Your Prototype Project

Mandatory questions are marked with a "*" (you will not be able to proceed to the next section without first completing these questions). Please don’t rush into filling in the online form and please download the list of questions for prototype applications and please make sure you read the DNI Fund Terms & Conditions.

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Are you
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  • an individual
  • a company
  • a non-profit body
  • an association
  • an academic institution
  • a partnership
Please provide your organisation"s name and parent company name (if applicable), or your name (if you are applying as an individual)
Please briefly describe your organisation or, if you are applying as an individual, your current occupation. Tell us more about your team (team members description, organisational structure of the project team) and/or, if you are applying as an individual, your career history
2000 / 2000 characters
What is the type of your Organisation? (if applicable)
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  • Legacy Publisher
  • Association
  • TV
  • Radio
  • Magazine
  • Startup
  • Academic
  • Online pure player
  • B2B publisher
  • Local publisher
  • Collective
  • Other Company
  • Other Organisation
  • N/A
If you selected Other Company, Other Organisation or N/A, please explain
Street Adress
Postal Code
City
Country
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  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Bulgaria
  • Croatia
  • Republic of Cyprus
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Latvia
  • Liechtenstein
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Malta
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • United Kingdom
What is the registration number or equivalent of your organisation (if applicable)?
Where is the project team located?
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  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Bulgaria
  • Croatia
  • Republic of Cyprus
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Latvia
  • Liechtenstein
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Malta
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • United Kingdom
When was your organisation founded (if applicable)?
How many full time employees does your organisation have (if applicable)?
How many journalists does your organisation have (if applicable)?
What is your annual turnover (in EUR) for 2015 (if applicable)?
What is your annual turnover (in EUR) for 2016 (if applicable)?
What is your annual turnover (in EUR) for 2017 (if applicable)?
Who is the point of contact for this project? What is their first name?
What is their last name?
What is their phone number?
If you have one, what is your website URL?
Are you, or any member of your organisation, currently employed by or working on behalf of a government organisation, in any capacity?
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  • Yes
  • No
If yes, please provide some details on the nature of your or your organisation’s involvement.
Does any government organisation hold any level of ownership, control or voting rights within your organisation?
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  • Yes
  • No
* Mandatory field

Prototype Project Details

Please provide the details of your project.

Your Project is
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  • Specific to your organisation or, if you are an individual applicant, to yourself
  • A collaborative project with other organisations
If it is collaborative project, please specify your partners’ names. NB - collaborative projects must adhere to the specific details outlined in the DNI fund Terms and Conditions. We advise that you review these carefully:
What is the title of your project?
Please provide a brief overview of the project.
1200 / 1200 characters
Please add at least one tag to categorise the topic of your project (i.e. Blockchain, VR, Video).
Please describe your project in more detail, including the specific outcome you want to achieve and its broader impact.
5000 / 5000 characters
What makes your project innovative? Provide a quick description of the technological and editorial component and describe the deliverable product.
5000 / 5000 characters
How will your project support and stimulate innovation in digital news journalism? Why does it have an impact?
5000 / 5000 characters
How would you best characterise the current stage of your project?
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  • Initiation phase
  • Definition phase
  • Design phase
  • Development phase
  • Implementation phase
  • Follow-up phase
What is the amount (in EUR) you are seeking to receive from the Google DNI Fund?
* Mandatory field

Approach & Resources

Please describe your approach.

How are other organisations tackling this topic and what approaches have been tried in the past? Feel free to mention successful or not so successful examples.
4000 / 4000 characters
Total overall Budget
Payment of non-editorial personal (for their work on the project)
Editorial costs (on staff or freelance employees)
Engineering and development/maintainance costs
Purchase / licensing of software
Purchase of any equipment and hardware.
Marketing costs
other costs
If other costs, please explain
* Mandatory field

Planning and evaluation

Please describe your project planning.

What are the key indicators you will use to track progress towards the outcome you described previously?
5000 / 5000 characters
If available, please provide an overview of the monetisation plan of your project.
5000 / 5000 characters
Please provide specific milestones and planning (initiation, definition, design, implementation, follow-up).
3000 / 3000 characters
What would be the next steps of the project should the prototype meet your expectations?
3000 / 3000 characters
* Mandatory field

Further Opportunities and Collaboration

Please indicate your interest in further opportunities.

If you are selected for funding, are you interested in further opportunities?
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  • Yes
  • No
There could be opportunities to meet with other applicants, share experiences or work in collaboration on future projects. Is this something you would be interested in?
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  • Yes
  • No
* Mandatory field

Providing more information & updates from the DNI


If you want to provide additional documentation - mockup, video, case study
 -​file types: png, jpg, mpg, .doc, .xls) AFTER SUBMITTING THE APPLICATION FORM ​please email this alias and attach documents: dnifund@google.com. In accordance with the Application Terms and Conditions, we reserve the right in our sole discretion to disqualify any applicant who submits harmful or abusive material (including any virus or malicious code) to this DNI Innovation Fund email alias. 

