Interna­tional Viseg­rad Fund

The International Visegrad Fund is an inter­na­tional orga­ni­za­tion based in Bratislava founded by the gov­ern­ments of the Visegrad Group (V4) countries-the Czech Republic, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Poland, and the Slovak Republic-in Stirín, Czech Republic, on June 9, 2000.

The pur­pose of the Fund is to facil­i­tate and pro­mote the devel­op­ment of closer coop­er­a­tion among V4 coun­tries (and of V4 coun­tries with other coun­tries, espe­cially but not exclu­sively non-EU mem­ber states in Eastern Europe, the Western Balkans and the South Caucasus) through grant sup­port of com­mon cul­tural, sci­en­tific and edu­ca­tional projects, youth exchanges, cross-border projects and tourism pro­mo­tion, and through indi­vid­ual mobil­ity pro­grams (schol­ar­ships, residencies).

The bud­get of the Fund (EUR6 mil­lion as of 2010) con­sists of equal con­tri­bu­tions of the Visegrad Group´s gov­ern­ments. The Fund runs four grant pro­grams (Small Grants, Standard Grants, the Visegrad Strategic Program and the Visegrad+ pro­gram), four schol­ar­ship schemes, an artist-in-residence pro­gram and a curriculum-building pro­gram for uni­ver­si­ties.