• 2027-2030: Italian Ministry of Research Funding (PRIN Hybrid) for the project: Bridging HPC, Big Data, and Material Bibliography in the Study of the European Printed Heritage. A reordering and enrichment, involving a symbiosis between digital technologies and the bibliographical analysis of physical books = BIBRIDGE (PI Neil Harris, University of Udine) to catalogue incunabula from Italian libraries, among other objectives.
  • 2024-2028: Italian Ministry of Research Funding (FIS1) for the project: Printing Revolution and American Collections = PrintRevUS (PI Cristina Dondi, Sapienza University of Rome), to catalogue incunabula printed in Italy, used in Europe, and now in US collections.
  • 2022-2026: An Italian Ministry of Research Funding Grant (PRIN) for the project: From the pen to the type-sort. A Renaissance Mass-media Revolution, 1465-1515 (PI Edoardo Barbieri).
  • 2021: Polonsky Foundation grant for the project: Dante 1481 (PI Cristina Dondi, CERL).
  • 2018-2019: Polonsky Foundation grant for the project: Incunabula in Italian Monastic Libraries (PI Andrea de Pasquale, BNCR).
  • 2017-2020: the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe awarded the 15cBOOKTRADE a grant to catalogue Hebrew incunabula from Italian, European, Israeli, and British libraries in MEI.
  • 2017-2020: The Helen Hamlyn Trust awarded to the 15cBOOKTRADE a grant to complete the cataloguing of incunabula in Venice, Fondazione Cini and Correr Museum.
  • 2017-2024: An Italian Ministry of Research Funding Grant (PRIN) for the project: Agli albori dell’editoria italiana. Testi e libri nell’Italia centro-settentrionale tra XV e XVI secolo (PI Edoardo Barbieri).
  • 2014-2019: European Research Council Consolidator Grant for the project: The 15th-century Book Trade: An Evidence-based Assessment and Visualization of the Distribution, Sale, and Reception of Books in the Renaissance = 15cBOOKTRADE (PI Cristina Dondi, University of Oxford).
  • 2009-2011: British Academy Development Award for the project: The Venetian Book-trade in the 15th Century: material evidence for the economic and social history of the Renaissance (PI Nigel Palmer, University of Oxford).
  • 2009: An Italian Ministry of Research Funding grant (PRIN) was awarded to scholars of Università Cattolica and Università Statale of Milan to catalogue book-in-hand in MEI some 2,500 books.
  • The cataloguing of incunabula from libraries of Regione Lombardia (which oversees a network of some 120 libraries) started in 2010 by Alessandro Ledda and Giancarlo Petrella, part of the team headed by Prof. Edoardo Barbieri of Centro di Ricerca Europeo Libro Editoria Biblioteca (= CRELEB), Università Cattolica of Milan. Grants were received from Regione Lombardia and from Fondazione Cariplo.