Deadline: 15-Oct-22
The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) is delighted to announce a call for applications for the 2023 grant round.
ELDP provides grants for the documentation of endangered languages creating audio-visual recordings with transcriptions, translations, and annotations.
Objectives
The key objectives of ELDP are:
- to support the documentation of as many endangered languages as possible
- to encourage fieldwork on endangered languages
- to create a repository of resources for language communities, linguistics, and social sciences to make the documentary collections freely available
Types of Grants
- Small Grants (SG)
- Small grants can be used for a range of purposes related to the documentation of endangered languages, such as to carry out fieldwork, develop a pilot project, or complete a project already begun.
- Individual Graduate Scholarships (IGS)
- IGS applications are invited from individuals seeking scholarship funding for up to 3 years. Individual Graduate Scholarship projects last for 12 to 36 months; field trips are normally involved. In addition to field trip costs, you may apply for a stipend to cover the period while undertaking field research and processing the results. A stipend provides funding to cover direct living costs and is not a salary; as such, employment-based taxes should not be claimed.
- Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (IPF)
- IPF grantees are typically researchers at an early stage in their academic career (e.g. who have held a PhD less than 5 years), with qualifications in linguistics and experience in linguistic fieldwork.
- Major Documentation Project (MDP)
- MDP funding can cover elements including fieldwork costs, equipment, researchers’ salaries, and grduate students’ stipends (stipends should be included only for activities contributing to the project while in the field or processing the documentation materials).
Funding Information
Four types of grants are available for such language documentation projects:
- Small Grants:
- up to 10,000 Euros
- Small Grant projects last from 6 to 12 months
- Individual Graduate Scholarships
- Individual Graduate Scholarship projects last for 12 to 36 months
- Individual Postdoctoral Fellowships
- IPFs are available for between 12 and 24 months and the maximum amount is 250,000 Euro.
- Major Documentation Projects
- Project duration is from 6 to 36 months. Funding for these projects typically ranges from anything above 10,000 up to 130,000 Euro (the maximum is 300,000 Euro).
Eligibility Criteria
- Small Grants
- ELDP welcomes applications from language documenters of any nationality to undertake projects in any part of the world. Applicants are normally expected to have experience in language documentation work, fieldwork, and/or a suitable academic background. However, as the purpose of Small Grants is to encourage innovation, any individual or group with a keen interest in documenting an endangered language is eligible to apply.
- Individual Graduate Scholarships
- ELDP welcomes applications from researchers of any nationality to undertake projects in any part of the world. Applicants should be enrolled in or admitted to a doctoral programme of study (PhD or equivalent); the purpose of the IGS is to support graduate students in doctoral programmes. To be eligible at the time the award is due to commence, awardees must have successfully completed at least one full-time academic year (or equivalent) of postgraduate training (training beyond the Bachelor’s degree). This period of training may include time spent completing an MA.
- Individual Postdoctoral Fellowships
- ELDP is an international programme and welcomes applications from researchers of any nationality to undertake projects in any part of the world. For the IPF grants they anticipate that all postdoctoral fellowship applicants will be academically junior researchers and/or at an early stage in their academic career, with qualifications in linguistics and experience in linguistic fieldwork; will propose projects that are undertaken by teams or individuals; and will have secured their PhD no more than five years prior to the proposed start date of this fellowship. Successful applicants’ PhD dissertations must be submitted and approved by the time of the start date of the award.
- Major Documentation Projects
- ELDP welcomes applications from researchers of any nationality to undertake projects in any part of the world. Applicants should be researchers with qualifications in linguistics and experience in linguistic fieldwork (including suitably qualified graduate students). Projects may be undertaken by teams or individuals. MDP applications from established principal investigators are welcome. Note that a salary for a main PI who holds an established research position is not eligible for funding. A MDP will also not provide salaries for extended post-doctoral projects.
For more information, visit https://elararchive.org/blog/2022/07/15/eldp-grant-round-2023-now-open/