Grant applications aligned with the priorities and direction of CED have the greatest chances of success. However, CED welcomes original proposals and may at its own discretion fund proposals that fall outside its immediate areas of interest. Proposals should be written in Esperanto or English, although the research itself may be carried out in any language.

If applying for a grant to attend a conference or event, please state in the application form whether you will present a paper at the relevant conference. If requesting support for research and/or fieldwork, please specify your plans for publication and dissemination of the results. However, if the grant will be used for website development, explain the purpose of the website, its extent, the expected impact of the project and the plans for its long-term update and maintenance. If the grant will be used to support the publication of a monograph or other written work, explain how much of the work has already been completed, its target readership, what competing publications exist in the field and the intended impact of your publication.

The timeline for grant payments and deliverables will be agreed on with each successful applicant. Payments depend on the delivery of promised results and are usually spread over two or more stages, with the final portion of the grant paid on completion of the project (when this distribution of payments would pose problems for the research, a different arrangement can be discussed). Typically, the grant funds must be used within one year of the award.