Grants awarded

To support sound implementation of nature legislation in Europe, with a focus on forest resilience.

To improve discovery and availability of digital books via libraries, build a corpus of freely- or easily-accessible digital books; pilot and scale innovative models to negotiate rights to serve more books digitally; and identify more titles to make available digitally.

To support the growth, development and institutional use of an open and comprehensive index of scholarly works, authors and institutions.

To carry out large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Sub-Saharan Africa and to make the results freely available online.

For research and advocacy at the World Intellectual Property Office to secure reforms for greater access to scholarly research through exceptions to copyright law.

To promote copyright law reform and regulation at EU and national level to enable libraries to facilitate greater access to and use of copyrighted works for cultural, educational and research purposes.

To support policy and advocacy work to improve open access to research outputs in the United States.

To complete the match fund for a newly established Mongolia Conservation Trust Fund which will oversee the Eternal Mongolia Project Finance for Permanence initiative.

To undertake the large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Pakistan and north-western India and to make the results freely available online.

Core support for TRAFFIC’s work to reduce illegal and unsustainable trade in wild species, and increase social, economic, and environmental benefits for people though legal and sustainable trade in wild species.

To document endangered archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa using satellite imagery and on-the-ground surveys and make the data freely available online.

To document endangered maritime archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa and to make the data freely available online.

To collect and digitize endangered archival material related to the Yiddish poet Abraham Nahum Stencl (1897-1983) and make the results freely available online.

To contribute to an endowment fund to support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.

Scoping grant to explore a regranting programme on protecting biodiversity through law.

To support the Center’s work to illuminate Jewish history, culture and heritage.

To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.

Towards the costs of running the museum.

Match funding to create long-term endowments for the conservation of large landscapes centred on Chiribiquete (Colombia), Makira-Masoala (Madagascar) and Tambrauw (Indonesia).

To provide core support for Fauna & Flora and to support its work with local partners and communities to protect and restore important at-risk and biodiversity-rich natural habitats.