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Inspirational Projects

Below you can find a collection of granted projects and examples of mobility funding for inspiration of what Visegrad cooperation can mean and how it benefits citizens across the region.

21 Dec 2022 • • Bratislava

Sustainable Christmas

In today’s Green stories we will talk about how to make Christmas more sustainable. On one hand, Christmas is the most popular holiday season, but on the other hand, it is also one of the most wasteful and busy time of the year, too. Luckily, there are plenty of possibilities how to make the holidays low-waste but joyful. We would like to share with you some of our eco-friendly tips for the upcoming season: 

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28 Nov 2022 • •

Green Promotion of you Project

In today´s stories, we are talking about how to plan project promotion in a more environmentally friendly way. Read on for our tips!

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5 May 2022 — 26 Aug 2022 • Visegrad 4 Ukraine • Szentes

The story of two water polo teams brought together by war.

In May 2022, Visegrad Fund supported project 'Host of the U19 Ukrainian Water Polo National Team' as a part of the special grant call Visegrad 4 Ukraine that aimed at mitigating the effects of war on people from Ukraine. Read the story of two water polo teams, as seen by our Project Manager Éva Merenics:

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1 Jan 2020 — 4 Oct 2021 • Conference • Lviv

Strengthening of professional networking for impartial journalism in V4 region and Ukraine

“One of the biggest challenges in our countries is protecting the independence of media, the watchdogs of democratic development” says Nataliia Havryliv, coordinator of project ‘Strengthening of professional networking for impartial journalism in V4 region and Ukraine’

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24 Sep 2020 — 9 Aug 2021 • Competition • Warsaw, Poland

High School Business Challenge

The largest business competition in Central and Eastern Europe for high school students - The High School Business Challenge. The goal of the Challenge is to give high school students the opportunity to develop their confidence, expertise and provide them with the unique chance to test themselves in this field.

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1 Oct 2019 — 31 Aug 2021 • training of trainers, workshops, mobile application • Krynica-Zdrój, Spišská Stará Ves, Lviv, Verkhovyna

Development of Carpathian Mountain Rescue Cooperation Platform

Mountains are for many families, youth and elders the first go to holiday destination in the Visegrad region. Either for a quick weekend getaway, or longer seasonal vacation, mountains offer multiple activities from skiing and snowboarding, to hiking, bungee jumping and many others. We all enjoy fresh air and peaceful forests. However, mountains also can be, unfortunately, very dangerous. It is when we need skilled mountain rescuers!

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10 Nov 2019 — 9 May 2021 • Artists platform • Online events

Platform for Central and Eastern Europe Women Artists

The Secondary Archive is an online research and database platform that presents non-Western — primarily Central and Eastern European — art through the lens of gender, covering the period after WWII through the present. The archive, an international project focusing on Central and Eastern Europe, is realised by the Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation, together with its partners Easttopics (Hungary) Björnsonova (Slovakia), and MeetFactory (Czech Republic). The platform gives free access to more than 250 female artists’ profiles, containing newly published artist and curatorial texts developed especially for the purpose of the archive. Representing three generations of artists from Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary, the platform aims to help promote, discover, and rediscover female artists and the most valuable phenomena of contemporary art of our region.

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1 Jan 2020 — 31 May 2021 • Theatre performance, social inclusion workshops • Budapest, Bratislava, Gdansk, Prague

No-one Should Sleep on the Street—Complex Sensitizing Campaigns on Homelessness in V4 Countries

The most recent data on homelessness is the following: 68.500 in the Czech Republic, 30.000 in Hungary, 33.408 in Poland are estimated to be sleeping rough on a single night with no official data from Slovakia. Moreover, recent comparative research has shown that post-socialist countries are leading in intolerance and prejudice among European countries. As the partners of the project claim, this has mainly been strengthened by populist and xenophobic discourse.

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20 Sep 2019 — 15 Jun 2021 • workshops, online performances • Banska Bystrica, Lublin, Budapest

Promoting Social Acceptance of Mentally Disabled People through Art

According to a study conducted by the World Health Organisation, an estimated 25 percent of the worldwide population is affected by a mental or neurological disorder at some point in their lives. Although the mental disorder is one of the leading causes of ill-health and disability worldwide, stigma and discrimination often make difficulties worse and prevent people from finding a purpose in life. Thus, it is common that people with disabilities are unable to support themselves throughout their lives and become dependent on social support schemes. The main organiser of the project, the Baltazar Theatre Company, is one of the very few artistic companies in the V4 region that employs and focuses on people with mental disabilities. In other words, all of the actors employed are salaried, thus, they can financially support their parents, relatives, or themselves.

