Deadline: 2 March 2012
Open to: Women journalists based in U.S.
Grant: US$20,000

Description

The Women Entrepreneurs in the Digital News Frontier grant program is designed to diversify the emerging digital news media landscape by expanding the voice and role of women entrepreneurs.  In addition to seed funding, grantees will receive pro-bono coaching, and will participate in a monthly call series featuring leading entrepreneurs and digital news media experts.

Grant

The IWMF will award three $20,000 grants to women journalists who aspire to be digital news media entrepreneurs.  This initiative is made possible with generous support from the Ford Foundation.

Eligibility

Applicants must be U.S.-based women journalists (full-time, part-time or freelance women news media professionals are eligible).

Applicants must propose a new digital news media enterprise that has not yet launched - and that will not launch before the IWMF announces the winners in April, 2012 – that uses digital media in innovative ways to deliver the news.

Applicants must include a business plan summary that demonstrates sustainability after initial funding has ended.

Applicants must demonstrate how their project advances women in the field of news media.

Personal blogs and documentary projects will not be considered.

Application

Applications will be accepted from January 31 – March 2, 2012 (deadline is midnight EST).  Late applications will not be accepted.  Winners will be notified in April 2012.

Click here to access the application form.  Please note that you must complete all required fields (denoted by red asterisks) to successfully submit your application.  There is no option to save an incomplete application and return to it later, or to review a completed application after it has been submitted, so applicants are strongly advised to review the application questions below and prepare and save their responses in a separate document for their records.

6. What are the application questions?

Succinctly describe your background in journalism, including career highlights.

What is the name of your proposed digital news media concept?

What is your concept for a digital news media enterprise?

What makes your proposed digital news media enterprise innovative? What unique need does it address?

How will your digital news media enterprise further the role of women in news media?

What benchmarks will you use to measure the success of your digital news media enterprise within the first year of launching it?

How many people will be involved in your digital news media enterprise, and in what capacity?  Please list any team members with a brief summary of their qualifications.

What business partnerships, if any, will you pursue?

What type of business or other training have you had that will contribute to your ability to successfully launch and sustain your proposed digital news media enterprise?

IWMF’s grantees receive pro-bono coaching as a component of this program.  What specific topics would be most valuable to your development as an entrepreneur?

What revenue generation strategies do you plan to put in place to ensure that your digital news media enterprise is financially sustainable?  Please include any funding you have already secured for this enterprise.

If relevant, include an assessment of your competition.

If you have developed a business plan for your proposed digital news media enterprise, please include a summary here.

How would a $20,000 grant from the IWMF impact you as a woman entrepreneur in the digital news frontier?

Provide three professional references.  Include reference name, title, organization, primary phone number, and email.

In case of any difficulties or problems please email newmediagrant(at)iwmf.org with any questions related to the application, including difficulty submitting an application.

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Deadline: 13 February 2012
Open to: Citizens and permanent residents of developing and transition countries
Grant: First Prize: US$ 30,000; Second Prize: US$ 5,000

Description

The Global Development Awards and Medals Competition is an innovative award scheme launched by GDN with generous support from the Ministry of Finance, Government of Japan, and other donors. Since its inception in 2000, GDN has awarded roughly US$ 2.2 million in research and travel grants to finalists and winners. Winners are chosen by an eminent jury at GDN’s Annual Conference; an event attended by over 500 practitioners in the field of development to whom the finalists present their proposals/papers.

The competition accepts applications in three categories:

1. Japanese Award for Most Innovative Development Project (MIDP)
2. Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development (ORD)
3. Medals for Research on Development (Medals)

Grant

Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development (ORD) is awarded to an organization/researcher(s) whose proposal to conduct research on any one of the three research themes (listed below) holds the greatest promise for improving our understanding of the relevant development issues and puts forth clear, articulate and well researched policy implications to address these development problems.

