Funding creative technology product and prototype development is one of the key opportunities available for businesses through MyWorld as we create a low-risk environment for innovation.
Our open funding calls led by MyWorld innovation partners Watershed and Digital Catapult, allow businesses to address their own challenges, specific industry challenges, and to take creative risks within a carefully curated community, providing individuals and companies with space, money and time to work on their most exciting ideas.
The complementary skills of the two MyWorld partners who lead our creative technology funding calls, mean that everyone from freelancers to scale-ups can access the support, knowledge, facilities and funding to conduct product and prototype R&D with greatly lowered risk.
You can view the current open funding calls below, with a key differences guide available to read here.
You can read about businesses that have been funded, to gain inspiration and hopefully, encourage you to apply to our creative technology product and prototype funding to see what you can create via the funded projects page.
Funding call leads
“The excellence of the creative cluster across Bristol and Bath is underpinned by a continuum across disciplines and sectors, and across production, delivery and consumption."
Collaborative Research and Development 2 (CR&D)
Closing date: 23rd November 2023
CR&D calls are open to industry-led consortia that address the challenges facing creative industries from across the Creative Continuum.
More Than AI: Sandbox
Closing date: 18th December 2023
Sandbox is a creative research and development programme. Watershed’s Sandbox methodology provides a facilitated space where participants have the chance to transform an experimental idea into a working prototype over three months of rapid research and development.
Fellowship in Residence: Fidelity of fashion asset reproduction
Closing date: 5th December 2023
Applications are now open for an exciting MyWorld Fellowship opportunity. You will spend ten months working with Bath Spa University and Bath’s Fashion Museum. The Fellow will work in parallel with a second Fellow to be recruited simultaneously. The two Fellows will work on different areas of practice but will work closely with each other as well as MyWorld stakeholders, including Bath’s Fashion Museum and its Dress of the Year Collection.
Fellowship in Residence: Legal basis of Fashion Asset Reproduction
Closing date: 5th December 2023
Applications are now open for an exciting MyWorld Fellowship opportunity. You will spend ten months working with Bath Spa University and Bath’s Fashion Museum. The Fellow will work in parallel with a second Fellow to be recruited simultaneously. The two Fellows will work on different areas of practice but will work closely with each other as well as MyWorld stakeholders, including Bath’s Fashion Museum and its Dress of the Year Collection.
