annual REPORT 2012 & guide 2013 annual report 2012 guide to programs in 2013 Uranium City, Pécs (July 2012) © 2013, International Visegrad Fund table of contents foreword by karla wursterová 5 staff 6 about the fund | links 7 calendar of deadlines | abbreviations 9 overview of grant and mobility programs 10—11 trends 2000—2012 12—13 funding by countries (2012) 16—17 map of approved projects (2012) 18 budgets (2012 and 2013) 20—21 small/standard grants by project categories (2000—2012) 22 lists of approved projects (2012): small/standard grants 25—34 Zsolnay Cultural Center, Pécs (July 2012) strategic grants 35 scholarships 36—42 flagship projects 43 V4EaP standard grants/extended standard grants 44—45 visegrad university studies grants/EaP 46 visegrad artist residencies 47—49 Design Eva Péč Brezinová Print Typoset, s.r.o. Texts set in Greta and Fedra by Peter Biľak (www.typotheque.com) Photographs Julia Baier (14), János Bődey (23), Gabriella Csoszó (8), Jacek Hamkało (2), Kata Kóti (17), Yiqin Meng (19), Pavel Smejkal (13, 24), Csaba Szentesi (0) Special thanks to Éva Karádi and Gabriella Csoszó foreword Dear friends, You hold in your hands a report with a summary of our activities in 2012 and an outline of our current programs, deadlines and calls for this year. Although you can take a look at the complete “hard data” concerning last year’s operations on pages 12–22 or browse through all the projects approved in 2012 on pages 25–48, the outline for 2013 might not be complete. The recent, dynamic development of the fund and its programs is behind this incomplete information. Just last year we opened a handful of new grant schemes within the Visegrad 4 Eastern Partnership program, launched scientific cooperation with Taiwan, initiated new chapters within artist residencies, and implemented several changes to our existing programs. If you are looking for up-to-date details, please use this booklet merely as a reference and consult our website, which always contains the most accurate information. Although I only joined the fund in August 2012, one fact has been blatantly clear to me from the start: no matter how well we try to do our job of designing programs and promoting cooperation in the region, the true “Visegrad” can be found in the dozens of concrete projects that take place every day across our region and through the movement of the hundreds of individual students, researchers, experts and artists that we have the chance to support. Each such joint initiative and individual’s travel across the region fulfills the chief mission of our fund—to support closer ties among people in the region and develop a strong and healthy cross-border civil society and helps us better understand each other. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all our partners. The biggest thanks go to the Foreign Ministries of the Visegrad Group countries—particularly the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, which held the presidency in the Visegrad Group in the first half of 2012 and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, which has held the V4 presidency since July 2012 (and will do so until June 2013), and which also presided over the fund throughout 2012. Last but not least, I would like to express our gratitude to the Dutch government for their generous financial support to the Visegrad . 2006 2010 2011 2012 2013 4 Eastern Partnership program. My dear friends—especially prospective applicants, scholars, artists, and future grantees—I look forward to meeting with you at all the wonderful events in the near future! April 2013 Karla Wursterová Executive Director The Logo: Vertical Version www.visegradfund.org www.visegradfund.org/east Logo for the Polish Presidency of the Visegrad Group designed by Robert Paršo, MultiTalent © 2012 International Visegrad Fund www.visegradgroup.eu www.visegradgroup.eu/documents/presidency-programs www.visegradfund.org/think 4 5 staff about International Visegrad Fund | Mezinárodní visegrádský fond | Nemzetközi Visegrádi Alap | Międzynarodowy Fundusz Wyszehradzki | Medzinárodný vyšehradský fond executive director / deputy executive director The International Visegrad Fund is an international organization that was established by the governments of the Visegrad Group (V4) countries—the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia—in 2000. Seated in Bratislava, the fund holds the status of an interna- tional organization and is accredited by the Slovak Foreign Ministry. The fund’s main mission is to foster closer contact and deeper Karla Wursterová Executive Director (as of August 2012) cooperation among people in the region and the development of civil society primarily in Central and Eastern Europe, the Western Petr Vágner Deputy Executive Director (until July 2012) Balkans