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02/09/2010

Please note that Wednesday 15 September is a pub­lic hol­i­day in Slovakia—the Fund will there­fore be closed. Hard-copy ver­sions of appli­ca­tions for Standard Grants can still be per­son­ally deliv­ered a day after or mailed with a 16 September post­mark. On-line appli­ca­tions are, how­ever, only accepted within the reg­u­lar dead­lines (i.e. by 23.59 CET on 15 September). Thank you for understanding.

10/08/2010—CALL FOR PROPOSALS

On the occa­sion of the 20^th anniver­sary of the estab­lish­ment of the Visegrad Group (see more on the first Visegrad Summit), the International Visegrad Fund in coop­er­a­tion with the four respec­tive for­eign min­istries plan to mark the anniver­sary with a pub­lic debate and accom­pa­ny­ing events which are to take place in Brussels, Belgium in February 2011. Proposals are accepted until 16 September 2010.

Call for Proposals—Brussels events, II/2011

21/07/2010

The Council of Ambassadors approved projects sub­mit­ted within the June dead­line of Small Grants. The com­plete list is avail­able here:

List of Approved Small Grants June 2010 Deadline

21/06/2010

The International Visegrad Fund announces a call for pro­pos­als for Visegrad+ projects towards the Republic of Georgia in the fol­low­ing areas:

1. Vocational Training Reform and Vocational Training for IDPs
2. Sharing V4 Experience with the EU Integration: Legislation Reform and Cooperation with NGOs
3. Sharing V4 Know-How on Decentralization of Administration Structures

Deadline for pro­pos­als is Wednesday 15 September 2010. For more details please see the Call for Proposals and the Rules of the Visegrad+ Program.

25/05/2010

The Council of Ambassadors approved fund­ing of projects selected within the March 2010 dead­line of Standard Grants. Please see below the com­plete list:

List of Approved Standard Grants March 2010 Deadline

24/05/2010

We would like to invite you to the fol­low­ing pre­sen­ta­tion of the Fund’s pro­grams in Poland:

Prezentacja—Poznań, dnia 28.06.2010, godz­ina 11:00

18/05/2010

The Fund is orga­niz­ing two pub­lic pre­sen­ta­tions of its activ­i­ties (namely grant pro­grams and schol­ar­ships) in the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Georgia that will take place on 25 and 27 May 2010. More information:

Europe House Georgia, Tbilisi (GE): 25 May 2010, 17.00
Caspian Plaza Business Center, Baku (AZ): 27 May 2010, 17.00
Press Release: Invitation, 26 May 2010

11/05/2010

The Council of Ambassadors approved the 2010/2011 schol­ar­ships (January 2010 dead­line). The lists of approved schol­ars are avail­able below (please note that the approved schol­ars will be noti­fied by e-mail later today):

Visegrad Scholarship Program: Approved Scholarships 2010/2011

07/05/2010

Visegrad Scholarship at Open Society Archives

The International Visegrad Fund (IVF) launches a new pro­gram of research fel­low­ships at the Open Society Archives (OSA) at the Central European University in Budapest. Heads of both institutions—IVF’s Executive Director Petr Vágner and OSA’s Director István Rév—signed the con­tract in the pres­ence of the Czech Foreign Minister Jan Kohout in Prague ear­lier today. The pro­gram will offer 8 fel­low­ships annu­ally to schol­ars, researchers and jour­nal­ists from the Visegrad Group (V4) coun­tries and 2 annual fel­low­ships to non-V4 appli­cants. More information:

Visegrad Scholarship at OSA (fur­ther infor­ma­tion) [ .pdf, 15.1 KB ]
Visegrad Scholarship at OSA (OSA web­site)
Podpis smlouvy o studiu v Open Society Archives (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

04/05/2010

The International Visegrad Fund hosted a visit of 20 young diplo­mats from the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland yes­ter­day. The Fund’s rep­re­sen­ta­tives held a pre­sen­ta­tion and a dis­cus­sion about the struc­ture and activ­i­ties of the Visegrad Group and of the International Visegrad Fund.

21/04/2010

The Council of Ambassadors approved yes­ter­day the nom­i­na­tion of Mr. Luboš Veselý as the Honorary Trustee of the International Visegrad Fund for Ukraine. Mr. Veselý will be based at the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Kyiv and will pro­mote the Fund’s activ­i­ties in Ukraine and pro­vide con­sul­ta­tions to Ukrainian applicants.

