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Call for Proposals: Gender Equality Partnerships Grants

Deadline: 20-Sep-23

Going Global Partnerships has launched its third round of Gender Equality Partnerships grants.

The grants support higher and further education institutions and sector bodies in the UK and 11 other countries to build partnerships and enable systemic change in priority themes relating to gender equality.

Priority Themes
  • The Gender Equality Partnerships aims to build partnerships and systemic change in the priority themes detailed below:
    • Prevention of violence against women and girls with a particular focus on higher and further education institutions as safe spaces for women
    • Addressing women’s underrepresentation in higher and further education leadership
    • Enabling access and tackling subject segregation, particularly in the area of STEM (including encouraging STEM-related learning).
    • Strengthening pathways into employment for women graduates from further and higher education.
Core Areas
  • They help to strengthen higher education and TVET in five core areas:
    • Enabling research – supporting research, knowledge and innovation collaborations to address local and global challenges and promote inclusive growth.
    • Internationalising higher education and TVET – supporting systems, institutions and individuals to benefit from internationalisation, including enabling transnational education and system alignment.
    • Strengthening systems and institutions – improving the quality and efficiency of higher education and TVET institutions and systems.
    • Enhancing learner outcomes – addressing the qualities of the global graduate, including soft skills, employability and community outcomes.
    • Increasing equality, diversity and inclusion – making higher education and TVET more accessible, equitable and accountable.
Objectives and Outcomes
  • All Gender Equality Partnerships awards will have the following overarching objectives:
    • stimulate innovative approaches to addressing gender inequality in higher and further education institutions in the UK and the partner countries
    • contribute to long term and sustainable institutional change that promotes gender equality, opportunities for women and girls and addresses gender related biases
    • support initiatives that promote gender equality, particularly in one or more of the four priority themes that the British Council has identified as globally relevant
    • encourage collaboration between disciplines and between countries which build cultural relations and mutual understanding based on shared values.
  • The Going Global Partnerships programme is looking for joint projects designed to achieve some of the following gender strategic outcomes:
    • Women are empowered to participate in political, social and economic spheres.
    • An improved legal and policy environment supporting gender equality.
    • Improved employability outcomes for women.
    • Higher and further education institutions develop inclusive policies and practice that support gender equality and safer learning environments.
    • Increased participation of women in meaningful academic and research careers.
    • Increased quality, inclusiveness and relevance of learning and female student experience.
    • Female students are upskilled with relevant skills, including for employability or entrepreneurship, community outcomes, or soft skills.
Funding Information
  • An anticipated 11 joint projects will be funded, each with a value of £20,000 to £25,000 for a 12-month project period.
  • Ten of the project grants are open to institutions from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. One further project grant is available for Welsh institutions only.
Eligibility Criteria
  • The grants cover partnerships between higher education providers, not-for-profit research institutions, and further education and TVET providers in the UK, and one of the following countries: Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa, Ukraine and Viet Nam.
  • Applications must include a lead institution in the UK and lead institution in the overseas country.
  • Each proposal must have both:
    • one Lead institution t from the overseas country; and
    • one Lead institution from the UK, submitting one joint application
  • UK lead institution must be one of the following:
    • Higher Education provider with degree awarding powers.
      • England
      • Northern Ireland
      • Scotland
      • Wales
    • Not-for-profit research institutions, establishment and organisations
    • Any public or private organisations with a role in the Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET)/Further Education (FE) system
  • Overseas lead institution must be one of the following:
    • Higher Education provider, as locally defined
    • Not-for-profit research institutions, establishment and organisations; as locally defined
      • In Jordan this includes: HE public sectoral bodies, Research institutions within HEIs, NGOs and associations working directly with HEIs or representing academics
    • Any public or private organisations with a role in the Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET)/Further Education (FE) system
  • The Lead institution in the overseas country must have the capacity to administer the grant and capacity must be confirmed in the support letter.

For more information, visit British Council.

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