Call for Projects: Sophie Wittemans Fund for Individuals – Belgium

The objective of the Fund is to encourage research into the history of Guiding and Scouting in Belgium (including former colonies and other related entities such as the Belgian Forces in Germany), with a view to publications on the subject.

The Fund supports financially:

• Research projects carried out by researchers of all nationalities, either individually or collectively. This research may cover all aspects of Belgian Guiding and Scouting in all its dimensions (local, regional, national, interfederal, etc.), including the international level.
• Publication projects in any form (paper, audio, video, podcasts, etc.) of the results of research on Belgian scouting and guiding history carried out with or without the support of the Fund, in collaboration with publishers.

Support will be provided on the basis of qualitative, useful and costed projects submitted to the Fund’s Management Committee.  Support can be given at each stage of the research or publication, where it will be most useful for its realisation. Publications may be produced on different types of media.

All types of work and formats are accepted: (illustrated) book, monograph, biography, reportage, exhibition catalogue, scientific and historical presentation of documents, objects, archives, interviews, films, etc.

Financial Support

• The Sophie Wittemans Fund grants financial support with a maximum budget of € 4,000.
• The call is addressed to anyone interested in or active in the field of the history of scouting and guiding in Belgium.

Eligibility and Selection Criteria

• To be considered, applications must meet the following eligibility criteria:
  • The promoter of the project is either an individual submitting a personal work carried out by him or her alone, or a representative of a community, a non-profit organisation, an institution or a group of volunteers or a local public institution initiating a project of a historical nature, but in no case a commercial organisation.
  • The work must be relevant to the objective of the Fund.
• In its selection, the committee will take into account the following criteria
  • the promising nature of the research;
  • the innovative nature of the subject;
  • the contribution of the project to the community (dissemination, target audience, etc.);
  • the quality of the implementation of the project;
  • the long-term effect of the project (exemplary value of the project, etc.);
  • Short-term goal: results or next step(s) to be achieved in the short term.

For more information, visit King Baudouin Foundation.