VIAA announces project call for EEA and Norway grant scholarships activity - EEZ un Norvēģijas finanšu instrumenti
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VIAA announces project call for EEA and Norway grant scholarships activity

On 10 February 2021, the State Education Development Agency (VIAA) announces an open project call for the European Economic Area and Norway grant (EEA/N) programme “Research and Education” activity for scholarships. Accredited Latvian higher education institutions are welcome to submit project proposals for the mobility of students, as well as academic and administrative staff.

The scholarship activity intends to develop the knowledge, skills and competence of higher education students, academic and administrative staff in the field of research. Project proposals may be submitted by accredited Latvian higher education institutions, and they must involve at least 1 partner from a donor country. Project partner should be a higher education institution of Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein. Projects can enact 2 types of mobilities – student mobility from 3 to 11 months and academic and administrative staff mobility from 1 to 4 weeks. The minimum funding of the scholarship activity is 10,000 euros, the maximum funding is 200,000 euros, and the total funding is 1,582,866 euros.

The activity plans to increase the impact of research projects, thus the proposals for scholarship projects, which will establish cooperation with the approved Baltic research projects, will increase their chances to receive the funding. At the same time, project implementers involved in the Baltic Research Program are invited to combine research and scholarship activities, involving doctoral students, master’s and bachelor’s students in joint research projects.

The duration of the project can be 12, 24 or 30 months. The implementation of projects is planned to start in the 3rd quarter of 2021. Approved projects will receive funding of up to 100%, of which 15% is the national co-financing and 85% the EEA/N funding. Project applications can be submitted in the rsgrants.viaa.gov.lv system until 12 April 2021 (by 23:59 EET). Guidelines and more detailed information about the submission of the project proposals can be found in the document and project contests sections of the eeagrants.lv website.

The open call is organized by VIAA in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Latvia (MoES) and the Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Quality Improvement in the field of higher education. The supervising organization of the EEA/N grant program “Research and Education” is the MoES, which is responsible for the implementation of the program in Latvia. VIAA, as a program implementer, performs project evaluation, implementation monitoring and control. The scholarship activity contributes to higher education and research, reducing economic and social disparities in the European Economic Area, strengthening bilateral relations and promoting exchange in the higher education field between donor countries and Latvia.

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