The call of the SK-NIC Fund was interesting! Projects registration to SK-NIC 2022 Fund Call for Large Projects was closed on May, 31. The amount requested by the applicants exceeded the amount allocated for this call several times. This only confirms the need to continue to support projects that develop virtual Slovakia with various good ideas.
Since 2019, when the new mechanism of the SK-NIC Fund started, the fund has supported projects with a total amount of EUR 600,000. With this challenge, the amount increased to a beautiful 900,000 EUR.
Let us also recall that support already existed before the new project selection and approval mechanism. In this context, we are pleased that many supported projects are still active after many years (the first support was provided in 2008) and have found their place in our beautiful real and virtual Slovakia – e.g. Junior Internet competition, charity crowdfunding portal ludialudom.sk or testing of digital skills at schools IT Fitness Test.
For projects implemented from the SK-NIC Fund, we have created a special presentation space on the Virtualnô portal, where you can learn everything interesting about them.
First Statistics of the Call for Large Projects 2022
The SK-NIC Fund Call for Large Projects 2022, which we announced on March 15, 2022, was open until May 31, 2022. By the deadline, 53 applications were received from various civic associations, non-profit organizations, local governments, schools, individuals and municipalities, from all over Slovakia!
The call covered these topics:
- Projects supporting the safety of children in a virtual space, with up to 64% of applications submitted in this topic.
- Projects supporting ICT transport (E-transport). Projects with this topic make up 15% of the total number of applications.
- Digital hygiene projects for adults. These make up 21% of the total number of applications submitted.
Project monitoring and evaluation will take place in the coming weeks. The approval of the winning projects is expected at the end of the summer. The winners will be able to start implementing their projects later this year. It should also be noted that projects under this call will be supported from € 10,000 to € 30,000 and may take up to two years to implement.
All necessary information about this and future challenges can be found on our Virtualno website or on the Pontis Foundation website. We are already looking forward to the winning projects that we will be able to support and at the same time we announce that another challenge should follow immediately after the conclusion of this one, in the autumn 2022!
