Applications for the 2022 Travel Grant will open fall 2022.
The Humanity in Action October ’43 Travel Grant is dedicated to young students and professionals who work with issues regarding refugees and/or the protection of minorities in either the academic, social, political or practical field. The travel grant applies to projects on Danish conditions or Danish engagements abroad. Read more about the October ’43 Travel Grant below the picture.
Bjørn Nørgaard – La Paix 2015
The October ’43 Travel Grant is made possible through the generous donation of 28 works of art by in 2018. The funds raised at an art exhibition and subsequent auction went into the establishment of the October ’43 Travel Grant, making it possible for Humanity in Action Denmark to hand out DKK 30,000 each year for 10 years. The first grant was handed out in 2019.
The October ’43 Travel Grant is dedicated to young students and professionals who work with issues regarding refugees and/or the protection of minorities in either the academic, social, political or practical field. The travel grant applies to projects on Danish conditions or Danish engagements abroad.
The travel grant is established in commemoration of the solidarity of Danish civil society in its rescue of its Jewish countrymen and -women in October 1943.
Applications
Applicantions for the 2022 Travel Grant will open this fall. Applicants are requested to describe their project in no more than 400 words and submit a budget. The grant will focus on travels with the purpose of collecting information for a project, or doing a project, on minimum a university master’s level.
The October ’43 Travel Grant does not cover expenses for studying abroad or school trips abroad.
The project has to be completed within a year.
In case the project is delayed due to current corona-situation, a postponement is possible.
Submit your application (the form is in Danish but applications can be submitted in English).
The Award Ceremony
The Travel Grant Award Ceremony will take place each year at a public event in Copenhagen, (travel to/from Copenhagen is not covered by Humanity in Action or the travel grant). The grantee is comitted to tell about the project at next year’s award.
The Travel Grant Board
The travel grant will be distributed according to the board’s decision in either one portion a year for the amount of DKK 30,000 or divided in two smaller portions of DKK 15,000 each. It is the Travel Grant Board who selects the recipient or recipients. Board members: Mette Davidsen, cultural editor, Politiken, Anders Jerichow, Senior Correspondent at Politiken and former Chair of the Humanity in Action Denmark Board of Directors through many years, and Annette Milner, Client Services Director at Brandhouse and manager of the October ’43 Travel Grant.
For further information, please contact Annette Milner, Humanity in Action Denmark, email: oktober43@humanityinaction.org
We are proud to announce that we have found the recipient of the Humanity in Action October '43 Travel Grant 2021.
We are proud to announce that we have found the recipients of the Humanity in Action October '43 Travel Grant 2020.
We are proud to announce the first recipient of the Humanity in Action October '43 Travel Grant.
Camilla Blachmann - Hidden Child
In 2018 Humanity in Action and Daily newspaper Politiken arranged a month-long exhibition commemorating the 75th anniversary of October ’43.
28 artists, including Björn Nørgaard, John Kørner, and Peter Brandes, donated art pieces. Their work reflected on the Danish aid to Jews in Denmark seeking safety in October 1943.
“The October ’43 Travel Grant combines the message of the past with the challenges of current human rights and minority issues”, Anders Jerichow, former chair of Humanity in Action Denmark through many years and initiator of the Octber ’43 Travel Grant.
The exhibition and the subsequent auction of the art works have made it possible for Humanity in Action Denmark to establish the ‘October ’43 Travel Grant’. Over a 10 year period, Humanity in Action Denmark will donate a grant each year to extraordinary young people working with refugee, minority and human rights issues.
Eli Benveniste - Vakuum 2010
Auctioneer Bruun Rasmussen catalog (in Danish)
Now is your chance to influence the future of Humanity in Action Denmark. What should the next fellowship look like? What should be the main priority of the organisation? Which conversations should we facilitate in the future?
Danish Board Members Anders Jerichow and Eva Maria Lassen remember Rabbi Bent Melchior.
We are thrilled to announce that our animated short film "Voices in the Void" is an official selection for the esteemed American Documentary and Animation Film Festival. The 10th Annual AmDocs Film Fest took place from March 26-April 4th, 2021.