and the South Caucasus. The Fund financially supports common grant projects and mobility projects (scholarships, fellow- Zbigniew Machej Deputy Executive Director ships and artist residencies). By the end of 2012 the fund had granted nearly 3,700 projects and over 1,500 individual scholarships and residencies in the total amount of nearly €47 million. The main recipients of funding are CSOs, NGOs, municipalities and local governments, schools and universities, research institutions secretariat and also individual citizens and private companies. The fund’s annual budget of €7 million consists of equal contributions from the V4 governments. Kristína Ácsová Project Coordinator: Standard Grants [email protected] Viktória Bódisová Assistant [email protected] Lenka Bučková Program Manager: Visegrad 4 Eastern Partnership Program [email protected] Adriana Dvorská Project Coordinator: Small/Strategic Grants [email protected] Miroslava Nosáľová Fekiačová Head Secretary [email protected] Ferenc Jári EaP Coordinator [email protected] Barbora Hromeková Program Manager: Small/Strategic Grants [email protected] contact details Katarína Hubová Project Coordinator: Standard Grants [email protected] Judita Nagyová Program Manager: Standard Grants [email protected] International Visegrad Fund Dana Pekaríková Program Manager: Academic and Mobility Programs [email protected] Kráľovské údolie 8 Adela Rakszawska Project Coordinator: Academic and Mobility Programs [email protected] 811 02 Bratislava Alexandra Regecová Chief Accountant [email protected] Slovak Republic Jiří Sýkora Public Relations Coordinator, Visegrad+ Coordinator [email protected] Tel.: +421 259 203 811 Fax: +421 259 203 805 internships (2012) www.visegradfund.org Jakub Lexa | Miriam Kanioková | Natalia Kierczak | Michał Łęski | www.facebook.com/visegradfund Alena Marušincová | Sabína Mäsiarová | Ľubica Ragulová www.twitter.com/visegradfund trustees Piotr Bajda Trustee for Poland [email protected] Mihaly András Beke Trustee for Hungary [email protected] Luboš Veselý Honorary Trustee for Ukraine links Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic www.mzv.cz Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hungary www.mfa.gov.hu Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland www.msz.gov.pl Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Slovak Republic www.mzv.sk 6 7 calendar of regular deadlines I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII Visegrad Scholarship Program January 31 Flagship Projects September 15 Small Grants March 1, June 1, September 1, December 1 Visegrad University Studies Grants November 10 Standard Grants March 15, September 15 Visegrad University Studies Grants—EaP June 15 Visegrad Strategic Program April 15 VARP in New York, VARP—Performing Arts December (TBA) VARP—Visual & Sound Arts September 10 used abbrevitations acad. academy dept. department NGOs non-governmental organizations admin. administration dev. development inst. institute assn. association econ. economic int’l international AV ČR Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Republic educ. education method. methodology CSOs civil society organizations environ. environment/environmental PAN Polish Academy of Sciences CE Central Europe(an) fest. festival reg. region(al) CEE Central and Eastern Europe(an) Europ. Europe(an) SAV Slovak Academy of Sciences conf. conference fndn foundation sem. seminar coop. cooperation hist. history/historical soc. social cult. culture/cultural MTA Hungarian Academy of Sciences WB (the) Western Balkan(s) country / territory codes AL Albania GE Georgia SK Slovakia AM Armenia HR Croatia SI Slovenia AU Australia HU Hungary UA Ukraine AT Austria ID Indonesia US United States AZ Azerbaijan MD Moldova XK Kosovo* BA Bosnia and Herzegovina ME Montenegro * This designation is without prejudice to positions on BG Bulgaria MK Macedonia status, and is in line with UNSC 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on BY Belarus PL Poland the Kosovo Declaration of Independence. “XK” is a temporary ISO 3166 code used by the European Commission. CZ Czech Republic RS Serbia DE Germany RU the Russian Federation Viktor Horváth, writer, Visegrad literary resident in Bratislava (Sept.–Dec. 2012); photo taken in Pécs during the Visegrad Visibility Summer Workshop in July 2012 8 9 Grant Mobility Visegrad Artist Residencies Visegrad Scholarship Program (VARPs) Programs Programs Minsk Intra-Visegrad Scholarships, VARP—Visual & Sound Arts, VARP— In-Coming Scholarships, Small Grants Visegrad Scholarship Program Performing Arts, Visegrad Literary Out-Going Scholarships Residency Program, VARP in New York Standard Grants • Intra-Visegrad, In-Coming, Out-Going Individual academic mobility on MA- and Visegrad Strategic Program Visegrad Scholarships at