NEA Arts Research Labs

 
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    CFDA#

    45.024     		 

    Funder Type

    Federal Government

    IT Classification

    B - Readily funds technology as part of an award

    Authority

    National Endowment For The Arts (NEA)

    Summary

    The National Endowment for the Arts' five-year research agenda aims to build public knowledge about the arts' contributions to individuals and society. Through NEA Research Labs, they extend this agenda and its impact by cultivating a series of transdisciplinary research partnerships, grounded in the social and behavioral sciences, to produce and report empirical insights about the arts for the benefit of arts and also for non-arts sectors such as healthcare, education, and business or management.


    NEA Research Labs will define their own related agendas; conduct project activities to implement that agenda; and prepare reports and other products or services that will contribute substantively to a wider understanding of one of three areas of special interest to the Arts Endowment:

    • The Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation
    • The Arts, Creativity, Cognition, and Learning
    • The Arts, Health, and Social/Emotional Well-Being

    EA Research Labs serve as hubs” or centers of excellence in the domain of interest. Each NEA Research Lab will develop a pipeline of projects or products, including a website, while conducting at least one major study. In addition, NEA Research Labs may be required to provide ad hoc analyses or fulfill information requests from the Arts Endowment concerning the research agenda. Such requests will not involve new data collection and will take place only during the Arts Endowment's period of performance.


    Each NEA Research Lab must include these activities:

    1. The design and publication of an evidence-based research agenda;
    2. The planning and implementation of a keystone study, or a series of studies;
    3. The production of at least one research report for each research study;
    4. The fulfillment of ad hoc analyses or information requests concerning the NEA Research Lab's research agenda; and
    5. The dissemination of research projects, study findings, data, tools, or services to other researchers, arts practitioners, and the general public.

    Research methodologies may include approaches such as quasi-experimental or experimental designs, or analyses that use primary and/or secondary data. Program evaluations are acceptable. We welcome use of data in either the public or private domain, including commercial and/or administrative data sources.


    As such, NEA Research Labs require a confirmed partnership between the official applicant organization and a nonprofit arts organization at the time of application. The nonprofit arts organization is expected to contribute substantially to the NEA Research Lab.

     

    History of Funding

    Previous awards can be found here: https://www.arts.gov/initiatives/nea-research-labs

    Additional Information

    NEA Research Lab awards will be made as cooperative agreements. The Arts Endowment uses two types of awards to fund project activities: cooperative agreements and grants. A cooperative agreement is different from a grant in that the Arts Endowment is substantially involved with a cooperative agreement. Therefore, the Arts Endowment will be substantially involved in the direction and accomplishments of NEA Research Labs. 

    The following are considered during the review of applications:

    The artistic excellence of the planned project activities, specifically the:

    • Clarity of the research agenda and project activities, including short- and long-term project objectives.
    • Degree to which the mission and experience of the proposed research partners, or the nature of the interdisciplinary collaboration, advance the purposes of the NEA Research Labs program and the proposed keystone study.
    • Clarity of the proposed keystone research study, including the conceptual framework, research design, and analytical methods to be used, and the relationship of these elements to the proposed research questions. 
    • Research qualifications of the key project personnel and applicant organization, including active ethics training certificates as appropriate, as well as the proposed technical working group.
    • Potential for a sustained research program beyond the period of performance.

    The artistic merit of the planned project activities, specifically the:

    • Potential of the project activities to yield empirical insights about the arts for the benefit of arts and non-arts sectors alike.
    • Novelty of proposed research questions and/or methods.
    • Novel and effective means of distribution/dissemination of research insights and findings throughout the period of performance.
      • This includes plans to release reports, articles or other products, tools, services, or data for the benefit of arts and non-arts sectors alike.
        • This also includes creative communication and distribution strategies to make the research findings, products, and data accessible to the public and to other researchers and practitioners.
    • Potential for raw- and/or meta-data to be shared with other researchers and the public, as applicable.
    • Ability to carry out the project on time and within budget, including the reasonableness of the budget.

    Contacts

    Research staff

    Research staff
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    Washington, DC 20506-0001
    (202) 682-5400
     

  • Eligibility Details

    The official applicant must be an organization with research and policy as a principal focus for its core components, either as the primary work or as part of a transdisciplinary mission. Eligible official applicants are:

    • U.S. institutions of higher education, or
    • Nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3), U.S. organizations with a three-year history of commissioning and conducting research in the behavioral or social sciences, and communicating research findings and policy implications through reports and/or convenings, at the time of application.

    The following are not eligible to apply as the official applicant organization:

    • Organizations that served as the official applicant for any previous NEA Research Labs award in any topic area
    • organizations whose primary purpose is to channel resources (financial, human, or other) to an affiliated organization if the affiliated organization also submits its own application
    • Organizations whose partnership organizations (see Required Partnership” section, below) are listed on more than one application for this opportunity.

    Deadline Details

    Part 1 of the applications are to be submitted by March 28, 2022. Part 2 of the applications are to be submitted by April 7, 2022. Similar deadlines are anticipated, annually.

    Award Details

    Grants will range from $100,000 to $200,000, based on the availability of funding. This Cooperative Agreement requires a non-federal cost share/match of at least 1 to 1. Matching funds cannot include funds from any National Endowment for the Arts or other federal sources. Our support of a project may start on or after January 1, 2023. The period of performance is a minimum of 12 months and a maximum of 24 months. 

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