1 500 000 BGN is the amount for Open call 'Legacy'

At their meeting held on February 3, the members of the new Board of Directors of the Plovdiv 2019 Foundation made a unanimous decision to divide the sum of nearly BGN 3 million from the Melina Mercouri Prize into 2 equal parts.

The first part of the BGN 1,500,000 prize will be distributed to the projects that have applied for
funding under the open call 'Legacy' of the Plovdiv 2019 Foundation. To this end, the Board returns
to the jury the protocol with the ranked projects that was proposed for voting and orders a new
reassessment of the already submitted projects, so that for all three directions under the Open call
'Legacy' the total expenses do not exceed BGN 1.5 million within 2020.

The Board of Directors of the Foundation decided for the remaining sum of BGN 1 500 000 in the
period from the middle of the year, but no later than the end of the calendar year 2020, to announce a second call, provisionally called 'Legacy - 2', for which there will be new terms and conditions for application, and which will be evaluated by a new jury.

The review of all proposals received under the open call will be made and considered by the Board of the Foundation within two weeks.