Grants awarded

To create a continuous area of protected natural landscape by purchasing ecologically important land next to Iberá National Park in Argentina.

To build a visitor centre in Patagonia Park in Chile.

To create a continuous area of protected natural landscape by purchasing ecologically important land next to Patagonia Park in Chile.

To build a rangers’ station in Pumalin Park in Chile.

To purchase land and establish a new grassland reserve in Corrientes province, Argentina.

To increase the overall impact and ensure the long-term sustainability of the Conservation Leadership Programme.

To ensure the long-term financial sustainability and academic independence of the Courtauld Institute.

To exhibit calligraphy, textiles, jewels, metalwork, ceramics and paintings from the 9th to 19th centuries.

To provide match funding for the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project to increase the number of open-access scholarly books.

To help more of the world’s public art galleries, libraries, archives and museums make their collections data and images freely available under Creative Commons licences or waivers.

To enable Creative Commons, EIFL and SPARC to build a global campaign to promote the open sharing of climate and biodiversity research.

To develop tools for making openly-licensed content easier to find and use.

To develop legal tools for open access to academic publications.

To develop and strengthen a coalition of universities with a shared agenda to become Open Knowledge Institutions.

To support DOSI’s work to provide expert input and guidance for the negotiations of the UN treaty on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction and the International Seabed Authority mining regulations.

To support the Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI), so it can continue to provide evidence-based advice to inform international policy on the management and conservation of the deep ocean.

To support DSCC’s work to protect deep-sea ecosystems from fishing and mining, and to strengthen biodiversity conservation and governance in international oceans.

To develop a working prototype of a digital library platform.

To digitize palimpsests in the library of St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai and make the results freely available online.

To improve methods of backlighting palimpsest folios of manuscripts in the library of St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, in preparation for their digitization.