Grants directory

To provide five bursaries for graduates and young professionals from the USA, for graduate studies at Oxford University.

To provide advice to the trust and its partners on scientific aspects of wild land conservation and biodiversity management.

To create the conditions for significant global climate change agreements in 2009-10.

To support visiting fellow Dominic Lawson.

To acquire and renovate a site for an advanced research centre, in partnership with Oxford and Cambridge Universities, Paris-Sud XI and the South African universities of Cape Town, Stellenbosch and the Western Cape.

To support organisational development.

To challenge present and future leaders to solve problems of global concern, through training, network-building and targeted projects.

To support innovation in digital acquisitions and collections, high-density storage, and preservation.

To help refugee academics re-establish their professional lives.

To support organisational consolidation and develop a focus on biodiversity.

To research the feasibility of developing a universal digital library.

To build an online library of scholarly resources and make it available for free online to users from African institutions

To support female graduates attending the institute and provide half-bursaries for them to pursue master's and PhD programmes in South Africa.

To survey, document and conserve rock art sites across Africa.

To research how Europe can peacefully accommodate changing attitudes to religion without compromising secular democratic freedoms,

To excavate and research a Viking-age archaeological site in western Iceland, in partnership with the Institute for Viking and North Atlantic Studies and Vikingaminjar ehf.

To secure important areas of natural habitat and ensure their associated wildlife will survive.

To treat mothers and carers with HIV/AIDS in South Africa.

To employ and train social workers.

To prevent discrimination, uphold political freedom, protect women from inhumane conduct in wartime and bring offenders to justice.

To develop the network in Spain, Norway and Turkey, and secure positions for scholars from Iran, Iraq and Bhutan.

To improve state school students' mathematics.

To enable students from biodiversity-rich, cash-poor countries to participate in the Student Conference on Conservation Science, and to provide scholarships to PhD students in the Department of Zoology.

To support the careers of award winners.

To explore Europe's relations and responsibilities in the Caucasus and Central Asia, political and economic reform processes, and the impact of EU and Russian policies.

To challenge present and future leaders to solve problems of global concern, through training, network-building and targeted projects.

To train conservation practitioners in tropical Asia and Central America to enable them to take responsibility for local and national conservation, in collaboration with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.

To showcase the origins and development of reading and writing across cultures, from the fourth century BC to the printing press.

To preserve the archive of Einstein's scientific works, other manuscripts and correspondence and to make it available for free online.

To endow a Professorship of Conservation Biology.

To help refugee academics re-establish their professional lives.

To support the research and publication of Professor Joseph Dan's multi-volume history of Jewish mysticism and esotericism.

To digitise the society's collections and make them available for free online.

To give one copy of each title in the Everyman collection to every state secondary school in the UK.

To preserve, catalogue and digitise Cold War era (1945-1991) artefacts, artworks and archives from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

To start the programme in Israel, providing short-term positions for academics at risk because of their work, prominence or exercising their basic rights.

To establish: the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in United States History; the Joyce Oldham Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World; the Hans Rogger International Student Fund in History; the Millennium Endowed Graduate Fellowship Fund; and, the Dean of Social Sciences Fund for Faculty Support in History in the Cllege of Letters and Science.

To give fellowships to scholars facing persecution in their home countries.

To provide bursaries to young women in Uganda.

To prevent discrimination, uphold political freedom, protect women from inhumane conduct in wartime and bring offenders to justice.