Foundation Board of the German Lost Art Foundation approves amendments to funding guidelines

The changes re­late to the du­ra­tion of the projects fund­ed by the Foun­da­tion and the amount of fund­ing avail­able. Up un­til now, project fund­ing has on­ly been avail­able for a pe­ri­od of 36 months. In fu­ture, this pe­ri­od will be in­creased to up to 60 months in jus­ti­fied ex­cep­tion­al cas­es.

The Ex­ec­u­tive Board of the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion will de­cide on fund­ing ap­proval up to a fund­ing amount of EUR 350,000 – rather than the pre­vi­ous amount of EUR 300,000. Should this amount be ex­ceed­ed in jus­ti­fied cas­es, the de­ci­sion will be tak­en by the Foun­da­tion Board.

In ad­di­tion, fund­ing has been ex­tend­ed to in­clude projects ded­i­cat­ed to the in­dex­ing, cat­a­logu­ing and anal­y­sis of archival records and doc­u­ments that are of fun­da­men­tal im­por­tance be­yond an in­di­vid­u­al case. This might in­clude the retrodig­i­ti­za­tion of archival records and doc­u­ments and al­so the de­vel­op­ment of dig­i­tal in­fras­truc­tures in jus­ti­fied ex­cep­tion­al cas­es. The Foun­da­tion is not able to take on per­ma­nent main­te­nance and up­keep of dig­i­tal re­search in­fras­truc­tures: this must be pro­vid­ed for by oth­er means.

The fund­ing guide­lines will be­come ef­fec­tive as of 1 De­cem­ber 2021 as amend­ed.