Preserving Georgia's Cultural Heritage

Applications are open for the FaRiG Rothschild Research Grant for 2009. The grant is awarded at the end of the year.

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 heritage.

A registered British charity since 2000, FaRiG was founded by John Wilkinson, a former director of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem who has written widely on the history of Georgia and the Holy Land. Its current chairman is Michael Vickers, a professor of archaeology at the University of Oxford and keeper of Greek and Roman antiquities at the Ashmolean museum.

Under their leadership, FaRiG has given well-targeted assistance to Georgians 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 and folk music to modern architecture and cinematography.

FaRiG is among the donors to the British-Georgian archaeological dig at Pichvnari, a classic site on the Black Sea coast.

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.