follow-up applications
For some of our grant schemes, you can submit a follow-up application after receiving support for the research phase or the startup phase of your project. The grant from the follow-up application is used to carry out a larger project.
When can you submit a follow-up application?
The grant schemes for Design, Architecture, Digital Culture, and Internationalisation offer the option to submit a follow-up application. In these schemes, a follow-up application is defined as follows:
follow-up application: an application for a project directly resulting from a preliminary research or startup phase subsidised by a Creative Industries Fund NL grant awarded under the Creative Industries Kick-start Grant Scheme or under another startup grant awarded in the years 2023 or 2024
Thus, a follow-up application always follows on from a grant under the Creative Industries Kick-start Grant Scheme for a project that can be considered a research phase or startup phase of a larger project. Applications following a startup grant awarded in 2023 or 2024 are also considered follow-up applications. This provides staged project support. The detailed project plan submitted with the follow-up application is considered the result of the research phase.
How do you submit a follow-up application?
Follow-up applications must be submitted in the same way as regular applications. In the application form, you must indicate that it is a follow-up application and reference the project number of the application that was previously supported under the Kick-start Grant Scheme or the startup grant awarded in 2023 or 2024. The number of follow-up applications that can be considered per round in the Design, Architecture, Digital Culture, and Internationalisation schemes is limited and is determined in advance.
How are follow-up applications assessed?
The advisory committee treats a follow-up application as a new, standalone application. The committee will base its judgement solely on the information provided in the follow-up application. The advice about the project that the follow-up application stems from will not be shared with the committee. No comparison will be made between the two applications. However, in the follow-up application, you can reflect on the project that the new application is based on. For example, you can justify decisions made for the larger project. Because the composition of the committee changes with each round, the committee may focus on different (critical) points in its advice.
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