Deadline: 30-Nov-20
The Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs (OCSA) at the Embassy of Spain in London launches its annual call for proposals for 2021 to collaborate with projects and activities that promote Spanish Culture and Science in the United Kingdom.
This call is open to cultural and scientific individuals, companies and institutions, both Spanish and British, with projects to be presented across the United Kingdom.
Objectives
The OCSA of the Embassy of Spain in the United Kingdom recognizes the value of cultural engagement and scientific exchange. The general objectives are:
- To strengthen Spain’s cultural presence abroad by the communication of elements identified with the important tradition as well as with the contemporaneity, innovation, diversity, professionalism and creativity of the Spanish cultural and scientific sector.
- To expand the knowledge of Spanish languages as major assets of economic value to promote audio-visual and musical works and their implementation in digital environment.
- To project Spanish culture and science through the organization of unique cultural and scientific activities, and ensuring the regular presence of Spanish artists and cultural industries or Spanish scientists and scientific institutions, in international and renowned forums.
- To promote cultural tourism, highlighting the elements of excellence and quality of Spanish cultural and heritage assets for their special contribution to the cultural identity abroad, as well as for the production system and economic structure.
- To promote cultural and scientific exchange as a key factor of international cooperation, considering culture as a resource in its own right, whose access, diversity, heritage preservation, training, trade and industrial development should be given priority in the development policies.
Therefore, priority will be given to those projects addressing the following objectives:
- Contributing to the promotion of Spanish cultural and scientific activities to be developed in all United Kingdom territory.
- Organizing scientific meetings, debates, seminars or single lectures on issues such as biomedicine, climate change, emerging technologies, fundamental sciences, energy, global challenges, open science and other scientific priorities of the Government of Spain.
- Promoting Hispanic Studies.
- Working with major British cultural and scientific institutions and in relevant festivals.
- Promoting young Spanish professionals and the internationalization of their works.
- Encouraging dialogue between generations and plurality of cultural expressions, and the fig against any discrimination.
- Taking advantage of special commemorations, such as birth and death anniversaries to develop projects with a greater reach and wider dissemination to the general public.
- Reinforce multimedia actions and digital communication.
- Always seeking public/private co-operation, particularly of Spanish companies in the UK.
As a result, the OCSA in London is launching this call for proposals specifically for Spanish and British cultural and scientific persons, agents and institutions whose experience in staging cultural and scientific events makes it possible to promote the above-mentioned priorities.
Eligibility Criteria
The proposal referred to the OCSA should ideally:
- Be organized by those with an established track record in putting on well-supported cultural and scientific projects.
- Be highly visible. The organizers must have good contacts and be well embedded within their communities in order to increase the coverage of the project in local and specialized media.
- The OCSA will prioritize those activities whose content can be distributed online through the official channels of the Embassy and the AECID.
- Have a plan of communication and promotion, as a part of the application, with the aim of evaluating the future coverage in local and national media, and the impact of the project in the audience.
- Be opened to the widest possible public audience.
- Emphasize the collaboration/sponsorship between the OCSA of the Embassy of Spain and the applicant during the project, as well as in the communication and marketing plan included in the proposal.
- Be clearly related to Spain in the chosen policy area(s).
- Be opened to the collaboration with other Spanish institutions.
Important Notice
Given the extraordinary circumstances resulting from the Covid-19 crisis, the OCSA proceeds to publish this call for proposals under the following guidelines:
- Proposals should refer mainly to activities on the digital format to be broadcasted through streaming services, websites or other channels such as Vimeo or YouTube.
- The Embassy and AECID will favour those proposals resulting in a video that both institutions may distribute through the official channels of AECID and the rest of the Spanish embassies.
For more information, visit https://spainculturescience.co.uk/calls-proposals/