20/04/2010

The Council of Ambassadors approved the fol­low­ing projects sub­mit­ted within February dead­line of the Visegrad Strategic Program and March dead­line of Small Grants. Please see the lists below:

Visegrad Strategic Program II/2010—approved projects [ .xls, 9.5 KB ]
Small Grants III/2010—approved projects [ .xls, 14 KB ]

19/01/2010

The Council of Ambassadors approved ear­lier today projects within November dead­line of the Visegrad University Studies Grants and December dead­line of Small Grants:

VUSG 2009—approved projects [ .pdf, 14.1 KB ]
Small Grants XII/2009—approved projects [ .xls, 14.5 KB ]

09/12/2009

Please note that begin­ning with 1 March 2010 dead­line of Small Grants all appli­ca­tions for grants will have to con­tain a copy of reg­is­tra­tion doc­u­ments (for legal enti­ties) or an ID, e.g. a pass­port (for nat­ural per­sons), of each project part­ner. Thank you for understanding.

20/11/2009

Scholars Eligible for Travel Grants

Please take note of the updated Rules of the Visegrad Scholarship Program approved by the Conference of Ministers (CA) on 12 November 2009. Among other changes, the CA approved the launch of travel grants as part of the scholarships—any scholar whose host uni­ver­sity is fur­ther than 1,500 km from his/her present uni­ver­sity or employer is eligible.

VSP Rules—2010 [ .pdf, 42.6 KB]

11/08/2009

The unique quintlin­gual book project called Visegrád 1335 brings in a sin­gle pub­li­ca­tion the col­lec­tion of the 14^th-century char­ters which inspired the mod­ern coop­er­a­tion in cen­tral Europe—the Visegrad Group. The book also con­tains a study into the his­tor­i­cal back­ground. All pub­lic schools and libraries can request a copy of the book here.

Visegrád 1335 overview (por­tal of the Visegrad Group)

03/08/2009

As of today Mr. Petr Vágner assumes duties as the Executive Director of the International Visegrad Fund replac­ing Amb. Kristóf Forrai whose 3-year mis­sion ended in July 2009. Mr. Vágner is the first rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Czech Republic in the position.

Executive Director • Press Release [ .pdf, 65.4 KB ]

29/06/2009

The fol­low­ing are the 2010 pri­or­i­ties for the Visegrad Strategic Program:

1. V4 Response to the Decade of Roma Inclusion
2. Building a Green Visegrad
3. Sharing V4 Know-how with Neighbouring Regions
4. V4 Promotion

For detailed descrip­tion please pro­ceed here.

22/06/2009—Sums for Small/Standard Grants Raised by €1,000

The Council of Ambassadors approved rais­ing the max­i­mum sup­ported sum for Small Grants to €5,000. Correspondingly, the min­i­mum sum for projects within the Standard Grants is raised to €5,001. The new rules are valid as of today, i.e. the new sums apply first to the September dead­lines of Small and Standard Grants.

04/06/2009

The work of the International Visegrad Fund was praised by the prime min­is­ters of the Visegrad Group coun­tries at the annual sum­mit in Wieliczka (PL) yes­ter­day. The deci­sion was taken to increase the coun­tries’ annual con­tri­bu­tions to the Fund’s bud­get by €250,000, amount­ing to the total bud­get of €6 million.

Press Release (Bratislava, 4 June 2009) [ .pdf, 52.5 KB]
Press Release (Warsaw, 4 June 2009)
Komunikat pra­sowy (Warszawa, 4 czer­wca 2009)

21/03/2009

The Fund has released the 2008 Annual Report/Guideline to 2009 Programs. To see its elec­tronic ver­sion please see the fol­low­ing link:

Annual Report 2008 [ .pdf, 1.8 MB ]

25/11/2008

The Conference of Ministers of Foreign Affairs decided on 24 November 2008 that the rules of the Visegrad Scholarship Program (VSP) are applic­a­ble to Kosovar schol­ars, i.e. Kosovar schol­ars are eli­gi­ble for Visegrad schol­ar­ships within the In-Coming Scheme.

Scholarships

08/07/2008—Scholarships Open for Applicants from AM, AZ and GE

As of 2009, schol­ars from alto­gether 17 coun­tries can apply for schol­ar­ships at the Fund (newly includ­ing schol­ars from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia).

More

10/09/2007

Thanks to its orig­i­nal con­cept and design excel­lence, the “Visegrad Fund” logo has been selected from the inno­v­a­tive three-tier jury of the European Logo Design Annual (Eulda) for the “Best Of Nation 2007″ award.

Winners—Eulda 2007 (Best of Europe/Best of Nation) / more about the logo(s).

18/06/2007—The IVF Strengthens Central European Identity

“Projects financed from the increased 5 mil­lion Euro bud­get of the International Visegrad Fund fos­ter­ing people-to-people con­tacts and involv­ing the civil soci­ety, launch­ing the new web site of the Visegrad Group (www.visegradgroup.eu) and the new V4 logo have undoubt­edly pos­i­tively con­tributed to the strength­en­ing of the Central European identity.”

(Summit of the V4 Prime Ministers, Bratislava, 18 June 2007)

Press Statement • IVF/V4 Logotypes • Logo of the Fund

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