Applications Invited for ACC-MOWCAP Small Grants Programme

About the Organization

MOWCAP was arrange in 1998 and is the regional discussion board for UNESCO’s world Memory of the World (MOW) Programme.

In the Asia Pacific area, many libraries, archives and reminiscence establishments face formidable challenges: financial, climatic and geographic. MOWCAP goals to help with preservation of and common entry to documentary heritage of the Asia/Pacific area, and likewise to extend consciousness of the existence and significance of the heritage.

The Memory of the World Programme is a world programme aimed toward safeguarding, preserving and facilitating entry to and the usage of documentary heritage. UNESCO launched the Program in 1992. The Programme contains the inscription of great documentary heritage on nationwide, regional and worldwide registers.

About the Grant

The Asia Culture Center (ACC) and MOWCAP are happy to introduced that the ACC-MOWCAP Small Grants Programme is being reinitiated.

In the Asia Pacific area, many libraries, archives and reminiscence establishments face formidable challenges: financial, climatic and geographic. The ACC-MOWCAP Small Grants Programme goals to contribute to addressing this problem by aiding with the preservation of and common entry to documentary heritage of the Asia-Pacific area, and likewise to extend consciousness of the existence and significance of this heritage.

In order to handle this problem, in 2018, the National Asian Culture Center (ACC) and the UNESCO Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific (MOWCAP) launched the ACC-MOWCAP Small Grants Programme. The programme helps the efforts of the various teams and organisations that accumulate and protect and supply entry to documentary heritage within the Asia-Pacific area.

The ACC-MOWCAP Small Grants Programme has already had a big impression within the area. The sorts of documentary heritage supported have been various, together with wooden blocks, palm leaf manuscripts, celluloid movies, VHS tapes, photographic prints, stone inscriptions, newspapers and paperwork. The sorts of tasks supported have additionally been various, involving preservation, digitisation, manufacturing of books, documentary movies, and so forth.

Grants of as much as USD 8,500 can be found for the preservation and sharing of the documentary heritage of the Asia-Pacific area. Grants are required to be totally expended, and the mission needs to be accomplished and acquitted inside a 6-month interval (May-October 2025). The grants will likely be administered via the National Asian Culture Center, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.

The ACC-MOWCAP Small Grants Programme is made attainable via the beneficiant monetary assist of the National Asian Culture Center.

Projects will likely be thought of for funding:

In mild of the partnership between ACC and MOWCAP, the ACC-MOWCAP Small Grants Programme is keen to fund tasks that relate to documentary heritage as outlined underneath the UNESCO Memory of the World programme and UNESCO Recommendation in regards to the preservation of, and entry to, documentary heritage together with in digital type. Furthermore, in regards to the ACC’s mission to create, produce and distribute cultural contents based mostly on researching and archiving cultural sources in Asia, the tasks associated to documentary heritage with the next themes will likely be thought of for funding.

Project Theme:

• Asian conventional tradition (each day life, festivals, rituals, celebrations, and video games)
• Asian conventional apparel (clothes, footwear, headgear, and so forth.)
• Asian music (conventional devices, audiovisual supplies, music recordings, and so forth.)
• Asian performances (dance, puppetry, masks theater, movies, and so forth.)
• Asian myths and legends (books, posters, postcards, movies, pictures, and so forth.)
• Asian religions (people beliefs, scriptures, spiritual texts, and so forth.)

Such mission could embrace:

• The improvement of e-publications;
• Conservation of documentary heritage (If a conservator is engaged, they need to be a member of an accredited nationwide or worldwide conservation organisation);
• Cataloguing data and archival description (open supply archival description software program equivalent to ICA-AtoM (https://www.ica-atom.org/)
• The improvement of exhibitions (together with digital ones)
• Web tasks that present info or sources on documentary heritage;
• Digital storytelling about documentary heritage (together with movie and DVD tasks);
• Apps for cell gadgets;
• The digitisation and publishing of documentary heritage gadgets and collections;
• And extra (in case you have an amazing thought please seek the advice of with us).

Eligibility

The organisation/particular person making use of have to be:

• Based within the Asia-Pacific area
• Non-Government
• Have assist from the UNESCO National MoW Committee or UNESCO National Commission of the place they function

How to Apply

Please submit the application by finishing the shape on-line: https://forms.gle/r2ZF6uxwNxUNTzkp9

Submission Deadline: 4 May 2025.

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