grant sup­port of com­mon cul­tural, sci­en­tific and edu­ca­tional projects, youth exchanges, cross-border projects and tourism pro­mo­tion, indi­vid­ual mobil­ity pro­grams

The Council of Ambassadors approved the fol­low­ing grant and mobil­ity projects sub­mit­ted in November and December 2011:

List of approved Small Grants [  .XLS ]
List of approved Visegrad University Studies Grants [  .XLS ]
List of approved Visegrad Artist Residencies in New York [  .XLS ]
List of approved Visegrad Artist Residencies—Performing Arts [  .XLS ]
List of approved Visegrad Scholarships at OSA [  .DOC ]

Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW), Warsaw, and the International Visegrad Fund orga­nize the pre­sen­ta­tion of the Visegrad bib­li­og­ra­phy project and the offi­cial book launch in Poland. The event will be held at the OSW Library in Warsaw on 30 January 2012 at 2 pm. The invi­ta­tion in Polish and RSVP details are avail­able here:

Zaproszenie na prezen­tację, 30 sty­cz­nia 2012 r., g. 14.00 [  .PDF, 203 KB ]

Internal Cohesion of the Visegrad Group is set as the sin­gle pri­or­ity for the Visegrad Strategic Program in 2012. For fur­ther details please see the program’s website:

Visegrad Strategic Program—priority for 2012

As part of new rules adapted by the Council of Ambassadors in December 2011, the max­i­mum sup­port for Small Grant projects was raised to €6,000 and, cor­re­spond­ingly, the min­i­mum sup­port for Standard Grants was raised to €6,001. Please see the new rules applic­a­ble for grant pro­grams in 2012 for fur­ther details:

Small Grants, Standard Grants, Stategic Grants [  .pdf, 74 KB ]

The death of for­mer Czechoslovak and Czech President Václav Havel entails the pass­ing of a great politi­cian and moral author­ity. The almost fairytale-like story when the power of the pow­er­less removed the com­mu­nist dic­ta­tor­ship in the cen­ter of Europe is very closely con­nected with his life.

His vision of Central Europe led him and his friends from Central European dis­si­dent cir­cles, who came into power by the end of the 1980s, to the idea of estab­lish­ing closer ties among the new democ­ra­cies to deal with the bur­den­some her­itage of the com­mu­nist regimes. The embod­i­ment of this effort, the Visegrad Group, came into exis­tence in 1991.

The Visegrad Group is a con­cept that Václav Havel sup­ported and advo­cated inten­sively. The results attained by the Visegrad Group dur­ing its twenty-year exis­tence have con­firmed the fore­sight of this con­cept. We have lost a real Homo viseg­radi­cus, please join us in hon­or­ing his memory.

Secretariat of the International Visegrad Fund

The Hungarian Institute of International Affairs (MKI) and the International Visegrad Fund orga­nize an offi­cial book launch of the Two Decade of Cooperation—Selected V4 Bibliography project. The pre­sen­ta­tion takes place at the MKI in Budapest on 21 December 2011 from 11 o’clock. For more infor­ma­tion please see the Hungarian invi­ta­tion below:

Meghívó – MKI, Budapest, 2011. decem­ber 21. [  .doc, 34.5 KB ]

The Council of Ambassadors approved pro­pos­als sub­mit­ted within September dead­lines of Standard Grants and Visegrad Artist Residency Program. Please see below the com­plete lists of approved proposals:

Approved Standard Grants—September 2011 dead­line [  .pdf, 42.2 KB ]
Approved VARP Projects—September 2011 dead­line [  .pdf, 16.0 KB ]

Applicants prepar­ing project pro­pos­als for the 1 December dead­line of Small Grants are kindly requested not to leave the elec­tronic sub­mis­sion to the last minute. Please note that higher server traf­fic might cause response delays. Deadline for elec­tronic sub­mis­sion of appli­ca­tion forms is 1 December 2011 at 12 o’clock noon. Signed print­outs along with all accom­pa­ny­ing doc­u­ments can be posted on the same day at the lat­est or per­son­ally deliv­ered to the Fund by 16:30 on 1 December.

The Council of Ambassadors approved ear­lier today the selected project pro­pos­als sub­mit­ted within the September dead­line of Small Grants. The list of approved projects is avail­able below. All grantees will be duly informed by e-mail.

Approved Small Grants—September 2011 dead­line [  .pdf, 15.4 KB ]

Two grantees of the Fund received pres­ti­gious art awards in the past month. Štefan Papčo—resident of the VARP in New York pro­gram—received the 2011 Grand Prize and the Best Open Studio award at the Dumbo Arts Festival 2011 in New York and Tomáš Rafa—recipient of a Small Grant—received the 2011 Oskár Čepan Award given by the Center for Contemporary Arts in Bratislava for his video art project on new nation­al­ism in Central Europe on 20 October 2011. Congratulations to both!

Dumbo Arts Festival 2011 (2011 awards)
New National in the Heart of Europe (win­ning project of Tomáš Rafa)

As of today the appli­ca­tion sys­tem is open for project pro­pos­als within the Visegrad University Studies Grants (VUSG). Deadline for sub­mis­sion is 10 November 2011.

• Create an appli­ca­tion for VUSG

Next selec­tion of projects within Visegrad Scholarships at the Open Society Archives takes place on 15 October 2011. The fol­low­ing two themes were selected for the 2011–2012 aca­d­e­mic year: Is There Anything Usable One Can Learn from Communism? and The History of Propaganda, Objectivity and Truth under the Cold War and Right After.

Visegrad Scholarships at OSA—Categories 2, 3—Thematic Groups and Individual Fellows

The sec­ond annual meet­ing of alumni and friends of the International Visegrad Fund takes place on Tuesday, 11 October 2011, from 18:00, on the premises of the Slovak Embassy in Kiev (Yaroslaviv val 34). Those inter­ested in tak­ing part are kindly requested to con­firm their par­tic­i­pa­tion to Mr. Luboš Veselý, Trustee for Ukraine.

Due to the fact 15 September 2011 is a state hol­i­day in Slovakia, hard-copy appli­ca­tions can be deliv­ered to the Fund per­son­ally by 16:30 on Friday, 16 September 2011; 16-September post­marks will also be accepted for appli­ca­tions sent by post. The dead­line for on-line sub­mis­sion remains the same, i.e. the sys­tem closes at 12:00 (noon) on 15 September 2011. Applicants are kindly requested to sub­mit their appli­ca­tions in advance, as higher server traf­fic can be expected. Thank you for understanding.