JISC eContent Funding Call 11/10 - Strand B: Developing Community Content

JISC eContent Funding Call 11/10 Strand B: Developing Community Content 29/10/10 | | Slide Simon Whittemore Business and Community Engagement JISC Innovation Call meeting 28 October 2010 http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/bce.aspx

Developing Community Content (11/10 Strand B)
Funding
£440k, 5-6 projects, £50k-£100k per project
Timescales
Deadline for submitting Bids – 12 noon, 10 December 2010
10 sheets of A4 maximum to [email_address]
Projects Start by : 1 March 2011
Projects End by : 30 September 2011
Therefore, 7 months maximum

Developing Community Content
Single institution or consortia
Partnerships with external organisations welcome (e.g. libraries, museums, galleries, publishers, other businesses)
Partner(s) cannot have more funds than lead institutions
Eligible – Institution X receives £60k, Partner 1 £30k
Ineligible – Institution Y receives £40k, Partner 1 £30k, Partner 2 £20k
Institutional contributions show value for money and institutional commitment
Attention to IP statements, opportunities for efficiencies, reducing costs, cross-institutional strategic alignment

Developing Community Content 11/10
‘ To develop new content and communities for educational and social purposes’ Target benefits:
Empowering a wider range of external communities
Raising digital literacy by engaging in community collections-building
Cementing links and partnerships with external communities, and integrating these into the institution’s community engagement strategy
Framework for recognition, development and strategic contextualisation of existing academic work engaging with external communities

Developing Community Content 11/10
‘ To develop new content and communities for educational and social purposes’ Target benefits:
Integrating strategic Business and Community Engagement (BCE) across institutions and strategic coordination with digital collections curators
Crowd sourcing and potential to transform & apply research, esp. in STEM & other strategically important subjects e.g. modern languages.
Good practices – inform JISC approach in enhancing teaching and research process through co-creation of content.
Exploring innovative potential and gaps in the JISC-enabled ‘digital offer’ across broad range of academic subject areas & types of collection

How does JISC support institutions in Business and Community Engagement (BCE)?
Strategic management of relationships with external partners/clients, and of the associated services
29/10/10 | slide Knowledge Transfer/ Exchange (KE); Employer Engagement (EE) Public/ Community Engagement (PE); Lifelong Learning (LL) What is BCE? Institutional Strategic Areas (4): Services: e.g: CPD consultancy etc ......business critical in constrained economic climate . Enhancing BCE efficiency, effectiveness + opportunities ; Improving external access to HE/FE knowledge + expertise Not a bolt-on... Benefits :

Business and Community Engagement – Enabling effective interaction 29/10/10 | slide New opportunities : online collaborative tools, virtual research, open innovation... External access to knowledge and expertise resources Internal Effective processes + Interoperable systems (e.g. CRM); HE/FE KNOWLEDGE & EXPERTISE Research, Education BUSINESS & COMMUNITY DEMAND Problem/need or opportunity BCE PRACTITIONERS Relationship and Service Management Infrastructure and Skills to support Productive knowledge and learning partnerships

Developing Community Content: Examples from previous Call (13/09):
Building new digital collections, or transforming existing collections through genuine co-creation with specific external communities:
My Leicestershire http://myleicestershire.wordpress.com/ (Univ. Leicester) Digital archive of historical texts, complemented by video & oral history recordings from partners & private collections of historical photographs
Community Cafés http://www.llas.ac.uk/projects/6192 (Univ. Southampton) Co-creation of a community collection of online language and cultural materials to address the scarcity of up-to-date, online resources for community languages
Community flood archive enhancement through storytelling (Co-FAST) http://www2.glos.ac.uk/severnfloods/ (Univ. Glos) Enhancing digital archive resource focused on community flood histories - engaging Severn communities with local flood histories, flood risk and climate change
Others - http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/communitycontent.aspx

JISC Business and Community Engagement Strategic Priorities 2010-11 to 2012-13
Embedding BCE e.g. Embedding BCE Infokit
Organisational Capability for BCE e.g. CPD for BCE practitioners
Relationship Management e.g. CRM, alumni engagement
Public value and civic engagement e.g. Developing Community Content, Access to Resources
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Developing Community Content projects : Challenges and Opportunities
Public engagement agenda
Enhancing public profile and reputation of the university
Institutional efficiency and agility to survive and thrive....
REF and Impact agenda
Engagement skills (boundary-spanning) vital for economy
Internal engagement with the right people is vital, e.g. :
knowledge transfer/exchange units
Institutional external engagement strategy: senior mgt., marketing,
external relations, community engagement teams
information management strategy
Bids that cannot evidence effective internal co-ordination are unlikely to be funded....
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Developing Community Content: Business and Community Engagement
Projects are strongly encouraged to consult JISC Business and Community Engagement Resources http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/bce.aspx
Embedding BCE across the institution http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/bce
CPD for Business and Community Engagement https://www.netskills.ac.uk/bcecpd/
CRM Self-analysis toolkit (relationship management) http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/crm-tools/
Access Management for BCE: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/bce/extendingaccessmanagementreport.pdf
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Developing Community Content: Digitisation, Curation and Two-Way Engagement’
Projects are strongly encouraged to consult Chris Batt’s Report: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/digicurationfinalreport.aspx
Clarity of purpose, e.g. :
public access to knowledge;
engaging with the public to create new knowledge;
creating sustained two-way engagement with specific external partners; supporting project sustainability;
sharing and pooling resources/skills & ideas in an open innovation co-development project;
building community identity and development.
Clarity of community focus; i.e which community group and why?
Not merely ‘the general public’ but more success likely with specific identified community groups
Use of social networking tools for engagement & content sharing
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Developing Community Content: Public Engagement
Projects are strongly encouraged to consult with the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE) http://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/ and/or local Beacon for Public Engagement http://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/beacons
University strategies for public engagement across depts.
Senior management and PE practitioner toolkits
Ensuring co-ordination of external engagement
Public engagement as part of wider Business and Community Engagement or ‘third mission’ strategy
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JISC eContent Funding Call 11/10 Strand B: Developing Community Content 29/10/10 | | Slide http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/bce.aspx Good luck! Thank you for listening. Questions or comments?

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