First Prize: US$ 30,000; Second Prize: US$ 5,000

Research proposals for this Award will be considered under the following three research themes only:

1. The Interactive Economy and Urban Development
2. Urban Externalities (Contagious Disease, Congestion and Crime) and Urban Poverty
3. The Enabling Environment – Housing, Transportation and Infrastructure

Eligibility

To apply for a grant, applicants must fulfill following criteria:

• Citizens and permanent residents of developing and transition countries
• Citizens of developing and transition countries who are temporarily based in a developed country but not for more than five years
• Applicant must be less than 45 years old as on 31 January, 2012
• Finalists and winners from previous years are not eligible to apply with the same or similar research proposal
• Winners from previous years cannot submit an application for the subsequent three years

Application

APPLICATION DEADLINE:  13 February, 2012 (Indian Standard Time 6:00 PM)

APPLY HERE: http://opa.gdnet.org

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Deadline: 29 February 2012
Open to: Contemporary dance professionals from Romania, Ireland, Latvia, Cyprus, United Kingdom, Turkey
Grant: A portion of the international travel expenses, accommodation and/or per diem to the maximum limit of EUR 1.000

Description

E-MOTIONAL Bodies & Cities is a two-year mobility and artistic exchange dance programme gathering artists and managers from six European countries – Romania, Cyprus, Ireland, Latvia, United Kingdom, and Turkey. The programme plans to identify, nurture, attract and sustain talent and creativity at the European level, by connecting artists and dance managers from countries participating in the project through mobility grants, residencies, fellowships, artistic research and performance co-production and exchange.

The Motion Fund has now 14 mobility and networking grants available to travel between Romania – Ireland – Latvia – Cyprus – United Kingdom –Turkey. Contemporary dance professionals are welcome to apply for in order to visit and attend specific events (festivals, workshops, international seminars, network meetings, etc.) taking place in the other project countries from May 2012 to April 2013.

These visits are expected to be short trips with the purpose of exploring the contemporary dance scene in a specific country, making contacts and possibly planning future projects and exchanges.

Grant

The duration of the visit shall be between 4-7 days according to each proposal submitted. The grant will cover a portion of the international travel expenses, accommodation and/or per diem to the maximum limit of EUR 1.000.

Eligibility

All contemporary dance professionals (artists, managers, critics, academics, etc.) from  Romania, Ireland, Latvia, Cyprus, United Kingdom, Turkey are welcome to apply for a mobility and networking grant.

Application

To apply, download the application form from below and send it to motionfund@e-motional.eu by February 29, 2012.
A guide of selected events from each destination country is also available below. 

DOWNLOAD THE APPLICATION FORM
DOWNLOAD EVENT LIST MAY 2012 – APRIL 2013

For more information contact the local coordination teams:

ROMANIA: Gabriela Tudor Foundation, Stefania Ferchedau, contact@e-motional.eu
IRELAND: Dublin Dance Festival, Tiina Ylönen, tiina.ylonen@dublindancefestival.ie
LATVIA: The Association of the Professional Dance Choreographers of Latvia, Ilze Zirina, ilzezirina@gmail.com
CYPRUS: Dance House Lemesos, Natasa Georgiou, info@dancehouselemesos.com
UK: body > data > space, Leanne Hammaccot, leanne@bodydataspace.net

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Deadline: 15 February and August 15 each year
Open to: (Associations of) publishers and booksellers in Central and Eastern Europe
Grant: Amounts awarded usually vary between € 1.000 and € 3.000

Description

The Fund for Central and East European Book Projects (CEEBP) was established in Amsterdam in 1992 under the auspices of the European Cultural Foundation. Its aim is to enhance the free flow of thought and information across borders, by supporting quality publishing in Central and Eastern Europe.

CEEBP supports the publication and dissemination of high-quality books in the field of literature and the humanities, primarily translations into and between the languages of Central and Eastern Europe.
In addition, the Fund assists publishers and booksellers in introducing professional and structural improvements.

