In order to apply for the literary grant, you must fill out the application form, which you can download from the Foundation’s website.
The application form must include a description of the project and the estimated costs.
The applicant must indicate the total costs of the project and those which will be covered by the Foundation’s grant, explaining in detail how they have been calculated.
Don’t forget! The application form must be signed by a representative of the publishing house.
Do you know how many books have been published thanks to the C.M. Lerici Foundation’s literary grants in the last years?
On the Foundation’s website, you can find a list with the books published between 1996 and 2022.
Here’s two of the last ones:
📚 Brev by Dante Alighieri, published by Faethon and translated into Swedish by Anders Cullhed (professor emeritus in literary studies)
📚 Essere Etrusco. Miti e misteri ieri e oggi, an essay by Swedish archaeologist and writer Barbro Santillo Frizell, published by and translated into Italian by Stefania Renzetti
Discover more about the Call for Scholarships and Grants here on the foundation’s website
The C.M. Lerici Foundation’s literary grant is addressed to Swedish and Italian publishing houses, which can apply for total amounts between 5.000 SEK and 50.000 SEK.
The literary grant CAN cover the costs related to:
📌 translation’s costs
📌 printing costs
The grant does NOT cover:
📌 research trips
📌 marketing costs
Please note that in the application form, you must indicate the cost of the entire editorial project and the budget requested to the Foundation, specifying all the expanses in detail.
Discover more about the Call for Scholarships and Grants here on the foundation’s website
Filmögon is a publisher and a magazine for moving images and film.
Thanks to the C.M. Lerici Foundation literary grant, Filmögon recently published the essay Filmmanuset som “en struktur som vill vara en annan struktur”, translated into Swedish by Emma Hatt.
The book celebrates the 100th anniversary of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s birth, one of the most important Italian poets, writers, and directors.
Filmögon wants to emphasize Pasolini’s importance as an essayist and highlight his analysis of the film script as its own literary form. In the essay, Pasolini gives the film script a special status, considering it as a form on its own terms, and also “an independent technique, a complete work that is perfect in itself”. The essay clearly shows Pasolini’s polymathic thinking and his language, literature, and film’s investigation.
The C.M. Lerici Foundation”s literary grant is given to books in Italian related to Sweden or Swedish culture, and books in Swedish related to Italy or Italian culture.
The grant is aimed at books which are considered most important for the cultural exchange between Italy and Sweden, and they have already been published in one of the two languages.
The grants can be required by Italian and Swedish publishing houses for a maximum amount of 50.000 SEK.
Find all the information about the literary grant here on the Foundation’s website
If you are going to develop a project Italy or Sweden in collaboration with a university or institution of any kind, you can apply to the C.M. Lerici Foundation’s call for applications.
The host institution in Italy or Sweden can be public or private.
This means that the host institution DOESN’T have to be necessarily a university.
Don’t forget that you need a letter from the host institution, in which both the project and the visiting period are confirmed.
Read more about the call here on the Foundation’s website.
How is a typical day of an Italian researcher in Sweden?
Federica Vacatello is a research fellow from Sapienza University in Rome, where she also earned a PhD in Post classical Archaeology.
Thanks to @cmlericifoundation scholarship, she spent three months at the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Lund University to build a 3D GIS, Geographical Information System, of the archaeological context of the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem in Israel.
How to calculate the budget for the application form?
One of the most important documents you have to send for the C.M. Lerici Foundation’s call is the application form, which must include a detailed budget with a list of food and lodging costs.
While the lodging costs may be different depending on your accommodation, food costs can be easily calculated.
On the Foundation’s website you can find a chart which states the average food costs depending on the number of weeks you are planning to live abroad.
Here’s the chart:
1 week: 1 500 SEK
2 weeks: 2 500 SEK
3 weeks: 3 500 SEK
1 month: 4 500 SEK
1, 5 months: 6 000 SEK
2 months: 7 500 SEK
2, 5 months: 9 000 SEK
3 months: 10 500 SEK
3, 5 months: 12 000 SEK
4 months: 13 500 SEK
Any questions?
Read more about the call or send an email to stipendier@cmlerici.se
Hello from Uppsala! My name is Altea Bonello and I’m a Master student from Università degli Studi di Verona , in Italy. Thanks to the C.M. Lerici Foundation’s grant, I’m now in the Uppsala, enjoying the beautiful weather and landscape.
My project is related to my master thesis “the role of vasculature in regulating the immune response in breast cancer”. Tumor is one of the biggest causes of death worldwide and in these past few years it seems increasing the number of people affected by it. It becomes crucial to find the most efficient cure. Nowadays, there are different treatment options, and, in the last few years, the use of immunotherapy has become popular. This therapy focuses on the stimulation of the immune system to fight the cancer. Nevertheless, it has been shown that not always this treatment is efficient.
This fall, for 4 months, I will have the wonderful opportunity to study how the activity of the immune system is biased by the vasculature. I will try to have a better look in how the endothelial cells of the blood vessels regulate the infiltration of the antitumoral immunity in the tumor sites and, in particular, how the Shb gene is able to orchestrate this regulation.
Thanks to this amazing opportunity, I will be able to improve my knowledge on these fascinating topics and to experience the amazing university life here in Uppsala!
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