The Council of Ambassadors approved the fol­low­ing grant projects and schol­ar­ships sub­mit­ted within the March 1 dead­line of Small Grants and January 31 dead­line of the Visegrad Scholarship Program:

List of approved Small Grants—deadline of 1 March 2011 [  .xls, 31 KB ]
Lists of approved scholarships—deadline of 31 January 2011

As of the first 2011 grant dead­line (March 1) sev­eral changes occur in Small, Standard and Strategic Grants. Applicants are kindly requested to care­fully read the new rules and the Grant Guidelines. All pre­vi­ously approved grant projects fol­low the rules valid at the time of their approval and as stip­u­lated in the respec­tive contracts.

Grants—Overview
Guidelines for Small, Standard and Strategic Grants (2011)

New Rules—Small Grants (2011) [  .pdf, 75 KB ]
New Rules—Standard Grants (2011) [  .pdf, 75 KB ]
New Rules—Visegrad Strategic Program (2011) [  .pdf, 75 KB ]

The year’s first Council of Ambassadors—held in Budapest on 26 January 2011—approved the fol­low­ing projects within Small Grants, VUSG and VARP in New York:

List of approved Small Grants—deadline of 1 Dec. 2010 [  .pdf, 17.3 KB ]
List of approved 2010 VUSG—dead­line of 10 Nov. 2010 [  .pdf, 34.5 KB ]
List of approved 2011 VARP in New York sub­mit­ted on 20 Dec. 2010 [  .pdf, 21.4 KB ]

In coop­er­a­tion with Futura Prague and Triangle Arts Association, New York, the Fund is launch­ing a VARP sub­pro­gram titles Visegrad Artist Residencies in New York. Deadline for appli­ca­tions is 20 December 2010.

More information—VARP in New York

The first meet­ing of the Visegrad Alumni in Ukraine took place on 29 November 2010 at the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Kyiv. The meet­ing was attended by Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, the Fund’s Executive Director Petr Vágner and V4 diplo­mats posted in Ukraine. See more:

Alumni meeting—invitation [  .pdf, 440 KB ]
Family photo—H.E. Schwarzenberg and the alumni [  .jpg, 1.34 MB ]
Family photo—H.E. Schwarzenberg, P. Vágner and V4 diplo­mats [  .jpg, 1.55 MB ]

The Conference of Ministers approved the fol­low­ing project pro­pos­als sub­mit­ted within the Visegrad+ call towards Georgia:

Approved 2010 Visegrad+ project pro­pos­als with the focus on Georgia

The Council of Ambassadors approved projects within the September dead­lines of Standard Grants and the Visegrad Artist Residency Program (VARP). The com­plete lists are avail­able below:

List of Approved Standard Grants (September 2010 dead­line) [  .xls, 94 KB ]
List of Approved VARP projects [  .xls, 31 KB ]

The Council of Ambassadors approved projects within the September dead­line of Small Grants. The com­plete list is avail­able here:

List of Approved Small Grants—September 2010 dead­line [  .xls ]

Please note that the dead­line for the Visegrad Strategic Program in 2011 will be 16 May 2011. Thank you for understanding.

The Council of Ambassadors approved the fol­low­ing pri­or­i­ties for the Visegrad Strategic Program for 2011:

1. Internal Cohesion of the Visegrad Group,
2. Promotion of the Visegrad Group (V4) in Central Europe and the EU as Part of the 20^thAnniversary of the V4,
3. Social Inclusion of the Roma Population, and
4. Youth and Sports Exchanges.

2011 Priorities for the Visegrad Strategic Program—further details

On the occa­sion of the 20^th anniver­sary of the estab­lish­ment of the Visegrad Group (see more on the first Visegrad Summit), the International Visegrad Fund in coop­er­a­tion with the four respec­tive for­eign min­istries plan to mark the anniver­sary with a pub­lic debate and accom­pa­ny­ing events which are to take place in Brussels, Belgium in February 2011. Proposals are accepted until 16 September 2010.

Call for Proposals—Brussels events, II/2011

The Council of Ambassadors approved projects sub­mit­ted within the June dead­line of Small Grants. The com­plete list is avail­able here:

List of Approved Small Grants June 2010 Deadline

The International Visegrad Fund announces a call for pro­pos­als for Visegrad+ projects towards the Republic of Georgia in the fol­low­ing areas:

1. Vocational Training Reform and Vocational Training for IDPs
2. Sharing V4 Experience with the EU Integration: Legislation Reform and Cooperation with NGOs
3. Sharing V4 Know-How on Decentralization of Administration Structures

Deadline for pro­pos­als is Wednesday 15 September 2010. For more details please see the Call for Proposals and the Rules of the Visegrad+ Program.

The Council of Ambassadors approved fund­ing of projects selected within the March 2010 dead­line of Standard Grants. Please see below the com­plete list:

List of Approved Standard Grants March 2010 Deadline

The Council of Ambassadors approved the 2010/2011 schol­ar­ships (January 2010 dead­line). The lists of approved schol­ars are avail­able below (please note that the approved schol­ars will be noti­fied by e-mail later today):

Visegrad Scholarship Program: Approved Scholarships 2010/2011