After the consultation at the 5th Working Group meeting of the Fund for Bilateral Relations at National Level (September 2015) and approval at the Annual Meeting (October 2015), programme area Public Health Initiatives has been announced as a Focus Area of the Fund in 2016.

Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic plans to organize some activities within this field focused in particular on the psychiatric care reform, prevention of mental illnesses and e-health.

In relation to the 3rd Open Call of the Fund, all the applications that are submitted within this priority programme area will receive extra points in the evaluation procedure.

There is still sufficient amount of grants left for realization of bilateral activities which can be submitted till the end of the Open Call (31st December of 2016).

More information on the 3rd Call can be found on our website.