Rațiu Family Charitable Foundation

The Ratiu Family Charitable Foundation was established in London in 1979 by Ion and Elisabeth Rațiu to promote and support projects which further education and research in the culture and history of Romania, both in Romania and the UK. The Foundation offers up to 100 annual grants, principally for projects, postgraduate courses, conference participations, travel grants, and other short term courses including academic research. In addition, they also offer annual seed funding for innovative projects, principally in Romania, which foster Romanian arts and civilisation, heritage, civil society, democracy, and environmental protection. The projects supported by the Foundation are numerous, ranging from democracy awareness and civic participation to support for artists, designers and curators on voyages of self discovery. The Foundation has also been supportive of artists with problems of existence, day centres for the old and disadvantaged, prevention of human trafficking and research conducted by foreign researchers in Transylvania. They also run the Ratiu Democracy Centre and have an awards program.