Deadline: 29-Sep-23
Submissions are now open for the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Grant Program.
The IHRA Grant Program supports innovative, relevant and impactful projects which contain a clear international component.
The IHRA Grant Strategy favors projects from all over the world and from any non-profit organization and institution in the field of education, remembrance, and research of the Holocaust and the genocide of the Roma who are able to develop a project that aligns to the two programs.
The IHRA Grant Program co-funds innovative, relevant, and impactful projects with a clear international component that:
- Program 1: Safeguarding the record of the Holocaust and the genocide of the Roma
- IHRA Member Countries share a commitment to shed light on the still obscure shadows of the Holocaust as well as to ensure and facilitate access to the historical record.
- Through Program 1, the IHRA seeks to fund projects that contribute to safeguarding the record of the Holocaust and the genocide of the Roma in the following areas:
- Initiatives which address the future of memory, especially those focusing on testimonies of survivors and witnesses which have not yet been recorded.
- Mapping and documentation of as yet unidentified and/or unmarked sites (including killing sites) pertaining to the Holocaust and/or the genocide of the Roma.
- Archival material that is physically at risk or where there are problems of accessibility.
- Important aspects:
- Applicants for projects within this program are strongly encouraged to draw on and make use of the IHRA’s supplementary definition of Holocaust-related materials that was developed for IHRA’s archival access project.
- Eligible applications will demonstrate that their proposal seeks to contribute to a more complete historical record.
- Successful projects will also include aspects that seek to engage community leaders and political decisionmakers, and to raise awareness both at the political level and with relevant media.
- Program 2: Countering distortion
- IHRA Member Countries share a commitment to uphold and disseminate the comprehensive truth of the Holocaust, as well as of the genocide of the Roma, and to ensure that future generations can understand the causes and process of implementation of the Holocaust and the genocide of the Roma and reflect upon their consequences.
- The IHRA defines Holocaust distortion as rhetoric, written work, or other media that excuse, minimize, or misrepresent the known historical record of the Holocaust.
- Through Program 2, the IHRA encourages projects that aim to prevent and counter distortion in the following areas:
- Public discourse, involving the media and particularly social media
- Education
- Research
- Memorialization
- Important aspects:
- The IHRA Grant Program funds projects that seek effective and meaningful ways to prevent and counteract distortion, which emphasize the sharing of good practices and strengthen international cooperation on this topic, as well as increasing the capacity of governmental and non-governmental institutions to address these issues.
- Applicants must demonstrate clearly how the proposed objectives of the project will contribute to preventing and countering distortion in the aforementioned areas.
- Issues such as countering distortion of the Holocaust and genocide of Roma, antisemitism and antigypsyism/ anti-Roma discrimination are complex and nuanced, and to guide the work in this area, the IHRA has developed definitions that should be used as a starting point across projects addressing the challenges of distortion, antisemitism and antigypsyism/anti-Roma discrimination.
Funding Information
- The maximum grant available per year of funding is €50,000.
- The minimum grant available per project per year of funding is €15,000.
Criteria
- Organizations from anywhere in the world can apply. However, given the Russian aggression against Ukraine, the IHRA Grant Program encourages institutions working in and around Ukraine to apply for funding so they can continue their efforts during this difficult time, and to lay the foundation for remembrance of the Holocaust during Ukraine’s recovery process and beyond.
- You must find at least one formal project partner who is based in a different country than your own.
- Every IHRA-funded project must take an international approach. Projects should bring together target groups and project partners from at least two different countries.
- The IHRA does not fund individual research or monographs. They do, however, fund joint research projects. Please apply through your research consortium, institution, or university.
For more information, visit IHRA.