Grants

Mission-driven & Aware

Your organization´s project should be based on your core mission and reflect on common regional challenges.

Open & Cooperative

You should be open to leave your bubble and join efforts with actors of diverse backgrounds and complementary skills to benefit those outside of your everyday reach.

Goal-oriented

You should be committed to achieving results that are justifiable and contribute to our objectives.

Culture & Common Identity

We support projects that strengthen regional and European identity through common cultural initiatives in Visegrad region.

Education & Capacity Building

We support projects that raise the Central and Eastern Europe region´s competitiveness through improved skills of citizens.

Innovation, R&D, Entrepreneurship

We support projects that improve the environment for innovation and joint R&D projects and advancement of regional cohesion in economic development.

Democratic Values & Media

We support projects that advance democratic values, support human rights and minorities, contribute to development of civil society, strengthen media freedom and access to information.

Public Policy & Institutional Partnership

We support projects that contribute to good governance and improve the effectiveness of public policymaking in the regional context.

Regional Development, Environment, Tourism

We support projects that advance strategies for environmentally sustainable regional development and tourism.

Social Development

We support projects that strengthen an inclusive society and solidarity in the region.

Project relevance

We assess the compliance of the project with the aims of the Fund. We also evaluate how clearly the applicant explains the context of the project and how the project responds to the given context or relates to relevant environment. The context should be based on exact data.

Visegrad substance

We assess the regional added value of the project in terms of the collaboration of project partners and how much regional cooperation contributes to achieving the project objectives. We also look at geographical scope of project activities and how much it promotes regional cooperation.

Quality & Impact

We assess the quality of the project in terms of the relevance of the proposed outcome as well as its potential to achieve it by linking relevant actors, project outputs and the target groups. We distinguish between 4 levels of impact. The lowest possible impact is achieved when providing a direct service. In practice, it means that you organize an event or publish a book according to your project proposal and the listed target groups participate in the event or read the book. The second level is achieved when your target group changes their behavior or acquires a new skill thanks to your project. Following the example above, the participants of an event did not only attend passively, but left with a new way of thinking about the subject and a will act upon it. Changing the framework is the third level of impact. It means that your project managed to bring about a change in the legal or social environment of your target group. The highest possible level of impact is the change of the perception of the issue that you are dealing with. This is when a problem becomes a solution. Achieving such a change requires a long time, persistence and enormous hard work. We understand that you will not achieve it with one project supported by the Fund. However, we appreciate if your organization is driven by this level of impact and your project proposal is contributing to getting closer to its achievement.

Transparency & Accuracy

We assess the value for money for each project proposal and how is the funding requested adequate for the scale of the project and of accurate value for the outcomes to be delivered.

Experience & Mission

We assess the experience of all partners in project consortium and how the project relates to their overall mission.