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Opportunity Summary:

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), through its Office of Digital Humanities, offered the "Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities" grant program (Funding Opportunity Number 20130307 HT) to support national or regional (multistate) training institutes aimed at humanities scholars and advanced graduate students. The central purpose of the opportunity is capacity-building: helping participants broaden and deepen their skills in digital humanities so more humanities researchers can confidently use digital technologies in their scholarship, and so knowledge about advanced tools and methods is more widely shared across the field. In practice, NEH is looking for programs that do more than introduce basic concepts; the emphasis is on advanced topics, hands-on learning, and the kind of sustained engagement that leaves participants able to apply specific digital methods to real humanities research questions.

The supported activities are structured as training programs (institutes) that can be delivered in flexible formats, as long as the length and design allow for a full, thorough treatment of the selected topic. Institutes may be brief, running only a few days, and can even be offered across multiple locations. At the other end of the spectrum, they can run up to six weeks at a single site. The announcement also highlights timing flexibility, noting that institutes might be scheduled around existing scholarly meetings (either before or after conferences), offered during summer months, or held at other suitable points in the academic year. Projects can be designed as a one-time offering or repeated multiple times for different audiences, which signals NEH interest in models that can reach broader communities or be replicated.

Awards are made as discretionary grants under the humanities funding category (CFDA 45.169, Promotion of the Humanities). The maximum award amount listed is $250,000, with no stated minimum award floor. There is no cost sharing or matching requirement, meaning applicants are not required to provide non-federal matching funds as a condition of the award. The opportunity was posted and created on November 28, 2012, with an original and current closing date of March 7, 2013, and an archive date of April 6, 2013, indicating this particular posting is historical even though it describes an ongoing type of NEH program.

Eligible applicants included a wide range of organizations and government entities: public and private institutions of higher education; nonprofit organizations (including both 501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3) nonprofits, so long as they are not institutions of higher education in the latter category); federally recognized Native American tribal governments; and state, county, city/township, special district governments. This breadth suggests NEH intended the program to be open not only to universities, but also to cultural organizations, consortia, and public entities with the capacity to convene and train scholars at scale.

For additional details, NEH pointed applicants to an information page at http://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/institutes advanced topics in the digital humanities. Program questions were directed to the Office of Digital Humanities staff via email at odh@neh.gov, with the option to request a phone conversation by emailing a preferred callback time and telephone number.

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