SIA Creative Industries Immersive Impact Coalition: Core (NGF-CIIIC Core)

Grant funding to support practice-oriented research into knowledge and methods for applying and deploying Immersive Technologies (IX) in SMEs or the public sector.

The Nationaal Regieorgaan Praktijkgericht Onderzoek SIA (National Taskforce for Applied Research SIA) is part of the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO – Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research), and has the task of stimulating the development of practice-oriented research at universities of applied sciences (hogescholen).

The goal of the CIIIC incentive programme is to capitalise on opportunities in the field of IX in the Netherlands. With the aim of increasing the Netherlands’ sustainable earning capacity in the medium to long term by investing in the development of knowledge, research, and innovation in the field of responsible and effective IX.

The CIIIC incentive programme comprises five strategic action lines, the NWO being actively engaged in Action Line 1 (Knowledge and Methods), Action Line 2 (Human Capital), and Action Line 3 (Ecosystem and Facilities). 

NGF-CIIIC Core contributes to the objective of Action Line 1 of the CIIIC incentive programme: collecting knowledge and methods and making them applicable. NGF-CIIIC Core is the second call for proposals within Action Line 1 and focuses on demand-driven, practice-oriented research. The proposed research must contribute to solving current issues related to testing and validating methods for the application and deployment of IX by and for SMEs, or to investigating the essential preconditions, possibilities, and perspectives for the application and deployment of IX in the public sector.

Applications within this call for proposals primarily contribute to research into the application and deployment of IX within various application domains of SMEs and/or the public sector. By validating and generating knowledge and (new) methods, the foundation of the IX field is strengthened and existing IX applications can be scaled up.

The project falls under the responsibility of the Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap (OCW – Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science) and organisationally under CLICKNL, the knowledge and innovation network for the creative industries.