To achieve its aims, CEEBP

• awards grants to publishers of quality books
• provides grants for quality translations into and between the languages of Central and East Europe
• mediates and supports professional contacts and tools, training, exchange of expertise and transfer of professional skills
• acts as a partner organisation in programmes for the improvement of the book trade infrastructure

The Grants programme assists in:

• Translation and dissemination of high quality literary and scholarly books in the languages of Central and Eastern Europe.

Priority is given to translations of literary works and publications in the humanities enhancing an exchange of thought and information across territorial and cultural borders. Grants are awarded to publishers for the translation of seminal scholarly works and essays that are of interest to a wider intellectual readership.

• Professional contacts, tools and expertise

Professional book trade associations in Central and Eastern Europe are eligible for assistance in the professional and infrastructural improvement of promotion, marketing, distribution, efficiency measures, and training.

Grants are allocated to professional book trade associations in Central and Eastern Europe to help defray incidental professional costs such as website design.

Grant

Amounts awarded usually vary between € 1.000 and € 3.000. The grants are in principle non-renewable.

Grants are generally NOT awarded for:

• Books of a specialised nature or written for a limited readership
• Books in the field of health, medicine, pure or applied science, ecology, business, children’s books, text books, art books and catalogues, or works of a religious or party political nature
• Books distributed free of charge
• Publishing houses that have existed for less than two years
• (Foreign) copyrights and reprint rights
• Institutional costs including maintenance, payments to budgetary deficits, salaries, and other day-to-day expenses of an organisation, or general appeals to funds
• Research, study, travel or project costs of an individual or private nature
• Collections of papers or proceedings of meetings or conferences
• Magazines and journals
• Publications of non-profit organisations
• Projects that have already been completed
• Translations from another language than the original publication
• Translation into another language than the language of the country of publication
• Print runs lower than 500 copies

Eligibility

The criteria applied in all cases are the quality of the work in question, the quality of the publishing house, and of the translator; well-motivated requirement of the applicant; a sound budget; and the availability of other funding.

Geographical criteria

Support is available for publishers in Albania, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia & Montenegro, Slovenia, and Slovakia.

Application

Grant applications for books should be submitted by the publisher after the copyright contract and contract with translator(s) has been concluded.
It cannot be stressed enough the need for an application, including the required documents, to be submitted well in advance of the planned date of publication.

Those wishing to apply for a grant should send per email:

• description of the title, including background information on the book
• the publishing house backlist
• the proposed print run
• the intended readership
• an itemised budget, which should include publisher’s own investment
• other relevant information (other funding, promotion plans, distribution arrangements, etc.)

If the project is considered eligible for support, the publisher will receive an application form. Only fully completed application forms submitted by the publisher per email, with copyright agreement, contract with the translator and catalogues received by CEEBP per post, fax or scanned per email before the deadline will be accepted for consideration.

Contact

Fund for Central and East European Book Projects

Postal Address
Jan van Goyenkade 5
1075 HN Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Telephone: +31 (0) 20 57 33 868
Fax: +31 (0) 20 675 22 31

email: ceebp@ceebp.org

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Deadline: 1st of April 2012
Open to: professional and emerging photographers
Prize: $5000 grant

The Photocrati Fund offers $5000 grants to photographers to undertake important humanitarian and environmental photography projects. The goal is to identify outstanding photographers and to provide the resources necessary to pursue projects that will have a tangible and positive effect on the world.

Eligibility

This grant is intended for both pro and emerging photographers. The grant is open to photographers over 21 years of age from any country worldwide, but applicants should have a proven ability to produce outstanding imagery and coherent photo essays, as well as the background necessary to carry out the proposed project. This means that for photographers planning to complete a project in a country other than their own country of origin, there should be a clear demonstration of preparation for work in that country (i.e. proper visas, contacts, language training, etc.).

Competition

The 2012 Photocrati Fund competition is open from January 2012 through April 1, 2012. The 2012 Photocrati Fund award will be announced at the Look3 Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, Virginia in June 2012. The grant winner will become a Photocrati Fellow for the calendar year from the announcement of his/her award until the announcement of the following year’s award.

Application

There are no application fees for this grant.

