European Cultural Foundation Fund for Central and East European Book Projects

Deadline: 15 February and August 15 each year
Open to: (Associations of) publishers and booksellers in Central and Eastern Europe
Grant: Amounts awarded usually vary between € 1.000 and € 3.000

Description

The Fund for Central and East European Book Projects (CEEBP) was established in Amsterdam in 1992 under the auspices of the European Cultural Foundation. Its aim is to enhance the free flow of thought and information across borders, by supporting quality publishing in Central and Eastern Europe.

CEEBP supports the publication and dissemination of high-quality books in the field of literature and the humanities, primarily translations into and between the languages of Central and Eastern Europe.
In addition, the Fund assists publishers and booksellers in introducing professional and structural improvements.

To achieve its aims, CEEBP

  • awards grants to publishers of quality books
  • provides grants for quality translations into and between the languages of Central and East Europe
  • mediates and supports professional contacts and tools, training, exchange of expertise and transfer of professional skills
  • acts as a partner organisation in programmes for the improvement of the book trade infrastructure

The Grants programme assists in:

  • Translation and dissemination of high quality literary and scholarly books in the languages of Central and Eastern Europe.

Priority is given to translations of literary works and publications in the humanities enhancing an exchange of thought and information across territorial and cultural borders. Grants are awarded to publishers for the translation of seminal scholarly works and essays that are of interest to a wider intellectual readership.

  • Professional contacts, tools and expertise

Professional book trade associations in Central and Eastern Europe are eligible for assistance in the professional and infrastructural improvement of promotion, marketing, distribution, efficiency measures, and training.

Grants are allocated to professional book trade associations in Central and Eastern Europe to help defray incidental professional costs such as website design.

Grant

Amounts awarded usually vary between € 1.000 and € 3.000. The grants are in principle non-renewable.

Grants are generally NOT awarded for:

  • Books of a specialised nature or written for a limited readership
  • Books in the field of health, medicine, pure or applied science, ecology, business, children’s books, text books, art books and catalogues, or works of a religious or party political nature
  • Books distributed free of charge
  • Publishing houses that have existed for less than two years
  • (Foreign) copyrights and reprint rights
  • Institutional costs including maintenance, payments to budgetary deficits, salaries, and other day-to-day expenses of an organisation, or general appeals to funds
  • Research, study, travel or project costs of an individual or private nature
  • Collections of papers or proceedings of meetings or conferences
  • Magazines and journals
  • Publications of non-profit organisations
  • Projects that have already been completed
  • Translations from another language than the original publication
  • Translation into another language than the language of the country of publication
  • Print runs lower than 500 copies

Eligibility

The criteria applied in all cases are the quality of the work in question, the quality of the publishing house, and of the translator; well-motivated requirement of the applicant; a sound budget; and the availability of other funding.

Geographical criteria

Support is available for publishers in Albania, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia & Montenegro, Slovenia, and Slovakia.

Application

Grant applications for books should be submitted by the publisher after the copyright contract and contract with translator(s) has been concluded.
It cannot be stressed enough the need for an application, including the required documents, to be submitted well in advance of the planned date of publication.

Those wishing to apply for a grant should send per email:

  • description of the title, including background information on the book
  • the publishing house backlist
  • the proposed print run
  • the intended readership
  • an itemised budget, which should include publisher’s own investment
  • other relevant information (other funding, promotion plans, distribution arrangements, etc.)

If the project is considered eligible for support, the publisher will receive an application form. Only fully completed application forms submitted by the publisher per email, with copyright agreement, contract with the translator and catalogues received by CEEBP per post, fax or scanned per email before the deadline will be accepted for consideration.

Contact

Fund for Central and East European Book Projects

Postal Address
Jan van Goyenkade 5
1075 HN Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Telephone: +31 (0) 20 57 33 868
Fax: +31 (0) 20 675 22 31

email: ceebp@ceebp.org

The Official Website

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