In the Subject field of your email, please specify your project and company names, your unique application number (which you will receive after you submit your application) as well as your country of origin. Do not submit any Business Sensitive Information (as that term is defined in the Application Terms and Conditions) through this application.​

I would like to receive updates by email on the Google Digital News Initiative.
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  • Yes
  • No
I have applied to the DNI Fund Previously
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  • Yes
  • No
I have been a DNI Fund Recipient in a previous Round
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  • Yes
  • No
If Yes, what was your project ID?
I accept the Terms and Conditions
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  • Yes
  • No
I accept the Privacy Policy
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  • Yes
  • No
What is their contact email?
* Mandatory field

Summary

 

1. Applicant's details

Question
Answer
Are you
...
Please provide your organisation"s name and parent company name (if applicable), or your name (if you are applying as an individual)
...
Please briefly describe your organisation or, if you are applying as an individual, your current occupation. Tell us more about your team (team members description, organisational structure of the project team) and/or, if you are applying as an individual, your career history
...
What is the type of your Organisation? (if applicable)
...
If you selected Other Company, Other Organisation or N/A, please explain
...
Street Adress
...
Postal Code
...
City
...
Country
...
What is the registration number or equivalent of your organisation (if applicable)?
...
Where is the project team located?
...
When was your organisation founded (if applicable)?
...
How many full time employees does your organisation have (if applicable)?
...
How many journalists does your organisation have (if applicable)?
...
What is your annual turnover (in EUR) for 2015 (if applicable)?
...
What is your annual turnover (in EUR) for 2016 (if applicable)?
...
What is your annual turnover (in EUR) for 2017 (if applicable)?
...
Who is the point of contact for this project? What is their first name?
...
What is their last name?
...
What is their phone number?
...
If you have one, what is your website URL?
...
Are you, or any member of your organisation, currently employed by or working on behalf of a government organisation, in any capacity?
...
If yes, please provide some details on the nature of your or your organisation’s involvement.
...
Does any government organisation hold any level of ownership, control or voting rights within your organisation?
...

2. Prototype Project Details

Question
Answer
Your Project is
...
If it is collaborative project, please specify your partners’ names. NB - collaborative projects must adhere to the specific details outlined in the DNI fund Terms and Conditions. We advise that you review these carefully:
...
What is the title of your project?
...
Please provide a brief overview of the project.
...
Please add at least one tag to categorise the topic of your project (i.e. Blockchain, VR, Video).
...
Please describe your project in more detail, including the specific outcome you want to achieve and its broader impact.
...
What makes your project innovative? Provide a quick description of the technological and editorial component and describe the deliverable product.
...
How will your project support and stimulate innovation in digital news journalism? Why does it have an impact?
...
How would you best characterise the current stage of your project?
...
What is the amount (in EUR) you are seeking to receive from the Google DNI Fund?
...

3. Approach & Resources

Question
Answer
How are other organisations tackling this topic and what approaches have been tried in the past? Feel free to mention successful or not so successful examples.
...
Total overall Budget
...
Payment of non-editorial personal (for their work on the project)
...
Editorial costs (on staff or freelance employees)
...
Engineering and development/maintainance costs
...
Purchase / licensing of software
...
Purchase of any equipment and hardware.
...
Marketing costs
...
other costs
...
If other costs, please explain
...

4. Planning and evaluation

Question
Answer
What are the key indicators you will use to track progress towards the outcome you described previously?
...
If available, please provide an overview of the monetisation plan of your project.
...
Please provide specific milestones and planning (initiation, definition, design, implementation, follow-up).
...
What would be the next steps of the project should the prototype meet your expectations?
...

5. Further Opportunities and Collaboration

Question
Answer
If you are selected for funding, are you interested in further opportunities?
...
There could be opportunities to meet with other applicants, share experiences or work in collaboration on future projects. Is this something you would be interested in?
...

6. Providing more information & updates from the DNI

Question
Answer
I would like to receive updates by email on the Google Digital News Initiative.
...
I have applied to the DNI Fund Previously
...
I have been a DNI Fund Recipient in a previous Round
...
If Yes, what was your project ID?
...
I accept the Terms and Conditions
...
I accept the Privacy Policy
...
What is their contact email?
...

Terms and conditions

By submitting your application, you confirm that: 

a) You have the authority to submit your application to us. If you do not have (or are not sure if you have) authority to submit your application to us, do not submit it;

b) All information contained in your application is true and accurate and meets the eligibility requirements specified in the Application Terms and Conditions;

c) You have not included any Business Sensitive Information in your application and your application complies with all relevant regulatory requirements;

d) You have obtained all necessary licences and approvals to disclose the application to us (including, for collaborative projects, from any collaborators). You confirm that submission of the application will not infringe any third party rights (including intellectual property rights) or put you in breach of any confidentiality obligations (in each case including in relation to any collaborators);

e) You have sought and obtained all necessary consents from anyone whose personal information you provide to us in connection with your application. You agree that this information will be used in accordance with the Application Terms and Conditions (including to contact you for the purpose of carrying out the application and selection process); 

f)    Where an application is successful, we may, as we deem appropriate in our absolute discretion (including at events, in speeches, in our annual report, through social media, and in any medium including online or offline), publish details of: (i) the name(s) and countries of the successful applicant and any collaborators, (ii) a description of the project and/or the project title, and (iii) the amount of funding offered, whether to publicise the Digital News Innovation Fund, or our activities more generally. We will aim to inform you in advance of any such publication.

g) The final decision of who is eligible is not open to negotiation or dispute and we are not obliged to provide feedback on unsuccessful applications; and

h)  In addition to the terms set out above, on behalf of yourself or your organisation (as applicable), you agree to the DNI Fund Application Terms and Conditions.

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