The IGG Management Team is pleased to offer funding for research or promotion of IGG aims in 2024/2025 with one or two awards jointly amounting to up to £1500 in total.
In line with the requirements in the previous years and the mission of the IGG, the outcomes of such research need to benefit both the Group’s aims and its members in the form of a report made available for publication in our Newsletter and online. For proposals to be eligible for funding, they need to consist of:
- Up to a 500-word description of the planned work. This should have a clear justification, a description of work, and when and how the recipient will report on the activities during the project. It is expected that the projects normally take less than a year to complete;
- A clear budget. Typical eligible expenses include travel and accommodation costs, small tools, software, consumables etc. This section should also clarify how the funds should be transferred to the recipient. The grant cannot be used as personal income;
- Clear description of the output(s). At least one of the outputs needs to be written in the form of a report that can be publishable in the IGG Newsletter and on the IGG website.
The proposals could include activities such as visits to herbaria, botanical gardens or wild localities in order to study taxa in cultivation or in the wild, production of botanical illustrations, activities to ethnographically document practices related to the genus (ethnobotanical research), or to do a piece of research into the history of cultivation. There really isn’t any limitation as far as the topic is concerned as long as the IGG aims are supported.
The proposals will be evaluated by the IGG Small Grants Evaluation Committee, consisting of: Matija Strlic, Benjamin Coultrup, Jan Movitz. Neither the Committee nor the Management Team members are eligible for funding.
Please submit your proposals to chairman@geraniaceae-group.org by 15 June 2026. The proposals will be evaluated on the basis of the following criteria: (i) Fit to the IGG mission, (ii) Financial risk to IGG, (iii) Quality of the project outcome(s).
The Evaluation Committee will make the details of the winning proposal(s) publicly available no later than end of June 2026.
Matija Strlic, IGG Chairperson
