Information on Funders and Partners

Funders

The information on the CAIN site is freely available to anyone with access to the Internet. This free access could only be achieved through the generosity of the funders listed below.

CAIN, as part of ARK (Northern Ireland Social and Political Archive, was successful in securing funding from the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council). This funding began on 1 October 2006 and will end on 30 September 2011.


 

Following the completion of the Victims, Survivors and Commemoration project (below) the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) announced additional capital funding and called for proposals to the Digital Equipment and Database Enhancement for Impact (DEDEFI) Scheme. CAIN submitted a proposal in November 2009 to carry out a one-year project and was made an award in January 2010. The new project is entitled: Visualising the Conflict: Immersion in the Landscape of Victims and Commemoration in Northern Ireland. The project officially began in March 2010 and it is due to finish in June 2011.

 

In June 2006 the University of Ulster was notified that a bid to the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for research funding to support work on the CAIN site had been successful. The period of the funding was 1 October 2006 to 30 September 2008. The two-year project was on: 'Remembering': Victims, Survivors and Commemoration in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland.

 

In 2002 the CAIN project received funding from
the University of Ulster, and
The Atlantic Philanthropies


 

During 1998 the CAIN project received funding from:
the Department of Education for Northern Ireland (DENI), and
the Central Community Relations Unit (CCRU).

 

The CAIN project was initially funded, during 1996 and 1997, by:
the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) of the Higher Education Funding Councils.

 

Partners

The development of the CAIN service was initially undertaken (1996 to 1997) by three partner institutions:

the University of Ulster,
the Queen's University of Belfast, and
the Linen Hall Library, Belfast.

CAIN has also received considerable support from:
INCORE (International Conflict Research), and
ARK (Northern Ireland Social and Political Archive).