Deadline: 17-Mar-2025
The Central Project Management Agency (CPVA) is seeking proposals to support Belarusian academic staff to support their joint projects with academic staff from EU-based higher education institutions and/or Belarusians who have not left the country.
In December 2021 the European Commission adopted the European Union financed Programme/special measure “EU4Belarus: Reinforcing Resilience and Democratisation” with the overall objective to reinforce the resilience and capacity among the Belarusian people affected by the political crisis to achieve democratic changes in Belarus.
As part of this special measure, EU4BELARUS: Support for Advanced Learning and Training (hereinafter – SALT III) concerns the implementation of one of the special measure’s components targeting education sector. SALT III programme is specifically designed to establish support schemes for Belarusian students, lecturers, scientists, and young professionals who have faced repression and persecution. In the framework of SALT III programme, a support scheme has been foreseen to provide a support to Belarusian university professors and researchers to undertake collective research projects and participate in international research programmes. The scheme is intended to enable Belarusian academic staff to consolidate and preserve the Belarusian academic community and its integration in the common European educational space by promoting international cooperation. The support scheme is administered by Central Project Management Agency (CPVA), who acts as a contracting authority, and implemented in close collaboration with the independent Belarusian civil society organisations.
Objective
- The specific objective of this call for proposals is to provide opportunities for consolidating and preserving the Belarusian academic community and its integration in the common European educational space by promoting international cooperation through academic research project grants.
Funding Lots
- The grant scheme is structured in 2 lots as follows:
- Lot 1. Academic research projects in the field of Humanities and Social sciences.
- Lot 2. Academic research projects in the fields of all other sciences.
Funding Information
- The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 965.000. The contracting authority reserves the right not to award all available funds or increase the budget during the assessment stage if additional funds should become available per decision of Contracting Authority.
- Lot 1: EUR 480.000
- Lot 2: EUR 485.000
- Size of grants:
- minimum amount for Lot 1 and Lot 2: EUR 50.000 (for all sciences)
- maximum amount for Lot 1: EUR 80.000 (for Humanities and Social sciences)
- maximum amount for Lot 2: EUR 121.250 (for other sciences)
- Duration: The initial planned duration of an action must be between 6 months and 18 months.
Eligible Activities
- Types of activity:
- all research-related activities (methodology development, data collection and analysis, preparation of research outputs, laboratory research, testing, conducting interviews, working in library, etc.);
- organising conferences, seminars, workshops, or other events to promote research results;
- attending conferences, seminars, workshops to present research results;
- publishing of research results in the scientific and mass media sources.
Expected Outputs
- scientific outputs (e.g., a monograph, study, peer-reviewed articles, etc.) (mandatory);
- policy-related outputs (e.g. policy briefings);
- dissemination outputs (e.g., dissemination of project results to the scientific community and other relevant stakeholders at conferences, workshops, seminars, media sources, etc.).
Eligibility Criteria
- In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
- be a legal entity and
- be non-profit and
- be a specific type of organization such as: university or other academic institution (like institutes of National Academy of Sciences, etc.) established in a Member State of the European Union and
- be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary.
For more information, visit CPVA.