As of today, the Fund is accept­ing appli­ca­tions within Standard Grants—EaP (dead­line is September 15, 2012). The pro­gram aims at sup­port­ing projects that develop coop­er­a­tion between the Visegrad Group coun­tries and coun­tries of the Eastern Partnership (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine).

Leaflet [  .JPG, 139 KB ] / Leaflet [  .PDF, 71 KB ]
On-line appli­ca­tion form

The International Visegrad Fund seeks an employee for a part-time posi­tion of a mobil­ity pro­grams assis­tant. Deadline for appli­ca­tions is August 30, 2012. More information:

Mobility pro­grams assis­tant job open­ing [  .PDF, 43.1 KB ]

The International Visegrad Fund and the International Renaissance Foundation announce an open call for pro­pos­als for a study tour of Belarusian and Ukrainian jour­nal­ists in the Visegrad Group coun­tries. Deadline for appli­ca­tion sub­mis­sion is September 30, 2012. More information/on-line appli­ca­tion form:

Call for pro­pos­als [  .PDF, 65.9 KB ]
On-line appli­ca­tion form

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic Miroslav Lajčák received on August 6, 2012 Petr Vágner, for­mer Executive Director of the International Visegrad Fund in Bratislava, on the occa­sion of the forth­com­ing ter­mi­na­tion of his three-year man­date as Executive Director of the Fund. During this meet­ing Minister Lajčák appre­ci­ated the active and suc­cess­ful role of Mr. Vágner in strength­en­ing Visegrad coop­er­a­tion in cul­ture, schol­ar­ship pro­grams, research and cross-border coop­er­a­tion. At the same time Minister M. Lajčák praised the per­sonal con­tri­bu­tion of Mr. Vágner in fur­ther pro­mo­tion of the Fund’s activ­i­ties and awarded him the Golden Plaquette of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic.

Source:MFA Slovak Republic

Due to the fact the Fund has received only a min­i­mum num­ber of appli­ca­tions, we are re-opening the on-line appli­ca­tion sys­tem for the IVF-NSC, Taiwan Scholarship Program until September 30, 2012. Application sub­mit­ted within the dead­line of June 29, 2012 will be auto­mat­i­cally trans­ferred to the new dead­line. Thank you for your understanding.

Ms. Karla Wursterová assumes her duties as the Executive Director of the International Visegrad Fund as of today replac­ing Mr. Petr Vágner whose term ended on July 31, 2012. Please see the press release below:

Press Release—New Director of the Fund [  .DOC, 30 KB ]

Yesterday’s Council of Ambassadors approved the fol­low­ing list of appli­cants within the Visegrad Literary Residency Program:

List of approved lit­er­ary residencies—2012 [  .PDF, 24.2 KB ]

Due to changes in set­tings on our servers cer­tain func­tions in the on-line appli­ca­tion sys­tem may be lim­ited dur­ing today’s after­noon. No data will be lost. We apol­o­gize for any incon­ve­niences. Thank you for understanding.

Today’s Council of Ambassadors approved the fol­low­ing project pro­pos­als sub­mit­ted within June dead­line of Small Grants:

List of Approved Small Grants [  .PDF, 17.1 KB ]

Today’s Council of Ambassadors in Warsaw approved the projects sub­mit­ted within the March dead­line of Strategic Grants and June call for pro­pos­als within V4EaP program’s Flagship Projects. All appli­cants will be duly informed by e-mail. The lists of approved pro­pos­als are here:

List of approved Strategic Grants [  .PDF, 12.8 KB ]
List of approved Flagship Projects [  .PDF, 39.5 KB ]

A pre­sen­ta­tion of the Fund’s grant and mobil­ity pro­grams will take place in Doboz, Hungary, on August 4, 2012 from 11:45. More information:

Partnerségben – kon­fer­en­cia, Doboz, 2012. augusz­tus 4. (szom­bat) 11.45 óra [  .DOC, 340 KB ]

Presentation of the Fund’s grant and mobil­ity pro­grams will take place within the Warsaw East European Conference in Room 107 in the old library build­ing of the the Warsaw University (Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28) on Sunday July 15 at 12:30.

The eval­u­a­tion  process of the Strategic Grants will be pro­longed due to the unprece­dented high num­ber of sub­mit­ted appli­ca­tions. The results will be pub­lished on the Fund’s web­site dur­ing July 2012. All appli­cants will also be noti­fied by e-mail. We apol­o­gize for the delay.

A pre­sen­ta­tion of the Fund’s grant and mobil­ity pro­grams will be held at Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica on June 11, 2012, from 1 pm. Further infor­ma­tion and RSVP details:

• Prezentácia Vyšehradského fondu – Banská Bystrica, 11. júna od 13. hod. [  .PDF, 291 KB ]

In coop­er­a­tion with Villa Decius Association in Cracow, the Fund launches a new sub­pro­gram within VARP—the Visegrad Literary Residency Program. Targeting writ­ers of fic­tion and non-fiction, poets and lit­er­ary trans­la­tors, essay­ists, crit­ics and jour­nal­ists, the pro­gram offers alto­gether 16 grants (4 per V4 coun­try) for the period from September 1 to November 30, 2012. See more:

• Visegrad Literary Residency Program