Throughout 2021 and 2022, Clwstwr aims to provide a number of opportunities for SME’s to work on targeted research and development (R&D) projects in collaboration with our Challenge Partners.

The first partnership we launched is led by Ffilm Cymru Wales and focuses on sustainability. 

The Green Cymru Challenge Fund made available £75,000 in funding for individuals, organisations and collaborations across sectors – including media, academia, technology, transportation, energy, water and waste management - to research and develop new sustainable ways of working in film and TV.

Three innovative environmental projects have been selected to be developed with support from their Green Cymru Challenge Fund. Find out more about these projects here.

The second Clwstwr partnership is with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Ethnic Minorities and Youth Support Team Wales (EYST) and Lankelly Chase on delivering a new pipeline into media ownership through the People’s Newsroom Initiative

The People’s Newsroom Initiative is a project to build community power through journalism. Clwstwr is working with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism as they build a coalition of people and organisations to support communities to create sustainable newsrooms that reflect them, serve them and spark positive change.

This new partnership, with the Bureau, EYST and Lankelly Chase, will explore a new pipeline into media ownership - hands-on business and startup support to design innovative new journalism initiatives and invest in community newsroom leaders traditionally marginalised by the media. The team will research, design and build a new community journalism project in Swansea and this process will inform the development of the full initiative as it rolls out across the UK in 2022.

Are you interested in building a newsroom for your community? A local organiser or passionate individual interested in improving your area and strengthening community power? Someone already working in journalism who wants to share knowledge and support a community media startup? A member of an organisation that wants to help or share resources?

 

Clwstwr partnered with Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales to look at innovative and creative ways re-think the museum experience.

Sugar Creative has been awarded the Amgueddfa Cymru Challenge Fund to research and develop (R&D) of innovative ways to experience and interact with the museum’s collections on a local and global scale.

Their project, Arall, aims to to enable users and visitors to digitally and physically explore, and interpret the stories of Wales from wherever you may be. It will combine creative content with cutting edge immersive augmented reality to allow for visitors to see and engage with a range of personal interpretations and reactions to objects in the Amgueddfa Cymru collection.

If you have any questions about our Challenge Partnerships, please get in touch.