General Information

The Executive Committee meets once a year to review applications. The deadline for the receipt of applications is 1 May 2011.

Early applications are encouraged so that the administrative office may do a preliminary screening and make suggestions for changes, should they be needed, before forwarding them to the Executive Committee. Applications submitted just prior to the deadline will not be reviewed by the administrative office before they are sent to the Executive Committee members.

As per last year the application process will again be done electronically. As a consequence, we ask all potential beneficiaries to download the application form below and send all supporting material (including C.V. and letters of recommendation) electronically to the Program Administrator at spain@anu.edu.au. Please note that the application form and process has changed for 2011.

 

The criteria by which the applications will be judged is the following; inter alia: Merit of the Applicant and Proposal; Geographical Reach/Distribution/Balance; Disciplinary Relevance to the Cultural Program’s objectives; Public Reach and Impact – Visibility of the Projects in the Community; Extent to which the project strengthens bilateral relations; Extent to which the project is not-for-profit/non-commercial and value of money.

 

For a list of 2011 successful recipients click here. Past winners: 2008 2009 2010.

Finaly please note that for publication subsidies, the letters from outside readers which address the finished manuscript should be attached to the application.

Instructions - Please read before applying

 

Draft applications and feedback

- proposal for a film festival

- proposal for research

If you are requesting a PUBLICATION subsidy please keep in mind that it must be an Australian press that submits the application. We do not accept publication subsidy requests from authors or foreign presses. The only exception to the foreign press rule would be for a press that also has offices in Australia. In such a case, the application should have only the Australian address on it. All publication applications must include two letters of evaluation from outside readers that address the finished manuscript. We do not need copies of the manuscript but if it is a translation of a Spanish work we ask that the outside readers address the English version of the manuscript and please include no more than three sample pages of the translation. If the outside readers have suggested revisions it would help your proposal if you included in your cover letter whether or not the author will be incorporating their suggestions. Publication requests that are submitted without the letters of evaluation from outside readers will not be forwarded on to the Executive Committee for review and you will be asked to resubmit the application when the letters have been obtained.

RESEARCH subsidy requests must include a detailed itemised budget for a maximum stay of three months. Our program only covers direct costs for research (travel, room and board while away from home, photocopies, etc.) and we cannot cover more than 50% of these costs. We do not cover salaries, computer equipment purchases, or payments to research assistants. If you have a lengthy C.V. please include only an abbreviated version highlighting publications. If you have no matching institutional funds you should indicate that you will be covering the other 50% out of your own funds. It is usually not to your benefit to include sabbatical salary as matching funds. No indirect university costs may be included. If you are also a recipient of a scholarship our funds may be used to extend the amount of time you stay in country. We ask, if at all possible, that you include the two recommendation letters with your application. If the person writing your recommendation prefers to send it to us directly via email, this can be accomodated.

When requesting subsidies for CONFERENCES be sure to give as much detail as possible, including the names of the invited participants, as well as the papers they are intending to present, titles of the sessions, the proposed dates of the conference, and letters of recommendation which address the scope and value of the conference. If possible, it makes for a stronger application if you can get at least one of the letters from someone outside of your own department. An abbreviated CV of the applicant should also be included.

For VISITING PROFESSORS we need the C.V. of the person that you intend to invite as well as letters of recommendation. We do not provide salaries but rather we attempt to help in the travel costs to bring the invited person to Australia. The application must come from the inviting university or college, not from the professor or artist who is being invited.

ALL APPLICANTS PLEASE NOTE:
A complete application would contain the following:

A copy of the application form.

An abbreviated C.V. highlighting publications (if appropriate as indicated above.)

Two letters of recommendation.

Publication requests should have two letters of evaluation from outside readers rather than letters of recommendation.

All supporting materials

A cover letter if it contains information pertinent to the proposal that you want all Committee members to read.

All applications are to be sent to spain@anu.edu.au, with the subject SPANISH GRANT APPLICATION. The deadline is 1 May 2011.


If you should have any questions, do not hesitate to contact the Program Administrator via e-mail