Providing Opportunities for Cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region
Providing opportunities for cooperation in the Baltic Sea region
We are now almost ready to welcome applications to our new SI Ukraine Cooperation Programme! In March, we launch the first call of this new programme and welcome project applications aimed at supporting Ukraine’s reconstruction, reform efforts, and EU integration in areas such as inclusive economic development, entrepreneurship and trade, human rights, democracy, rule of law, and gender equality.Currently, we also have several calls open for future participants in our leadership programmes. We recently launched the SI Global Executive Programme, which aims to strengthen business leaders’ knowledge and ability to drive change towards an ecologically, socially, and economically sustainable business life in their home countries. If you are a civil society leader in some of the EU Eastern Partnership countries working with the Sustainable Development Goal 16 of 2030 Agenda for sustainable development you can instead apply for the SI Leader Lab. Find out more about our work in the Baltic Sea region and with the EU Eastern Partnership countries on our web page dedicated to this region.> LAUNCH OF A NEW PROGRAMME SI Ukraine Cooperation ProgrammeThe first call of the new SI Ukraine Cooperation Programme will open early March. Through the programme, SI grants funding to projects aimed at supporting Ukraine’s reconstruction, reform efforts, and EU integration in areas such as inclusive economic development, entrepreneurship and trade, human rights, democracy, rule of law, and gender equality. The programme is aimed at actors in Sweden and their partners in Ukraine. Actors from additional programme countries may be included as partners if it clearly contributes to the feasibility of the project and benefit for the target groups in Ukraine. See partnership requirements on the website. Within the call for applications conducted in 2024, three types of grants are offered: project preparation, cooperation projects and thematic training programmes. Deadline for applications: 15 May 2024.Read about grant amounts, project period and other requirements on the website. We will upload the application material when the call is open: More info in Swedish.
More info in English. > PROJECTS IN SUPPORT OF UKRAINE In summer 2023, SI conducted a special call within the SI Baltic Sea Neighbourhood Programme aimed at target groups in Ukraine. The approved projects are now starting up and below you can read about two of these projects. Find a list of other approved projects in this call on the Swedish part of the website.
> DO YOU WANT TO TEACH SWEDISH ABROAD? SI supports teaching about Sweden and the Swedish language at universities and colleges outside Sweden. Do you want to teach Swedish abroad? Meet dedicated students and get to know a new city! SI is now announcing vacant teaching positions at universities in Latvia, Lithuania, Serbia, and Hungary. Application deadline 7 March 2024. Find out more (in Swedish). > CONTACT Contact at SI about the SI Baltic Sea Neigbourhood Programme:Email: balticseaneighbourhood@si.seFind further contacts on the respective website of our funding programmes or our leadership programmes. Please feel free to circulate the newsletter to others who you think would benefit from this information. It is possible to subscribe to the Swedish Institute’s newsletter about cooperation in the Baltic Sea region. Subscribe by filling out the form on this link.
