Rapid Grants

Rapid Grants is sponsored by Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP). Rapid Grants are designed to support initial fieldwork focused on assessing the viability of a language documentation project, including making contact with uncontacted communities, or conducting linguistic survey work in areas where endangered languages are likely spoken.

Endangered Languages Documentation Programme The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants for the documentation of endangered languages globally. ELDP especially welcomes applications from documenters from language communities, local scholars and students from the country where the language is spoken/signed, as well as collaborative and interdisciplinary projects.

There are no restrictions on nationality - language documenters of any nationality may undertake projects in any part of the world with our funding. 2027 Grant Round Now Open! If you have questions about the grants available, get in touch with us at eldp@eldp.

net or register for our open office hour sessions . ELDP offers the grant types below: Rapid Grants (RG) : up to 5,000 Euros to support initial fieldwork aimed at assessing the viability of a documentation project.

Small Grants (SG) : up to 10,000 Euros for up to 12 months Individual Graduate Scholarships (IGS): support for PhD students for up to 36 months, including a stipend for living expenses (no salary and no tuition) and fieldwork expenses Individual Postdoctoral Fellowships (IPF): support for early career scholars for up to 24 months, including salary and fieldwork expenses, up to 250,000 Euros Major Documentation Projects (MDP): any project over 10,000 Euros, lasting up to 36 months, for a maximum of 300,000 Euros Legacy Materials Grants (LMG): up to 10,000 Euros to support the digitization and archiving of existing analogue language recordings is at risk of loss or damage See our grant type descriptions for full details and eligibility criteria.

Visit our project pages for the types of projects we have funded since 2002 and the Endangered Languages Archive for the resulting digital collections. You can apply for a Rapid Grant at any time. We will notify you of the result of your application within six weeks.

The grant round is open each year from mid-June to 1st October, 5pm CEST. Please ensure that you read the instructions carefully when filling in your application form. Application forms must be submitted by 1st October, 5pm CEST.

Support statements must be submitted by 15th October, 5pm CEST. Get in touch with your institution, your referees and mentor/supervisor as soon as possible to ensure that they will be available to provide their statements. Notification of results will be by 15th April.

Get in touch with us at eldp@eldp. net or register for our open office hour sessions if you have any questions. Your application will be evaluated with regard to your track record in the creation, the preservation and sharing of documentary materials.

If you already have collected and created documentary materials (e.g., audio/video recordings, transcription, translation and annotation of recordings, lexical databases or word lists) you should provide a link to your archival collection. If you have not archived yet, we encourage you to archive your materials providing evidence for your commitment to documentary agenda.

If you and/or your project participants currently hold a grant with us or have held a grant with us before, you need to ensure that the documentation materials from your and/or your project participants' grants have been deposited at ELAR. The quality of your deposit and your track record with ELAR and ELDP will form part of the evaluation of your current application.

ELDP will not make a formal offer until other projects supported by us have been completed with a deposited collection which is evaluated satisfactorily by the panel.