All applications must be a collaboration between two or more applicants. The lead applicant will be the group or individual responsible for managing the grant, and monitoring and reporting on the project.

Eligible lead applicants to this scheme are:

• Arts organisations
• Individual Artists registered as sole traders
• Creative Businesses

Eligibility criteria:

• Applications must involve a partnership between an artist or arts organisations with a creative business and/or academia
• Applicants must use new and emerging technology to advance artistic practice to enhance the experience of arts audiences, create new digital artistic products, or allow for digital distribution of existing arts products or services

You will be required to provide confirmation that all project partners are legally constituted.

What costs can be covered by a CISF award?

• Content/product development costs, including reasonable material costs
• Freelance/short-term contracts
• Existing staff costs, positions or roles as they relate to the proposed activity
• Essential digital equipment and software up to a max 20% of Total Request Amount (ie. 20% of the total amount you are requesting from us in the application). All requests for hardware or software must be integral to project delivery and will be reviewed on a case by case basis by assessors.
• Reasonable travel and subsistence costs
• Reasonable advertising and PR costs
• Networking and cooperation costs associated with collaborative activity
• Export advice and assistance
• Appropriate and reasonable market research costs

Find out more here. Please also read through the guidance notes found here.