37.2122, FYI: ELDP Grant Round 2026 - Call for Applications

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LINGUIST List: Vol-37-2122. Fri Jun 19 2026. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 37.2122, FYI: ELDP Grant Round 2026 - Call for Applications

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Date: 19-Jun-2026
From: Endangered Languages Documentation Programme [eldp at eldp.net]
Subject: ELDP Grant Round 2026 - Call for Applications


ELDP Call for Applications
The 2027 grant round is now open
Apply here: https://grants.eldp.net/en/
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
or host institution, language documenters of any nationality to
undertake projects in any part of the world with our funding.
ELDP offers the grant types below:
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
(https://optimyapp-public.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/s4gibzbop061/ELDP_GrantTypeDescriptions.pdf).
Visit our project pages
(https://eldp.net/en/our+projects/projects+list/) for the types of
projects we have funded since 2002 and the Endangered Languages
Archive (http://elararchive.org/) for the resulting digital
collections.
INFORMATION FOR APPLICANTS
Please ensure that you read the instructions carefully when filling in
your application form.
The application form must be submitted by 5pm CEST, 1st October.
Support statements must be submitted online by 5pm CEST, 15th October.
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.
EVALUATION OF YOUR TRACK RECORD
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.
NOTE TO PREVIOUS GRANTEES AND CURRENT GRANT HOLDERS
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 grant 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.
Please get in touch with us at eldp at eldp.net if you have any questions
or want to discuss any particular issues.
You are invited to join our open office hour sessions to ask questions
you might have.
The first sessions will be held on Friday, 3 and 24 July at 8am, 2pm
and 8pm CEST. Follow this link to register for a session:
https://scheduler.zoom.us/mandana-seyfeddinipur/eldp-grants-office-hours-4jdbwyop
Please monitor the ELDP website
(https://www.eldp.net/en/our+grants/apply/) and ELAR's social media
channels for more open office hour sessions.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation




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