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20 Sep 2020 — 15 Feb 2021 • Investigative Journalism, Conference • Prague

Prague Media Point: Focus on Investigative Journalism in V4 and Western Balkans

Prague Media Point is an international interdisciplinary conference for journalists, media professionals, scholars, policymakers, and activists, organized annually since 2012. Part of the conference’s 2020 edition focused on the safety and practice of investigative journalism in V4 and the Western Balkans countries.

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1 Oct 2019 — 30 Nov 2020 • Science workshops, education • Kyiv

Science Teens Platform

The Science Teens Platform set up a series of workshops and lectures organized with the goal to raise awareness of the importance of science among Ukrainian teenagers and children and to put them into an international scientific context through cooperation with tutors from the V4 countries. More than 64% of scientists of Ukrainian research institutions think, that conditions for scientists and popularity of this profession are decreasing. For this reason, the project aims to show the positive experience of countries V4, popularize science and as a result rise the awareness of importance developing science and technological entrepreneurship in Ukraine.

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5 Jun 2020 — 31 Oct 2020 • Sports • Mnisek nad Popradom

VisegRUN: Let’s Run for V4 Health & Integration

Did you know that More then 50% of population of V4 countries is overweight; about 25% is obese? At the same time, there is a huge percentage of highly processed food on a diet of the V4 nations. Considering V4 problems with obesity and inappropriate nutrition there is a need for initiatives to raise the lifestyle awareness in the V4 countries. The project goal is to advance V4 citizens’ physical activity & pro-healthy behaviour through developing joint V4 sports & health promotion initiative while contributing to regional and cross-border integration & cooperation.

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1 Jun 2019 — 30 Nov 2020 • Animal Protection • Bratislava

Wilderness on the Border

Do you know that Protected Bird Area Sysľovské polia located on the border of Slovakia, Hungary and Austria inhabits unique bird species that live only in this area? Unfortunately, the birds are now facing tremendous threats coming from very dangerous specie – humans. People living close by to Sysľovské polia enjoy its nature for recreation purposes. Legal restrictions and limitations due to conservation of nature are however often not followed because the people are not aware enough about the importance of this area. Especially in case of rare species, such as the Red-footed falcon, such disturbances can affect its whole population. Also, the critically endangered Great bustard is under high risk of this threat, especially in winter.

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3 Jun 2019 — 30 Sep 2020 • Working with Seniors • Cieszyn

Visegrad Cooperation for Working with Seniors

Polish organization European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation TRITIA, Ltd. implemented project with the focus on seniors together with project partners Home of social services and facilities for seniors Zákamenné (SK), Center of Social services Horelica (SK), District Residential Home "Pogodna Jesień" ("Sunny Autumn") (PL), Social Services Center in Český Těšín (PL), 9forces Foundation (PL), Public Servis Company St. Joseph, p.s.c. Ropice (CZ), Nursing house for seniors under a patronage of Sainth Elizabeth, Konvent sisters of St. Elizabeth (CZ), Cambio Foundation (PL), District Residential Home "Betania" (PL), Retirement home Vrbno (CZ).

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1 Jul 2019 — 28 Feb 2020 • Grassroot Advocacy Training • Prague

Grassroots Advocacy Academy – Support Roma Activists

Stichting ERGO Network Organization from Belgium has organized Grassroot Advocacy Academy in Slovakia, Czech republic and Poland with the cooperation of their project partners Slovo 21 from Prague, Roma Advocacy and Research Centre from Skalica and Autonomia Foundation from Budapest.

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1 Oct 2019 — 15 Nov 2020 • Teachers Workshops • Chernivtsi

Take a journey through Chernivtsi and Chişinău and discover cities‘ nearly forgotten sites of Jewish life

Hungarian organization Centropa together with The "Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre" Centre, NGO EDAH, Kurt and Ursula Schubert Centre of Jewish Studies, EcoVisio and the Center for Studies of Memory Policy an Public History Mnemonics launched ‘TransHistory: Promoting Civil Society and Jewish History in the Visegrad Countries, Moldova, Ukraine’ project.

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5 Feb 2020 — 30 Jul 2021 • Exhibition • Budapest

Design Without Borders – Meeting of European and Eastern European Designers

An exhibition series of designers, furniture, textile and jewellery designers and visual artists from Austria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain and Switzerland; and an event series of contemporary dance and contemporary music.

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1 Feb 2019 — 31 Jul 2020 • Workshop • Budapest

Modern Roma Identity in the Visegrad Region

Through creative workshops, fashion designers and community workers engage with Roma women and disadvantaged youth sharing the forgotten clothing traditions of Roma in Visegrad region.

