Deadline: 1 April 2025
The Honor Frost Foundation invites initial expressions of interest for its Large Grant Program to support Maritime Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean.
The Foundation’s mission is to promote the advancement and research, including publication, of maritime archaeology with particular focus on the eastern Mediterranean, specifically Lebanon, Syria, Cyprus and Egypt.
Objectives
- The Foundation seeks to further its mission with the following objectives:
- To provide grants to independent scholars, individuals working in research establishments and to institutions for work on marine and maritime archaeology.
- To publish and disseminate research work which is a result of the HFF grants and papers from the Honor Frost archive.
- To provide grants to museums, galleries and other national institutions to assist in displaying works relevant to the study of maritime archaeology and for public education in the field.
- To sponsor public lectures and seminars within the field of marine and maritime archaeology.
- To support excavations of archaeological sites, including but not exclusively, ports, harbours, offshore anchorages, and ancient anchors found undersea relevant to Levantine archaeology.
- To support conservation work relevant to marine and maritime archaeology in the region.
- To support exchange visits of museum staff from the Lebanon, Western Syria and Cyprus.
- To facilitate the training of individuals from the region in restoration and conservation techniques relevant to marine and maritime archaeology.
- To foster and promote the protection of underwater cultural heritage (UCH).
Funding Information
- Grants over £70,000.
Grant Criteria
- Applicants are encouraged to identify these areas within the application:
- Will the project generate high-quality regional research?
- Does the project aim to develop regional skills and capacity including conservation, dive training, marine geophysics, databases?
- Does the project aim to develop regional partners and partnerships/enhance the regional research environment?
- Will the project encourage interconnected activities that achieve multiple benefits?
- Will the project raise the profile and increase visibility and value of marine cultural heritage?
For more information, visit Honor Frost Foundation.
