Deadline: 7 December 2018
The U.S. Embassy in Turkey and the Cultural Heritage Center of the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Department of State has announced the 2019 call for proposals for the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) Competition.
The AFCP competition for Turkey aims to support preservation of cultural sites or objects and museum collections of historical or cultural significance to the cultural heritage of Turkey.
The Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation Large Grants Program supports large scale, partnership-based projects to preserve significant cultural heritage sites in Turkey.
Funding Information
- Floor on Amount of Individual Awards: US $200,000 per project.
- Ceiling on Amount of Individual Awards: $800,000 per project.
Funding Areas
The AFCP Large Grants Program supports the preservation of major ancient archaeological sites, historic buildings and monuments, and major museum collections that are accessible to the public and protected by law in the host country. Appropriate project activities may include:
- Preventive conservation (addressing conditions that damage or threaten the site)
- Stabilization (reducing the physical disturbance [settling, collapse, etc.] of a site)
- Conservation (addressing damage or deterioration to a collection or sites)
- Consolidation (connecting or reconnecting elements of a site)
- Anastylosis (reassembling a site from its original parts)
- Restoration (replacing missing elements to recreate the original appearance of a site, usually appropriate only with fine arts, decorative arts, and historic buildings)
Priorities
- U.S. treaty or bilateral agreement obligations, such as cultural property agreements
- Disaster risk reduction for cultural heritage in disaster-prone areas
- Post-disaster cultural heritage recovery
- Preservation of inscribed World Heritage sites
Eligibility Criteria
- Only reputable and accountable noncommercial entities, such as non-governmental organizations, museums, ministries of culture, or similar institutions and organizations, including U.S.-based organizations subject to Section 501(c)(3) of the tax code, that are able to demonstrate that they have the requisite experience and capacity to manage projects to preserve cultural heritage can apply.
- The applicants are also required to have previous large-scale international project experience.
- AFCP does not award grants to individuals, commercial entities, or to embassies or past award recipients who have not fulfilled the objectives or reporting requirements of previous AFCP awards.
How to Apply
- This opportunity consists of two application rounds: Round 1 is for collecting detailed project abstracts and Round 2 is for selected applicants to submit their full proposals.
- Abstracts must be submitted in English in word format and visuals are required to be in jpeg. Please send the applications at the address given on the website with the subject line: AFCP Large Grants Competition 2019.
Eligible Countries: Turkey and United States
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