Call for applications - Cooperation in the Baltic Sea region
2011.12.15
The Swedish government has renewed the Swedish Institute (SI)’s mandate beginning in 2012 to develop and strengthen Sweden’s cooperation in the Baltic Sea region.
SI is announcing support for two different kinds of collaborative projects - financial assistance for more extensive thematic partnerships and “seed funding” for initiating collaborations and for more short-term strategic projects for smaller amounts. The projects must help meet the common challenges defined in the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, the EU’s Eastern Partnership and the Partnership for Modernization with Russia.
The support is provided to Swedish organizations working in collaboration with organizations in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine and Russia (especially northwest Russia) as well as Georgia and Moldavia. For Georgia and Moldavia, the organizations involved must come from academia. Other countries in the region may also take part in the projects but are not included in the support from SI. The main applicant must be a Swedish organization. The projects should have a cross-sector approach and a regional approach and may include organizations from EU countries as well as from countries outside the EU.
The projects must address challenges or realize opportunities that are common to all or parts of the Baltic Sea region, and the results must benefit Sweden, the cooperating countries and the entire region.
With this call for applications, SI wants to inspire innovative thinking on cross-border/cross-sector collaboration and contribute to new, sustainable solutions in the region through innovative partnerships, questions and project design. Applicants are encouraged to integrate several themes and new types of organizational constellations.
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