Deadline: 1 August 2017
Are you a young cultural practitioner looking to develop and strengthen your cultural leadership skills? Then the Global Cultural Leadership Programme is designed for you.
The Global Cultural Leadership Programme specifically aims to improve skills of cultural managers, enhance collaborative peer-to-peer learning, network building and enable applicants to develop fresh insights into international cultural collaboration practices.
It offers a set of learning modules, tools and manuals for practice-based learning, giving you opportunities to build meaningful collaborations at the global level and within the EU.
This first Global Cultural Leadership Programme will take place in Valletta, Malta from October 16–21.
Objectives and Expected Outcomes
- In line with the main objective of the Cultural Diplomacy Platform, to support the sustained development of cultural diplomacy policies, activities, methodologies, tools and training programmes, the objective of the Global Cultural Leadership Programme is to strengthen communities/networks of cultural leaders and practitioners, and to engage participants in an experience of international networking in a lean, practice-based and easily replicable learning framework.
- In terms of expected outcomes, participants will be empowered with new tools and cultural leadership skills that will strengthen their own insight into working practices, and offer them means to engage more efficiently in international cultural cooperation. They anticipate that this process will generate a multiplyer effect initially within their community of practice and subsequently into their local community. The training programme will instantly enable 40 emerging cultural practitioners (30 from the ten strategic partners of the EU2 + 10 EU-based peers) to train and develop, on the basis of a peerto-peer learning experience, new cultural leadership skills for acting/collaborating in a global working context.
Eligibility Criteria
Geographical criteria:
- are nationals of (and are working for organizations in) Brazil, Canada, China, Japan, India, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, South Korea or the USA (a maximum of three participants from each of these ten countries will be selected),
- are nationals of (and are working for organizations in) the 28 EU member states (a maximum of ten EU participants in total will be selected, one per EU country)
Professional experience:
- work for a cultural civil society organization (NGO), a cultural enterprise (social or for profitmaking) or a public cultural institution (such as museums, libraries, or music venues that operate on local, regional and national levels)
- have (some) previous experience in international networking and cultural exchange and have relevant working experience in the field of 3 to 5 years
- are working in a field or position that allows them to act as local/national multipliers of new leadership knowledge and global cultural networking
- hold a relevant (leading) position in their organization
Thematic interest:
- are strongly interested in international cultural collaboration and wish to further develop professionally in a global working context
- show a strong awareness of intercultural sensitivities and are passionate about working on cultural issues and topics of global relevance.
Language criteria and age requirements:
- have a very good working knowledge of English
- are (preferably) 25 – 39 years of age
How to Apply
- Candidates who wish to be considered for participation in the first edition of the Global Cultural Leadership Programme shall submit an up-to-date CV (not more than two A4 pages and using the format given on the website), expression of interest (not more than 500 words) and a project description (not more than 1,000 words).
- Applications (preferably in .pdf format) and inquiries shall be sent by e-mail at the address given on the website.
Eligible Countries: Brazil, Canada, China, Japan, India, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, South Korea or the USA, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the UK.
For more information, visit https://www.britishcouncil.in/global-cultural-leadership-programme-call-applications