CEI Cooperation Fund: Call for Proposals 2025

CEI Cooperation Fund is announced a Call for Proposals 2025 for regional events, conferences, workshops, capacity building and other cooperative initiatives on topics of the CEI Plan of Action 2024-2026 for CEI Member States
One of the CEI Plan of Action 2024-2026 topics is "Boosting R&I through science diplomacy"
Established in 2001, the CEI Cooperation Fund co-finances activities aimed at strengthening cooperation among the CEI Member States and implementing the strategic goals and main objectives set by the CEI Guidelines and Rules of Procedure and the CEI Plan of Action.
The overall indicative budget of this Call for Proposals is 442,000 EUR (four hundred forty-two thousand Euro). It is made available by the CEI Cooperation Fund which is financed by annual contributions of all CEI Member States. The budget is so subdivided:
- Segment 2.1. CEI Thematic Agenda: Up to 252,000 EUR (two hundred fifty-two thousand Euro). An additional amount of up to 90,000 EUR (ninety thousand Euro) will be made available for co-financing proposals – within the ones submitted under this segment – that meet, over the evaluation phases, with the requirements set for CEI Flagship Events (Section 5.4. of the Call for Proposals).
- Segment 2.2. Focused Section: Up to 100,000 EUR (one hundred thousand Euro)
Deadline for application submission: Monday, 9 June 2025, 11:59 p.m. (midnight) CEST
Eligible applicants: public and private entities based and registered in CEI Member States (public/public equivalent bodies, private entities, NGOs/CSOs). International Organisations can also apply. Individuals cannot apply.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Under this Call for Proposals an applicant institution can apply only once.
For more information please contact: applications.coopfund@cei.int