Grants awarded

To build a rangers' station.

To build a visitors' centre.

To set up the Arcadia Fellowship Programme. Fellows' projects look at how technology can improve access to information.

To survey, document and conserve rock art sites across Africa.

To research how Europe can peacefully accommodate changing attitudes to religion without compromising secular democratic freedoms,

To excavate and research a Viking-age archaeological site in western Iceland, in partnership with the Institute for Viking and North Atlantic Studies and Vikingaminjar ehf.

To support innovation in digital acquisitions and collections, high-density storage, and preservation.

To build an online library of scholarly resources and make it available for free online to users from African institutions

To support female graduates attending the institute and provide half-bursaries for them to pursue master's and PhD programmes in South Africa.

To research the feasibility of developing a universal digital library.

To support organisational consolidation and develop a focus on biodiversity.

To help refugee academics re-establish their professional lives.

To support organisational development.

To challenge present and future leaders to solve problems of global concern, through training, network-building and targeted projects.

To support visiting fellow Dominic Lawson.

To acquire and renovate a site for an advanced research centre, in partnership with Oxford and Cambridge Universities, Paris-Sud XI and the South African universities of Cape Town, Stellenbosch and the Western Cape.

To create the conditions for significant global climate change agreements in 2009-10.

To showcase the origins and development of reading and writing across cultures, from the fourth century BC to the printing press.

To help refugee academics re-establish their professional lives.

To endow a Professorship of Conservation Biology.