Grants,+scholarships+and+awards

Scholarships and awards can help us get training to improve our professional knowledge and our ability to support our school communities. A number of the grants listed below can be found on this website

Access to learning award – Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

ALCTS – Online course grant for library professionals from developing countries

Australian Leadership Awards Scholarships Up to 200 scholarships available annually for high achievers who wish to undertake postgraduate study

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – work with libraries

Danida Fellowship Centre – sustaining development through training A Fellowship Programme in Denmark. Information on Who can apply

Elsevier Foundation One, two and three year grants to libraries and supporting organizations in developing countries for infrastructure, expanding resources through digitization or preservation, training and education and establishing partnerships

Erasmus Mundus scholarship – International Master in Digitial Library Learning Two year Masters program offered by Oslo University, Tallinn University and Parma University.

Ford Foundation – individuals seeking fellowships Wide-ranging grant programs including libraries; offering international fellowships.

Fulbright Programs for foreign students Famous well-established program for furthering education opportunities for foreign students. In operation since 1946 to help increase international understanding.

Guust Van Wesemael Literacy Prize (through IFLA)

IASL International Awards Program

These include the Jean Lowrie International Development Grant and Ken Haycock International Development grant, the Takeshhi Murofishi Research Award and various others together with guidelines on how to apply.

IFLA Fellowships, Funds, Grants and Awards

Lib@Web – University of Antwerp (successor program to STIMULATE)

[|Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program] A program jointly sponsored by OCLC, IFLA and the American Theological Library Association which offers six information professionals from developing countries a five-week intensive Fellowship program with four weeks in Dublin, Ohio and one week in Leiden, The Netherlands

[|National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Grants Program] A program run through the National Endowment Fund for Culture and the Arts in the Philippines which provides funding for travel assistance to regional and international conferences (for presenters), as well as research, publications and collection development.

[|Soros Foundations Network] The Soros/Open Society Foundations offer many grants to a wide range of projects that promote democracy, peace and stability across the world, openness in society and support of marginalized communities

VLIR-UOS Scholarships in Flanders VLIR-UOS offers about 70 scholarships to students from developing countries; these cover all expenses for courses in Belgium, delivered in English. The list of eligible courses includes Lib@Web - Management of electronic information and Digital Libraries. Instructions for How to apply.