Grants awarded

To work with local partners and communities to protect and restore important at-risk and biodiversity-rich natural habitats.

To advocate for gender equality, protecting the rights and improving the lives of women and girls.

To provide training for conservation practitioners in Asia and Central America.

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

To enable students from biodiversity-rich, cash-poor countries to participate in the University’s Student Conference on Conservation Science, and to provide scholarships to PhD students in the Department of Zoology.

To provide core support to the Whitley Fund for Nature.

To help refugee academics re-establish their professional lives.

To treat mothers and carers with HIV/AIDS in South Africa.

To develop the Scholars at Risk network in Spain, Norway and Turkey and secure positions for scholars from Iran, Iraq and Bhutan.

To preserve the archive of Einstein’s scientific works, other manuscripts and correspondence and make it freely available online.

To improve state school students’ maths skills through a summer school programme at Imperial College.

To support a conference on Europe’s relations with, and impact on, the Caucasus and Central Asia.

To train leaders in global conflict resolution.

To support social workers finding homes for Romanian children in institutional care.

To support organizational consolidation and develop a focus on protecting and supporting biodiversity.

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

To support the Institute’s work to secure lasting protections for marine habitats.

To contribute to a permanent endowment to support innovation in digital acquisitions and collections and their preservation.

To support female graduates attending the institute and provide bursaries to help them to pursue Masters’ and PhD programmes in South Africa.

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.