The Hrant Dink Foundation launches the Turkey-Armenia Travel Grant with a view to increase direct contacts and to promote cooperation between the peoples of the two neighbouring countries.

The Hrant Dink Foundation awarded 210 individuals from Armenia and Turkey to travel to the neighbouring country between April 2014 and May 2015 thanks to the European Union funding. Between July 2015 and September 2015, Turkey-Armenia Travel Grant supported the travels of 26 individuals with the joint financial assistance of the British Embassy Ankara and the British Embassy Yerevan.  From April 2016 till October 2017, Turkey-Armenia Travel Grant continued with the financial assistance of the European Union within the framework of Support to the Armenia-Turkey Normalisation Process: Stage II.

The Hrant Dink Foundation will continue to support at least 150 individuals and non-profit civic initiatives from Armenia and Turkey, thanks to the financial assistance of the UK Government’s Conflict, Stability and Security Fund between October 2017 and March 2019, to travel to the neighbouring country for their activities and studies in various thematic fields, by covering their international travel and inter-city transportation travel costs.

Turkey-Armenia Travel Grant was designed as a pool to encourage non-profit civic initiatives and individuals including youth, university students, university clubs, civil society organisations, professional organisations, local youth initiatives, high school students and teachers, academics and researchers, journalists, sports clubs, businesses and local authorities, to travel to the neighbouring country for specific goals. Through the Travel Grant, the Foundation aims to contribute to joint initiatives between the two countries in various thematic fields such as youth and volunteering, human rights and democracy, education, environment, history, culture and arts, development, sports, regional cooperation and European integration.

The Travel Grant will support various activities such as partnership building and networking, feasibility visits, cross-border cooperation projects, project preparation meetings, exchange programmes, education and language-learning, academic cooperation, research and dissertation, volunteering in civil society organisations, joint productions in culture and arts, organisation of or participation in meetings, panels, seminars, conferences, workshops, exhibitions, concerts and similar events related to the above-mentioned thematic fields. To learn more about the impressions and experiences of the travel grantees, who visited the neighbouring country, please visit our People Beyond Borders blog.

Please click here to read our report where Turkey-Armenia Travel Grantees from the first stage of Armenia-Turkey Normalization Process share their travel experiences.

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You can reach the lists of travel grantees of past rounds via the links below;

First Round Selection Results
Second Round Selection Results
Third Round Selection Results
Fourth Round Selection Results
Fifth Round Selection Results
Sixth Round Selection Results
Seventh Round Selection Results
Eighth Round Selection Results
Ninth Round Selection Results
Tenth Round Selection Results
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Twelfth Round Selection Results
Thirteenth Round Selection Results
Fourteenth Round Selection Results
Fifteenth Round Selection Results
Sixteenth Round Selection Results
Seventeenth Round Selection Results