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1 Sep 2019 — 30 Nov 2019 • Festival • Budapest

EUnderground: Cultural Dissent Movements in the Visegrad Countries

The EUnderground project reveals hidden cultural heritage of underground cultural movements in Eastern and Central Europe between 1948-89.

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1 Sep 2017 — 28 Feb 2018 • Internship • Bălţi, Moldova

Strengthening Capacities of Dairy Farmers from Northern Moldova

An internship program at dairy farms in Visergad countries helps small and medium dairy farmers from Northern Moldova learn sustainable techniques for increasing production; improving products' quality; and raising farming profitability.

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11 Jan 2017 — 31 Aug 2018 • Summer school • Ivancea, Moldova

Vzlyot Edition 2017/2018 – Visegrad School for Young Leaders

Vzlyot is a dyad of a winter and a summer camp for Moldovan young leaders to foster engagement with local communities, and to build long-lasting networks of cooperation and support.

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25 Jan 2018 — 15 May 2018 • Workshop/training/seminar • Opole, Poland

Audio Description Over the Borders

Audio description experts from Visegrad and Eastern Partnership countries exchange best practices of adjusting museum and arts collections for blind and partially sighted persons.

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1 Sep 2017 — 30 Jun 2018 • Workshop/training/seminar • Kiev

Creative Youth Education for Responsible Mobility

A series of innovative and creative educational workshops help raise awareness of young people from Ukraine about safe travel and stay in V4 countries and the EU.

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1 Jun 2017 — 30 Sep 2017 • Conference • Lednické Rovne, Slovakia

Building Bridges in V4 Young Glass Community

Leading glass and ceramics schools in V4 organize 3-days conference and a student competition to increase the involvement of young people in regional glass science and industry.

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1 Jul 2016 — 30 Jun 2017 • Competition • Budapest, Hungary

Scratch Match: Regional Competition for Girls

V4 youth and IT organizations design programming competition to make technology more attractive for young girls in Visegrad region.

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1 Mar 2017 — 28 Feb 2018 • Workshop/training/seminar • Lillafüred, Hungary

Carpathian Tourism

A series of workshops helps rural tourism actors to exchange best practices and to adopt new tools for development of their services.

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1 Oct 2017 — 1 Nov 2018 • Workshop/training/seminar • Krakow, Poland

Preventing and Reducing Food Waste

Food Banks from Visegrad countries exchange their experiences with supermarket chains in order to improve preventing and reducing food waste.

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1 Dec 2016 — 31 May 2017 • Workshop/training/seminar • Ukraine

Avalanche Prevention in the Ukrainian Carpathians

Czech, Polish and Slovak rescue volunteers and professionals share theoretical knowledge and practical skills for avalanche prevention with their Ukrainian counterparts.

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9 Dec 2016 — 30 Oct 2017 • Summer school • Nagykovácsi, Hungary

V4 STEM Camp for Girls

A 5-day summer camp promotes science, engineering, technology, IT and mathematics (STEM) as an attractive career option for girls in V4 region.

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1 Dec 2016 — 10 Aug 2017 • Summer school • Krakow, Poland

Visegrad Summer School

Unique cultural and educational program bring together students, graduates, young researchers and journalists from the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary as well as other Central and East European countries.

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7 Oct 2015 — 31 May 2016 • Promotional production • Cieszyn, Poland

Visegrad Hostels: Discover the undiscovered

Four V4 hostels join forces to show the hidden gems of Central Europe – and discover its undiscovered local character.

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29 Mar 2016 — 31 May 2016 • Conference • Budapest

Open Skies, Open Societies: How Civil Society Can Use New Technology for Social Change

The project introduces drones to civil society organizations, independent media outlets, journalists and bloggers in Central Europe.

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1 Jan 2016 — 31 Dec 2016 • Festival • Budapest, Hungary

Chromosome Carnival

A special event organized on the occasion of the World Down Syndrome Day draws attention to the current situation of people living with mental disability in Hungary and the Visegrad region.

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1 Dec 2014 — 1 Feb 2016 • Online platform • Kiev, Ukraine

Skills Academy

By building an online platform, Skills Academy improves access to training opportunities for students in Ukraine.

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1 Aug 2011 — 31 Jul 2014 • Online database • Olomouc, Czechia

CEAD – Central European Art Database

Project partners from among V4 galleries, museums and NGOs systematically map cultural life in post-war Central Europe creating an extensive interactive deposit of the historical era under the communist regime and shortly after its collapse.

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