grant programs, indi­vid­ual mobil­ity pro­grams

Today’s Council of Ambassadors offi­cially approved the recip­i­ents of 2013 Visegrad Scholarships (Visegrad Scholarship Program/Scholarships for EaP). Congratulations to the schol­ars of the aca­d­e­mic year 2013/2014. See the lists of approved scholars:

Approved Scholarships (Intra-Visegrad, Out-Going, In-Coming Western Balkans and Russia) [  .XLS ]
Approved Scholarships—EaP (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine) [  .XLS ]

Third issue of the Visegrad Insight opin­ion and analy­sis jour­nal was released yes­ter­day in print as well as in elec­tronic for­mats. Titled My Hero—Your Enemy the issue focuses on teach­ing his­tory in the Visegrad region. Visegrad Insight will be avail­able in selected book­stores world­wide, can be read on-line or can be down­loaded in sev­eral elec­tronic for­mats suit­able for tablets and e-readers.

Visegrad Insight

The recruit­ment for the Visegrad Literary Residencies has been pro­longed until May 5, 2013.

Today’s Council of Ambassadors approved grant sup­port for projects sub­mit­ted within March dead­line of Small Grants and fel­lows selected for Visegrad Scholarships at OSA:

List of Approved Small Grants (March 1, 2013) [  .PDF ]
List of Approved Fellows—Visegrad Scholarships at OSA 2012/2013 [  .DOC ]

The Visegrad Fund holds the fol­low­ing pub­lic pre­sen­ta­tions and dis­cus­sions in regard to the grant and mobil­ity pro­grams in Poland dur­ing April:

Szczecin, April 16, 2013, 09:00–15:00
Łódź, April 19, 2013, 15:00
Toruń, April 25, 13:00–15:00
Bydgoszcz, April 26, 10:00

Proposals for joint-degree uni­ver­sity pro­grams are accepted within the new VUSG—Joint Degree Program by April 10, 2013.

Visegrad University Studies Grants—Joint Degree Program
On-line appli­ca­tion form: VUSG—Joint Degree Program

The 12^th edi­tion of the Visegrad Summer School will be held from June 30 to July 13, 2013 in Cracow. Call for appli­ca­tions is open until March 31, 2013:

Visegrad Summer School (Villa Decius)

Please take note of two exten­sions of dead­lines within Standard Grants and Visegrad–Taiwan Scholarships:

• Standard Grants: dead­line for elec­tronic sub­mis­sion remains the same—i.e., 12:00 (noon) on March 15, 2013; hard-copies can, how­ever, be sent with a March-18 post­mark at the lat­est (or deliv­ered per­son­ally to the fund on March 18 by 16:30)
• Visegrad–Taiwan Scholarships: dead­line extended until 12:00 (noon) on April 30, 2013

Based on the deci­sion of the last ses­sion of the Council of Ambassadors the fol­low­ing ten pro­pos­als were offi­cially approved for financ­ing within the 2012 Visegrad+ Western Balkans call:

Visegrad+ Western Balkans—List of approved pro­pos­als [  .PDF, 36.4 KB ]

The Council of Ambassadors approved projects sub­mit­ted within the Visegrad Scholarships at OSA and Visegrad Artist Residencies in New York. Projects selected from the calls for pro­pos­als for the Visegrad+ pro­gram will be announced on Monday, March 4, 2013.

Visegrad Scholarships at OSA—selected fel­lows [  .DOC, 37 KB ]
VARP in New York—approved res­i­den­cies 2013 [  .PDF, 27.3 KB ]

Today’s Council of Ambassadors approved projects sub­mit­ted within November and December dead­lines of Small Grants, V4EaP Extended Standard Grants, Visegrad University Studies Grants (includ­ing the EaP chap­ter), as well as 2012/2013 fel­lows within the Visegrad Scholarships at OSA. Congratulations to the approved grantees and fellows:

Approved VUSG/VUSG—EaP projects—November dead­line [  .PDF, 44 KB ]
Approved Small Grants—December 2012 dead­line [  .PDF, 19 KB ]
Approved Extended Standard Grants—December dead­line [  .PDF, 10 KB ]
Approved fel­lows within the Visegrad Scholarships at OSA [  .DOC, 42 KB ]

The fol­low­ing three pri­or­i­ties for Strategic Grants in 2013 were offi­cially announced ear­lier today: (1) V4 coop­er­a­tion and the cur­rent chal­lenges in the European inte­gra­tion process—their impact on the V4, (2) Raising pub­lic aware­ness of the Visegrad coop­er­a­tion in the pub­lic opin­ion of the V4 countries—support for civil soci­ety con­tacts, and (3) Social inclu­sion. Deadline for sub­mis­sion of Strategic Grants pro­pos­als was set for April 15, 2013.

Visegrad Strategic Program—2013 priorities

As of January 1, 2013 the Slovak Republic holds the one-year pres­i­dency of the Conference of Ministers of Foreign Affairs, the supreme body of the International Visegrad Fund.

The International Visegrad Fund and the National Science Council of the Republic of China (Taiwan) announce a call for pro­pos­als for joint projects in the fields of fun­da­men­tal or applied research in the areas of IT and biotech­nol­ogy. Deadline for sub­mis­sion of pro­pos­als is January 23, 2013.

Call for pro­pos­als [  .PDF, 61 KB ]

The Council of Ambassadors approved the fol­low­ing grant and res­i­dency projects sub­mit­ted in September 2012:

Standard Grants [  .PDF, 43.2 KB ]
V4EaP Standard Grants [  .PDF, 7.26 KB ]
VARP—Performing Arts [  .PDF, 24.2 KB ]
VARP—Visual&Sound Arts [  .PDF, 14.7 KB ]