Each submission may contain only one project proposal. Each applicant may apply only once per submission cycle. Applications are not carried over to the following year. All applications must be submitted in English, online to the following email address: fund@photocrati.com. Please include the words 2012 PHOTOCRATI FUND in the subject of the email.

Please proofread to avoid typos and grammatical errors.

Only applications that meet ALL SUBMISSION CRITERIA will be judged. Once the application and proposal has been submitted, content changes are not allowed. Please double check all of your materials before submitting your application. The Photocrati Fund is not responsible for misdirected submissions. Applicants should save copies of their application for their own records.

Only applications submitted according to grant application specifications will be considered. Applicants should not send any hard copies or printed materials (no prints, books, CDs/DVDs or transparencies). The Photocrati Fund Panel will not review any of these materials, and they cannot be returned to applicants.

The application consists of just two items: a one-page project statement and bio, and a link to your online portfolio submitted via email to: fund@photocrati.com. Please include the words 2012 PHOTOCRATI FUND in the subject of your email.

The Photocrati Fund Panel does not accept links to password protected galleries, or to Flickr, Picasa, or other photo sharing sites. You should have a professional-style website.

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Deadline: 9 February 2012
Open to: filmmakers worldwide
Grant: from $20,000 to $50,000 depending on the category

Since its inception, the Fund has supported more than 500 films in 61 countries. The Fund reviews between 1,400 and 2,000 proposals annually, choosing 35-50 for support each year. In funding such work, the Documentary Fund encourages the diverse exchange of ideas that is crucial to fostering an open society, raising public consciousness about human rights abuses and restrictions of civil liberties, and fostering an ongoing dialogue about these and other pressing social issues.

Applications are accepted in two funding categories:

1. Research/Development: provided to projects that are between development and pre-production.
2. Production/Post production grants provide funds to filmmakers in various stages of the production and post production stages.

Eligibility

Filmmakers worldwide for projects that display:

• Artful and innovative storytelling techniques
• Global relevance
• Contemporary human rights and pressing social justice issues
• Potential for social engagement

Grant

Funding categories:

1. Research/Development: up to $20,00.
2. Production/Postproduction: provide funds to filmmakers in various stages of the production and post-production stages.

Application

• Prepare a written proposal that includes the following elements:
• Project summary
• Narrative synopsis
• Distribution and marketing strategy
• Comprehensive line item budget
• Director’s prior work (1 paragraph)
• Current rough cut or sample (1 paragraph)
• Key creative personnel (1-2 paragraphs each)
• Outreach and engagement
• Interactive elements (if applicable)
• Fund raising strategy

Your proposal should be in electronic format and ready to upload before you begin completing the online application. The upload is limited to .PDFs or Word-compatible documents.

All parts of your proposal, including budget, must be combined into one file. Only one file can be uploaded per application and its file size must be less than 3Mb. Attach a complete proposal. PDF and Word formats acceptable. Please name the file in the format: Project Name – DirectorLastName.doc

After reviewing the materials on the links below, you may contact dfp@sundance.org with any outstanding questions.

• Proposal checklist (Development and Production/Post-Production categories)
• Audience engagement proposal checklist (current grantees only)
• Frequent Asked Questions
• Fall 2011 grant award recipients

Click here to apply online

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Deadline: 1 March 2012
Open to: Organizations and social entrepreneurs
Grant: A core support grant to the organization, to be paid over three years, and a non-cash award to the social entrepreneur

Description

The Skoll Foundation presents the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship each year to a select few social entrepreneurs who are solving the world’s most pressing problems. The Skoll Award includes a core support grant to the organization, to be paid over three years, and a noncash award to the social entrepreneur presented at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship every spring.

The application process for the 2013 Skoll Awards is open from January 4 – March 1, 2012. A preview of the application can be viewed anytime. To be considered, organizations must meet this specific Awards criteria: Winners have a tested and proven social innovation that addresses an issue of critical importance and is positioned for large-scale impact.

