Deadline: 30-Apr-24
The British Council is pleased to announce the International Collaboration Grants to support the creation of new cultural collaborations between UK artists, arts professionals and organisations and their peers around the world.
The International Collaboration Grants (ICG) is a £1m programme of grants now available to support UK arts and culture organisations connect and collaborate with their international peers and is designed to support artists to make and develop creative artwork, deepening existing partnerships in a creative space and to find innovative ways of working. This grant programme has been designed to support artists to make and develop creative artwork, and to encourage new international partnerships and innovative ways of collaborating.
Funding Information
- Available grants range between £25,000 and £75,000 and are now open for application.
Eligible Countries
- Each project should include at least one UK-based organisation and one organisation based in the countries listed below as part of the partnership.
- Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Bangladesh, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Brazil, Mainland China, Colombia, Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Montenegro, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Serbia, Senegal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Syria, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen and Zimbabwe.
Eligibility Criteria
- The grants are designed to support officially registered organisations, based in the eligible countries and territories, and the UK to work on projects in partnership. Each project should include at least one UK-based organisation and at least one organisation based in eligible countries or territories listed below as part of the partnership.
- They will accept applications for multilateral projects and projects with more than one partner in the same country, with the focus on the programme being delivered mutually. However, the funding should be split between the UK and overseas countries and territories, with at least 50% of the funding benefiting non-UK partners.
- An additional partner, on top of the minimum two, from a non-eligible country or territory can take part in the project but cannot receive grant funding.
- Grants will be awarded to organisations – including consortia, community-based and artist-led – and they will particularly be looking for those that identify specific individual artists for inclusion in the project.
- All collaborating organisations must have a registered business bank account that belongs to an organisation and all necessary registrations in place according to local legislation in which your project will be delivered. For example, all Indian applications must comply in advance with the applicable FCRA regulations; UK-based companies must have a company registration number.
- An application should be submitted by one organisation working collaboratively with all the partners.
- While the funds are designed to benefit the artistic community, due to financial regulations they can only award them to legally registered organisations and collectives (including consortia, community-based and artist-led), and not individual artists, sole traders or freelancers. Grants will be awarded to organisations (including consortia, community-based and artist-led), and they will be looking for those that identify specific individual artists for inclusion in the project. Projects can involve international artists based in any country on top of those in the UK and eligible countries, however they need to be contracted by collaborating organisations and the grant must be spent in eligible countries.
- They will prioritise applications and projects that show a clear benefit to the artistic community in the country or countries in which they are working.
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