IDAH Summer Incubator

IDAH is pleased to announce that the 2022 IDAH Summer Incubator is scheduled for August 1-12. This year's program will be entirely virtual, with a mix of synchronous and asynchronous content that prioritizes flexibility to accommodate a variety of existing workloads and caregiving schedules. While full schedule details have yet to be determined, last year's schedule is available as a model.

Applications are due on April 11, 2022. Successful applicants will be contacted in early May.

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The IDAH Summer Incubator extends IDAH's mission of support for digital-methods teaching, research and creative projects to a longer-format, intensive workshop that provides cross-campus resources for faculty and graduate students engaged in digital arts & humanities projects. The Summer Incubator is designed to help faculty/research scientists/scholars and graduate students identify digital tools and publishing platforms, coordinate with librarians and technology specialists, estimate project costs and duration, prototype a project component, and prepare effective grant proposals for external funding.

The IDAH Summer Incubator program is designed to ensure a well-planned, phased approach to digital project development to promote success in each of the steps in a successful internal-to-external funding pipeline.

Participants in the IDAH Summer Incubator will benefit from two weeks of virtual consultation with experts, peer discussion, and dedicated work time with experts on-hand. The IDAH team, along with members of IU's digital methods communities (including the libraries and Informatics) will meet with you to:

Consider project management needs and draft a project management and sustainability plan for your project;
Rapidly prototype one component of your digital research project;
Provide support and advice as you identify the people and resources at IU, the relevant tools and resources on campus and beyond, and related projects already underway
Provide support and advice as you consider the various options and best practices for documenting the results these tools produce and managing, storing, and distributing the data and scholarship that results from your work;
Suggest possible funding sources and offer initial advice writing a successful grant proposal .

All Incubator applicants should have 30-40 hours of flexible working availability and a stable Internet connection during the dates of the Summer Incubator.

Bloomington tenured or tenure-track faculty members including librarians, Research Scientists/Scholars, or Research Center Directors will have priority in consideration for the Summer Incubator.
Full-time non-tenure-track faculty may submit for Summer Incubator consideration with a clear timeline for and specific identification of national funding streams for which the project will be submitted in the subsequent academic year, plus a letter of support from their chair clearly detailing how the project will support annual review criteria and promotion for their specific appointment.
Graduate students who have progressed to ABD may submit for Summer Incubator consideration with a clear timeline for and specific identification of the digital components that contribute to completion of their degree, plus a letter of support from their chair clearly detailing how IDAH support will strengthen the dissertation.

Not Eligible as PIs

Visiting and adjunct faculty members
Staff scientists (support‐oriented positions)
Postdoctoral research associates
PIs with outstanding final grant reports from previously IDAH-funded projects
Tenure-track faculty whose previous IDAH collaborations did not result in either submission to national funding streams or the launch of publicly available digital scholarship.
Previous awardees of IDAH funds for the same or highly-similar projects

Prospective tenure-track/research-appointed faculty to the IDAH Summer Incubator program are encouraged to prepare parallel applications for submission to other fundig programs and then work with IDAH to submit the same application packet to the IDAH Summer Incubator. Potential internal funding from the Vice Provost for Research includes the IDAH Faculty Fellowship, the Faculty Research Support Program (FRSP) for Seed Funding, the Faculty Fellowship for Research in the Social Sciences, the IU Presidential Arts & Humanities Program, and the Public Arts & Humanities Project

IDAH endeavors to offer automatic Summer-Incubator admittance to applicants whose parallel proposals are successfully funded, provided applicants work with IDAH in advance of both funding deadlines and there is sufficient notice of successful funding from the other funding program.

Eligible candidates for the IDAH Summer Incubator program can choose one of two paths: a direct application to IDAH's Summer Incubator or a simultaneous application to IDAH's Summer Incubator and an OVPR internal funding stream.

Direct IDAH Summer Incubator Application: $3,000 in direct research funds, plus research support during the Incubator

Five page Project Description that articulates the conceptual parameters of a digital project that is rooted in arts & humanities  approaches and contains specific information about your digital methods, including a brief project plan/timeline. The Project Description should also mention relevant collaborations, prospective grant funding, project outcomes, and timetable for external funding. The Project Descripion should be single-spaced with 1" margins using Times New Roman font.
Budget (reflecting how the $3,000 award will be used)
One page listing project Personnel, their departmental affiliations and their key roles (optional, but encouraged)
2-3 page Curricula Vitae
A short (less than 1 page) letter of Support from your Dean/Chair/PhD Advisor submitted directly to idah@indiana.edu.

Simultaneous application to IDAH and OVPR Internal Funding: $3,000 total in matching funds and/or direct support, plus research support during the Incubator

Candidates who are simultaneously submitting a non-IDAH competitive grant for the same project (see "Additional Application and Funding Options" above) should contact idah@indiana.edu no less than 4 weeks in advance of the relevant non-IDAH deadline to discuss the format of their submission to the Summer Incubator program. We generally request resubmission the non-IDAH packet to our Summer Incubator submission portal rather than the preparation of an entirely new packet, provided the original application contains an appropriate description of the project, its contribution to scholarly knowledge, and its budget.
Some OVPR internal awards require matching funds from a home department. If you are applying for one of these, IDAH will contribute $3,000 total to your research, split as necessary between matching funds and direct support to your research account. Please contact idah@indiana.edu no less than 4 weeks in advance of the relevant non-IDAH deadline to discuss funding and letters of support.

Selected candidates will receive either:

Up to $3,000 in match funding for the FRSP Seed Funding Application (up to $20,000 total funding request)
$3,000 toward developing a research or creative project with a significant digital component

Applications for 2022 are due on April 11, 2022. Successful applicants will be contacted in early May. The IDAH Summer Incubator will be held August 1-12 in a flexible, all-virtual format.

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IDAH Summer Incubator