International Visegrad Fund

The main aim of the fund is to strengthen the ties among peoples and institutions in Central and Eastern Europe through giving support to regional non-governmental initiatives.

[2] The financial support distributed by the fund amounts to EUR 10 million a year and is provided by equal contributions of the V4 governments.

In addition, since 2012 another EUR 6,4 million was provided by external donor countries (Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States).

The funding is channeled through grants for multilateral projects selected following calls for proposals and in the form of scholarships/fellowships for international mobility of individual scholars and artists.

An important element of this wider regional cooperation facilitated by the fund is to support activities contributing to political and socio-economic reforms in the partner countries with the aim to support political association and further economic integration between the European Union, the Eastern Partnership, and the aforementioned western Balkans countries.