The project competition offers support to universities and research institutions of the Baltic States in cooperation with a partner institution from Germany. Project funding focuses on initiating or further strengthening scientific relations and university cooperation between Germany and the Baltic States.

Application deadlines:

  • until 15.10.2023: project implementation period between 01.02.2024 and 31.10.2024;
  • until 15.03.2024: project implementation period between 01.06.2024 and 15.11.2024.

Project can be supported in the frame of following funding priorities:

• Baltica Germanica and Innovativa - supports projects in which Baltic-German relations future are conceptually made the starting point for a scientific cooperation project or that are dedicated to cooperation in particularly innovative and application-oriented research contexts. The maximum funding limit is usually 5 000 € per project, however, in justified cases it may be up to 10 000 €.

• Internationalisation and academic exchange - supports the internationalisation of teaching and the strengthening of the exchange of higher education cooperation between Germany and the Baltic States. The maximum funding limit is 5 000 € per project.

• Support for initiation of cooperation - supports the initiation of cooperation between German and Baltic universities or scientific institutions. The maximum funding limit is 2 500 € per project.

Conditions of participation:

• The applicant must represent a higher education or research institution in Latvia, Estonia, or Lithuania.

• The applicant must cooperate with a partner, who represents a state or a licensed university or a research institution in Germany. Additionally, more than one partner from Germany and the Baltic States can be involved in the project.

• The project must improve the quality of higher education and the development of science in Estonia, Latvia and/or Lithuania and must strengthen scientific cooperation with Germany.

Further information about the project competition, project guidelines and application forms can be found on the Baltic-German University Liaison Office’s homepage: www.hochschulkontor.lv/en.

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