grant sup­port of com­mon cul­tural, sci­en­tific and edu­ca­tional projects, youth exchanges, cross-border projects and tourism pro­mo­tion, indi­vid­ual mobil­ity pro­grams

We would like to invite you to the fol­low­ing pre­sen­ta­tions of the Fund’s grant and mobil­ity pro­grams in Poland:

Prezentacja – Rzeszów, “Civitas Christiana”, ul. Targowa 11, 14.05.2012, g. 14:00
Prezentacja – Rzeszów, Wydzial Prawa i Administracji UR, sala nr 213, 14.05.2012, g. 17:05
Prezentacja – Hotel Krosno – Nafta, 15.05.2012 r., g. 10:30 [  .DOC, 321 KB ]
Prezentacja – Szczecin, 18.05.2012 r., g. 11:00–13:00
Prezentacja – Warszawa, Sala kon­fer­en­cyjna ISP PAN, Polna 18/20, 22.05.2012, g. 10:00
Seminarium, Warszawa, Centrum Konferencyjne Zielna, 15.06.2012, g. 12:30 [  .PDF, 31 KB ]

The International Visegrad Fund holds the fol­low­ing pre­sen­ta­tions of its grant and mobil­ity pro­grams in Hungary:

Baja, Eötvös József Főiskola – 2012. május 14. 13 órakor [  .PDF, 518 KB ]
Gyöngyös, Károly Róbert Főiskola – 2012. május 11. 12 órakor
Eger, Eszterházy Káloly Főiskola, Eszterházy tér 1. – 2012. május 10. 11 órakor
Győr, Széchényi István Egyetem – 2012. május 9. 14.30 órakor [  .PDF, 161 KB ]

The International Visegrad Fund is hereby announc­ing an open call for pro­pos­als for projects that medi­ate access of the Eastern Partnership coun­tries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) to the Visegrad Group’s expe­ri­ence with social and eco­nomic trans­for­ma­tion, the EU acces­sion and regional coop­er­a­tion. The call opens com­pe­ti­tion over fund­ing within the Flagship Projects chap­ter of the V4EaP pro­gram. Deadline for sub­mis­sion of pro­pos­als is 12:00 noon on June 15, 2012.

Call for proposals—Flagship Projects [  .PDF, 50.4 KB ]
On-line appli­ca­tion form

Yesterday’s Council of Ambassadors in Warsaw approved grant projects sub­mit­ted within the March dead­line of Small Grants. Please see the list of approved Small Grants:

List of approved Small Grants—March 2012 dead­line [  .XLS, 32 KB ]

We would like to invite to a pre­sen­ta­tion of the Fund’s grant and mobil­ity pro­grams held in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic:

Prezentace – Krajský úřad Ústeck­ého kraje, 27. 4. 2012, 11 hodin [  .PDF, 206 KB ]

We would like to invite you to the fol­low­ing pre­sen­ta­tion of the Fund’s grant and mobil­ity pro­grams in Hungary:

April 16, 2012, College of Nyíregyháza (Nyíregyházi Főiskola), Conference Room No. 114,  Nyíregyháza, Sóstói u. 31

The Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (RC SFPA) and the International Visegrad Fund orga­nize the pre­sen­ta­tion of the Visegrad bib­li­og­ra­phy project and the offi­cial book launch in Slovakia. The event will be held at SFPA library on February 15, 2012 at 5 pm. The Slovak invi­ta­tion is available here:

Pozvánka [  .DOC, 273 KB ]

Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW), Warsaw, and the International Visegrad Fund orga­nize the pre­sen­ta­tion of the Visegrad bib­li­og­ra­phy project and the offi­cial book launch in Poland. The event will be held at the OSW Library in Warsaw on 30 January 2012 at 2 pm. The invi­ta­tion in Polish and RSVP details are avail­able here:

Zaproszenie na prezen­tację, 30 sty­cz­nia 2012 r., g. 14.00 [  .PDF, 203 KB ]

Internal Cohesion of the Visegrad Group is set as the sin­gle pri­or­ity for the Visegrad Strategic Program in 2012. For fur­ther details please see the program’s website:

Visegrad Strategic Program—priority for 2012

As part of new rules adapted by the Council of Ambassadors in December 2011, the max­i­mum sup­port for Small Grant projects was raised to €6,000 and, cor­re­spond­ingly, the min­i­mum sup­port for Standard Grants was raised to €6,001. Please see the new rules applic­a­ble for grant pro­grams in 2012 for fur­ther details:

Small Grants, Standard Grants, Stategic Grants [  .pdf, 74 KB ]

The death of for­mer Czechoslovak and Czech President Václav Havel entails the pass­ing of a great politi­cian and moral author­ity. The almost fairytale-like story when the power of the pow­er­less removed the com­mu­nist dic­ta­tor­ship in the cen­ter of Europe is very closely con­nected with his life.

His vision of Central Europe led him and his friends from Central European dis­si­dent cir­cles, who came into power by the end of the 1980s, to the idea of estab­lish­ing closer ties among the new democ­ra­cies to deal with the bur­den­some her­itage of the com­mu­nist regimes. The embod­i­ment of this effort, the Visegrad Group, came into exis­tence in 1991.

The Visegrad Group is a con­cept that Václav Havel sup­ported and advo­cated inten­sively. The results attained by the Visegrad Group dur­ing its twenty-year exis­tence have con­firmed the fore­sight of this con­cept. We have lost a real Homo viseg­radi­cus, please join us in hon­or­ing his memory.

Secretariat of the International Visegrad Fund

The Hungarian Institute of International Affairs (MKI) and the International Visegrad Fund orga­nize an offi­cial book launch of the Two Decade of Cooperation—Selected V4 Bibliography project. The pre­sen­ta­tion takes place at the MKI in Budapest on 21 December 2011 from 11 o’clock. For more infor­ma­tion please see the Hungarian invi­ta­tion below:

Meghívó – MKI, Budapest, 2011. decem­ber 21. [  .doc, 34.5 KB ]

The Council of Ambassadors approved pro­pos­als sub­mit­ted within September dead­lines of Standard Grants and Visegrad Artist Residency Program. Please see below the com­plete lists of approved proposals:

Approved Standard Grants—September 2011 dead­line [  .pdf, 42.2 KB ]
Approved VARP Projects—September 2011 dead­line [  .pdf, 16.0 KB ]

Applicants prepar­ing project pro­pos­als for the 1 December dead­line of Small Grants are kindly requested not to leave the elec­tronic sub­mis­sion to the last minute. Please note that higher server traf­fic might cause response delays. Deadline for elec­tronic sub­mis­sion of appli­ca­tion forms is 1 December 2011 at 12 o’clock noon. Signed print­outs along with all accom­pa­ny­ing doc­u­ments can be posted on the same day at the lat­est or per­son­ally deliv­ered to the Fund by 16:30 on 1 December.

The Council of Ambassadors approved ear­lier today the selected project pro­pos­als sub­mit­ted within the September dead­line of Small Grants. The list of approved projects is avail­able below. All grantees will be duly informed by e-mail.

Approved Small Grants—September 2011 dead­line [  .pdf, 15.4 KB ]