Deadline: 14-Jan-22
The”Transcultura” Programme: Integrating Cuba, the Caribbean and the European Union through Culture and Creativity launches the Second Call for Applications to the Transcultura Scholarship Scheme, in partnership with the University of West Indies Open Campus (UWIOC).
It is a fully funded scheme supporting young artists and cultural professionals developing a career related to culture and creativity. Candidates will have the opportunity to enroll in short capacity-building online and blended courses on Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) offered by the Transcultura Regional Cultural Training Hub.
This Call for Applications – round 2 offers free access to blended courses conducted by the UWIOC, for young Caribbeans within the cultural and creative sector enabling them to manage and develop their business ideas and projects.
The Transcultura training opportunities are designed in both face-to-face and online formats, primarily in physical centres in Havana, but also through partner institutions like the University of the West Indies and its Open Campus. However, given the need to address and adapt the capacity-building component of the Programme, there are currently implemented exclusively in an online and blended format.
With this initiative, “Transcultura” aims to deepen cultural cooperation in the Caribbean and strengthen people-to-people cooperation by empowering young women and men as agents for sustainable development through capacity building in the cultural and creative industries, seeking to boost entrepreneurship and innovation, foster cooperation in the arts and culture sector, and create exchanges and networks to enhance complementarity and knowledge sharing.
“Transcultura” is a four-year Programme, funded by the European Union and implemented by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Regional Office for Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The blended courses are part of the Transcultura Course Catalogue:
- Small Business Management
- Effective management and Leadership
- Effective Business Communication
- Grant Proposal Writing
- Financial Monitoring and Evaluation
- Project Management
- Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation
- Finance for Non-Finance Manager
- Sales and Marketing Management
- Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management
- Brand Management
Type of activities envisaged during the course
- Live sessions and facilitator’s assigments
- Development of potential new cultural project concepts
- Participation in activities within the Transcultura Programme
Eligibility Criteria
- Artists or cultural professionals in early or intermediate stages of their careers, with a priority to youth, seeking to develop a distinctly personal and innovative project in the corresponding field of specialization or activity in the thematic areas covered by the Transcultura Programme.
- To be eligible for a Transcultura Scholarship you must:
- Be a professional with any culture-related expertise (such as visual arts, performing arts, film, heritage etc.) in an early or intermediate stage of career or professional activity.
- Be a citizen or permanent resident of any of the following countries targeted by the Transcultura Programme with a proven record of residence in the country of at least five years.
- Priority will be given to applications that show potential for long-term impact in the cultural and creative industries or benefiting other artists, cultural professionals, and the community back in the applicant’s home country (multiplier effect).
- Priority will be given to applicants who have not received any previous funding from the European Union and/or international organizations. The Transcultura Programme Scholarship Scheme supports equal opportunities for the promotion of cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue.
- Thus, applications from young cultural professionals of any ethnicity, caste, creed, gender or with disability are welcome.
- Beneficiaries of previous calls within the Transcultura Programme are not eligible.
For more information, visit https://en.unesco.org/news/unesco-eu-transcultura-programme-launches-its-second-call-applications-young-caribbean-creative
