FaRiG - Preserving Georgia's Cultural & Historical Heritage
FaRiG helps scholars in Georgia, working in the humanities, to carry out research and publish the results. By doing this, FaRiG contributes to the preservation of Georgia's unique cultural and historical heritage and making their work better known in the international scholarly community.
A registered charity since 2000, FaRiG was founded by Canon Dr John Wilkinson, who wrote widely on the history of Georgia and the Holy Land. FaRiG's chairmen since John have been Robert Scallon, Michael Vickers, Neil Macfarlane, Donald Rayfield and Gillian Evison.
Under their leadership, FaRiG has given well-targeted assistance to Georgian scholars who are working in the difficult conditions of post-Soviet life to document, analyse and maintain their country's 3,000-year-old patrimony, which ranges from epic poetry to folk music, from modern architecture to cinematography, from kelim to icons, from manuscripts to castles.
Anybody with an interest in any aspect of Georgian scholarship and culture is warmly invited to contribute ideas and funding. FaRiG is happy to accept donations which are tied to particular projects which fall within its remit.
Click image to view a flyer on the various annual research grants and the Essay Prize. Feel free to download the flyer and pass it on to people and/or institutions that may be interested.
Important: The Khaled al-Asaad Solidarity Funds
The Université libre de Bruxelles has created a Solidarity Funds in order to provide support for researchers who no longer have the freedom to pursue their research in their home country, where they are threatened due to the content of their scientific work or to the opinions they have freely expressed.
Deadline 15th December 2024. Read more...