Criteria

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-argued need 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.

 

Restrictions

 

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 for 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 other than that of the original publication
• Translation into a language other than that of the country of publication

• Translations from the Dutch language (please contact the Foundation for Production & Translation of Dutch Literature – NLPVF)

• Print runs lower than 500 copies