The Open Society Archives, custodian of the RFE/RL research materials, has obtained a commitment from the Visegrad Fund to support short-term research fellowships at OSA for work in the RFE/RL and other collections. The announcement is at link

From the announcement: "For a better and deeper understanding of the interdependent recent history of (the center of) Europe, the International Visegrad Fund offers 10 research fellowship grants annually in the OSA Archivum at Central European University, Budapest on a competitive basis to support scholars who wish to conduct research in the holdings of OSA, and whose current research projects are relevant to the holdings and the given research priorities of the Fund and the Archivum.

The grants of 2.000 euro, are designed to provide access to the Archives for scholars, artists and journalists cover travel to and from Budapest, modest subsistence, and accommodation in Budapest for a maximum research period of two months."

The International Visegrad Fund is an international organization based in Bratislava, founded by the governments of the countries of the Visegrad Group (V4)—the Czech Republic, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Poland, and the Slovak Republic—on June 9, 2000.

The purpose of the Fund is to facilitate and promote the development of closer cooperation among V4 countries (and of V4 countries with other countries, especially but not exclusively non-EU member states in Eastern Europe, the Western Balkans and the South Caucasus) through the support of common cultural, scientific and educational projects, youth exchanges, cross-border projects and tourism promotion.