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JISC recently announced the funding call for Grant 04/08: Learning and teaching innovation (LTIG). These are small up to £50k one year projects giving institutions the opportunity to explore projects to support teaching and learning at the more innovative/high risk end of the spectrum. This is the 6th call for this particular type of funding and the lighter weight application process potentially makes it more appealing for those who have not previously applied for external project funding before.

I’ve helped to evaluate bids for round 5 of this programme and a variation of the call for Celtic FE colleges called SWaNi. This has given me some useful insight into the evaluation process and thought you’d all might like some insider tips. There is lots of general guidance and advice on writing bids, for this post everything I suggest is specifically targeted at your LTIG proposal.

For this post I’m also going to assume you’ve got some of the basics covered like reading the Call for initial proposals doc and checking your institution is eligible to bid. In Scotland this is made a little easier because ANY COLLEGE or university funded by the SFC can apply for funds. I highlight colleges because whilst this is a competitive call (last 3 calls have had 67/68 proposals funding 5 projects), I’m sure you can use the FE angle to your benefit, presenting JISC with an opportunity to fund innovation in a sector arguably usually overlooked.

So to start with I’m going to highlight some general philosophies I think you should have in mind in preparing your bid before then looking at each of the main sections of the Annex D – Learning and Teaching Innovation Grants Proposal Template.

Read the full article here……..JISC RSC MASHe