Added on 8 May 2025


The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is pleased to offer a Career Development Fund travel grant for the 9th edition of The No Time To Wait Conference (#NTTW9), taking place October 15 to 17, 2025 at the National Library of Ireland in Dublin.

This Career Development Fund grant will provide a contribution towards the costs of travel and accommodation for a DPC member attending NTTW9 in person. Grant applications are welcomed from DPC Members until the deadline of 7:00 UTC on 3rd June 2025, and more details are provided below.

 

About the No Time To Wait Conference

The No Time to Wait conference is back for its ninth edition, taking place from October 15 to 17, 2025 at the National Library of Ireland in Dublin. No Time to Wait is a three-day conference dedicated to exploring open media, open standards, and digital audiovisual preservation. Organized by the National Library of Ireland and MediaArea.net, this event is part of a conference series and represents the ninth installment since its inception in 2016.

The 2025 call for proposals is now open at this form, and online and in-person registration form here. To find out more, please visit the No Time to Wait 9 website, follow @nttw.bsky.social for news and updates, and the recommended hashtag is #nttw9.

 

About the DPC Career Development Fund Grant

This DPC Career Development grant will provide funding to support the costs for a DPC member attending the No Time To Wait 9 conference in person. This may be used towards any one or all of the following expenses:

  • Hotel booking for up to three nights (Tuesday 14th October  – Friday 17th October) based on the suggested/preferred hotels list of conference organizers

  • Contribution towards travel expenses (e.g., economy flight, train and/or public transport to/from Dublin)

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

DPC Members are eligible to apply for this Career Development Fund grant. This grant is not available to non-members. Prospective members are eligible if their membership application is approved by the application deadline of 07:00 UTC on 3rd June 2025. For information about joining the DPC, see https://www.dpconline.org/about/join-us

Please note that only one grant is available per DPC member. DPC members may submit a maximum of one application for one applicant for this advertised grant for NTTW9 (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 (amy.currie@dpconline.org), should any questions arise.

 

How to Apply 

 

Important Dates  

  • Successful applicants will be notified on or before 1st July 2025.

 

Further Information

 

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, Preferred Media, Preservica and Simon P Wilson. A full list of supporters is online here.

 

 

 


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