Bursaries are available for CENL members to share skills and knowledge. They are up to the value of €1000 per application.
The bursary can relate to any aspect of skills and knowledge exchange such as:
There is no fixed deadline to apply for the Skills and Knowledge Exchange Bursary, applications are accepted year-round.
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The Erland Kolding Nielsen Grant celebrates the enormous contribution Erland Kolding Nielsen has made to the development of European libraries throughout his long and distinguished career.
The Erland Kolding Nielsen Grant is a grant of up to €5.000, which is awarded to CENL member library projects that promote international collaboration and strengthen bonds between CENL libraries.
In 2017 CENL introduced a grant to celebrate the enormous contribution Erland Kolding Nielsen made to the development of European libraries throughout his long and distinguished career as Director General of the Royal Library, Denmark from 1986-2017.
The grant is based on proposals from either individual CENL member libraries or from a group of member libraries. The grant can focus on any aspect of international library collaboration including:
The call for Applications for the Erland Kolding Nielsen Grant 2023 is closed. The successful applicants were annouced here. A new call for applications will be published in 2024.
If you or your institution would like to donate to the CENL grant in honour of Erland, we would be very pleased to hear from you. Please contact cenl@dnb.de and we will send you details of how to donate.
Created in 2020, the Covid-19 Support Fund was a temporary fund to respond and provide funding to help CENL members respond to immediate challenges connected to the Covid-19 crisis, and offer support to adapt and reimagine ways of working together for the longer-term future. Since the pandemic recedes and there is less and less need to react spontaneously to acute situations, the CENL Executive Committee agreed to terminate the fund by the end of 2022.
In 2020, CENL supported IFLA’s dedication to inclusion, and to actively work against racial discrimination of all kinds. As national libraries, we need to ensure that our collections, events and exhibitions are genuinely inclusive and representative of and for all communities.
The ‘Hidden Stories Fund’ aims to support projects to collect, preserve, research and highlight the stories from, by and related to underrepresented communities in our national collections.
The ‘Hidden Stories Fund’ is a temporary fund to support CENL members who have new projects to collect, preserve, research and highlight the stories from, by and related to underrepresented communities in their national collections. This fund‘s aim is to encourage and support working with underrepresented communities to ensure that their stories are preserved for future generations.
Our definition of ‘underrepresented communities’ includes any voices who have not been offered the same platforms as dominant voices and include women, BAME and LGBTQ+ communities, people with disabilities, caring responsibilities, and those from socially or economically disadvantaged backgrounds, as well as any communities whose stories have been under-explored previously.
This year the fund will offer grants of up to €2,000 for eligible projects.
The call for Applications for the Hidden Stories Fund 2023 is now open. The deadline for submission of applications is 1 August 2023. Successful applications are expected to be announced by the end of September 2023.
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Yes – if you’ve been an EKN or CENL Bursary grantee in the past, you can still apply.