Deadline: 15-Nov-2024
The International Visegrad Fund is accepting submissions for the V4 Gen Mini-Grant Program to provide financial contribution to short-term cross-border youth mobility in the V4 region and its immediate neighborhood.
V4 Gen Mini-Grant Program helps to promote democratic values, civic participation, and cross-border dialog among young people.
Objectives
- Sustainability and Resilience:
- Raising awareness regarding climate change and sustainable development, loss of biodiversity; boosting climate resilience, exchanging know-how, concrete community-based ecological projects, etc.
- Heritage and Remembrance:
- Common histories and common future incl. teaching/learning common history, collecting witness accounts, and launching oral-history projects, presenting local history in regional context, promotion of (common) anniversaries or interesting sights (EU accession, anniversaries of 1956/1968).
- Health and Active Lifestyle:
- Sports and other activities contributing to active lifestyle, promotion of healthy diet and activities focusing on personal well-being and both physical and mental health.
- Arts & Culture:
- Creating new performances together, facilitating cultural exchanges in the field of theatre, film, music, literature, traditional crafts, etc. (any productions and dissemination of visual, literary and performance arts, joint visits to cultural institutions).
- Democratic Values and Civic Virtues:
- Boosting interest and participation in democratic processes, dedication to common welfare, facilitating dialog on human rights, debate competitions, student parliaments, community engagement and volunteering.
- Practical Competences and Entrepreneurship:
- Fostering practical exchanges among vocational schools, NGOs, and between schools and businesses, and enabling short-term internship and training opportunities while fostering entrepreneurial spirit and improving concrete skills.
Funding Information
- Maximum requested budget per project is €10,000.
Duration
- The length of the implementation period is limited to 6 months.
Conditions
- Each project must involve mobility of young people (12–30-year-old) from at least two V4 countries, i.e., cross-border visits
- At least two V4 countries must be involved to participate (Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia). In addition to this, direct neighbors of two V4 countries can participate (Austria, Germany, and/or Ukraine). The applying institution must be officially registered in the V4 region.
- Neither physical distance from the border, nor a shared border are decisive factors
- Bilateral visits between entities, e.g., in Ostrava and Miskolc, or Gdańsk and Pécs are possible.
- Every project must carry out at least one joint event with both/all sides participating.
- Every project must have at least one joint physical presentation for the public or local community combined with creative forms of mediated outreach
- Any V4 legal entity relevant in working with youth can partake as the formal applicant or grantee
- E.g., schools, leisure-time clubs, sports associations, youth civil society organizations, etc.
For more information, visit International Visegrad Fund.