Deadline: 4-Nov-21
The British Council is pleased to launch International Collaboration Grants Programme to support UK and overseas organisations to collaborate internationally.
The grants are designed to support artists to make and develop creative artwork with their international peers and encourage new international partnerships and innovative ways of collaborating.
Focus Areas
Your project will be judged across the following three areas:
- Activity and innovation: 40%
- Partnership and positive contribution, legacy: 30%
- Diversity, sustainability: 30%
Funding Information
- There are two levels of grants available:
- Small grants: £5k-£20k
- Large grants: £20-75k
- In exceptional cases they may offer additional funding (up to a total grant of £100k) to large projects with multiple partners. Applicants who wish to be considered for this must evidence the scalability of their project in the application form.
Eligible Costs
The grants can cover project costs including:
- New staff positions to deliver the project
- Additional hours for existing staff to deliver the project
- Filling a post left empty by moving an existing member of staff into a post created for the project
- Training costs
- Professional fees
- Translation and interpretation fees
- Materials
- Activities relating to learning, advocacy and community engagement
- Evaluation
- Promotion
- Equipment or overheads costs for your organisation, such as new online subscriptions, computers or additional rent (NB. up to 25% of the budget can be allocated for organisational overheads)
- First-party insurance costs
- Artists should be paid fairly and this should be reflected in the budget in relation to any artist fees
Geographic Focus
- Eligible Countries: UK in partnership with: Algeria, Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Colombia, Egypt, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Korea, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, Norway, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi, Spain, South Africa, Sudan, Taiwan,Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, UAE, Ukraine, and Vietnam
Eligibility Criteria
- The grants are designed to support UK and international organisations to work on projects in partnership. The international organisations must be based in the countries.
- Each project should include at least one UK-based organisation as part of the partnership.
- The grant will be paid to the UK partner on condition that the grant is distributed between them and the country partner/s.
- Eligible Organisations:
- The grants are open to arts and culture organisations, and higher education/research organisations with an arts and culture focus.
- An ‘organisation’ is defined as a legally registered entity with a registered bank account, and can include collectives, consortia, community, charity, private and public.
- Although applications must be completed through organisations, the grants are designed to benefit the artistic community; therefore projects that show clear benefits to artists and individual practitioners will be prioritised.
- Grants will be awarded to organisations (including consortia, community-based and artist-led), and in particular they will be looking for those that identify specific individual artists for inclusion in the project.
- They are keen to receive applications from UK organisations with whom they have not previously worked, especially those based outside London.
For more information, visit https://www.britishcouncil.org/arts/international-collaboration-grants