The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is pleased to offer a Career Development Fund travel grant to support a DPC member attending the 8th edition of The No Time To Wait Conference (#NTTW8), taking place September 11 to 13, 2024 at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe.
This grant will contribute funding to help with the costs of travel and accommodation. Grant applications are welcomed from all DPC Members until the deadline of 7:00 UTC on 4th June 2024, and more details are provided below.
About The No Time To Wait Conference
The No Time to Wait conference is back for its eighth edition, taking place from September 11 to 13, 2024 at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. No Time To Wait is a three-day conference dedicated to exploring open media, open standards, and digital audiovisual preservation. Organized by ZKM and MediaArea.net, this event is part of a conference series and represents the eighth installment since its inception in 2016. This event follows ZKM’s “Just in Time” conference (2022) on the status quo and future of electronic art preservation.
The 2024 call for proposals is now open at this form. To find out more, please visit the No Time to Wait 8 website, follow @nttwconf for news and updates, and the recommended hashtag is #nttw8.
About the DPC Career Development Fund Travel Grant
This DPC Career Development Fund Travel Grant will provide funding to support the costs for a DPC member attending the No Time To Wait 8 conference in person. This may be used towards any one or all of the following expenses:
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Hotel booking for up to three nights (Tuesday 10th September – Friday 13th September) based on preferred hotels list provided by organizers
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Contribution towards travel expenses
The amount of funding is at the discretion of the review panel and will be explicitly stated in the grant offer letter to successful applicants.
Eligibility
All DPC Members are eligible to apply for this Career Development Fund grant. This includes prospective members whose request to join is approved by the application deadline of 07:00 UTC on 4th June 2024. The Career Development Fund grant is not available to non-members. For information about joining the DPC, see https://www.dpconline.org/about/join-us.
Please note that only one grant is available per member. In other words, DPC members may submit a maximum of one application for one applicant for this advertised travel grant (e.g., one application for a person representing a DPC member organization). We recommend that any member organization which supports an application discusses appropriate outcomes and benefits for the organization prior to submission. Moreover, because only one grant is available per member institution, we recommend that applicants ensure that they are not inadvertently competing with colleagues.
For more details about eligibility and criteria for the grants, please read the full Career Development Fund Guidelines. Applicants are also encouraged to contact the Training and Grants Manager, Amy Currie, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. should any questions arise.
How to Apply
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The application form for this grant and the full Career Development Fund grant guidelines are available on the DPC website’s Career Development Fund page.
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All sections of the application form should be completed and returned to Amy Currie (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), accompanied by explicit approval for attendance from a supervisor (via email or attached letter), by 7:00 UTC on 4th June 2024 (click here to see the deadline in your local time).
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Please note that only one grant is available per member per call. In other words, DPC members may submit a maximum of one application for one applicant for this advertised No Time to Wait grant. There cannot be multiple applicants representing the same DPC member organization, so please coordinate with colleagues to ensure one application is submitted.
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Applicants are encouraged to contact the Training and Grants Manager, Amy Currie (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), should any questions arise.
Important Dates
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All sections of the application form should be completed and returned, accompanied by explicit approval for attendance from a supervisor via email or attached letter, by 7:00 UTC on 4th June 2024 (click here to see in local time).
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Successful applicants will be notified on or before 2nd July 2024.
Further information
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For information about The No Time To Wait Conference, visit the website at https://mediaarea.net/NoTimeToWait8, follow @nttwconf for news and updates, and the recommended hashtag is #nttw8.
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For questions relating to the grant programme, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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For a list of other Career Development Fund grants available to DPC Members, see https://www.dpconline.org/digipres/prof-development/cdfund/dpc-grant-calendar.
Acknowledgements
The Career Development Fund is sponsored by the DPC’s Supporters who recognize the benefit and seek to support a connected and trained digital preservation workforce. We gratefully acknowledge their financial support to this programme and ask applicants to acknowledge that support in any communications that result. At the time of writing, the Career Development Fund is supported by Arkivum, Artefactual Systems Inc., boxxe, Cerabyte, Evolved Binary, Ex Libris, Iron Mountain, Libnova, Max Communications, Preservica and Simon P Wilson. A full list of supporters is online here.