Grant round closes - 15 October 2022

The ELDP grant round is now closed. Notification of results will be by 15th April 2023. The next grant round will open on 15 July 2023.

DELAMAN Award - 1 October 2022

Nominations for the DELAMAN Award 2023 are now open. The DELAMAN Award recognises and honours early-career documenters who have done outstanding documentary work in creating a rich multimedia documentary collection of a particular language that is endangered or no longer spoken. The deadline is 1 October 2022. More information on the nomination here.

Glottobank grant round closes - 15 September 2022

The application round for Glottobank grants offered by ELDP and the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology is now closed.

ELDP drop-in sessions for potential applicants

ELDP opened its 2023 grant round in July. For those interested in applying, ELDP is offering several drop-in sessions before the application deadline on 15 October 2022. The sessions will take place online on 20 and 21 September 2022.

Joint Call for Applications: ELDP & DLCE

ELDP and the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology are collaborating to document linguistic diversity with an initiative focusing on contributing data from languages of Latin America and Oceania to the Glottobank project.

The deadline for submitting an application is the 15th Septemeber 2022.

ELDP 2023 Grant Round is now open

The ELDP grant round for 2023 is now open. Information about grant types and application process can be found here. Visit our project pages for the types of projects we have funded and the Endangered Language Archive for the resulting digital collections.

Language Documentation training in Bolivia - 15-20 July 2022

Jointly with the Linguistics Summer School Bolivia ELDP will deliver language documentation training in Cochabamba for speakers of Indigenous Bolivian languages.

ELDP Grantee Training - 8 - 15 June 2022

One week of training in language documentation theory and practice for ELDP grantees.
New ELDP grantees will be trained in theory and methods in language documentation in Berlin.

International Mother Language Day - 21 February 2022

ELDP and ELAR celebrate International Mother Language Day virtually. Whose Knowledge invited Mandana Seyfeddinipur to speak at the Launch of the State of the Internet's Languages Report to mark the occasion of International Mother Language Day 2022 in the first year of the UNESCO International Decade of Indignous Languages.

American Friends of SOAS webinar on Endangered Languages Documentation - 28 October 2021

The American Friends of SOAS webinar 'A conversation on endangered languages and their documentation' with Felix Ameka, Mandana Seyfeddinipur, Azeb Amha, Ida Sodoke Assem, and Kenneth Bodua-Mango will take place on 28 October 2021. Registration is free.

Job Opportunity at ELDP - 25 October 2021

ELDP is seeking a Capacity Development Officer to run and further develop its global training programme in modern digital language documentation for junior researchers, language communities, and documenters. The successful candidate will design and implement multilingual training programmes and create teaching materials for various digital platforms and social media. The place of employment is Berlin. Apply by 25 October 2021.

The 2nd International Virtual Seminar on Endangered Language and Linguistics - 25 October 2021

Mandana Seyfeddinipur will give the keynote at the 2nd International Virtual Seminar on Endangered Language and Linguistics 2021 with the theme "Collaborative Research on Endangered Language Documentation in Indonesia". The conference is organised by the Universitas Sumatera Utara and will be held virtually in Medan, North Sumatra, on Monday, 25 October 2021.

Grant round closes - 15 October 2021

The ELDP grant round is now closed. Notification of results will be by 15th April 2022. The next grant round will open on 15 July 2022.

BBAW Mittagssalon - 6 October 2021

Mandana Seyfeddinipur will introduce ELDP and ELAR at the BBAW Mittagssalon. More information here

BSA Equity, diversity and inclusion conference: Identity, belonging and connectedness - 28 September 2021

Mandana Seyfeddinipur will be one of the panelists at the Boarding Schools' Association Equity, diversity and inclusion conference where the themes identity, belonging and connectedness will be discussed across a range of sectors and settings.

SILBERSALZ Science & Media Festival - 17-18 September 2021

Mandana Seyfeddinipur will speak at the Silbersalz Science & Media Festival 2021 conference in Halle about Kusunda - The Art of Using Interactive VR to Engage the Audience together with Gayatri Parameswaran. She will also be part of the panel discussion What IS the Art of Science Communication?

ELDP Remote Fieldwork workshop series - 13-17 September 2021

ELDP will host a series of online workshops on remote linguistic fieldwork 13-17 September 2021. Please register for the workshop series via this link. More information about the individual workshops is available here. Drop-in sessions for potential applicants will take place after the workshops on the 13th and 15th.

FieldLing - International School in Linguistic Fieldwork 2021 - 6 September 2021

Mandana Seyfeddinipur will teach a class on 'Fieldwork in times of COVID' at FieldLing2021 in Paris, France.

ELDP drop-in sessions for applicants

ELDP opened its 2022 grant round in July. For those interested in applying, ELDP is offering several drop-in sessions before the application deadline on 15 October 2021. The first info session will take place on 23 August 2021 from 2 to 3 pm CEST via Zoom.

Joint call for applications: ELDP & DLCE

ELDP and the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology are collaborating to document linguistic diversity with an initiative focusing on contributing data from languages of Latin America and Oceania to the Glottobank project.

The deadline for submitting an application is the 15th October 2021.

ELDP 2022 Grant round now open

ELDP is delighted to announce a call for applications for the 2022 grant round. After two years of hiatus due to the global pandemic, ELDP will resume to provide funds for documentation of endangered languages.

The application system for grants opens on the 15th of July 2021.

ELDP funding renewed for 10 years with 21million Euros -02 July 2021

Arcadia has renewed the funding for the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme for 10 years with funding of 21 million Euro. We are deeply honored by Arcadia's trust in our work and the longterm commitment to the documentation and preservation of endangered languages globally. We all at ELDP and ELAR thank our grantees, trainers, reviewers, advisors, panelists, colleagues and friends for their support and work.

For those interested in applying for a grant, we will be opening a new grant round in July. Details on how to apply will be posted on our website in the coming weeks.

ELDP and ELAR move to Berlin - 02 July 2021

After nineteen valuable years at SOAS University of London, we will start this new chapter of our ELDP work at the Berlin Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW). The Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR) will move with us to Berlin and will be housed at the BBAW ensuring the smooth operation of the archiving process. We would like to assure all our alumni and depositors that none of the changes will affect you or your collection. The conditions and guarantees remain the same and SOAS and BBAW will continue to collaborate.