Eligibility

The selection process for the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship is competitive. Hundreds of applications are submitted for the fewer than 10 Awards given annually. Not all organizations that meet the eligibility requirements and align with the criteria will receive an Award.

Qualifying organizations will be evaluated against the following criteria:

• Impact potential: Organization’s innovation is positioned to directly affect policy, behavior and/or infrastructure/system(s) on a large scale and can show evidence of significant impact already achieved.
• Inflection: Organization has a proven approach that has already been implemented with success and is now ready to apply the approach on a much larger scale.
• Innovation: Organization has an approach that fundamentally disrupts the status quo to solve social and/or environmental problems.
• Issue: Organization works on an issue that is identified by the Skoll Foundation as one of world’s most pressing problems.
• Skoll leverage: Organization will benefit from engaging with Skoll Foundation beyond a purely funding relationship, such as collaboration with our network of entrepreneurs or access to media opportunities.
• Social entrepreneur: Organization is led by a visionary social entrepreneur
• Sustainability: Organization has a clear, compelling plan for expanding impact and achieving long-term financial and operational sustainability.

Skoll Award recipients typically exhibit many of the following characteristics:

• Led by a visionary, effective social entrepreneur serving as a spokesperson for their issue
• Strong leadership team and board
• Clear mission and implementation model
• Unwavering focus on mission
• Well-established, strong partnerships
• Commitment to systems, including those for measurement and learning
• Diversified and mission-aligned funding sources

To receive a Skoll Award, an organization must be a legally incorporated entity. Organizations that do not have 501(c)(3) public charity status, including organizations based in other countries, will be asked to submit additional documentation at the appropriate time. Please do not submit any additional information with your online application.

In general, Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship will not support:

• Individuals, either through scholarships or other forms of financial support
• Programs promoting religious or ideological doctrine, such as those principally sectarian in nature
• Lobbying (beyond that allowed by law for charitable organizations)
• Film financing
• Endowments, cash reserves or deficit reductions
• Government agencies
• University-based projects
• Public schools and school districts
• Land, site acquisition or facilities construction
• Institutions that discriminate on the basis of race, creed, age, gender or sexual orientation in policy or practice
• Grantmaking to other organizations or individuals
• Event sponsorship
• Political campaigns
• New or early-stage business plans or ideas
• Organizations whose missions and work focus on a single municipality, province or state
• Local offices of parent organizations or specific programs within organizations

Application

Please read the criteria thoroughly to determine if your organization is eligible to apply for a Skoll Award. There is only one deadline for the 2013 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship: Thursday, March 1, 2012. The application process includes the following stages:

• Eligibility quiz: This tool is helps applicants assess their eligibility for a Skoll Award. If an organization passes the eligibility quiz, they will be given a URL to the application. Applicants cannot move forward to the online application unless they pass the eligibility quiz.
• Online application: Organizations that pass the eligibility quiz may then complete an online application. A preview of the online application is available.
• Full proposal invitation: Selected applicants will be contacted by a program officer and invited to submit a full proposal. We choose 10 or fewer applicants to submit full proposals each year.
• Due diligence: This process usually includes interviews, a site visit, reference checks, follow-up questions, in-depth financial review and a discussion of grant objectives.
• Selection of the Awardees: We anticipate making fewer than 10 Awards each year.

For further information about the application process please read the Frequently Asked Questions page.

Contact:

Tel: 650 331 1031
Fax:650 331 1033
General Email: info@skollfoundation.org.

Please be sure to read the FAQ page before sending an email.

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Deadline: Not specified
Open to: Candidates in the early stages of their careers and who are working in a representational style in painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking
Grant: First grants are in the amount of CAD$15,000 each, and second and third grants are in the amount of CAD$18,000 each

Description

Charles G. Greenshields, Q.C., of Montreal founded The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation in 1955, in memory of his mother, whose name is embodied in the title.

The objective of the Foundation is to promote, by its charitable activities, an appreciation of traditional expression in painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking, by aiding worthy art students, artists or sculptors who need further training or other assistance during their formative years.

