The three-year fund, with contributions of €360,000 a year by each country, has been designated to fund research on objects from anywhere in sub-Saharan Africa, though priority is expected to be given to countries that were colonised by France and Germany, such as Togo and Cameroon.
“This is an experimental fund,” said Dr Julie Sissia, a researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch, a Franco-German research centre in Berlin that will administer the funds. “We are launching it with the widest possible criteria, so that both small and biggest projects can apply.”
The only requirement was that the projects were led by mixed French and German teams from the world of academia and museums, she said.
Comment RM*: The sentence that the only requirement is that the projects are led by mixed French and German teams from the world of academia and museums makes me wonder what role and influence countries of origin are given. The Guardian does not mention this.
