(20 Jun 2025) In 2025, IFLA is offering WLIC attendance grants to emerging leaders. These grants provide a great opportunity to build familiarity with and profile in the international library field.
Successful candidates will contribute to the follow-up to the IFLA Trend Report, helping us to build a body of insights and ideas that can help make futures thinking part of every professional, institution’s and association’s work.
The grants specifically target emerging leaders who have less than 15 years of experience in the library field. The IFLA Emerging Leaders’ Grants will provide support to a small group of delegates to attend WLIC 2025 in Astana, Kazakhstan.
The grant covers the full registration fee for the Congress and an amount to partially support attendance. The attendance component can be used to support travel, accommodation or other expenses and is between 1000 Euro and 2000 Euro, depending on the country of origin.
Successful applicants from IFLA’s Band 1 countries will receive a free ticket and 1000 EUR, and those from Band 2 or 3, a free ticket and 2000 EUR. Find your country’s band here.
Applicants must be able to attend the Congress and will be personally responsible for any additional costs associated with Congress attendance.
The application deadline is 4 July 2025.
Find out more here.
