Grants awarded

To build a visitors' centre.

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

To build a rangers' station.

To support organisational consolidation and develop a focus on biodiversity.

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

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 support visiting fellow Dominic Lawson.

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

To support organisational development.

To help refugee academics re-establish their professional lives.

To research the feasibility of developing a universal digital library.

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

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

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

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

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

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

To endow a Professorship of Conservation Biology.

To help refugee academics re-establish their professional lives.