The Embassy of Hungary in coop­er­a­tion with the Slovak Foreign Policy Association and the Faculty of International Relations of the University of Economics in Bratislava launch an essay com­pe­ti­tion for MA/PhD stu­dents. Essays themed My Vision of Visegrad Cooperation are to be sub­mit­ted by April 30, 2014.

More infor­ma­tion: Essay com­pe­ti­tion [  .PDF ]

A new sub­pro­gram of the Strategic Grants titled the Strategic Conferences was launched ear­lier today. The pro­gram aims at (co-)funding lead­ing inter­na­tional con­fer­ences with strate­gic char­ac­ter and excep­tional regional rel­e­vance. Prospective appli­cants must prove their excel­lent track record in their field.

Visegrad Strategic Conferences website

Application forms for the Visegrad–Taiwan Scholarships can still be sent with Monday’s post­mark (i.e., Febr. 17, 2014); the dead­line for on-line sub­mis­sions remains unchanged, i.e., 11.59:59 a.m. CET on February 15, 2014.

Today’s Prague-held Council of Ambassadors approved the fol­low­ing grant projects sub­mit­ted within last year’s dead­lines of Small Grants, (V4EaP) Extended Standard Grants, and Visegrad University Studies Grants:

List of Approved Small Grants  [  .XLSX ]
List of Approved V4EaP Extended Standard Grants  [  .XLS ]
List of Approved VUSG Projects  [  .XLSX ]

Think Visegrad—V4 Think Tank Platform is invit­ing non-V4 researchers to apply for Think Visegrad fel­low­ships for 2014: www.visegradfund.org/think-tank/fellowships/.

The fol­low­ing themes are the three pri­or­i­ties for the Visegrad Strategic Program’s 2014 dead­line sched­uled for April 15, 2014 (fur­ther details can be found here):

1. Raising Competitiveness in the Visegrad Region,
   

2. 25^th Anniversary of the Democratic Changes in Central Europe, and

3. North-South Transport Connectivity for Progressive Visegrad Region.

With the new year, sev­eral changes occur within most grant pro­grams. In gen­eral, we raised the lim­its in cash trans­ac­tions, over­heads, and increased the fund’s max­i­mum con­tri­bu­tion to each project bud­get. Please note that these changes come into effect as of 2014. Projects sub­mit­ted in 2013 or ear­lier must com­ply with the rules effec­tive at the time of their sub­mis­sion. You can see the new lim­its here.

Today’s Council of Ambassadors approved projects for fund­ing within the September dead­lines of the Standard Grants, VARP—Performing Arts, Flagship Projects:

Standard Grants [  .XLS ]
VARP—Performing Arts [  .XLS ]
Flagship Projects [  .XLS ]

Due to the fact Dec. 1 falls on Sunday, elec­tron­i­cally sub­mit­ted appli­ca­tions forms for Small Grants can be sent by post on Dec. 2, 2013, or deliv­ered per­son­ally by 4:30 p.m. on Dec. 2.

Due to the fact the dead­line for VUSG falls on Sunday, we will be accept­ing the paper ver­sions of the appli­ca­tion forms with Monday’s (Nov. 11) post­mark, or their per­sonal deliv­er­ies to the sec­re­tariat by 4:30 pm on Monday. Please note that the dead­line for elec­tronic sub­mis­sion remains the same, i.e., Sunday’s noon (Nov. 10). Thank you for understanding.

We are expe­ri­enc­ing tech­ni­cal dif­fi­cul­ties with the on-line appli­ca­tion sys­tem within the Extended Standard Grants dead­line. We will do our best to fix the issue in the near­est pos­si­ble time. We will make sure no data will have been lost in the mal­func­tion period. We apol­o­gize for any incon­ve­niences. Please stay in touch with us for fur­ther infor­ma­tion. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

The International Visegrad Fund is hereby announc­ing a call for pro­pos­als within the Extended Standard Grants with a dead­line for sub­mis­sion at 12 p.m. (noon) on Monday, December 9, 2013.

Call for pro­pos­als [  .DOC, 63.5 KB ]
Program rules—Extended Standard Grants [  .PDF, 66 KB ]

Today’s Council of Ambassadors approved selected grant projects sub­mit­ted within the September dead­line of Small Grants.

List of approved Small Grants [  .PDF, 14 KB ]

The Prime Ministers of the Visegrad Group coun­tries empha­sized the impor­tance of the activ­i­ties sup­ported by the International Visegrad Fund and agreed to increase the fund’s annual bud­get to €8 mil­lion as of 2014.

Joint Statement on the International Visegrad Fund [Visegrad Group’s website]

The International Visegrad Fund is seek­ing an employee for the part-time posi­tion of the Project Coordinator for Mobility Programs. Please send you CV and cover let­ter by October 20, 2013. More information:

Position open­ing [  .DOC, 32 KB ]