The Book Purchase Grant was awarded annually to enable an academic institution to purchase Translation Studies publications. The aim was to enhance translation research in new contexts. It was discontinued in 2023.
John Benjamins Publishing offered a 30% discount on books from its series in Translation Studies, Interpreting and Terminology that were ordered within the framework of the grant.
Previous beneficiaries of the grant
Since its inception in 2005, the grant was awarded to the following institutions:
2006: Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Straniere, University of Messina, Italy
2008: Research Group 7 Reception and Descriptive Translation Studies, Centre for English Studies, University of Lisbon, Portugal
2008: Department of Translation Studies, School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
2009: Institute of English Studies, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary
2011: University American College Skopje, Macedonia
2011: Siberian Federal University, Russia
2012: Dokuz Eylul University, Faculty of Arts and Letters, Department of Translation and Interpreting, Izmir, Turkey
2013: Chair for Translator Education, Institute of Modern Languages, Pedagogical University of Kraków, Poland
2014: Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Tartu, Estonia
2015: Centro de Estudios en Traducción (CET), Facultad de Lenguas, Universidad Nacional del Comahue (UNCo), Argentina.
2016: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Filozofski fakultet Osijek – FFOS) Croatia
2017: M.A. Program, Center of Linguistics and Literature, the College of Mexico Mexico
2018: Transilvania University of Brașov, Romania
2020: Department of English Philology and Translation Studies, St Petersburg University, Russia