| Programme | Research and Education |
| Selection | Pre-defined project |
| Competition title | Development of Innovation centre in Ventspils city |
| National project partner | Ventspils University of Applied Sciences |
| Donorstate/international project partner | Bergen Science Centre VilVite |
| Project national Nr. | NFI//IC/VIAA/2020/1 |
| GrACE project Nr. | LV-RESEARCH-0004 |
| Contract No. | Nr. 9.-20.2.2.1/2, 24.07.2020. |
| Contract Date | 24.07.2020 |
| Project title | “Development of Innovation centre in Ventspils city” |
| Project promoter | Ventspils municipal authority “Ventspils Digital centre” |
| Start of project eligibility | 15.07.2020 |
| Project end | 30.04.2024 |
| Total eligible costs | 2 011 676.00€ |
| Grant financing | 1 568 990.77€ |
| National co-financing | 276 880.73€ |
| Project promoter co-financing | 205 097.28€ |
| Project status | In implementation |
| Project goal/description | The aim of the project is to promote knowledge development and career choice in the field of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) with special focus on natural sciences and information and communication technologies of pre-school children, pupils and students and to create Innovation Centre in Ventspils working in close cooperation with science centre “VilVite” (Bergen, Norway) as well as to develop and implement educational programmes and other educational and interactive activities such as technical workshops, science shows. The total cost of the project is EUR 2 050 968,78, of which EUR 1 568 990,77 is co-financing from Norway Grants, EUR 276 880,73 is National co-finding and EUR 205 097,28 is co-financing of project implementor. In November 2023 an Agreement to extend the term of the contract until April 30, 2024 was signed as well as amendment to the agreement for allocation of additional funding was signed. |
| Implementation place | Kurzeme |
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