Deadline: 1 February 2019
International Visegrad Fund is seeking applications for its Strategic Grants Program to support project addressing annual strategic priorities of the Visegrad Group.
All projects supported by the Fund with budgets exceeding €10,000 must be audited.
Focus Areas
- Brexit – implications for the V4
- Projects focusing on political, social and economic aspects of Brexit for the V4 region/ Central Europe
- Smart solutions for a smart region
- V4/V4+ projects aimed at supporting entrepreneur-friendly environment, smart industry and innovations
- Promotion of the V4
- Projects aimed at raising public awareness of the Visegrad cooperation with special regard to the Visegrad Group’s accomplishments among citizens, especially the youth; supporting mutual understanding between V4 citizens; external promotion of the V4 as a modern, creative & innovative region
Eligibility Criteria
- Any legal entity worldwide can apply for support within the Visegrad Strategic Grants.
- Consortium of organizations of which 3 or more are based in different Visegrad countries
- All types of non-governmental, civil society organizations (CSOs); municipalities and local governments; schools, higher education institutions; research and scientific bodies and public institutions are eligible as lead partner (applicant) and partners in the consortia
- Market actors, e.g.: private entrepreneurs, companies – especially innovation and startup-related actors – with a legal entity are also eligible, but only if their Visegrad project is of nonprofit character.
Ineligible
- Institutions of state administration (ministries, government agencies, embassies, state-funded cultural institutes, state-owned companies)
- Natural persons (individual citizens)
- Private entrepreneurs with/without a legal entity for funding their forprofit activities
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted via given website.
For more information, please visit https://www.visegradfund.org/apply/grants/strategic-grants/?c=conditions
