The International Visegrad Fund (IVF)
The governing bodies of the IVF are the Conference of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and the Council of Ambassadors of V4 countries. Its administrative and executive body is the IVF Secretariat – the Executive Director and the Deputy Executive Director of the IVF. The official language of the IVF is English.
The principle of the presidency country of the Visegrad Group also applies to the IVF. The IVF chairmanship rotates among the member states on a yearly basis in the English alphabetical order of their names and coincides with the calendar year. The country chairing the IVF in 2011 is the Republic of Hungary (the Slovak Republic chaired the IVF in 2009).
The main mission and objective of IVF projects is to promote Visegrad identity and friendship between the countries and populations of the Visegrad Group, to strengthen the feeling of togetherness and mutual ties in the civil society framework, to develop regional cooperation and exchanges through joint cultural, artistic, scientific, research and education projects, to carry out exchanges of artists and young people, to support cross-border cooperation and to promote tourism.
IVF programmes and grants
- Small grants, standard grants, strategic grants
the Visegrad Artist Residency Programme, the Visegrad University Studies Programme
Scholarships provided under the IVF
- Intra-Visegrad Scholarships
- Out-going scholarships
- In-coming scholarships
- Visegrad Scholarship Programme for Ukraine
- Visegrad Scholarship Programme for Belarus
Visegrad+
- Destination countries – Belarus, Serbia, Georgia
For more information on the Visegrad Group see www.visegradfund.org.
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