Research and Development supports work on the entire range of humanities collection types including, but not limited to, moving image and sound recordings, archaeological artifacts, born digital and time-based media, rare books and manuscripts, archival records, material culture, and art.  Applicants must demonstrate how advances in preservation and access through a Research and Development project would benefit the cultural heritage community by supporting humanities research, teaching, or public programming.

Research and Development projects are encouraged to address one or more of the following areas of special interest:

•	Furthering theory and practice in core heritage collections work
•	Preserving audiovisual and digital heritage
•	Applying artificial intelligence to collections-based activities
•	Conserving the material past
•	Protecting cultural heritage
•	Stewarding collections by and with underrepresented communities
•	Responding to the impact of climate change

This grant program is one of ten NEH programs that are part of NEH’s Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence initiative, which is encouraging research on the ethical, legal, and societal implications of AI. To learn more about the initiative, please see our page about the AI initiative: https://www.neh.gov/AI.

CONTACT

Questions? Send an email to [log in to unmask] or call 202-606-8570. Program Officers are available to discuss your project ideas and/or offer comments on a draft application narrative submitted no later than April 9, 2024.

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