Founded by lisbet rausing and peter baldwin, arcadia supports charities and scholarly institutions to preserve cultural heritage, protect the environment, and promote open access. Since 2002, we have awarded more than $598 million in grants to projects around the world.
Announced: winners of the @Global_Heritage & @TheJMKaplanFund ‘From Training to Implementation’ awards! The @EAMENA123-trained recipients will document vulnerable #heritage in Tunisia, Libya, Iraq & Jordan & provide recommendations for its protection eamena.arch.ox.ac.uk/awards-by-ghf-…
Congratulations to our Advisory Board member Charles Conn on his new role as CEO of Oxford Sciences Innovation @OSI_Updates!
Last Whispers - @Lena_Herzog’s project about the mass extinction of languages, created in collaboration with the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme @ELARarchive @SOAS - is showing this Friday 14 June at @FordTheatres in LA #IndigenousLanguages fordtheatres.org/calendar/last-…
"The activism of Carl Malamud and Public.Resource.Org [...] has been crucial in providing the public with vital access to essential government information”.Congrats @carlmalamud on winning the @aallnet Public Access to Government Information Award!! aallnet.org/wp-content/upl…
![test Twitter Media - "The activism of Carl Malamud and https://t.co/CM7El34FoV [...] has been crucial in providing the public with vital access to essential government information”.Congrats @carlmalamud on winning the @aallnet Public Access to Government Information Award!!
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What is earth journalism, and how can we effectively report on the alarming issues we face without being alarmists? @JamesFahn @earthjournalism @Internews & @schapiro on writing about the #ClimateCrisis internews.org/updates/planet… …Interview & image: @leahptw @californiamag
Extraordinary story of a community in Turkey preserving a whistling language, one of the few remaining. The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme supported the documentation of Gavião & Surui, 2 endangered whistling languages in Brazil @ELARarchive nytimes.com/2019/05/30/art…
Delighted to welcome our new advisory board member, Markus Hilgert @textcultures!arcadiafund.org.uk/prof-dr-markus…Photo by Götz Schleser
A @WorldMonuments & #CulturalProtectionFund training scheme teaches Syrian refugees traditional stonemasonry skills, which could be used in the future reconstruction of heritage sites destroyed by the conflict in Syria. @bettanyhughes meets the trainees: bit.ly/2M4VjXa
Insufficient records severely hampered efforts to restore Nepal’s built heritage after the 2015 earthquakes. Now, The #Nepal #Heritage Documentation Project @UniHeidelberg is creating a database of sites in the #KathmanduValley. New case study: arcadiafund.org.uk/heidelberg-uni…
Kudos to @LSU on joining many other universities worldwide and announcing it will no longer subscribe to the Elsevier ‘big deal’ – an important first step towards re-directing library spending towards #openaccess! lib.lsu.edu/elsevier-chang…
There is no defensible way to continue damming the world’s remaining free-flowing rivers. Glad to see our grantee @intlrivers and others challenging #greenwashing at the #WorldHydroCongressbit.ly/2WlYfSWvimeo.com/334431271
The Central Asian Archaeological Landscapes project @uclcaal at @UCLarchaeology works to create a digital database of fragile archaeological sites across the region. Discover how this helps to protect endangered heritage – on the project's new website uclcaal.org
