Grants awarded

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

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

Towards the digitization of fourteen significant Medieval manuscripts in the collection of Trinity College Dublin

Towards core costs

To provide support to environmental organisations, citizen groups and grassroots movements in a set of key EU Member States to strengthen the EU’s negotiation of the Nature Restoration Law.

Towards the Wikimedia endowment

Halcyon Programmes and core support

Towards the costs of running the museum

Advancing open access

Match funding to create endowments for Chiribiquete (Colombia), Makira-Masoala (Madagascar) and Tambrauw (Indonesia).

To support ClientEarth to use legal systems to develop and enforce biodiversity and habitat governance. ClientEarth will support the implementation of global policies and commitments to ensure terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems are appropriately safeguarded, managed and restored.

Towards digitizing primary sources on the Soviet Jewish diaspora from disparate collections, and making them freely accessible online.

To support the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition to continue its mission to protect deep-sea species and ecosystems from the harmful impacts of fishing and mining, and to strengthen and enhance biodiversity conservation and governance in international oceans.

To constrain the role of finance in the destruction of climate-critical tropical forests and related human rights abuses, which is vital to combatting global climate change and meeting the Sustainable Development Goals.

To continue the digitization and open access publication of Albert Einstein's papers

To support WCS in securing long-term conservation through a portfolio of nature strongholds - establishing or expanding protected areas and strengthening conservation of the most important existing wilderness areas

To obtain and openly publish online German government documents and information that ought to be freely available online

To help develop the infrastructures, business models, networks and resources to support open access books publishing by small-to-medium-sized publishers, non-profits and scholarly libraries

To complete an online open-access database of heritage sites in Central Asia, combining archival records and new documentation of sites.

To produce an integrated public access database for the pre-Columbian archaeological heritage of South America, focussing on Brazil and Colombia.