The Co-creation and Co-Production strand supports activity that embraces as many of the following as possible:
- Demonstrates a clear, fundamental and innovative contribution to Fusion benefitting staff and students within BU. Benefits to students could include both direct and indirect benefits.
- Requires pump-priming to initiate activity which will then become sustainable.
- Delivers a series of clear, measurable and tangible outputs that deliver benefits beyond the team applying.
- Presents new, innovative projects or initiatives that are likely to have both reach and significance within and beyond BU and where possible involve inter-disciplinary collaboration.
- Leads to public engagement with a range of stakeholders.
- Demonstrates good value for money in terms of return on investment and strategic priorities.
Duration of the activities can be between 6 and 12 months. Awards made will be between £2k and £75k.
Be inspired by reading about some of the successfully funded activities under this strand:
The Poole and Purbeck Portal is an inter-school collaboration between the School of Applied Sciences, the Media School and the National Centre for Computer Animation.
http://www.pooleandpurbeckportal.co.uk/
Centre for Face Processing Disorders at BU
Dr Sarah Bate from the Psychology Research Centre was awarded funds from this strand to develop a Centre for Face Processing Disorders at BU. Sarah’s work explored the cognitive presentation and treatment of face processing deficits in adults and children with a range of neuropsychological conditions, such as developmental or acquired prosopagnosia (face blindness), autistic spectrum disorder, and Moebius syndrome.
More information about this project can be found here: www.prosopagnosiaresearch.org
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The Fusion Investment Fund is managed by Samantha Leahy-Harland and the Interim Administrator is Dianne Goodman. Please direct all initial enquiries to Fusion Fund.