Awards are limited to candidates in the early stages of their careers and who are working in a representational style in painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking. The terms of the Foundation’s Charter preclude consideration of non-objective art.

Applicants who are being considered for a grant may be asked to supply supporting documentation.

Eligibility

To be eligible for a grant, candidates must:

• have already started or completed training in an established school of art; and/or
• demonstrate, through past work and future plans, a commitment to making art a lifetime career.

Grant

First grants are in the amount of CAD$15,000 each, and second and third grants are in the amount of CAD$18,000 each. The foundation reserves the right to award grants in other amounts.

Application

You can apply by filling the application form, and returning it completed in a clear, complete, and articulate manner, along with reproductions of six recent works (one image per work) – on CD only – preferably completed within the past two years, but definitely no longer than three years ago. Do not add any additional documents.

Sculptors may send two images of six different works for a maximum of twelve images.

Images should be submitted in the best possible resolution (Minimum 72 DPI, preferably 140 DPI or higher). Images should be sized to fill the screen at a resolution of 1024 pixels wide by 768 pixels high.

Any digital treatment or manipulation of the initial picture may invalidate the entire application.

The CD and the application must not be submitted under separate cover.

Important Information

• The Foundation will not accept applications from commercial artists, photographers, video artists, filmmakers, craft-makers or any artist whose work falls primarily into these categories.
• The Charter of the Foundation precludes the consideration of non-objective art.
• The Foundation is neither a school nor a gallery. It does not conduct classes or organize exhibitions.
• Grants are made directly to the beneficiaries – not through other organizations.
• First grants are in the amount of CAD$15,000 each, and second and third grants are in the amount of CAD$18,000 each. The foundation reserves the right to award grants in other amounts.
• The Foundation welcomes applications throughout the year.
• No Email or Internet submissions accepted.
• All works must be submitted by the applicant on CD and the CD will not be returned.

Contact Information

The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation
Phone: 514 937 9225
Fax: 514 937 0141
Email: greenshields@bellnet.ca

Address:
1814 Sherbrooke Street West
Suite no. 1
Montreal, Quebec H3H 1E4
Quebec H3H 1E4

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Deadline: Not specified
Open to: Recognized and established organizations, not individuals
Grants: Ranging in size

Description

The International Music and Art Foundation was established with Charitable Status (Gemeinnuetzigkeit) in Vaduz, Liechtenstein on February 12, 1988 for the purpose of receiving funds from individuals and corporations for distribution in support of worthy arts organizations worldwide.

Established with the belief that, after all, our greatest legacy to future generations is art, the International Music and Art Foundation makes grants to facilitate the improvement and dissemination of the visual and performing arts, as well as the study and preservation of art and culture from the past.  “Preservation” includes the conservation and restoration of individual works of art and architecture as well as cultural and environmental documentation and preservation.  Specific interests of the Foundation include, but are not limited to, the fine arts (painting, drawing, sculpture), music, theatre, and architecture (“frozen music”  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1829).

The Foundation wishes to encourage projects that promote values in line with their particular interests that are well informed, that have clearly defined goals, and that are innovative and risk-taking, while acknowledging traditional standards of excellence and responsibility to the art form.

Grants are not made for the establishment of new organizations, for travel expenses, nor for meetings, workshops, conferences, or seminars held for the purpose of planning or organizing a project or activity.

They prefer to learn about projects through informal investigations of what they find promising. Unsolicited applications as a rule will not be responded to. 

Eligibility

Grant

With assets (Balance Sheet) of approximately 40,783,176 Swiss Francs as of 31 December 2010, the International Music and Art Foundation makes grants ranging in size from several hundred to several hundred thousand Swiss Francs, with most grants falling towards the median of 10,306 Swiss Francs.  Our average grant is 46,644 Swiss Francs.  Whenever possible, the Foundation prefers to issue challenge grants conditional on matching Foundation grants with funds from other sources.  The Foundation prefers not to make grants for operational support.

Here you can find examples of recent grants awarded.

