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Anyone here applied for a EU grant for a project? I'm looking at getting funding for a project and want to follow up all possible leads. I'm initially looking at where to go to see if this is worth applying for.
Thanks
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In my experience it's mostly/always co-funding (so you need to put up 50% of the funding yourself before asking them) and you may have to pay the funded amount yourself up front, with them reimbursing you afterwards.
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Thanks, that's good to know.
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Best is simply to enquire. Filling the forms can take up a LOT of time.
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Is your project something which would interest Earthwatch? They have a lot of funding it seems, but tends to be for excavations.
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No, this to reproduce a large size floor mosaic. It will be to show how I think they set out the patterns working straight onto the floor. It's going to take a bit of working out but and there are a few things that I will be using modern equivalents so we don't waste time reinventing the wheel.
The funding I'm not too optimistic on so I'm planning on seeing how much I can blag from the quarries and tiling companies!
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You're tried various Arts funding?
Can the Experimental Archaeology (Exarch) suggest anything?
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I'm just about to email Roland at EXARC, I'll look into the arts funding but the location I have in mind isn't in the UK. We don't have a reconstructed villa here that is the size I need (that I know of). I'm thinking in the region of at least 5m x 5m room space.
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Wow! That's quite big...I wonder if Euromillions do community funding as UK Lottery do?
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Not too big, only about about 225,000 tesserae ;-) It does have to be of a good size to really put the methods I have in mind to the test. Part of it is also using volunteers, with no knowledge of geometry, and have them lay a complex geometric pattern with minimal supervision.
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Sounds a great project.
Have you designed it yet?
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Not yet, I've still some research to do into things like proportion and if there is any correlation between the geometry used in architecture of the time and the mosaic designs. It does make sense, to me , that some mosaics could have been done by the men who put the villas up in the first place. The boss would know the geometry and the workers knew how to use stone.
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Stefan (Literary references to the discussed topics are always appreciated.)
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will take a lot of time and effort to be able to fund this from EU money, the process is really complicated but is makeable
under certain circumstances you can get more than 50% funded, or you can find the 50% locally (depending on the country)
I would try to find the agency in UK that manages such things (might be EEE) and have a talk with them
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Thanks I'll follow those up, I'm going to go for some of the large tiling companies to see if they will sponsor part of it but I need to get a lot of preparation done so it looks like a professional proposal.
