Deadline: 1 February 2020
Open to: cross-border and transnational regional projects in Visegrad region, Eastern Partnership and Western Balkans countries
Benefits: a 100% covered project grant
What We Look For
knowledge, enhance innovation and engage citizens in the Visegrad
region and across Central and Eastern Europe. We want to partner with
those that can make a difference—no matter if you are a small civic
group focused on the local community, or an experienced, nation-wide
organization.
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.
What We Support
of activities in all areas of life. From small cross-border projects
that strive to improve mutual understanding in the border areas to
multilateral initiatives with potential to benefit people across the
whole region.
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.
Assessment Criteria
the quality of project proposals. In addition, we also consider the
relative strength of the application compared to other applications
received for the same focus area and geographical balance of the
supported projects. The evaluation of applications is advisory and not
of a decision-making nature. The decisions on support are made by the
Council of Ambassadors.
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.
How To Apply?
a year via three different grant programs. Check application deadlines,
create your electronic application and apply online.
Deadlines
There are three regular calls for applications open 30 days before
the deadlines of submission on 1 February, 1 June, 1 October. It is not
possible to apply for funding outside of this period. Consulting your
project proposal is possible only by appointment and no later than 14
days before the submission period. You can expect the results to be
announced 60 days after the deadline.
Applications
No matter where your organization is from, you can apply for
grants if your project develops active cooperation with organizations
from at least 3 Visegrad countries. Only a single project application
per applicant can be submitted at a time, but you can re-apply once all
your previous projects financed by the Fund have been concluded.
Conditions
Specific conditions apply for each of the three grant programs.
Find the right grant program for your project via Grant Finder.