Application

Proposed projects should demonstrate support by appropriate organizations and/or governmental units in the community where the project is to be carried out.

All grantees must provide detailed financial reports and maintain complete records documenting the use of the grant.  The International Music and Art Foundation may make periodic site visits and whatever other investigations it deems important.

The Foundation expects tangible outcomes from grantees, and all grants will require a written report from the recipient detailing how the Foundation’s support was used and accounting for all expenditure of funds at the end of the grant period, or annually if the grant extends beyond one year.

Contact:
International Music and Art Foundation
Legal Domicile (Registered Office)
P.O. Box 39
FL-9490 VADUZ, Liechtenstein

IMAF  welcomes contact by e-mail: (trustees@imaf.li) and discourages contact through any other means.

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Deadline: Ongoing
Open to: Only non-German publishers are entitled to apply for translation grants.
Grant: The Goethe-Institut contributes part of the translation costs to the publisher, payable on publication of the translated work. It is not envisaged that the Goethe-Institut will finance the full costs of the translation or printing or editorial costs.

Description

The Goethe-Institut’s translation grant programme “Translations of German books into other languages” provides support to non-German publishers with the publication of translated German titles. This enables important academic contributions, challenging fiction, literature for children and young adults, and selected non-fiction works, to be made accessible to non-German-speaking readers. The programme serves cultural-political aims and is an important guiding instrument of cultural and educational foreign policy. In cases where an application for a translation grant is successful, the Goethe-Institut contributes part of the translation costs to the publisher, payable on publication of the translated work. It is not envisaged that the Goethe-Institut will finance the full costs of the translation or printing or editorial costs.

The programme has been running for nearly 35 years, during which time they have given financial support to the publication of around 5000 books in 45 languages.

Priority is given to works in the following subject areas:

• democracy, the rule of law, and civil society
• current regional and global issues
• the cultural dimension of European integration
• recent German history
• outstanding works of contemporary German literature

Consideration will also be given to:

• classical German literature
• contemporary drama
• quality literature for children and young adults

Eligibility

Only non-German publishers are entitled to apply for translation grants.

Grant

In cases where an application for a translation grant is successful, the Goethe-Institut contributes part of the translation costs to the publisher, payable on publication of the translated work. It is not envisaged that the Goethe-Institut will finance the full costs of the translation or printing or editorial costs.

Application

The following documents are required:

• a fully completed application form;
• a legally valid licence agreement;
• a legally valid translator’s contract;
• justification of the project with information on the relevance of the work to the target sales audience, how it fits into the publisher’s list, and on why financial support is required
• two copies of the German edition of the publication plus reviews. (Books and reviews should be requested from the German publisher and then forwarded to the Munich Central Office of the Goethe-Institut, Bereich 33, Literatur und Übersetzungsförderung.

Please submit the application form to the Goethe-Institut in your country. If there is no Goethe-Institut in your country, please contact the German embassy.

The Goethe-Institut in your country will evaluate your application. If an application is successful, the Goethe-Institut will forward the documents, together with a supporting statement, to the central office of the Goethe-Institut in Munich. There a committee will decide on the value of the sum to be granted. If an application is rejected, the Goethe-Institut in your country will inform you directly.

Application deadlines:

The committee meets four times a year as follows:

• End of January: fiction; literature for children and young adults
• End of April: all categories
• End of July: fiction; literature for children and young adults
• End of October: all categories

Next meeting:

The Goethe-Instituts accept applications all year round. They are dealt with at the next meeting due to take place. However, please note that applications which arrive less than four weeks before the next due meeting in Munich cannot usually be taken into consideration.

For academic works longer submission deadlines apply because a validation from the “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft” (German research organisation) is required. In order to be able to process your application at the April meeting, the documents should have arrived by the 31st January at the Goethe-Institut’s central office, and for the October meeting by the 31st July.

Here you can download the application for the translation grant.

The Official Website

Please note that Mladiinfo does not give scholarships or any financial support, but only informs about different opportunities. Click on the direct link to the official page above to apply for the program.